Totes cosign this. People are so reverential about the goddamn Academy and act like it's the Pope and College of Cardinals when really, it's just a bunch of people that don't necessarily have better taste in movies than the average Joe voting on whatever they like.

I know Hull well, and like, the Krispy Kreme in question is a tiny little kiosk thing inside a mall. It's not a huge store or anything, they probably have like 10 employees so 'higher ups' means the bloke with the manager name tag. Not to mention, you have to understand what local to Hull means; it's like the poorest…

technically we're not adding extra vowels, you guys are taking them out.

"how has no one associated with the Hull Krispy Kreme apparently heard of America's favorite wacky hate group?"

A simple mistake with intense consequences, unfortunately.

I'm sorry, I can't get over this Selma thing. Two things:

I mean, it's not like it would be hard. Just have screenings rather send out screeners and require voters to actually see the films before being eligible to vote each year. The nominations come out in enough time to make sure that happens, and most people will already have seen a bunch of them from regular movie…

I don't know about Cannes specifically, but I tend to take the critics association awards (New York, LA, Boston) more seriously than the Oscars at this point.

Now, you know those blacks have to follow a separate set of rules. Shame on you for using logic.

What do we expect here? The general public idolizes Hollywood and movie-making, but in the end, they are all just people. Just people working, like in any other profession. And people, by and large, are stupid. They don't honor "art" any more than any other random member of the public does. They look at nominees and…

Did this person really talk smack about the "I can't breathe" t-shirts being worn by the Selma director rubber her the wrong way, and then go on right after that to say she can separate politics from movies?

The part that upset me the most was how offended she was about the I Can't Breathe t-shirts. Sorry, what? A movie made you feel uncomfortable and you're resentful that the cast continues to make you feel uncomfortable about the film's messages? There's just a complete lack of self-awareness in that.

White people!

Wow.

I hate that American Sniper knocked down the Hunger Games as top grossing US box office film in 2014. American jingoistic sniper has made $307,762,521 at the US box office and Selma has made $48,644,529, that says a lot about America at the moment. Also I have noticed that a lot of fans of American Sniper hate…

So she's ok with movies where white people are violent and kill people of color if they are portrayed as heroes rather than villains. Ok, got it. Makes perfect sense.

And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist? Yes, most members are white males, but they are not the cast of Deliverance — they had to get into the Academy to begin with, so they're not cretinous, snaggletoothed hillbillies.

My point is that she said she wasn't going to vote for Selma because she thought it was well-crafted but artless. All she discusses here is its artfulness, and ignores its cultural significance/the significance of a black woman director. Whereas, for other categories she discusses things other than the thing that they…

Two quotations:

"When a movie about black people is good, members vote for it. But if the movie isn't that good, am I supposed to vote for it just because it has black people in it?"