The Bait An Oscar Revolution

Something is happening.

Something different. Something... new.

The baiters of Bait An Oscar are changing things. Its been happening for a while but it's recently picked up steam. Its a revolution! OK, Maybe its not quite that dramatic. But a few months ago Johnny slapped us with one hell of a shocker. Bait an Oscar would end in the fall as new people took over the website. But we're a resourceful bunch and started to make plans for the next generation of Bait an Oscar.

With its own website, this Bait an Oscar would not be confined by the room allotted to it by a parent website. It would be be like real hollywood. Big, Broad, and Far Reaching. We'd have more than enough room for those unbaity baits that are looked down upon. Maybe we'd have special awards for them. And we'd also have those great Baity baits that started it all. We would keep a history of the baits, have every bait archived so that new authors could read them, and our past work would never be threatened by the people in charge. We would allow two or three or even four baits a month, letting the author's imaginations run wild! So. Why isn't anyone talking about this anymore?

Yes, Bait an Oscar as we know it now is still in existence. And, as far as I know, there's no one threatening to get rid of it any longer. But lets face it people. We, the authors, are the only people who can truly appreciate this contest. We've created some of the greatest movie ideas never filmed here. We want the contest to be the absolute best that it possibly can be. We strive to bring innovation to the contest. I love it when we force change. I know I'm not the only author to work toward making unbaity baits main stream, but I like to think I was one of the first. Two years ago this August I released "The Apocalypse of Angela Reed", a bait denounced by the entire baiting community so "horribly unbaity". And then the powers in charge gave it #11 of the month. (Insert shameless plug for sequel "The Revelations of Alex Reed" this august here). Then I released baits like The Vampire Lestat (a BOTM nominee), After Earth, The Dark Tower, etc. And others kept pushing the boundaries too. Tony and Douglas were definitely at the forefront of this. Now the boundaries aren't being pushed anymore. Why? Like Douglas said, we're limited to one bait. Everyone has watched his video and I agree completely with him so i wont start repeating him.

What Im trying to say though is that we, the authors, the life blood of this contest, need to take a stand. We want to be creative but we know there's a VERY slim chance that innovation is going to be rewarded over battiness. So we keep baiting baity stories. We need the freedom to bait anything we want! A few months ago I wrote "Springwood", a bait that was almost universally praised. But it almost didn't make it into the contest. Johnny wanted to ban it. And there's some rumors that it even made it into the Big 8 and Johnny blocked its nomination(s). I can't say if this is true or false, although at least one source has verified it, but its the perfect example of our creativity being blocked by the people in charge. So we need to become the people in charge! I'm more than willing to help on a new site. I'll do anything that's needed. And I know others will help as well. So lets do it. Lets make Bait an Oscar its own entity. The only thing stopping us from creating an even grander, more exciting contest... is us.

Possible Features of the Bait An Oscar website.....
-A complete history of Bait an Oscar.
-Author interviews.
-Author opinions on classic baits.
-A complete archive of ALL past baits.
-Total creative freedom to the authors.
-And So Much More!