>look where we're at, kids. look around you. this is a
>hip-hop message board. made up of a racially diverse crowd of
>20- and 30-somethings-- mostly male, mostly urban (philly,
>NYC, LA). does anybody here think there's any subset of this
>crowd, even a small one, that genuinely believed amour was one
>of the five best films of 2012? no. what we have is a subset
>of this crowd that's trying to impress other subsets of this
>crowd, so they vote for the artsy-fartsy french flick about an
>old man chasing a pigeon around his apartment. that has to
>stop.
>
>there's no excuse for amour showing up on our best picture
>list. no excuse for the master taking top honors. that's not
>okay, player. it's not us. it's phony.

Is it not possible that they merely... have a different opinion?

I'm not over the moon on Amour either, for the record, and only gave it points in the Actress category, so it's not like I'm artsy fartsing it here. I'm just defending both the process and the right for people to support their opinion.