For the past few months it has been what I like to call, movie awards season, though I'm sure other people call it the same thing. From the Oscars, to the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, every television station seems to have their own version of a movie award show. Guess every station wants to have decent ratings at least once a year. But are these award shows really going the rightful movies and actors their justice?

When it comes to the "Best Actor/Actress" awards, I would have to say that I agree with the winners for the most part, but when it comes to the "Best Movie" award, I can't always say that I agree. Let's go back to the Oscars for a moment. Best actor went to Daniel Day Lewis, and best actress went to Jennifer Lawrence. Now I have not seen the movie "Lincoln," but I'm sure he did an excellent job, he surely looks like good ole Abe, and Jennifer Lawrence is an amazing actress all the time, especially in her role in "Silver Linnings Playbook." Best supporting actor went to Christoph Waltz, and he deserved it for sure. He is an amazing actor, and he did an excellent job in "Django Unchained." Anne Hathaway took best supporting actress with her in "Les Misérables," and I couldn't be happier about that. That is definitely one of my favorite musicals, and she was so amazing as Fontine. Now when it comes to best movie of the year, I can't say that I'm on board with that. Is it just me, or are the winner of this award always a movie that has some kind of political message in there. Maybe it just bothers me because I'm not a fan of politics, but I don't believe the very best movie always wins this award. Maybe it should be broken up into categories, because how can a superhero movie, or a musical even compete with something such as "Argo?" It just seems to me that politics and the government are just a little TOO involved in our day to day lives. You literally cannot get away from them, they are everywhere. And I'm not even talking about some kind of crazy conspiracy theory. You can see it for yourself. Over the years, the government has done as much as they can to practically control our lives. I'm not saying having a government is bad, but society nowadays seems to depend too much on them. It is as if we can't blow our nose without having to ask them whether we should use a tissue, or our sleeve. The fact that we allow them to influence our choice in movies should open your eyes. OUR MOVIES PEOPLE! They are trying to control our entertainment! And they are succeeding.

Another thing I would like to quickly point out is that there is not always a secret political message embedded writhing a movie. The fact that people were saying that The Dark Night Rises featured the villain Bane was only because of Romney's Bain. Bane is a comic book character people! He broke Batman physically, and mentally. There was no better Nolan could help the Batman trilogy go out with a bang! People read too much into things. Movies are for entertaining, not so much to preach to us about politics and junk. What happened to giving the award to the movie that had excellent acting and a really good story?

Now I'm not angry or anything. It just bothers me that undeserving people get so much praise for their so called work. Our society has changed, and maybe you think it's for the best, and maybe your think it's for the worst. Maybe you'll think twice next time you vote for your "favorite" movie...maybe not.

I'm a connoisseur of old school cartoons. That's just how I was raised, to enjoy the classics, well classic for me at least. Every time I go home to visit my parents, I take full advantage of the fact that they have Direct TV, because they have channels such as Boomerang and Nicktoons. Both channels show the classic cartoons that I grew up with back in the early 90s. Whether it's Scooby Doo, or maybe a little Doug, I really enjoy older things in general. 

My father just so happens to be an elderly man. I won't go into detail about his age, but let's just say that he will be turning 65 next month. Growing up, my family would listen to a lot of oldies, and watch a lot of television, and movies from my father's time period. Of course it was never torture or anything, because i quite enjoy the things of the past. I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't enjoy the old things, and they are more into the modern music, television, and movie scene. Not to say that I don't like modern things as well, because I do. I just know the classics when I see, and or hear it. Frank Sinatra just so happens to be my favorite musical artist, and one of my favorite movies is the Wizard of OZ. My father even impacted my other siblings musically and visually. My little brother is a huge fan of The Beatles, and my eldest brother really enjoys Gumby, and creating stop motion videos with clay. 

When you compare the shows that they show on television, to the shows they used to air when we were children, you can see an obvious difference. The things they air on television nowadays, seem to be so much more vulgar and risque, when you compare the cartoons we watched as a child. But are they really that different? Sure, now we have Family Guy, and American Dad, but back in the day we had Ah! Real Monsters, and Ren and Stimpy. All four of those shows are pretty vulgar when you really think about it. Maybe the vulgarity simply "flew over our heads" as children. It seems to me that our societies have definitely changed when it come to what is acceptable television. Dirty jokes, and bad words are more acceptable nowadays because everyone has just become so lacks in that sense, or at least that is the way it would seem. It can be argued either way. Maybe it's just that back in the day, writers were more clever when it came down to including subliminal messages, and hidden agendas. Maybe it's just that writers are too lazy to come up with ways of hiding the inappropriate, and the vulgar. What do you think is going on here? Is our culture today a factor for the way television has become?