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I'm sure the 20 jackasses who'll show up will cause Google to immediately reverse course.

He passed on Top Gun because it wasn't about a competitive firearms contest.

Please royal flush that toilet language out of this thread

He passed on Hook because it wasn't about golf.

To be fair… that probably would have been a better film.

You and I remember that film differently then.

He turned down Stephen Frears' The Hit because it wasn't about baseball.

He also passed on Godard's Hail Mary because it wasn't about football.

You would be shocked at how many Confederate flags you see driving through rural Michigan. (Then again, after seeing the state go red for Trump last November, maybe you wouldn't be…)

Politics has basically become: 'it can't get much worse, can it?' Yes. Yes, it can.

The A.V. Club

I would ask you kindly, sir or madam, not to speak to me as if I wasn't present. As for my views on animal consumption - they have evolved over the course of a few hundred years (see also: my views on race).

Good sir - research has shown the cow to be a highly intelligent being capable of forming lasting social bonds. Forcing billions of them into the cruel factory farming system to harvest their meat for human consumption is a moral stain on our civilization.

A corporation which makes its profits from the slaughter of animals and by underpaying its work force is facing a crisis of stolen cheap plastic. What a travesty.

I don't understand all the animosity towards Shia. Is he a great actor? No. But there's a lot of mediocre actors out there that don't receive the negative coverage that he does. He also doesn't seem like a terrible person. Plus, his art experiments are, at the very least, somewhat interesting. Why the hate?

Dammit, Dikachu! Even his segue was better than mine…

Speaking of the idiocy of the human race, Betsy Devos just got confirmed as education secretary. Farewell, public schools! You had a good run!

Where have you been? Antoine Fuqua just did that last year with The Magnificent Seven

Legitimate question: is a President Pence preferable to a President Trump?

The people who complain about these celebrity speeches (as opposed to just ignoring them) do so because they disagree with their content, not out of principle of keeping the award ceremonies a-political. If one of the speakers tonight presented a valiant defense of our new Dear Leader, Breitbart and its ilk would