Posted on 01/25/2005 5:53:22 AM PST by Borges
That's funny - at first glance, I thought it was Road to Perdition.
Which was another fine film, by the way.
Considering that you are speaking out of admitted ignorance, no.
Your first post on the thread was:
I have not even heard of one of the movies nominated for "best Movie". I think the Oscars are a huge joke.
No different than someone who goes onto a World Series thread to complain that he hates baseball and never watches it.
BTW- Putting words in my mouth, and attributing things to me which I did not say
Call it a 'paraphrase' of what you said in #212. Now, I understood your criticism to be of Hollywood's immorality and lack of values. I supposed I arrived that this misunderstanding due to you saying:
Sometimes people in other countries get confused and think Hollywood represents American Values. That is part of the problem we have with the Arabs. They seriously think that all American are immoral because what they see and hear about America from Hollywood.
While I'm busy putting words back into the same mouth which uttered them, I'll note the cultural elitism of your #229.
BTW, the Arabs who think America is immoral because of Hollywood would have the same opinion of a great deal of Renaissance artwork.
You somehow manage to combine both moral and cultural snobbery. That's quite an accomplishment.
Agree about Alan Alda; he was sleepwalking that role. I suspect he took it just to play a nasty Republican.
Most of the folks claiming to boycott Hollywood have been doing so (or making the claims that they are) for years and things have been fine. Don't overestimate yourself.
What a show of contorted pretzel logic. Now that really is funny!
The five nominated films are all quite good. Million Dollar Baby is great. and Jamie Fox as Ray Charles in Ray is astounding.
And it will be repeated eventually. Movies and movie-goers are fickle friends. This years hot film will be nostalgia next year.
Yep. I don't even bother arguing the point anymore; the religious people don't want to hear it.
It was powerful. It was moving. It just wasn't that good a film.
I could live with a nomination, but all three of the five nominees I've seen were better films than POTC.
Every media outlet has a slant left or right. None will give you "the truth".
Yes, yes, YES! This is my holiday, brothers and sisters, and I LOOOVE IT.
I must say that the Oscars did a more than fair job this year, and that I will be looking forward to the exciting ceremony on Feb. 27.
A few notes about today's nominations:
1.) With no LOTR for once, therefore NO front-runner, look forward to an unpredictable ceremony, the first of it's kind in years.
2.) I'm feeling a little slight disappointment that the brilliant, mind-bending original Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind didn't perform as well as I had hoped. Still, a Screenplay nomination for Charlie Kaufmann and a Best Actress nod for the luminous Kate Winslet means that it didn't come up empty-handed.
3.) Jaime Foxx did the double after all, though his performance in Collateral was actually the lead of the film, and not a supporting role in any sense. It's Foxx's year, and he's the first male to score the double-acting nominations since Al Pacino in 1992 (for Scent of a Woman--HOOAH!-- and Glengarry Glen Ross).
4.) The Passion of the Christ beat out Farenheit 9/11 in the battle of the controversial, politically charged movies, with the Passion scoring three minor nods to 9'11's BIG, FAT ZERO (take that Michael Moron-- if you hadn't have gotten so greedy, your fat a** might have managed a documentary nomination, but NOOO, you just had to hold out for the top prize that would never come...)
5.) Alan Alda got nominated for Best Supporting Actor-- Didn't see that one coming. I'm rooting for Clive Owen anyway...
My Early predictions to win the gold in Feburary (with my personal pick of the nominees in parenthesis):
Best Picture: The Aviator (The Aviator, for now anyway)
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (give him a damn Oscar already...)
Best Actor: Jaime Foxx (Ray does it for me too)
Best Actress: Hilary Swank (but Winslet deserves it)
Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman (Owen, but I won't begrudge Freeman a well-deserved first Oscar)
Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett (but Portman is my pick)
Orig. Screenplay: Here's where Eternal Sunshine gets the goods, as well it should.
Adapted Screenplay: Million Dollar Baby (squeaking past Sideways).
The race is on!
It's his turn!
Better put on your asbestos longjohns.
Yuk yuk yuk.
I notice you managed to avoid anything resembling a substantive response. Figures.
My heroes are our military members- so I don't get all excited to see what awards the hollywood entertainers award themselves.
The movies may well be the greatest movies ever made, however the fact that I have never heard of one of them tells me they are not great art, or pivotal works which will help shape our society.
If I saw them I might agree they were cute, fun and enterataining- but I can tell you I wouldn't think they were great works of original art made and developed by heroes. The fact that The Passion of the Christ was not nominated tells me something.
Apparently the ticket buyers felt differently than the Hollywood set- but then again most fluffy folks in hollywood think most Americans are the little, ignorant people.
Mike Leigh belongs to a stridently leftist "post-Angry Young Man" school of filmmakers which includes Ken Loach and Stephen Frears. He's much less polemical than Loach however, and less conventional than Frears (who has made more commercial films such as High Fidelity, Dangerous Liasons and Mary Reilly, in addition to the likes of Prick Up Your Years, The Van, and Liam), so he's my favorite of the bunch.
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