Get Out is overrated and we all know why it was nominated

I'm surprised that Detroit didn't score any nominations.

Dumb argument. The Academy isn't just nominating Get Out to pacify social justice warriors on twitter. You all need to understand the Academy voter base is getting younger, not older. They're adding new members every year, and older members are either dying or being removed because they aren't in the industry anymore. We're going to see more populist movies nominated in coming years, we'll see more niche movies nominated, we're going to see more movies that speak to younger generations nominated. If you're going to use the Fox News argument on Get Out or Greta Gerwig's nomination, whats the Fox News argument for the "fish fucking" movie getting 13 nominations, or how about Paul Thomas Anderson's bizarro 1950's set neurotic romcom getting nominated?

Of course we all know that anytime a person of color or woman gets a major Oscar nomination it is simply PC and politics.

If the nominations are all white males, then we can be sure they are deserved. Right, trumpizoids?

By next year you will saying that the Best Actress nominations are just politics because only women got them.

Did you ever think about the word "overrated"? Do you think the people - critics and audiences - who loved the film don't know their own minds? To you, they don't. They can't rate a movie. They "overrate" things. That's bullcrap. If someone loves a film, that is how they rate it. Whether you liked it or not, they exactly rated the movie according to their own perception. In a world where opinion is all and there is no right or wrong in what you like or how you rate, there are people like you who say that others are wrong. You say that if others do not have the same opinion as you, they have "overrated" the movie. To you, it is YOUR opinion that is fact. Anyone who disagrees with you "overrates" things. That is all "overrate" means. In other words, it means nothing and my original post stands. You have overrated yourself.

To denigrate a work only because the producers/directors/actors were black or women is, to put it mildly, mainstream conservatism. That is the kind of thing they want to preserve.

As the Great Knock would say, we have to define our terms, lad. What does overrated mean in this context?

Read what I said about "overrated." It means nothing except if you don't like a movie then the people who do are wrong. In a world of opinion, only what you think is valid.

I never said that anyone who thought Get Out was not Oscar worthy was a trumpizoid. I said that anyone who thought that the only reason it was nominated was because of the presence of black people are trumpizoids. BTW, the only thing "liberal" has come to mean is "not extreme right-wing." Today's Democratic Party platform shares many points with the 1956 platform of Republican President Eisenhower. Since Reagan, though, conservatism has slowly but surely moved to the fringes, helped by the rise of extremist "news" media - and the "liberal" position on the spectrum, has moved to the right at the same speed. So now we have Democrats who have become Republicans 60 years ago and Republicans who are gaining on Mussolini - controlling, racist, sexist, establishing a plutocracy. Me? I consider myself Common Sense, Reality Based. Something no conservative can claim. Humphrey Bogart is my hero in this, also.

Maybe when sober up, you might want to re-read what you have written and edit or delete this post.

Conservatives are fond of misquoting, I know. It is part of what it means to be conservative. I said that I have been a right-wing watcher for many decades, starting with my parents. I never said that I hated conservatives because of my parents. What is it that conservatives want to conserve? Racism. White supremacy. Male superiority. Segregation by race. The superiority of the rich. The laziness of the working class and poor. These and many more nasty beliefs define conservatism. Why would anyone with any sense of decency want to be identified as such.