Oscars

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THEPISTONENGINE

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:22 PM

Screw that. If it doesn't have Nathan Fillion shooting puppies and Summer Glau going crazy randomly and kicking ass, it's a bad film. Period, end of story. STFU NOOB!!!!!!!!

Nah, I see entirely where your coming from. I just don't agree, because I'm cynical and I think (no, I haven't seen the movies, so yes my opinion is nothing but intuitive ignorance) that a lot of these films are not meant to tell stories but play on peoples emotions about political issues.

I'm also from the camp that says Disney films subvert our children into being PETA candidates.

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FOLLOWMAL

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:24 PM

My kids saw Crash and told me it was very good. Thought provoking and thought altering. They also saw Walk the Line and thought it Oscar worthy as well.

I'm with Chindi, films allow us to be somewhere else, be someone else, experience something that we've never experienced before. They come in all types, love stories, adventure, scifi, and action and just about people interacting with people. There is room in my life for all kinds of films. Just because Serenity is the best and my most favorite of all time, doesn't mean I can't watch something else and enjoy it. And be moved by it.

The Oscars at least surprised this year. And the films nominated weren't generic, they made us think. That is always a good thing.

On a wicked side note, if Serenity couldn't have been nominated, I sure would have liked them better if I'd seen Nathan on the red carpet, But that's just me.

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GRIZWALD

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:29 PM

I didn't watch the Oscars, but I did walk into the room where my daughter was watching while Ben Stiller was presenting in his green 'tard. The man just KILLS me!! There he was floating around the stage, and the King Kong people he presented to obviously didn't think he was funny at all.

JAYNESBUNKWOMAN

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:29 PM

I watched last night - struggled to stay awake (being in EST) till the bitter end!!!

I am a big movie fan and though the BDM is my favorite, i had seen most of the movies nominated. I was happy Crash won best pic. It bucked the going assumption that Brokeback Mountain would win, and also very happy for Paul Haggis, another canadian with great ideas (and gone south to hollywood!). I saw brokeback and thought it was very good, cried at the end, and I thought it would win. But was happy with result.

Thought the show itself a little flat, though Jon Stewart was one of the better things about it. That bit about wakin' up next to Clooney was the best!! I usually have an Ocar shindig but didn't this year - kinda glad. We would have had to consume copious amounts of alchohol to make it interesting (not that that would have been a bad thing ).

The woman were beautiful - I thought some of the best dressed were: Jessica Alba, Xixi (from Geisha), Kiera Knightley, to name a few. And of course, George Clooney looked great. i'm kinda likin' him with the salt n peppa thing goin on.

Just watched the BDM again so all is right in my movie 'verse.

I'll be in Jaynes bunk

MILFORD

Monday, March 6, 2006 6:39 PM

I thought the films that were nominated and won were good and certaily deserving. However, I thinik next year they should start a new category, something like:

Best Feature Film that People Actually Liked and Would Want to Watch Again Because They Enjoyed It Not Because of Obtuse Artistic Principles.

You could call it the BFFPALWWWABTEINBOP awared. In that category Serenity wins hands down, though Wallace and Grommet and Batman would be up there also.

Remember, that but for one trifling exception, the entire universe is made up of others.- Oliver Wendall Holmes

ARCADIA

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:08 PM

Oh, the Oscars. There were no real surprises -- well, except Crash as best picture, which wasn't that much or a surprise at all. It was generally understood that if Broakback didn't win, Crash would. Capote was awesome, but I felt it had some pacing issues towards the middle-end. I haven't seen Good Night and Good Luck because it has not been at a theatre near me, which I think is why it could not have one -- too small of a film. So basicly is was BBM v Crash. Munich didn't promote as much as the other movies. Personally, I wanted Munich to win.

I was also disappointed with Crash winning best original screenplay. It was a good movie, and the writers deserve props for juggling so many complicated stories, but... well, I just wanted something else to win. Couldn't it just be happy with its film editing award? It deserved that one.

I wanted GNaGL to win for best cinematography, but alas, Geisha walked away with the oscar. I haven't see either, but GNaGL looked so cool... it was a disapointment for Katie.

I had no problem with the acting winners. Philip Seymour Hoffman deserved his win. Reese Witherspoon... well, I didn't see the preformance, but I have been assured that she was incredible by someone whose opinion I trust, so I'm cool with it. BEst supporting actress I couldn't care about too much. Best supporting actor, I was glad to see George win something (though were was Lucacris' nom? He was awesome. I thought he did better than Matt Dillon).

I was so happy with the best song winner. First of all, the people who accepted it... yeah, as Jon Stewart said, they know how to accept an oscar. Second, just because rap is not treditionally looked at my elitist institution as a medium with any merit. But it is. So take that, conventions.

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CHINDI

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:09 PM

Quote:
However, I thinik next year they should start a new category, something like:

Best Feature Film that People Actually Liked and Would Want to Watch Again Because They Enjoyed It Not Because of Obtuse Artistic Principles.

LOL that WOULD be a great category!! and tho Serenity would DEFINITELY be in it.. how could you be sure it would not lose to Big Momma's house.. or Saw???

we aren't the only nutters out there.. as your sig articulately expresses...

Chindi

ARCADIA

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:18 PM

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Originally posted by Dataless:
Would Brokeback Moutain have been as good if the story was about a man and a woman or is it simply because they are gay (just interested to know)?

That's hard to say. On one hand, it was very much a forbidden love movie. That was its heart and soul. So, I would be inclined at first to say that as long as man and woman's love it forbidden, it would have worked. On the other hand: Cowboys. Notice the word boys in this word. Think about the connotations that come to your mind... yeah. It is considered a very manly profession. If there was a girl cowboy, I think that would have thrown the dynamic of the movie way off, straight into girls-can-do-what-guys-can territory (not that I would have a problem with that -- go feminism -- but it would have been a different movie).

I think that was my long-winded way of saying no, it needed to be a gay cowboy movie, despite the fact that the idea behind the movie (forbidden love) and be done using almost anyone.

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

JONESTEIN

Monday, March 6, 2006 7:51 PM

I didn't see any of the movies that were nominated, so I really can't comment in that regard. I watched for one reason: Jon Stewart. I thought he did a great job. The opening was hilarious, and Ben Stiller was a riot.

As for the rest of it, I'm sure all of those movies were great "make you think about(insert political issue here)" movies, but I have a real problem with those type of flicks. I watch a movie to be entertained, not dragged through someone's real-world political agenda. And over the years I've come to realize that is what most Oscar-nominated films are all about (the major categories anyway).

Despite my distaste for blatently preachy movies, I'll probably end up renting most of them eventually. Most of the folks at the Oscars party I was attending said "Crash" was really outstanding. Ditto for "Capote".

I was happy to see "Wallace & Grommitt" and "King Kong" win awards. Both were incredibly entertaining. Kong, in my opinion, was the best movie of the year(yes, better than the BDM...sorry), and I expected it to be lame.

My 2 cents.

-Jonestein

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Monday, March 6, 2006 8:26 PM

Jonestein said,
"I'm sure all of those movies were great "make you think about(insert political issue here)" movies, but I have a real problem with those type of flicks. I watch a movie to be entertained, not dragged through someone's real-world political agenda."

AMEN! I'm in full agreement about this, and also agree the Academy tends to reward such films based on the political agenda within the film, which is one reason I never watch the Academy Awards.

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