LMAO...it was the second-lowest rated Oscar ceremony!

It's gonna come to a point where they either stop the speeches or discontinue having comedians being the host.

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I pretty much agree with that. it's just a way for those in Hollywood to kiss up to each other for the most part.

because while you have a quality movie nominated for Best Picture etc here and there, it's mostly politics.

but sadly, it seems a portion of the public gives them credibility by watching some of those movies they would not have otherwise seen. also, I honestly think that when a movie is nominated for Best Picture for example that people likely inflate their scores on IMDb etc because of it. I can't prove that but it's something I suspect of being true, at least for some people. because for me straight up... there are not many movies that stand out from the pack in general which already puts the odds against many of those Best Picture noms to stand out.

just some thoughts

Thank you Harvey Weinstein. I get so sick of you fringe conservatives (but what other kind of conservatives are there? Fringe has now become mainstream) and your own political agenda of white male superiority. Well, I call b.s. Your time's up.

I'm pretty sure "PC-ness" is not why people stopped watching Oscars, because if so just nod in acknowledgement the next time you see people in other countries celebrate a terrorist attack that kill thousands of US citizens. People just don't care for most award-winning movies nowadays.

Stars aren't stars anymore. In addition to the internet and 24 hour tv creating over exposure, the movies are cookie cutter, and everyone is beta.
And the SJW problem.
They aren't interested in entertaining, only preaching.

Big corporations destroyed the business.
I doubt it can recover because they can't backtrack from the political agenda. And they have all the money they need so there is no reason to.
If advertisers were really in charge they would force the companies to change their tune but they cant so that's how it is.

I think it's a combination. There is oversaturation, as Spike notes: the 'specialness' that used to surround the awards as far as seeing the stars were concerned is long over--they're everywhere now; thanks to social media, people are even more embroiled in the illusion that they're somehow intimately involved with these people, which definitely takes off a lot of the shine.

Politics don't help. Yes, there have always been moments of politicizing involved with the awards, or at least since the uptick in Hollywood-style social consciousness and the decline of the studio system which effectively prevented film stars from making overtly political pronouncements; but it does seem to be a 24/7 thing these days, and much of it comes across as self-involved and fairly obtuse. I have no problem with celebrities having the right to air their opinions--not all of them are idiots, and some are capable of speaking intelligent and reasoned ones--and they even have the right to voice dumb ones, just as we grant to everyone else. But so much of it has become so relentlessly 'in your face' that again, it isn't surprising it takes away from the lustre these figures had back in the days when they were beautiful, silent idols. That there looks to be so much hypocrisy involved doesn't help (I can't help but wonder it the Asia Argento thing, and Rose McGowan's none too well-advised response didn't help just a mite to keep audiences away), and most of their concerns definitely are too far-removed from working class Joe's for the average viewer to have much sympathy for them, whether the sympathy may be deserved or not.

I don't think you can go back...and it only adds to the problem that there are way too many choices out there, and the Academy apparently considering ever more categories to embrace them, such as an award for 'best popular picture'. Once you have that sort of proliferation snowballing, the awards begin to look even more meaningless than they already are. I can't help but think this is a ceremony that's run its course and is probably ready to be gently retired. As the very industry itself has changed, the Oscar ceremony should have as well, but hasn't--maybe hasn't been able to keep up gracefully. In all honesty, were this to be the final Oscar telecast, I suspect a majority of the nation wouldn't care and probably wouldn't really miss it when it was gone. Not sure if that's a sad thing or not, really...

I don't watch enuff f'n television I guess, cuz it looks more to me like it's the stuff on televison that's not really there, lulz...Of course, I'm not one of those people who thinks that unless something 'goes viral' it didn't really happen, either.