Against #thenews, more evidence:
#WillSmith #WillSmith #WillSmith #ChrisRock #ChrisRock #ChrisRock everywhere the punch the scandal the speech the shame the arguments and counter-arguments the gender angle omg #meme #meme #meme outrage joke still clip another angle the gender discussion again omfg #WillSmith WHAT HAVEN'T YOU HEARD ABOUT IT? EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT IT DUDE! #meme #meme #meme bandwidth ink focus pages culture wars #WillSmith #WillSmith #WillSmith #ChrisRock #ChrisRock #ChrisRock
So disgusting. Intellectual porn — of the bad kind, even. And so many consequential and inspiring and worrying and beautiful things going on at the same time.
@tripu The sad thing is that other oscar winners get completely overshadowed by this incident... It's all talk about the slap and nothing else. That's kinda a slap in the face of those others too.
That too, I guess.
Although the Oscars themselves are only slightly more interesting to me than the stupid Will Smith thing.
(The #Oscars are a cheesy event where a specific organisation gives awards to a very homogeneous handful of rich people; the whole thing is horribly US-centric, the merits of the winning films are dubious at best, and it works as an hours-long commercial wrapped in glitter.)
Yeah, by all means let guilds and industry associations have their little awards and ceremonies. Why not? I just don't care for something so provincial and political as the #Oscars.
I wish there were something like [The Greatest Books](https://thegreatestbooks.org/) but for #film and #music. I only know of [IMDb “Top Movies”](https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/) and of #RottenTomatoes, but those two don't seem balanced nor independent enough to me.
@tripu @trinsec Unfortunately I think with the way movies are financed then its always going to be difficult to get something truly independent, unless you go outside the mainstream.