#OscarsSoIrrelevant
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, but I have ignored the Oscars for the last thirty or forty years. For one thing, they have rarely honored the films I liked, and they primarily reflect the opinions of a lot of privileged old white men. Just as significant: I rarely see new films.
Los Angeles is something of a company town, so the media is full of “countdowns” to the Oscars. Do they really need a pre-game show?
Fortunately, a lot of people watch this and other awards shows. As with the Super Bowl, that clears the freeways of a lot of excess traffic. I plan to take advantage by going with Martine to visit my friends Bill and Kathy Korn in Altadena.
No offense to Chris Rock, who will probably be a lot more entertaining than the films being honored.
tarnmoor 
The set was quite nice for this Oscar rally. Chris Rock was funny, as usual, though some of his jokes went on a bit too long. The movies, however, were not all that exciting. I watch the Oscars to see if I missed anything that I “should” have seen in theaters.
Nope. I get one Netflix DVD per month, and I will still have trouble finding new releases that I want to see.