To no one’s surprise, most Americans decided not to watch a bunch of pampered, virtue-signaling millionaires pat themselves on the back at this year’s Academy Awards. With an average of 26.5 million viewers, it was the least-watched Oscars in history, down 19 percent from last year.
The raw numbers don’t even tell the whole story. 26.5 million viewers today are a lot smaller percentage of the population than forty years ago. In 1970, 43.4 percent of U.S. households tuned in. Forty-three percent!
What do you expect when literally hundreds of people in Hollywood knew about Harvey Weinstein’s outrageous behavior for decades, did nothing about it, or worse, helped to cover it up. Then they have the audacity to get up on stage for four grueling hours and lecture all of us about how we need to be more virtuous? Give me a break!
I’ve read plenty of excuses about how declining interest in the Academy Awards parallels declining interest in award shows or live events generally. That may be true, but do you really think an Oscars focused on entertainment, popular movies, and which was a reasonable length wouldn’t have pulled in a lot more views?
I guess I can only speak for myself, but I love movies and I’m staying away from the theater because it’s overpriced, the movies are crappy, and I’m constantly annoyed by having social and political messages shoved in my face in every film. So I have even less desire to watch an awards show in which everyone congratulates themselves over that sorry mess, and I think a lot of folks would agree.
M.A. Kleen 
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I still go to the theater because I love the experience of seeing movies on the big screen, but it’s really not worth it. Almost every time I go I regret it. I’ve been trying to convince myself to go see Red Sparrow, but I know I’m just going to leave thinking I wasted my money. Someday very soon it’s going to hit them hard enough in the wallet they’ll finally start fixing this stuff
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I haven’t seen a movie in a theater in over a decade. I have lost respect for so many movie actors due to their one sided view of the world. I started to watch it last night but as soon as they started talking about Harvey Weinstein I turned it off. And the talk of gun control….lol…how many of them have armed body guards????
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