Are the american moviegoers getting sick and tired of left wing, anti-american movies?

Well, based upon the Nielson ratings, HELL YEAH!

14% lower than 2003, the worst year up until last night! The reason being that the films being honored were somewhat disappointing at the box office at best! But, just like Michael Moore's, Sicko, they had to give them to someone!!!

Maybe the american public would like to see something different other than the left wing liberal tripe that is being constantly put out!

I wonder if the soldiers announcing the short story documentary, "Sari's Mother" knew what the movie was about when they introduced it last night.

Here is the hit parade for best documentary. And they say that Hollywood isn't a left wing haven? HAHAHA!!!

Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins
"Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Or maybe the films had poor distribution, so few people could see them. Maybe the docs just weren't all that good, regardless of the subject.

Or maybe you just can't resist a lame shot at liberals. Hear that stretching sound?

this is why I did not watch... I guess I'm a little bit proud to be out of touch with Hollywood.

I'm not a liberal. Some here might call me a fundamentalist Muslim, perhaps even an extremist.

In any case, I saw No Country for Old Men. I didn't see it as liberal. It showed a starkness, a cruelty which would make a person who hates murder and the chaos of criminalism, more determined in his principle. Do you hate murder? Despising murder,chaos and criminalism which causes the loss of innocence, the loss of decency, the loss of goodness, should be a universally human, noble principle. Good people seek to suppress and reject murderous inclinations. It is not reserved for anyone faction of the American political spectrum.

When Bardem's character enters into the Texas gas station and flips a coin on the life of the old Texas white, gas station attendent, I experienced a truly human sympathy and desire to protect and defend that old man. It even revived my own empathy for his circumstances.

Now I have travelled the lonely highways of Texas, even hitchhiked on them. Desolation, loneliness, and the fear of predation by some diabolical character are threats which no hitchhiker can ignore. And Texas supplies all of the above. And in that instant of Bardem's character's explanation of his philosophy on life- that his murderous intent was simply the will of God, or the will of chance or a flip of a coin- I deeply felt for that gas station attendent. If you have ever hitchhiked on a lonely Texas highway, you might understand how the chance that that next driver is a murdering feind, or a good samaritan is indeed heads or tails. Having taken rides with both fiends and samaritans, I thank God that He protected me in those days.

And there are many instances in which a genuinely good person could enjoy and appreciate that movie. Brolin's character began by hunting antelope and he geniunely sympathized for the buck he winged but did not kill. Thus, he was determined to track it down for miles in order to kill it, rather than let it suffer a slow, painful death of infection and septsis. And when he felt bad for leaving that Mexican driver wounded in his car without water, he willingly and knowingly sacrificed his life to return to give aid, basic human aid, to that man even if he was a Mexican drug smuggler/dealer. Those aren't liberal sentiments by any stretch of human civilization. Those are noble human traits found in the best stories of most any culture.

And Jones' character, the sheriff, lamented the increased brutality and depravity of crime (and the loss of innocence) as he ate his breakfast. That wasn't liberal.

I have intentionally avoided the suggestion that the antithesis of any of my examples were conservative because I know that there are good, fair, upright, humble conservatives as there are the liberals.

So one could find in such a movie as No Country for Old Men principles which good people of all politics or religions can appreciate and embrace.

So I guess you will cream your pants when the headline reads:
CONSERVATIVE MOVIES=HIGHEST RATINGS EVER

Yeah. Maybe they can remake The Green Berets where John Wayne has us basically winning the Vietnam War. Hmmm, all these "anti-american" movies, huh? Oscars aside - what really matters in Hollywood is box office and all these Americans gobble up the dumbest, lowest level movies: Fool's Gold, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Jumper, Saw 3, The Teeange Mutant Ninja Turtles (the recent CGI one), Norbit - ALL NUMBER ONE at the box office on their opening weekend. I think the reason these nominated movies havent done well is because they are complex and challenging and you actually have to THINK and FOLLOW what is going on. It is the continuing of the dumbing down of America.

Are theater ticket sales down? That's what you ought to be looking at, dude. Nobody I know gives a flying fart about the Oscars, and it ain't because we're getting more conservative...

Piggybacking on this thread, because the discussion above of that now famous scene where Bardem talks up the gas station owner on the coin flip reminds me:

An Oscar went to Bardem. Somebody needs to honor that OTHER ACTOR --- older fellow, I haven't seen him before. He's very, very good in that scene. You want him to survive. What's his name, anyway? I hope he gets a part in the next Judd Apatow movie.

Also: if you like Bardem in this scene, check out his one-scene extended cameo in "Collateral" with Jamie Foxx. (and Tom Who?) Different haircut (skull-short), same menacing cadence. In other words: he gave this performance before. But the Oscars are about giving it in the RIGHT MOVIE.

People would rather see some phony action hero kill a whole buncha people who don't look like us and speak a funny language. They don't want movies that make them challenge their assumptions. Where's the big mystery in that?

How about a Buford Pusser Retrospective?