Joe Bob Briggs Professions : Film critic Born : January 27, 1953 Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Joe Bob Briggs If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure." Joe Bob Briggs hate sex travel Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's. Joe Bob Briggs phones cells hate It's not a crime to get drunk. Joe Bob Briggs drunk crime I always remind people why The Oscars got started in 1928: It was an effort by the studios to suppress the unions. They started the Academy because all the screenwriters and directors and actors were unionizing, and they thought, "We'll have something that resembles a union, but that's completely controlled by the moneyed interests in Hollywood." That's what it's been all these years. It's something that reinforces Hollywood's image of itself. The Best Picture one year was Gandhi. Nobody watched Gandhi, but that's the kind of picture that always wins. Joe Bob Briggs effort winning people They'll give you an Oscar if they think you're about to drop dead. The problem with The Oscars is, the average age of The Academy is 84. They wheel those people in from Palm Springs and hook up their IVs and they vote. The people that go to movies are under the age of 28, for the most part, so there's this total disconnect between what the Academy thinks is a great movie and what the audience actually wants to see. Joe Bob Briggs spring people thinking Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever. Joe Bob Briggs fleeting junk forever I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise? Joe Bob Briggs male-chauvinist males The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people. Joe Bob Briggs motorcycle young people I hate The Oscars. The Oscars make me want to throw things at the TV. In the ancient history of The Oscars, people would go on and make political statements and get thrown off the stage, but the last great political statement, I think, was when Michael Moore started raging against Bush a few years back. Everybody booed him, even though I can't imagine Hollywood booing a guy who's bashing Bush. That was the last great spontaneous moment on The Oscars. Joe Bob Briggs hate people thinking The movies that are honored at The Oscars are always a certain type: Old-fashioned. It's a bunch of well-made, old-fashioned movies that support our idea of ourselves. They uplift the human spirit. That's why horror films never even get nominated. Joe Bob Briggs support uplifting spirit I love Martin Scorsese, but there's another indication of what The Oscars are all about. They've ignored Martin Scorsese for going on 35 years now, and I wouldn't be surprised if they passed him over again. He'll get one of The Oscars they give you at the end of your life because they feel guilty for never giving you an Oscar. Joe Bob Briggs ignored guilty giving You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America. Joe Bob Briggs states real america Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in Joe Bob Briggs dragons stories made I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on. Joe Bob Briggs week made mistake Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke. Joe Bob Briggs clubs tradition men A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. Joe Bob Briggs dictator instruments world As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager. Joe Bob Briggs teenager class america In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. Joe Bob Briggs europe long people SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Joe Bob Briggs sunday garden football There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11. Joe Bob Briggs end-times posts ends Similar Authors Andre Bazin film-critic Andrew Sarris film-critic Armond White film-critic Bob Mondello film-critic Drew McWeeny film-critic David Edelstein film-critic All Authors
