What's the difference between a Polish girl and a bowling ball? You can only fit 3 fingers in a bowling ball.
Here's a fun game anyone can play. Pick a year, any year, and look up the movies released that year. Some of those movies are really going to stick out in your mind. Love them or hate them, you're going to have memories about them. Now, go look at which movies won the Oscar for Best Picture that year. Odds are, the movies you know and think about aren't going to be ones that you think of or talk about on a regular basis. Doubt me? Okay, just think about this: What's the one movie that most critics (and many of the people) consider to be the "greatest movie of all time"? You'll most likely get one of two answers. It's either Citizen Kane or Casablanca. Both are great movies. Both were nominated in the same year. You know what movie won? "How Green Was My Valley". WTF do you mean that you've never heard of it? WTF do you mean that you've never seen it? It won awards! Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that award ceremonies are bullshit. If that were true, this would mean that films like Star Wars, Alien, and Blade Runner would have a massive impact on society despite the fact that they didn't win Best Picture, and that can't possibly be true, can it?
Oscars only fascinate me in that pragmatically, they're good for resumes, and ad campaigns, so they can tell me who's going to have a good career, so they can slightly help weather-predict what future movies will get made. For example, if James Cameron has a passion project based on a manga, and then he wins an Oscar, well, you're gonna see Alita Battle Angel happen. It may take awhile, but...
When I watched the Oscars, it used to be because I thought the host was interesting. A side benefit was seeing some of the goofier fashions on display. These days it's a sad, sad little self-congratulatory mutual masturbation festival, and I pay it no attention.
Apparently, the above quote made a bunch of white people harumph. I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with it. From the history I've learned, black people were brought to the U.S. against their will, and forced into slave labor. Over the time slavery was legal, they were in one way or another beaten, abused, mutilated, oppressed, raped, murdered, and literally worked to death. We did this for hundreds of years, using slave labor to build cities, railroads, and other cornerstones of what would become our society. Nothing he said was incorrect.
Hey, an adult is trying to teach you something for free. Put down your fidget spinner and pay attention.
I am sure some member of racistforge will be by to tell you all about how black people should be grateful they were able to come over here without having to pass through immigration, and how white slave owners always treated their slaves well.
I remember watching it once in the early to mid 1990's, I thought it was retarded, and haven't watched it since.
Hm... that is interesting. Picking at random: 1983 -- Winner was Terms of Endearment. Recognize the title, never seen it. Other movies include A Christmas Story, WarGames, and, oh yes, Return of the Jedi. All pretty culturally impactful. (And also an extremely unfortunate Pirates of Penzance remake.) 1997 -- Winner was Titanic, so that year doesn't fit. 1968 -- Oliver! won, and I didn't even realize it had been made into a movie. 2001 did not.
1993: Unforgiven. Eh, I was thinking Dances With Wolves, but Dances With Wolves came out in 1990. 1996 was Braveheart, I was thinking Shawshank Redemption. Shawshank was 1994. 2015: Birdman. I was thinking The Martian. The Martian came out in 2015.
