'Brokeback Mountain' tops Oscar bets

Yahoo! Reuters ^ | Dec. 22, 2005 | Arthur Spiegelman

[Paleo Conservative]

Gay and political films are dominating this year's Academy Awards race

Sounds like they leather crowd will be out in force at the Oscars.

[softwarecreator]

the field is crowded with potential winners: "Munich," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Syriana," ...

No wonder I haven't been to the movies in years and have zero interest in the Oscars.

[COEXERJ145]

And Hollyweird keeps wondering why their sales are in the toilet and no one watches the Oscars anymore.

[Intolerant in NJ]

And Hollywood wonders why movie attendance is falling fast.....

[Mr. Mojo]

New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier wrote that "'Munich' prefers a discussion of counterterrorism to a discussion of terrorism; or it thinks that they are the same discussion."

Correct. Spielberg sees no difference between terrorists and those who hunt terrorists.

[marty60]

I think I'll pass on watching movies or awards shows. Lefties always go one step to far.

[Reactionary]

Ah, those brainy liberals are at it again.

Next they'll go for pure Stalinist propaganda in the name of high art.

[SweetCaroline]

I saw a ad for this movie today on A&E they called it a love story 3 times and each time they did, it was a scene of a woman and a man embracing. The only time the two men were shown together was when they were talking. Talk about pulling th wool over the viewers eyes.......geezzzzzeee!y

[sgtbono2002]

Hollywood has its mind made up. They are going to turn us all into queers or go broke trying.

Personally the sooner they go broke the better I would like it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

They nominate this kind of garbage and then can't figure out why no one watches their stupid Academy Awards shows. Real morons.

[Baby Driver]

LOL! Of *course* 'BrokeHole SheepFudgers' is
going to win. All the Oscars is anymore, is all
the filthy HollyPerverts voting for each others
celluloid sexual deviate fantasy Porn & snuff flicks.

[skikvt]

And yet it's been out 2 weeks and has only raked in $3.5M box office. That sounds like a failure to me despite their attempts to push it critically.

[The Duke]

Good...I'm always looking for a reason not to get sucked (pun intended) into the tube. Especially by the Oscars.

[Hildy]

NOBODY will watch the Oscars...if this is the road they want to travel...they will reap the disrewards....mark my words...there will be so many boycotts...they won't know what hit them.

[Noachian]

"Brokeback," the first gay romance to make a bid for mainstream respectability...

What Hollywood idiot thought that a film about queers on horseback would bring average people into the theaters?

This film may pass the smell test in large cities with large homo populations, but I doubt it will fill many seats in small-town America.

[Nateman]

There are some movies they could give a thousand awards that I will never watch. One such movie has overwhelming support at the Internet Movie Data Base. I suspect the true believers are the only ones even buying the tickets.

[msnimje]

http://www.colossusblog.com/mt/archives/001361.html

[Anti-Bubba182]

Nothing is as bad as what Ollie Stone did to Alexander the Great.

I wonder if he is hiding in the closet.

[plangent]

My wife has a knack for seeing beyond the obvious and opines that the working title was Bareback Mountin', but that the marketing department insisted on a title change.