I'm glad this is all backfiring but nothing he said about Islam is wrong. It's not compatible with Western ideology which most on this board would seemingly support.

He would be murdered by Islam because he's trans. His disdain for it is totally understandable from his POV.

This is all so wild.

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The second I posted that the first thing I thought was, "Wait, actually, half the people here are probably going to love her now."

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it that the image of the person sweating over pushing two buttons?

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Trump is re-elected…

… in response, a contingent of far-left Hollywood loons defiantly give a wildly undeserving trans/hispanic movie 13 Oscar nominations…

… all while audiences, critics, and even hispanics all say they detest movie…

… and in the end, in the most fitting/ironic fashion, the trans/hispanic lead of the movie somehow turns out to be a raging racist.

In other words, this feels like the official end of virtue signaling, self-serving, back-patting identity politics Hollywood.

The way this all backfired is just incredible.

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Good, I miss normal classical liberals/democrats that I had some common ground with...who didn't reflexively embrace wild ass social stances and causes simply to oppose or spite the other side, who really just wants things to be kind of normal and similar to how it was growing up in the 80's and 90's.

Identity politics dying off would be AMAZING for America.

I think most far left people would be incredibly shocked if they spent time among average people from Europe. You just think Americans are racist until you go hang out in Europe. And definitely don't get them started on how a lot of them feel about Islam and its rise in western Europe.

I have zero desire to see this movie win anything, but if I'm Zoe Saldana, I am PISSED right now.

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Trump is re-elected…

… in response, a contingent of far-left Hollywood loons defiantly give a wildly undeserving trans/hispanic movie 13 Oscar nominations…

… all while audiences, critics, and even hispanics all say they detest movie…

… and in the end, in the most fitting/ironic fashion, the trans/hispanic lead of the movie somehow turns out to be a raging racist.

In other words, this feels like the official end of virtue signaling, self-serving, back-patting identity politics Hollywood.

The way this all backfired is just incredible.

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Good, I miss normal classical liberals/democrats that I had some common ground with...who didn't reflexively embrace wild ass social stances and causes simply to oppose or spite the other side, who really just wants things to be kind of normal and similar to how it was growing up in the 80's and 90's.

Identity politics dying off would be AMAZING for America.

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Amen. The problem is social media, algorithms, message boards, 24 hour news, and podcasts feeding people content that is more and more extreme (right and left). The echo chamber effect.

The US is one of the least racist countries in the world. Go visit central/south America... a lot of racism down there. My Colombian grandparents were always more racist than my white grandparents from East Texas.

A white elitist Spaniard from Madrid, said a bunch of racist comments towards Muslims and black people. I am SHOCKED!!! Spaniards are never racist!!! LOL.

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Yeah, she's 100% done…

The Academy should rescind Karla's nomination. Can't imagine they want someone on their telecast who's posted positively about Hitler on social media. pic.twitter.com/7uctkm6vvO

— Andrew J. Salazar @ Sundance (@AndrewJ626) January 31, 2025

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So she hates Muslins and Jews? Impressive!

The scandal isn't that a European ****** has very extremist views. It's that the European ****** and movie he was in was so incredibly ****ty, agreed upon by most everyone...yet Hollywood elite and their American guilt still bit it hook, line and sinker and gave that POS 13 nominations.

No removing that stench. He could call for the extermination of jews today and it won't cover up the real story.

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Yeah, she's 100% done…

The Academy should rescind Karla's nomination. Can't imagine they want someone on their telecast who's posted positively about Hitler on social media. pic.twitter.com/7uctkm6vvO

— Andrew J. Salazar @ Sundance (@AndrewJ626) January 31, 2025

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So she hates Muslins and Jews? Impressive!

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It seems like hating everyone equally would be offsetting penalties.

He should be good for Oscars now.

Awards season is like politics, it's for sale. The fact that an industry that thrives on theatrical let's @netflix waltz in and spend $50m to buy record nominations for an objectively bad streaming film is a terrible look. All at the cost of ignoring directors like Villeneuve. pic.twitter.com/QHYwFR7heR

— EmpireCity Box Office (@EmpireCityBO) January 31, 2025

I actually thought last year was really good and a return to form with Oppenheimer winning, a number of other popular movies being recognized, Ryan Gosling's "I'm Just Ken" performance, etc. That, and I think I counted only one even remotely political acceptance speech.

I agree that this year sucks, though, and that too many years prior to last were mired in controversy. Part of that (especially this year and 2020) was due to Covid and the strikes having a massive affect on the output, and thus the interest level in the awards themselves, while part of it was also of course due to increased political partisanship/rhetoric. While the overall trend of the Oscars honoring more and more arthouse/indie movies that no has seen has definitely become a broader problem as well.

I have faith that will change though, and that 2025 and 2026 (or rather the 2026 and 2027 awards cycles) will start to buck those trends. No more industry-crippling disasters, extreme woke-ism feels like it's dying, and we're finally back to pre-Covid levels of output, meaning so much more variety and quality this year in theaters. Fingers crossed...

True, last year felt as close to traditional Hollywood as it has in a while

Last year was a great year for movies and for Best Picture nominees. Almost all of the nominees would have been good to great winners.

I just don't understand how Denis was not even nominated. That's one of the most WTF Oscar misses I've ever seen.

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I actually thought last year was really good and a return to form with Oppenheimer winning, a number of other popular movies being recognized, Ryan Gosling's "I'm Just Ken" performance, etc. That, and I think I counted only one even remotely political acceptance speech.

I agree that this year sucks, though, and that too many years prior to last were mired in controversy. Part of that (especially this year and 2020) was due to Covid and the strikes having a massive affect on the output, and thus the interest level in the awards themselves, while part of it was also of course due to increased political partisanship/rhetoric. While the overall trend of the Oscars honoring more and more arthouse/indie movies that no has seen has definitely become a broader problem as well.

I have faith that will change though, and that 2025 and 2026 (or rather the 2026 and 2027 awards cycles) will start to buck those trends. No more industry-crippling disasters, extreme woke-ism feels like it's dying, and we're finally back to pre-Covid levels of output, meaning so much more variety and quality this year in theaters. Fingers crossed...

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Last year's Oscars were a ton of a fun and the presenters were hysterical. It was the most fun I've had watching an awards show since the 90s.