Oscar Predictions for Tonight...
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Smith issues apology to Rock. His comms people finally made him listen. This apology is 100% written by his PR people, you can tell, but at least it's an apology. But sadly you can see in the comments nearly everyone is calling out how long it took to issue an apology and that it seems forced.
So why shouldn't he be arrested? It's an assault. If some random person on the street had slapped someone for insulting their wife they would absolutely be arrested and charged. You don't need the victim to press charges. Typically it's harder without the victim because proving it without their testimony is an issue, but in this case you have a mountain of evidence and witnesses.
Weak. Nowhere does he apologize to all the other nominees and winners who had earned the right to one of, if not the most amazing day of their careers, which was completely spoiled by this. There were some historic wins last night which have been buried because of his arrogance and selfishness.
Who cares? No one involved wants that, same thing that would happen if you slapped someone and they didn’t want to press charges.
It's also night and day from his 'apology' last night.
“I was out of line and I was wrong; I am embarrassed” is a...different lane to pick than “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family. I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people.”
Maybe I need a bigger TV or glasses, but the way it was shot I could hardly read any of the names.
How fast can you slap Chris Rock?
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Wow, what a throw back! I remember that in like 2003.
Other than a cow, everyone else in this thread appears to be anti violence. Maybe humanity will be ok after all.
What's the point of having a law if you arent going to prosecute when one is blatantly broken in front of the whole world essentially? What message does that send? It's ok to slap comedians who offend your wife? It's ok if you're rich and famous? You only charge a crime if the victim presses charges? There's all kinds of bad messages being sent if you let him blatantly break a law with no consequences.
It really is crazy 2001 didn't get nominated for best picture. It's very possible the best movie of any year of any genre.
In my opinion the dawn of man edit time jump cut from the spinning bone to spinning space station is just the most mind blowing thing in cinema history.
Also crazy in hindsight that Weaver didn't get nominated for Alien or Aliens. Legendary actress in her best performances. Very possibly the best performances in any action/scifi/horror film. Also a truly groundbreaking performance for women in general. At least on the TV side in the 90s Gillian Anderson got 4 Emmy nominations and a win for X-Files which is the closest thing I can think of on TV to Ripley, so some progress for the women of scifi.
In my opinion Gary Oldman walks away with an Oscar in his sleep if Bram Stoker's Dracula had been a period piece movie or based on a non-horror classic novel if you want to add another one. That's probably my award for best actor in any movie ever. There's always the debate about acting under makeup...personally I think it makes his performance more impressive, but he's not in heavy makeup for half the film anyway.
Just the fact that Gary Oldman only has three nominations total and they are all very recent is a pretty big blind spot.
Literally no one is being hurt by not prosecuting him for whatever weak assault charge a slap is. Waste of time and money for something no one involved wants.
It’s not privilege, it’s common sense.
Yep....your take is spot on. Uncle Harvey raping people on the casting couch is just like old drunk dude at your local tavern in Atlantic. Your local proletariat tavern hawks cannot compare to stage tiger moms and their spawn that were forced to be narcissistic prima donna Disney Kids and then continue the cycle of grooming.....
I follow several Black thought leaders since 2020 and ...it's sure interesting to read their thoughts vs in white spaces. The histrionics and hypocrisy around individual vs systemic violence is glaring.
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