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Itse · 01-19-2016, 02:44 AM

I get it, but then again Oscars are so irrelevant to me that I couldn't care much less.

The acting awards are mostly about rewarding actors for propping up the dubious "troubled genius" myth or romanticizing mental illnessess. The "best films" tend to be overly melodramatic for my taste. The system is ridiculously rigged to support mainstream Hollywood productions.

The political biases are pretty blatant. (Mad Max IMO mostly made the best film list because of the radical feminist cred, which is a stupid reason, even though the film is pretty good. Especially since as a feminist I happen to really dislike that type of extremely sexist "feminism" that's in Mad Max.)

Then again almost all award shows are biased in some ways, I'm not sure if Oscars are any worse than others. Mostly I ignore all of them.

01-19-2016, 02:44 AM	#16
Itse Franchise Player Join Date: May 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Exp:	I get it, but then again Oscars are so irrelevant to me that I couldn't care much less. The acting awards are mostly about rewarding actors for propping up the dubious "troubled genius" myth or romanticizing mental illnessess. The "best films" tend to be overly melodramatic for my taste. The system is ridiculously rigged to support mainstream Hollywood productions. The political biases are pretty blatant. (Mad Max IMO mostly made the best film list because of the radical feminist cred, which is a stupid reason, even though the film is pretty good. Especially since as a feminist I happen to really dislike that type of extremely sexist "feminism" that's in Mad Max.) Then again almost all award shows are biased in some ways, I'm not sure if Oscars are any worse than others. Mostly I ignore all of them.