They like to deny slavery so much they've just about convinced themselves that blacks arrived on luxury cruise liners for all the free food and free housing and free medical care.

... WELL deserved nod!

Glad I saw it on the big screen!

It's in my netflix queue.

by a person who suffered through so much a hundred+ years in the past, can become a film that receives the biggest award.

Take some tissues when you go to see it.

I was glad to see that.

In fact, he's on the homepage of http://www.antislavery.org/english/

We elected a black president, Barack Hussayn Obama, or didn't you ntoice??





Sorry, I was just pre-emptively quoting the Rightwing Talking Heads(t) response -- complete with teabagger typos!!

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for the misses they had for similar 1800s era films that touched on slavery like Amistad ('97 - nominated for 4, won 0), Glory ('89 - nominated for 5, won 3), and even Lincoln ('12 - nominated for 12, won 2) - none of these got a Best Picture nod. And of course there was the complete ignoring of "The Butler" and "Fruitvale Station". But that's the way they roll....

Most of the time I read the book and then see the movie and grouse about the non-adherence to the story line that the movie usually takes. This movie did take some "artistic license" however it seemed to make the movie significantly more watchable than it otherwise would have been. I am very glad that it won best picture.

"This is another in a long line of liberal conspiracies rammed down our throats by the liberal Hollywood left. We have found not one instance of an event such as this occurring in the state of Georgia, South Carolina, or even Tennessee. Educated southern folk know better. We will just not pay attention to the loons out there who want to kill our southern pride at every turn."

for use as toilet paper...

for their investigation into "The Murder of Vince Foster by Hillary Clinton."

used to refer to that state as "Alabummer." "Nuff said.

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In fact, I didn't get any surprises at all last night. None.

I have not seen "12 Years a Slave". I probably will, sometime, most likely on Blu-Ray, and I expect my reaction will be very similar to my son's after he saw "Schindler's List."

My son was then I think 17, a sensitive kid who covered it well. He went with a bunch of his friends to see the movie in Knoxville. I knew it would be a source of endless discussion in our downstairs den (aka The Swamp) for days, as these were very bright kids, some quite introspective, with a good grasp of history and culture. So they went and came back and I asked my son what he though of the movie. After a moment, he said, "I'm really glad I saw it, and I hope I never have to see it again."

Sure Curacon (director for 'Gravity') made a stunning movie that made a ton of money and really made viewers believe they were in outer space and as expected 'Gravity' pretty much cleaned the house out with all the technical Oscar awards.

But I think Steve McQueen did an amazing job bringing to film the true tragedy of America's heritage with Slavery. People compare this to "Schindler's List" and rightly so. I am glad that Lupita Nyong'o won her best supporting actress award. I think her part as Patsy would be something that will be remembered for the ages. And I didn' think anything could top Ralph Fiennes' portrayel of a real life socipathic douchebag asshole Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (he ran one of the Nazi death camps during WW2 Germany) but I thought Michael Fassbender's portrayal of cruel, drunken, sociopathic slavemaster Edwin Epps rates up there. If hell is real I think that Goeth and Epps are down there together hopefully suffering a horrible payment for their sins

...but I did this time. It was fine work, and hard as hell to watch. I felt every stroke of the lash.

Well-deserved Best Supporting Actress, too.

but it left me with haunting memories of how sickening terrible Africans were treated. I found the movie excellent and hope I never have to see it again. I am glad they won best picture and best supporting actress. I haven't seen gravity.

in five, four, three, two...


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that Rushbo is complaining it only won because "slave" is a "magic word"…..oh really? Jesus, this man is OUT THERE!

here. "In the heat of the night"won as did "Crash". Both were nice movies but hardly great pictures. In the year that "In the heat of night" won another picture didn't and it is a great picture. 'Bonnie and Clyde" was a far superior picture and it is a great piece of work.. I would never consider "Crash" anything more than a serviceable movie.

Just because you win best picture does't always mean it is the best movie.

How about "Dances with Wolves beat GoodFellas.

That said it doesn't mean 12 years a slave wasn't the best movie. The one i liked was Nebraska.

Dances with Wolves and Good Fellas both were excellent.

I'd guess if you include indentured servitude, such as in South Asia. And outright slavery in parts of Africa.

I wanted it to win SO MUCH. I couldn't even watch (power was out) - so spouse decided to do something with his phone - and

I started crying. It's not payback, y'all - it's truth.