So that was you who I saw at the Laundromat!
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.
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I changed the channel when Brokeback won the best score award, I figured it was a sign of things to come for the evening and I didn't want to sit thru a bunch of speeches about "How honored I was to participate in this movie".
I am happy for Miss Witherspoon. it was well deserved.
March of the Penguins surely has the French language tract attached to the DVD. You can do the Setup to have both the French tract and the English subtitles playing at same time.
Geisha was a lovely movie and I enjoyed the book also. I think I will also be getting the DVD. I know a lot on FRee Republic are anti movies/hollywood. I thought this year had a wonderful selection of movies and I go a couple times a week & see most of the ones that get 40% or better from Rotten Tomatoes.
The winners & losers are made at the box office... the various awards are gages of sorts of those who nominate & vote. The box office will always be the defining bottom line. I have always gotten a kick out of the awards shows and am a bit peeved at myself for sleeping thru last night. I think it was the first one I have missed - ever.
I am sure we miss good movies over the years that we never hear about. Promotion is impt.
I haven't watched the Oscars in five years and didn't watch tonight, but I was curious about how it went. This thread provides a good review, and I've decided not to see any of the nominated films - except "Capote." I've like Philip Seymour Hoffman who won best actor ever since I saw him in "The Talented Mr. Ripley." Truman Capote himself was so obviously homosexual that it was almost camp (on second thought, strike the "almost.")
You must be a moron if you don't have a problem with a movie that takes an ambiguous approach to a person going to jail who is innocent.
He hasn't made me want to see Crash (I will probably go to my grave never having seen any of these), but his posts DO make me wonder why I ever registered at FR in the first place. Used to be a lot of wit and humor on the board, as well as intelligence. For the last several months, it's really turned nasty here. Doesn't matter what the thread subject matter is-gas prices, RHINOS, smoker bans, private property rights, sports,gay agenda,movies...sooner or later, it always turns insulting/ nasty.
I just saw that Hoffman won best actor. The heck with the rest of it all. I want to see "Capote" again.
The best movies I saw last year were "Narnia" and "Cinderella Man", and I thought it was great that Cinderella Man actor Paul Giammatta (?spelling) was nominated for best actor. Even tho' the film was ignored by the Academy (they never forgive a commercial failure), it is still an interesting portrait of the Depression era.
Surfing all over movies sites, the whole BBM loss has been attributed to us. One would think that the people from Crash would have thanked us by now.
"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.
Surfing all over movies sites, the whole BBM loss has been attributed to us. One would think that the people from Crash would have thanked us by now.
That was one of the most disgusting films I've ever had the misfortune of seeing. Great, now I'm sick to my stomach.
"That Hollywood would let such a movie be released is puzzling.
It truly isn't the typical movie on racial matters."
It was not a big studio Hollywood flick. It was a small budget independent ($6.5 million).
I think that explains how a basically pretty "honest" film and approach to a touchy subject got made.
It took courage to do the honest portrayals, and it won them an award. My congradulations.
It is an intense film, and worth watching over again, for missed subtleties.
How 'bout the excellent movie Mouse Hunt?
Did it win anything?
If not, it was robbed. That movie rocked.
There were no cowboys in brokeback mountain. They were sheep herders.
There is a difference.
If all it takes to be a cowboy is a hat, then Imus is a cowboy.
LOL! Tru dat homey.
So that was you who I saw at the Laundromat!
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