Comments on: Oscar Ratings A Dud

Early Nielsen Reports Sunday's Viewership Could Be Lowest Ever

[olebd]

With all that''s going on in the world and with the economy, worrying about paying the bills paycheck to paycheck, the last thing I want to do is watch some fantasyland egomainiacs receive yet more awards for doing their job and getting paid for it very well.

[Syndicate]

Its all fixed. None of these awards are given to people with talent. Its who will make the most money. Glad to see people waking up and tuning out. Its kinda like that documentry on movie ratings. They rated it NC-17 to keep people from watching it. NO ***. No foul langauge. No Violance. Just an expose on the movie industrie. NC-17.

[stevenvideo]

The million dollar question is why would anyone in America with half a brain even care about these phony overpaid untalented actors? Most of them think they are better then everyone else on the plant and they are so fake and so phony I pay them no attenion, but this comment. I even live in Hollywood, CA and ignore the whole fake hype.

[keithle1]

Oscars need a radical makeover. Try something that hasn''t been done before. A different format. ANYTHING. They show the same old movie clips in montages. Why do they waste time showing us footage of past Best Actor winners. "Look there''s Robert De Niro! With a beard! Go figure!"

Do we have to hear the Oscar-nominated songs? Can''t they just play snippets of them when it''s time to announce the winner?

It would have been fun to see Travolta land on his butt when he was finished with his dancing. Almost slipped on something.

They only went 20 minutes over the alloted time. But still it seems like FOREVER when it''s on. All of the corny things they make the presenters say.

I thought Nicole Kidman looked pretty good. Cameron Diaz has a huge mouth.

[puzzler125]

While Jon Stewart tends to be most popular with intellectuals and/or college students and a younger population what I think the Academy Awards needs as a host is Billy Crystal or another COMEDIAN of his calibre. Chris Rock was pretty funny, David Letterman was a so-so host of the A. Awards, and I say bring back Billy. Stewart did do a better job than the first time. Whoopi was pretty good and Steve Martin would be great!

[gostox]

Bottom Line.....The Oscars are tooo long. Who wants to stick around for FOUR hours?!! The solution is to shorten the Oscars to TWO hours or else fewer and fewer people will watch the Oscarsevery year. Easier to just read the results the next day the sit around for hours and hours and hours.......

[pupeta-2009]

Right now it''s kind of hard to get people to watch an interesting intelligently made movie, such as "no country for old men" or "there will be blood" amongst others. We have a country with the largest population of morons who cannot go beyond eating, breathing and shi....ing and they do this because the body tells them to because if they could find a way to avoid doing these functions they would. They barely read and write and forget thinking or developing a mental capacity for analisis, that is too hard.

[brianp55]

For me, the Oscars have undergone exactly the same evolution as pro football. During the 70s and early 80s I would watch Monday Night Football each week, religously. It has been at least twenty years since I''ve had sufficient interest to sit through a game. As with football, the Hollywood personalities have changed and they are far more amorphous and far less interseting. I care nothing about these performers or a vast majority of the films they are associated with.

[ssm9451]

Glad that Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar!! He is awesome in "There Will Be Blood."

[seafang]

Well I watched my local Korean News Network station. No I can''t understand a word of Korean but it beats watching the oscars hands down.

Well in the future, all these movies will be made by programmers out of ones and zeroes. Come to think of it, they are already made out of zeroes.

The antics of those depraved people in Hollywood are a crashing bore, and they have all become know it all politicians and environmentalists anyway.

Yes I think I''ll study Korean.