I have lost all faith in the Oscars!

POSTED BY: JynnanTonnyx
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JYNNANTONNYX

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:12 AM

...I am bewildered. I am shocked. I am ... flabbergahsted. The list goes on. While I was annoyed that "Serenity" didn't even get a nod I can't say I was particularily surprised. The Academy doesn't like those kind of films - too left field, "can't be quantified."

So you may be asking why am I so annoyed. I'm putting this in spoilers because I'm Australian and we aren't getting the Oscars on TV til tonight (damn you IMDB for flashing the results all over your screen)

Select to view spoiler:

Brokeback Mountain didn't win best picture. I mean, what the freaking hell!? Hey, I can live with Heath Ledger missing out, but this movie deserved the Best Picture award. What really gets my goat is that it was given to Crash - unoriginal and crappy. And crappified.

"Serenity" never had a chance - it wasn't about drugs. Maybe Simon should have developed a coke habit or something.

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"It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think."

THENCDUCK

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:41 AM

I hear you loud and clear. In order to qualify for an Oscar your movie must either be about racisim, gays, or terrorist. SciFi or Fantasy movies are thrown out right away. The only chance they got is in special effects its a damn shame. Of the best picture noms the only one i saw was Crash, which I admit wasn't that bad and had some good directing, but wasn't even close to as good as Serenity to me.

DINKY

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:08 AM

Hahah Brokeback mountain, what a bad excuse for media.

Look I would share my opinion on the Oscars and several other award shows. But I'm afraid I would get plenty of replies disagreeing in a way that I don't feel like handling.

All I have to say is that I never had faith in the Oscars. And I don't need some award show telling me what movie's good.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

TIGER

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:19 AM

You're right, Crash didn't deserve to win (I would have nominated Walk the Line instead in a heartbeat), but neither did Brokeback Mountain. I liked it a lot better than some people, but truthfully I would have been happy to see Capote win for screenplay, director, AND best picture.

JYNNANTONNYX

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:36 AM

It just makes me mad that the same kind of movies keep getting nominated and awarded. It makes me so gorram frustrated. To be honest, I didn't have much faith in the Oscars to start with but I always liked following the nominations.

Since I was about 12 my mum and I would try and watch all the movies nominated for best picture before the Awards so we could ponder and choose which one we think deserves to win. Quite often alot of them are only just released a week before the Oscars in Australia (or not even released at all). It always made me kinda gooey eyed for the movies.

Then I got older and wiser (ie more cynical) and the whole thing frustrates me. Each year I get more disallusioned with the movies that win awards. I'm glad that I've grown up and looked past the 'celebrated' films - they don't represent anything beyond what the Academy wants to represent this year.

I suppose in a world that a show like "Firefly" gets cancelled, yet we still have reality shows on every channel...well I couldn't have been expecting much

This must be what going mad feels like...

Also Tiger, I love your quote - did you hear it from "Equilibirium." Sean Bean gives me chills, and those lines made me crawl up into a ball and sob.

"It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think."

TIGER

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:51 AM

I was thinking this year was pretty good for the Oscars, considering all the best picture nominees were such high quality, well written, dramas without a hint of "pedantic blockbuster" among them.

No, I didn't get the quote from Equilibrium - well, I did hear it in that movie, but long after I fell in love with Yeats' work. :-) "He wishes for the cloths of Heaven", and "Second Coming" are my favs.

AURAPTOR

Monday, March 6, 2006 11:07 AM

Of the 5 nominated filmes, I watched Capote and Goodnight and Goodluck. Capote was the only one of the two worth a damn. Don't know why Walk the Line wasn't nominated before Siriana.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

HAZE

Monday, March 6, 2006 11:49 AM

The Oscars are a nauseating waist of time (no I’m not a fan).

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Who do you suppose is in there?

GIXXER

Monday, March 6, 2006 11:58 AM

Baffling.

You have $10. Blow it on

Brokeback, Crash, Syriana or Serenity?

No contest

I excluded "Walk the Line" because I'm with Jayne when it comes to the even remote possibility of a fair fight.

G

Witherspoon. Good. Grief.

ALGUS

Monday, March 6, 2006 11:58 AM

I thought Crash was an excellent film, and thought it never stood a chance of winning, it seems like it has more people who hate it then like it.

Science Fiction rarely, if ever, receives very many accolades from awards groups that aren't exclusively for science fiction. It's unfortunate, but it's a reality. And when it does win, its usually for something like effects.

Anyway, my opinion of the Oscars is this: Usually films with at least some substance are nominated, and usually films with pretty good performances are nominated, so I don't really care so much about which movie won the award as which ones were nominated. I'll try and watch the ones that were if I get a chance, and usually I'm not too dissapointed. I haven't gotten around to most of the films this year, but I caught almost all of last year's movies (and have Million Dollar Baby and Finding Neverland on DVD) and thought most of those films were excellent. But the Academy Awards are much more about internal Hollywood Politics then giving the film that most deserved it. So that's something you have to keep in mind too.

Ahh well, I was watching 3rd Rock From the Sun during the Awards anyway, so you can see how much I actually valued them :)

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