Your son has it exactly right in his descripton of that movie. That Hollywood would let such a movie be released is puzzling.
It truly isn't the typical movie on racial matters.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
Posted on 03/05/2006 8:49:15 PM PST by paudio
The ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner.
"Crash," featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.
In a year of provocative films at the Oscars, "Crash" was one of the fiercest, a portrait of simmering racial and cultural tension among blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and Arabs.
The other best-picture nominees emerged either out of Hollywood studios or their art-house affiliates. But "Crash" was a true Oscar rarity, shot outside the system on a tiny $6.5 million budget, then acquired by independent distributor Lionsgate at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered.
(Excerpt) Read more at oscars.movies.yahoo.com ...
Just as the fact that an actor having off the wall politics does not negate his acting ability,it is equally true that a film like Brokeback Mountain which promotes the gay agenda also happens to be a very WELL CRAFTED film.
I wish Hollywood would make more films of substance with Brokeback's sensibilities without hitting us over the head with the wonders of the gay lifestyle!
I looked at the site you mentioned, I didn't find this. Did you just write it?
Your son has it exactly right in his descripton of that movie. That Hollywood would let such a movie be released is puzzling.
It truly isn't the typical movie on racial matters.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
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There is just NO accounting for taste....Crash was an outstanding movie. I purchased 2 DVD's as soon as I saw it, to give as gifts.
It's funny how we can perceive it so differently.
they were sheepherders, NOT COWBOYS...
One more time... That doesn't matter. They wear the hat, belt and boots. They ride the horses in a remote western setting. They were herding sheep instead of cows. Big deal! Cowboys tend all kinds of herds nowadays (sheep, cows, ostriches, llamas, horses, buffalo and a lot of other things I can't even think of). They are still generally called cowboys. BrokeButt is still about two guys who tried their hand(well, other body parts) and liked it. The story is portrayed as a gay love story. Don't be misled. IT IS A GAY AGENDA SEX STORY.
I want a sequel...LOL
That's some funny stuff...but I don't see Stone Def here...
So what?
My list of celebrities I reject is growing fast. I will not support anything they do. It is ok to be anti-bush but being anti-American, favoring our enemies and protesting our troops will not be tolerated by me. I think my opinion is shared by millions of good American people.
I can't separate their nutty character from whatever role they are playing.
I cannot believe that I took a "short nap" in the afternoon (lack of sleep the prior night) and slept until almost 3 in morning & MISSSED the awards. I watch very little TV but the super bowl, world series & academy awards are shows I normally see.
Sleep must have been needed more than a TV show & so thanks for this thread which I am hoping will have more results & opinions from FReepers.
"On the basis of the plot points discussed here, I don't intend to go see the movie. Kind of like relying on a reviewer or on a word of mouth in deciding whether to see a movie. I just don't want to see a movie that takes an ambiguous approach to a person going to jail for a crime they didn't commit. There is enough injustice in this world for me not to want to go see more injustice in a movie."
Is it your goal to look foolish? If so, just keep posting these ridiculous comments.
So true. I haven't wasted a moment watching that sycophantic parade in years. I think they ought to replace tha t golden statue with a gilded mirror. Rename it to the Narscissus Awards, or the "Nars" for short. Hollywood-as-icon is beyond dead, it's rotting and stinking up the planet, like a forgotten roast in last summer's ice chest.
"In a year of provocative films at the Oscars, "Crash" was one of the fiercest, a portrait of simmering racial and cultural tension among blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and Arabs."
The writer of this article is a baffoon. Arabs didn't play a single key role in Crash. PERSIANS did, but not Arabs.
And now that I think about it, the more annoying Crash is. I'm going to partially SPOIL a scene so if you haven't seen it, skip the rest of this post, but its starting to get on my nerves. At the end, SPOILERS Mr. Reese Witherspoon does a very bad thing, and he reconciles his deed by burning something in a trashcan and walking away with this thoughtful smirk on his face, as if he has just cleansed himself in the River Jordan. DUDE, YOU JUST _________ _________, YOU ARE HITLER IF YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF AFTER THAT. It was a sequence representative of the film, symbolism over substance, imagery over ideas. It made no stinking sense. Crash is going to go down like most of the recent Best Pictures--mediocre and forgotten. Shakespeare in Love and the English Patient, anyone? What a sorry crop of films.
Thandie Newton is painfully hot, though.
I watched about 20 minutes of Crash which is 20 minutes more than I've seen of any of the other nominees(although I do plan to rent Walk the Line.) I used to go to the movies a lot, but each year brings fewer and fewer movies that I care to see.
The 3 facts to pay attention here that make the Academy Awards absolutely pointless:
1. No award has ever been given to Martin Scorsese
2. The Passion of The Christ received no awards and no major nominations.
3. Joaquin Phoenix did not win Best Actor and Walk The Line was not nominated for Best Picture.
Someone recently posted a thread predicting that the next wave of Hollywood movies would combine together pro-terrorist themes with gay themes, and asked fellow freepers to contribute ideas for such movies.
Some of my favorite entries were: Swish Boom, Queer Eye for the Jihad Guy, Ali Baba and His 40 Hairdressers, Tails of the Arabian Knights, When Muhammed Met Mustafa, etc.
"There is a monkey joke in there somewhere"
This time. The monkey spanked back. ;)
I agree. I liked it too. Very well-done, regardless of your political leanings.
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