The Oscars brings the doom, gloom and narcissistic views.

Entertainment: Once a year the Oscars come around which means you get articles like this that insults the majority of people who don't see the genius that goes on with nominated films. Then they wonder why Oscar ratings are so low over the last couple of years.

Howard Suber, founding chair of UCLA's Film and Television Producers Program and author of "The Power of Film," said he has never seen a bleaker view of human nature in a group of films since the French cinema of the 1960s. "A film like 'There Will Be Blood' is decidedly un-American," he said. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as sadistic oil prospector in the early 20th century who will do anything to create wealth and gain power.

un-American? You just described J.R. Ewing.

This year's five nominees for best film look likely to score the second-lowest box office total for the group in 20 years, with their ticket sales equaling an anemic 3 percent of the overall 2007 domestic box office of around $9.7 billion. Many of 2007's big hits -- "Spider-Man," "Transformers," "Knocked Up" and "Superbad" -- were escapist fantasies and raunchy comedies, "mostly aimed at 11-year-olds, like most movies," said Los Angeles Daily News film critic Bob Strauss. The some 5,800 voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, however, are adults who work in the industry and favor serious dramas that look at complex questions of human nature, which is why a movie like "No Country", a meditation on declining society morals, scores well with Oscar voters. But regular moviegoers, said Suber, don't want to face the reality of the world, which right now includes the war on terrorism, the U.S. housing crisis and an ailing economy. "Audiences don't want to see realistic films about the war in Iraq. They want to escape all the bad news," Suber said.

Or it could be that the movies about the war in Iraq are anti-American, anti-military pacifist pieces of badly made junk that hasn't garnered any sort of audience even the leftists who cheer on these sorts of movies. The idea that Adults favor serious dramas and complex questions of human nature in Hollywood. How the hell do you explain Crash winning? The Hollywood liberals do not get the rest of the country, but it is never their fault, but everyone else.