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'Crash' Pulls Off Best-Picture Oscar
yahoo.com ^ | 3/5/06

Posted on 03/05/2006 8:49:15 PM PST by paudio

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To: zbigreddogz

Oswald didn't act alone. He did act alone in faking the moon landing. Oliver Stone said so.


161 posted on 03/05/2006 9:41:28 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: TheLion
I've already slobbered all about Kong. It's a wonderful film.

Crash had its problems, and did sort of crash (no pun intended) and burn in places. I felt the characters were compelling, especially Matt Dillon's, and the dialog was very good. The ending was a little abrupt.

162 posted on 03/05/2006 9:41:38 PM PST by RepoGirl ("That boy just ain't right..." Hank Hill)
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To: A Jovial Cad

STILL trying to win arguements with insults?

Facinating.


163 posted on 03/05/2006 9:41:47 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: LdSentinal

No, I never saw it.

Bowling for Columbine is a separate type of movie and separate type of issue.

Michael Moore engaged in what could best be referred to as "cut and paste journalism" or "cut and paste entertainment".

Oliver Stone, for all his faults, used a lot of historical fact (the Garrison investigation, etc) in the movie. You may have not liked what Stone arrived at. I didn't. I didn't believe it.

But with the use of a little artistic license, he showed his view of what happened. As I've said before, it's entertainment.


164 posted on 03/05/2006 9:41:49 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: A Jovial Cad
For the record, I haven't seen Crash. But I intend to, based on your dislike of it. The way you have carried yourself on this thread has convinced me that if you don't like it, it must be worth seeing.

"Jovial" indeed. You come off as a bitter old curmudgeon and your hate of Crash seems to be a function of your attitude, more than a fair assessment of the movie. I"ve seen pleny of other comments that directly contradict your assessment, yet nothing other than ad hominem attacks from you.

165 posted on 03/05/2006 9:42:39 PM PST by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: zbigreddogz
And the "Bashbukha" lady is my gardener...she tends my grassy knoll while on the lookout for black helicopters...

...(snicker)...

166 posted on 03/05/2006 9:42:42 PM PST by A Jovial Cad ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -General Curtis LeMay)
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To: paudio

At least the BM didn't win.


167 posted on 03/05/2006 9:42:42 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: zbigreddogz

I asked about a plot point, which you confirmed was true. Having someone sent to jail for a crime they didn't commit is the sort of miscarriage of justice which good movies generally seek to unwind (a la Shawshank Redemption) rather than affirm. The fact that this movie doesn't do that, kind of takes it off my must see list.


168 posted on 03/05/2006 9:42:57 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: M. Thatcher
Morgan Freeman, leftist.

You're wrong about that.

OK, just a coincidence he was at the Clinton Library on opening day with pal Barbara Streisand in the VIP tent?

That's just one of many examples, also plugged for Kerry at the DNC Convention. 

169 posted on 03/05/2006 9:43:09 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect, it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: bluefish

:high fives:


170 posted on 03/05/2006 9:44:06 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: Kozak
Looks like Brokeback got rear ended.....

ROTFLMAO!!!!

171 posted on 03/05/2006 9:44:12 PM PST by prophetic
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To: vbmoneyspender

So...

The Passion of the Christ is a bad movie?

Innocent man being put to death and all...


172 posted on 03/05/2006 9:44:50 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: zbigreddogz

Excellent post.


173 posted on 03/05/2006 9:44:53 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: zbigreddogz

Save your breath...they'll never give up the idea that it's the same people going to the movie over and over again. It's one of my pet peeves here on FR. Some people here confuse disagreeing with someone or something into minimizing that someone or something. Just because you don't like an actor's politics, doesn't make him a bad actor, etc. It's dopey.


174 posted on 03/05/2006 9:45:23 PM PST by Hildy
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To: bluefish
For the record, I haven't seen Crash. But I intend to, based on your dislike of it

Be my guest and waste some bucks and a couple of hours of your time, if the urge to "get back" at my old meanie posts gives you such a vicarious thrill...I won't feel a thing. Promise.

...(snicker)...

175 posted on 03/05/2006 9:45:42 PM PST by A Jovial Cad ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -General Curtis LeMay)
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To: RepoGirl

I will definitely check Kong out!

Recommend National Treasure and Million Dollar Baby....enjoyed them both.


176 posted on 03/05/2006 9:45:57 PM PST by TheLion
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To: zbigreddogz

I missed the part in the Passion of the Christ where what Christ goes through is affirmed as being a good thing because Christ was a racist.


177 posted on 03/05/2006 9:46:38 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: Kozak
Looks like Brokeback got rear ended....

Well THAT little comment sure is spot on ! I didn't watch, but had to see if Pervowood would have the nuts to have all the pervs win all the prizes. Looks like they backed down from a full confrontation with the real America. Hopefully, the lowest viewership ever. Any numbers in yet?

Nam Vet

178 posted on 03/05/2006 9:47:47 PM PST by Nam Vet (The Democrat Party of America is perfectly P.C. * .(* P.C. = Patriotically Challenged)
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To: Hildy

I think we just want them to shut up about politics and just act.


179 posted on 03/05/2006 9:48:07 PM PST by TheLion
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To: claudiustg

While Crash is the least offensive of the nominees, I found it to be extremely banal. The writer seemed to have just discovered racism and rushed out to tell everyone that it's bad, thinking he was the first to do so. Oh, and that we're all guilty of it.


180 posted on 03/05/2006 9:49:12 PM PST by william clark
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