Can the Oscar Nominations Bring Viewers Back?
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[From my sister site, Hollywoodwoketopia.com]
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Tomorrow, the Oscar nominations will be announced bright and early for the 96th Academy Awards. It’s also the date of the primary in New Hampshire. It’s hard not to connect these two things. The Oscars are now fully merged with the Democratic Party as one organism. The same reason Trump is making them sweat the polls is why people are tuning out the Oscars.
The movie that won’t be announced tomorrow is Sound of Freedom, which landed in the top ten box office of the year, beating both Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. To Hollywood and the Oscars, however, it is like it never happened. Here’s David Mamet, one of the great writers Hollywood ever employed, on this film:
The success of Sound of Freedom is a cautionary tale that the Counterculture revolution is nearly upon us. It signals the same thing as a potential win by Trump. A shift in the public consciousness as the people who have been abandoned rise up and demand equal representation - at the box office and at the White House.
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I think these self-congratulatory shows are a symptom of a greater problem… and the sooner we stop the idolatry, the better.
The sound of freedom is one of the most popular movies on Amazon prime right now. Every time I look, it still has a five star review, which is pretty unheard of on that service.