Oscars

[Magpiespower]

Oh dear, Crash wins Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain.

Will go down as one of the worst snubs in Oscar history, right up there with Ordinary Movie beating Raging Bull for Best Picture.

But at least Ang Lee won Best Director, an honour that still eludes Martin Scorsese.

Though Robert Redford, Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner have one.

John Stewart did a pretty good job as host.

[Jimmy]

I agree mp, BM should have won.

"I wish i knew how to quit you"

I havent seen Crash yet but im sure BM is better. I cant really explain it other than they just werent willing to give it the big one.

Im glad BM won for best score, great music in the movie.

Salma Hayek has some fantastic cans :D

[Magpiespower]

I havent seen Crash yet but im sure BM is better. I cant really explain it other than they just werent willing to give it the big one.

Read a heap of different reasons...

- It was an LA film
- Made LA people feel good about their liberal self
- Voters were sick of BM winning everything
- Voters reacted against a swell of opinion that said 'you have to like this film (BM).'
- Larry McMurtry said that Americans just don't want to believe that there are gay cowboys!

Crash is a superficial melodrama - full of cliche's and steretypes - posing as a searing commentary on race relations.

Kind of like what the affluent chattering classes imagine racism to be. You know the types - trendy social activists who proudly wear their multicultural 'friends' like a badge.

(For something closer to our shores, read the self-serving commentary in The Sydney Morning Herald after the Cronulla riots.)

FFS, it's a white man writing about the black man's experience!

Perhaps someone should have handed the filmmakers a copy of Norman Mailer's 'The White Negro.'

[Jimmy]

sounds fair mp.

like NYC, hollywood is its own world...its pretty ****** up

[Magpiespower]

Off my high horse now.

[Dissident]

Off my high horse now.

Before Crash won best picture, I thought it was an excellent movie. I really loved it. But I was uninhibited then... there hadn't been any awards.

I hired it again the other night, the night after the Oscars - and didn't like it as much. Sure, it was the second time I'd seen it but, it was hard watching it as "the best picture of the year".

It did win the Screen Actors Guild Award though didn't it ? Usually a good indication of the big one.

Problem is, I didn't actually like Brokeback Mountain any more than I liked Crash. I'm very suprised that Crash won, considering the trends of the past. I almost relate Crash to Pulp Fiction... in that it's in your face at times (visually), is clever in parts, goes back in time a bit.. but would never win best picture. Brokeback Mountain is the Forrest Gump - straight through story from start to finish - no fancy storylines or plot changes, etc.

So just like '94 (?) I would have imagined BM to win.

Crash is an excellent film - though I wouldn't have cared, nor been suprised, if it wasn't even nominated.

(What happened to Cinderella Man? Snubbed due to phone service?)

[JK]

Jimmy, have you managed to catch a flick over there yet, I think it's called "A History of Violence" or something along those lines Ed Harris, Viggo Mortenson, Maria Bello etc)??

Think it's out here shortly and am pretty keen to get a gander at it ..

[Jimmy]

CP, havent seen it yet but i would like to see it...the previews kinda remind me of Straw Dogs, the Dustin Hoffman Sam Peckinpah movie of the early 70's...i ******* loved that film...so if its similar, then it should be good...

[Rik E Boy]

The Oscars..who gives a flying fugg?? Are we really that excited every year when some Media slag breathlessly tells us all that an Australian has been nominated for best supporting nose picker in a foriegn film with large type Turkish subtitles? If it was held during the real football season we wouldn't even notice it.

Hollywood prima donna fuggkwits.

regards,

REB

[Jimmy]

The Oscars..who gives a flying fugg?? Are we really that excited every year when some Media slag breathlessly tells us all that an Australian has been nominated for best supporting nose picker in a foriegn film with large type Turkish subtitles? If it was held during the real football season we wouldn't even notice it.

Hollywood prima donna fuggkwits.

regards,

REB

true reb, i dont like the oscars per se buts its interesting to see which movies get the nod...

its just hollywood patting itself on the back...

[mick]

The Oscars can be OK for a perve, usually lots of silicon valley in evidence

[Punk Rooster]

Oscars=BORING!