Celebrity Dumb Quotes II: Dumb and Dumber

[cremetangerine82]

Mar 14, 2023 11:32:39 GMT -4 Ginger said:

Among the 10 Best Picture nominees, none of them were foreign-language films and only one of them (Banshees of Inisherin) was produced outside of America. Schrader's argument that "international" films should be awarded within their own countries is just not applicable. 90% of them were American films that were primarily produced, directed and acted by Americans.

All Quiet on the Western Front was in German and nominated for Best Picture.

[Ginger]

Nov 29, 2021 1:38:37 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

All Quiet on the Western Front was in German and nominated for Best Picture.

I stand corrected. 90% of the Best Picture nominees were English language.

More non-English language movies have been it into the Best Picture nominees in recent years, but it's still at the rate of about one in ten. Hard to blame the decline of the Oscars primarily on that.

[cremetangerine82]

Grimes, what did Elon Musk do to you?

“I’m called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture,” wrote Grimes on X. “But every day, I think fondly of the brown king Cyrus the Great, who invented the first ever empire, and the Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the first novel ever. What if humans just loved each other? History teaches us that we have all been, and always will be – great.”

[seat6]

She thinks about Cyrus the Great every day? Even people who are getting PhDs in the subject of ancient Persia don’t think about Cyrus the Great everyday.

[cremetangerine82]

Jan 7, 2024 14:12:44 GMT -4 seat6 said:

She thinks about Cyrus the Great every day? Even people who are getting PhDs in the subject of ancient Persia don’t think about Cyrus the Great everyday.

Her pretentiousness is much larger than her intelligence.