"The Passion" Gets Shut Out of The Golden Globes

[Yavin4]

But, "Kinsey", "Sex and the City", and "Will and Grace" all receive nominations for Best Picture and Best Comedy Shows respectively. Gee, do you think that the right wing media will go into over-drive about this? Nah...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_en_mo/golden_globes_list_2

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Mods, I know that this seems like a Lounge post, but "The Passion" getting shut out will definitely mean that the right wing media will use this to promote conservative talking points.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. GOOD! That crap should be ignored.

[Walt Starr]

2. Here comes the cultural war again!

Watch out, they'll boycott hollywwod even more than they're boycotting hollywood already!

[donheld]

3. Great news!

:bounce: :toast: :smoke: :nopity: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :smoke: :nopity: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :smoke: :nopity: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :smoke: :nopity: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :smoke: :nopity: :yourock: :bounce: :toast: :smoke: :nopity: :yourock:

[RUDUing2]

4. The Passion is a foreign language film...don't know how it could have

recieved a nomination....not that the RWM will let logic stand in the way of a good spinsanity...

also they are kindof hogtied on complaining cause 9/11 didn't even make the cut for consideration...whereas The Passion did (as a best foreign film candidate)...

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15303,00.html

[Yavin4]

9. But It Didn't Get Nominated in That Category Either

Although, "Motorcycle Diaries" (the story about the youth of Che) was nominated. Hang onto your boots folks. Fox News will go 24/7 over this.

[RUDUing2]

13. nope but it was included in the films eligible for momination..even though

it really did not fit the required criteria (no country of origination and neither language spoken in the film is a *living* language)...so in reality the film shouldn't have been eligible to begin with and voters apparently were better at following the rules then the committee was...

[girl gone mad]

37. Motorcycle Diaries was a far better movie.

Unless you're a sadist, that is.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Gibson could have been nominated for best Director

and wasn't. Ha! Made my day! I'll never watch another one of his movies. Ever. He and Disney are on my boycott list.

Documentaries (F911) aren't even considered by the Golden Globe. At least that's what some movie critic lady said on MSNBC this morning. F911 will win the People's Choice award though.

I hope the Academy Awards snubs Gibson and his movie too. :grr:

[Inland]

5. Golden Globes run by "foreign press"

and all the foreigners hate Jesus. Pure and simple.

Expect the Oscars to provide plenty of american support: hollywood hates Jesus too, but it worships box office.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. I doubt it. Hollywood is immoral. Remember?

The Christian Right LOVED Gibson's movie and HATE the "immorality" of Hollywood. I doubt the Hollywood elite will feed the devil with a nomination for Gibson or his movie. I hope they don't.

[w4rma]

22. They don't

"hate Jesus", they just don't like the fundie "hate people who are different" portrayal of him.

As for this movie, I wish Gibson had been accuate in his portrayal of the Roman occupiers (rather than treating them as they were good guys or neutral) and I wish that Gibson had shown the MESSAGE that Jesus martyred for. The MESSAGE is more important than him dying on the cross. He could have allowed the Sermon on the Mount to be given at the beginning of the film as a good (and hopefully popular) introduction to Jesus.

[alexisfree]

6. that's what they get

for pretending to be the son of God.!

[AValdoux]

7. Where's Dawn of the Dead?

When the Passion was the top movie all the pundits were declaring they had taken over Hollywood and America finally got the type of movie that fit middle America. Then Dawn of the Dead knocked it off its first week. America loves Hollywood. Its about entertainment remember. Flesh Eating Zombies beat Jesus.

A Valdoux

[tedzbear]

33. Both movies are for sadists who love to watch people being tortured.

Whether the victim is whipped & beaten to a pulp, or slowly eaten by zombies, it's all the same to that crowd.

:puke:

[donheld]

38. Welcome AValdoux

[RUDUing2]

8. something that will cause even more hoopla is that The Passion was

declared ineligible for Oscar consideration..(but 9/11 was considered eligible..the exact opposite of the GG's)

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/culture/archives/000721.html

[sir_captain]

24. only ineligible for best foreign film

it's eligible for all the major categories

[medeak]

10. Passion was a snuff film

as per SouthPark...friend sent yesterday...made my day.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

[greyfox]

18. Indeed it was....

and Jesus was "snuffed" for you and for me.

[ProfessorPlum]

20. Praise!! Can I get an Ayyymen?

[greyfox]

28. Hheheheeh

yep......... ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyymen!!! Glory! Hallelujah!!! All Independents and Democrats are not anti-Jesus, ya see.

[Name removed]

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[DrWeird]

14. That's because there's no documentary category for the golden globes.

Not because it just didn't get nominated because it was a crap movie.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. The Golden Globes doesn't do documentaries.

That's why F911 wasn't nominated.

[hatrack]

17. Let the screeching begin!

Can't wait 'till this and the "They're Destroying Christmas!" Howlathon merge into one cacophanous pious mewl.

Look for lots of frightened dogs and increased plate glass orders in the weeks ahead.

[ET Awful]

19. Honestly, if you ignore the religious adoration, it's a SHITTY film.

I mean. . . It's just not a good movie. Anyone with a decent camera and a few hundred gallons of fake blood could make the same movie.

Awards are given on the merit of the film, not it's subject matter. You don't give a movie an award just 'cause it's about Jesus being tortured.

If the movie wasn't about Jesus, it would have been universally criticized as being a shitty movie.

[CornField]

21. If it hadn't been about Jesus, it wouldn't have gotten that R rating

What other movie with so much violence would be given an R rating? The only thing that saved this from being NC-17 was the fact that it was a Biblically based story.

I say let's make it a trend and make films of all the desolation, violence and cruelty in the Bible.

Edited for my crappy spelling today... UGH!

[sir_captain]

23. Thank goodness for liberal hollywood

Mel didn't make a lot of friends there with his anti-semitic tripe

[LongTomH]

25. Maybe they could create a new award category:

Like: Best Overacting in a Religiously-Oriented Snuff Film!:evilgrin:

[Killarney]

26. Fox is going to jerk off over this one.

They'll be pounding this into the dirt. "The Hollywood liberals hate Jesus!"

[Yavin4]

30. Ironically, Fox Produced "Kinsey"

Then again, Freepers don't understand irony.

http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/kinsey/site/

[johnfunk]

27. Gratuitously violent snuff films are not Globeworthy.

Can't wait for the Academy Awards ® shut-out, either...

[Name removed]

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[tedzbear]

31. Globes needs a new catagory: Best picture for torture loving sadists...

...sadists who hide their disgusting blood lust under the guise of Christian demagoguery.

I'm sure the Oscars will ignore this torture movie too. There are more progressives in the Academy than there are in Gov. Arnold's worst nightmares.

:evilgrin:

[Catherine Vincent]

32. Someone explain to me why you all are upset about the Passion?

I went to see it and thought it was a good movie. Should I hate it? Why do you guys despise Mel Gibson now? Is he a republican?

[tedzbear]

36. It's a snuff movie...

...that glorifies sadistic torture. If that's what you love best about Jesus, go for it. I would rather spend my time reading "red letter" sayings of Jesus (historically accurate).

:kick:

[Lilith Velkor]

39. No

It's a well-done rendition of the Stations of the Cross. It seems a lot of people were too freaked out by the gore to notice the Sermon on the Mount flashback in the middle of the crucifixion.

Showing violence and glorifying it are not at all the same thing.

[MisterCompletly]

34. Did Moore get his F911 in the running?

Any nominations for Moore?

[DrWeird]

35. Golden Globe doesn't cover documentaries.

I'm sure he would have won if they did.