Adam Carolla: ‘One Battle After Another’ Is an MS NOW ‘Fever Dream’
Podcaster blasts Oscar voters for putting politics above artistic achievement
“One Battle After Another” aligned so perfectly with Hollywood groupthink it immediately leaped to the top of the Best Picture race upon release.
And, Sunday night, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film fulfilled those predictions.
The film, which glorifies violence against the U.S. government, won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn).
Adam Carolla cried foul over the victory lap.
The podcaster/comic blasted the Academy for showering the film with wins, suggesting artistic quality had less to do with the results than its progressive agenda.
“It’s not a good film,” Carolla said. “It’s sad, but if you make a film that has a theme of White Supremacy and black activism and Sean Penn being a cartoon character, then you got a good chance of winning.”
“You make one about ‘F1,’ you’re not gonna win,” Carolla said of the Brad Pitt smash that earned a Best Picture nomination but had zero chance of actually winning the Best Picture trophy. He said Oscar voters are hardly invested in car culture, further hampering its chances.
In sharp contrast, “OBAA” was a “weird, MSNBC producer fever dream,” he said. “It wasn’t a good film, not just because I disagree with it politically, it was sort of all over the road.”
He mocked the film’s main characters who freed illegal immigrants from U.S. camps by any means necessary, including violent attacks.
Those freed Mexicans, Carolla argued, didn’t necessarily go on to better lives following their escape.
“You can’t just take Mexicans and scatter them into the wind … go, my brothers, be free! They’re not beagles,” he cracked. “That’s racist” to think so.