Monday
Oct292012
Joss Whedon "Endorsing" Mitt Romney
Monday, October 29, 2012 at 12:11PM One week from tomorrow we choose America's future. Every time I see a statistical tie or tight race type of poll I hear Giles' weary dismay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The earth is doomed."
Hee!
tagged Joss Whedon, politics, zombies
Joss Whedon, politics, zombies
Reader Comments (18)
Ha! I s'pose it depends on your definition of "doom" -- an (R)-propelled tailspin or a (D)-propelled one. Can't help but love that Whedon has thrown certain people into a tizzy with his "endorsement." (Tongue-in-cheek, folks. Tongue. In. Cheek.)
If Romney is elected, the Supreme court is lost.
The scariest thing about Romney being elected is that Ryan is next in line. Holy shit.
the basic problem is that American's pay no attention and vote for very random reasons if they vote at all. If people really understood elections would be way more interesting and they'd rarely be 50/50 like they always seem to be now.
We also need more choices than the standard 2 party elections.
Why must be always choose between 2 evils? Im not a fan of either Romney or Obama quite frankly.
HILLARY!!!!! Where are you when we need you? :)
People's prejudices informs how they'll vote.
Speaking of voting, I have an idea to end the sexism and racism of the Best Actress category. How about restricting the voting privileges between the sexes in the Actor's branch? Women can only vote for Actress/Supp Actress and men can only for Actor/Supp Actor. Of course this won't happen because men will want to retain their right to the fate of an actress' career in their hands.
4rtful -- intriguing but so punishing for the men... imagining only getting to discuss the male actors? BO---RING.
Wheedon to host the oscars.
You want to feel sorry for the men! Maybe you're okay with Pfeiffer, Bening, Moore, Weaver, Close, never having a shot at shit but a nomination regardless whether the deserve the win or not. Never mind. Allow the Academy to conduct business as usual since your main concern is that pesky category fraud. How dare they nominate the co-lead in supporting.
I'm talking about changing the course of Best Actress altogether. If women controlled the fate of female performers, maybe Tilda Swinton would return for a nomination? The would have given it to Viola, or maybe Close? Who knows? But you care about the male voters being bored with each other. Yeah, young starlets have to whore themselves off to Harvey the devil for the sake of taking prizes from superior work from superior actresses.
Think about how campaigns would change if the adds were to be directed at female voters only!
Nat: There's some Lead Actor years a suggestion like "only men vote on men" could have greatly improved, such as 1948 (with an all male voting block, Dan Dailey and Clifton Webb, at the very least, are out for Bogart (Madre) and either Anton Walbrook or Edward G. Robinson to slide into those two slots) or 1985 (Murphy's Romance is definitely gone and Prizzi's Honour might have wound up gone as well. In their place...Raul Julia is definitely in (he's sympathetically masculine and the likely overall sixth due to the film he was in), but the replacement for Prizzi's, on an all male voting block, is harder to suss out. It's not Out of Africa (no bleeping way would that be a Top 5 Best Picture if only males were counted, let alone acting), so I'm going to guess that, if it isn't Prizzi's, the all male voting block 5th place would most likely be Danny Glover, with 6th, with only males voting, likely being a toss up between Jonathan Pryce and Jeff Daniels.) However, do I think the reverse will improve the Actress categories? Unlike Lead Actor, it likely wouldn't notably drastically improve any year so much as it would get the more blatant "de-glam and nothing else" noms off the nomination table. Noms like Angelina Jolie in Changeling or Nicole Kidman in The Hours, for example. Do women actually like that they're forced to do these kinds of parts for awards attention, or is it only that a lot of (kind of sexist) men love voting for these kinds of decisions? (Mandatory de-sexualization isn't nearly as sexist as mandatory sexualization (See: 1996 and onward Frank Miller in particular), but it still indicates rigidity with what should be laudatory, which is still sexism.)
4rtful: Even on judging the win? It would change the nomination content on both sides and it should at least be tried for the nomination process for a bit to see if it improves things or worsens things. However, it shouldn't change the win process. The whole Academy should still be voting on the winner, frankly.
My vision is the Actor's branch decides the nominees but the winners are determined by the gender of your category. Women if they're voting for each other would destroy the pattern in Best Actress—that's the most restrictive of all the acting categories. I also want the branches to vote for themselves. What does some of these acting nominees know about Sound Editing or Cinematography—except loud in the former and pretty for the latter.
Romeny and Obama are evil, but Hilary isn't? Sure whatever you say.lol
A single gender of actors determining the acting nominations, while the whole Academy votes on the winners, might at least do something to beef up the overall quality of the nominated work and it can always be reversed if it doesn't work out. What you're suggesting (entire acting branch chooses nominees, single gender chooses winners), would be pointless on the nomination process and would probably make the rest of the Academy resentful towards all the actors.
4rtful: A single gender of actors determining the acting nominations, while the whole Academy votes on the winners, might at least do something to beef up the overall quality of the nominated work and it can always be reversed if it doesn't work out. What you're suggesting (entire acting branch chooses nominees, single gender chooses winners), would be pointless on the nomination process and would probably make the rest of the Academy resentful towards all the actors. Especially since great acting and great writing are the most obvious things that anyone can intuit.
P.S. Sorry about the mostly duplicated comment.
this is the stupidest blog ever...
Yet you continue posting here Rick. The Blog is stupid. I suspect I am apart of that stupidity and I accept that's how you see it. Fine. Fuck off.
I obviously meant this particular entry .. but I am not like you who examines every nuance... I made an error, which i am sure has never happened to you .. again the language here is your only defense, it seems .. again, I cannot believe I am stooping to your level and addressing you.