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Dumbdog Millionaire = way too much violence by adults against children

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Richard BassNut Greene

In Reply to: RE: Hated it posted by Jazz Inmate on April 13, 2009 at 09:13:29

Watched the whole movie, so I can't rate it poor, but let's say fair.
The wifey announced immediately after the movie ended that it would win the best picture Oscar! For a rare change, the Mother-in-Law agreed with me ... but then she hasn't loved any movie since the 1950's!
I wanted to get a message to the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (through a local friend who is a friend of his wife) asking why violence against children was rewarded in Dumbdog ... while Alfred Hitchcock, the best director in the history of motion pictures, IMHO, NEVER won an Oscar for Best Director! The friend refused to deliver my message -- I guess she liked Dumbdog too!
Violence is the real pornography in this world.
Violence against women and childen is the worst violence.
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Richard BassNut Greene.....................................................................
The "Cliff Claven" of Audio
and the "Floyd R. Turbo of Bingham Farms Michigan"

Alfred Hitchcock at wikipedia (Open in New Window)

Edits: 04/14/09

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RE: "...refused to deliver my message..." - powermatic 11:13:43 04/18/09 (0)
Maybe she realized what an absurd request it was. Since Sidney Ganis didn't become president until 2005-25 years after Hitchcock's death, and at least 40 years since his best films, exactly how do you think he'd respond to such a question? I'm guessing some variant of 'how the fuck should I know'-so I assume your friend didn't want to be the instigator of that scenario.

You don't somehow think that posing this question to Sid Ganis will bring about a New Age of Thoughtful Reflection to sweep over the Oscar selection process-do you?

If you really want to learn the answer to your query, I'm pretty sure you're smart enough, with just a bit of research into how the Academy picks winners, to come up with a reason as plausible as any Ganis could come up with. And it will be a lot closer to the truth than anything the president of the Academy would tell you.

"dammit"

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