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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: Hildy

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!


241 posted on 03/05/2006 11:17:53 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: iPod Shuffle

I looked at the site you mentioned, I didn't find this. Did you just write it?


242 posted on 03/05/2006 11:18:26 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: Lancey Howard
My ultra-conservative son said the same thing - - 'Crash' is not an overly judgmental film, nor is it accusatory, overbearing, politically correct, or "in-your-face" in any way. He says it's a flat-out great movie.

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?

243 posted on 03/05/2006 11:24:19 PM PST by rdb3 (What it is is what it was.)
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To: zbigreddogz

TRY HERE:

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/


244 posted on 03/05/2006 11:28:59 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
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To: A Jovial Cad

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.


245 posted on 03/05/2006 11:29:39 PM PST by Proud Conservative2 (As soon as you settle for less, you are stuck with less.)
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To: television is just wrong

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.


246 posted on 03/05/2006 11:33:39 PM PST by hdstmf (too)
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To: zbigreddogz

I want a sequel...LOL


247 posted on 03/05/2006 11:39:18 PM PST by Proud Conservative2 (As soon as you settle for less, you are stuck with less.)
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To: iPod Shuffle

That's some funny stuff...but I don't see Stone Def here...


248 posted on 03/05/2006 11:39:54 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: hdstmf


So what?


249 posted on 03/05/2006 11:41:11 PM PST by jazusamo (:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
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To: Hildy

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.


250 posted on 03/05/2006 11:43:51 PM PST by hdstmf (too)
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To: pollyannaish

I can't separate their nutty character from whatever role they are playing.


251 posted on 03/05/2006 11:50:16 PM PST by hdstmf (too)
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To: paudio
I thought Crash was an outstanding flick. I didn't see (and don't plan to see) Brokeback, based on reports of friends who DID see it...)

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.

252 posted on 03/05/2006 11:54:36 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: vbmoneyspender

"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.



253 posted on 03/05/2006 11:58:14 PM PST by Proud Conservative2 (As soon as you settle for less, you are stuck with less.)
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To: isthisnickcool
The only people that care about the Oscars are the people that are in the Oscars

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.

254 posted on 03/05/2006 11:59:34 PM PST by boycottliberalhollywood.com (www.boycottliberalhollywood.com - www.twoamericas.us)
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To: paudio

"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.


255 posted on 03/05/2006 11:59:41 PM PST by 0siris
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To: paudio

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.


256 posted on 03/06/2006 12:02:46 AM PST by FreedomForce
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To: My Favorite Headache

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.





Fact 4: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly didn't recieve a single nomination for anything-even the haunting musical score by Ennio Morricone(that was the year I stopped watching).

Fact 5: john Wayne wasn't given an Oscar for either The High & The Mighty or Red River (or Stagecoach, for that matter).

Anyone have any more?


257 posted on 03/06/2006 12:07:39 AM PST by The Foolkiller (BSXL* The year the NFL died.)
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To: Hildy
. . . . about a movie glorifying suicide bombers.

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.

258 posted on 03/06/2006 12:09:13 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (The heart of the wise man inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. - Eccl. 10:2)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

"There is a monkey joke in there somewhere"

This time. The monkey spanked back. ;)


259 posted on 03/06/2006 12:15:31 AM PST by BigCinBigD (Merry Christmas!)
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To: MplsSteve

I agree. I liked it too. Very well-done, regardless of your political leanings.


260 posted on 03/06/2006 12:17:26 AM PST by The Foolkiller (BSXL* The year the NFL died.)
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