Join our Special Correspondent Bill S.as he mans the Red Carpet at the 2010 Culture War Awards:
Not content to prove that he’s stupider than Jonah Goldberg, Master Ben Shapiro has of late, tried his hand at movie criticism, in an apparent effort to prove he’s also dumber than Michael Medved. We first got a taste of this back in 2006, with his Townhall Column, Why I’m skipping the Oscars this year. Just about everyone second-guesses the Academy Awards, but only Ben, with his unique brand of dumbassery, can render this harmless pastime completely annoying. Brad at Sadly, No! already gave that piece the smackdown it deserved, but there are three additional points I’d like to add:
1. Ben Shapiro opens the column with this line:
Every year since I was old enough to stay up late, I’ve watched the Academy Awards.
Then goes on to say:
If a film tackles a “deep social issue”…you’ll have an excellent chance of grabbing a gold statuette…The combination of declining product quality and rising Hollywood disdain for mainstream America has opened the door to the agenda film crowd. It began with the 1994 Oscars
It bears repeating the Ben was born in 1984. This means his disillusionment with mainstream Hollywood movies is either entirely retroactive, it’s a pose designed to make him appear more knowledgeable (an epic fail since he seems to be saying message movies weren’t invented until the 90′s) or he’s parroting a line of B.S. his elders fed him in the hopes of winning a cookie from them. Hell, it’s probably all three.
2. I’m not sure what’s more hopeless, his math skills or his logic skills:
In 2003, homosexual agenda films like The Hours, Frida and Far From Heaven grabbed the largest share of nominations.
Um, not quite, dumbass. Let’s look at the actual tally, shall we?
Chicago 13 nominations (6 wins)
Gangs Of New York 10 nominations (0 wins)
The Hours 9 nominations (1 win)
The Pianist 7 nominations (3 wins)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 6 nominations (2 wins)
Frida 6 nominations (2 wins)
Road To Perdition 6 nominations (1 win)
Adaptation 4 nominations (1 win)
Far From Heaven 4 nominations (0 wins)
So the three movies he listed grabbed “the largest share of nominations” as long as you add their individual nominations together and ignore all the ties. Since you could get the same result from any three movies from the above list, this proves…nothing. (Side note: since John C. Reilly has roles in Chicago, Gangs of New York and The Hours, he must have more influence over Academy voters than the gay lobby. I wonder if he knows that?)
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