Posted on 01/25/2005 5:53:22 AM PST by Borges
RE: "What are "Oscars"?"
Don't be an a**, the Oscars are the Academy Awards statuettes and you dad-gum well know it.
well- you don't know my sources of information.. now do you? But then again you don't really know much at all since you could not have possibly been alive forever and seen everything with your own eyes. And that seems to me to be what you are saying is your reliable news source;yourself.
You obviously don't understand the meaning of the passion in the title. The Passion is the period of the crucifiction and death of Jesus on the cross. That is the prurpose for the flim which is not a work of nonfiction, but the first film ever depicted exactly as witnessed by the Gospels, which means to witness. The splatter-fest as you call it is tame compared to hollywood such as Torentino films or Spielberg and Saving Private Ryan, plus the fact that His death gained salvation and life for everyone. The fact that this is a christian nation founded upon biblical principals built into our laws and with billions of christians world wide how can you call that a narrow target audience when it was not even done in English??????? The first ever movie with such an impact done with subtitals.......Other moives couldn't even compare and all those nominated will be forgoten in a year while the POTC will be legendary over time.
My problem withe much of the complaints is that everyone seems upset that has chosen to honor these films and not others, that Hollywood is out of touch, etc.
The Oscars, as are the Emmys, Tonys and Grammys, awards given from within each industry, just like Free Republic honors its own each year. Nobody ever said they were anything else, and making more of these awards than that to me is foolish (which I don't believe you have done).
I taught Art Appreciation course for a few years, so I too find great joy in seeing masterpieces--both old and new. My background is in Theater and English Literatur, but my father was on the Michigan Art council for years, and I grew up going to art galleries.
I look at motion pictures, for the most part, as just another form of art but in a different medium, like oils differ from pastels or watercolors, or sculpture differs from painting. All have their inate value, and of course, some works are better than others.
Perhaps a comparison can be made here as to why Passion of the Christ didn't make it. Leonardo painted both the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, but most critics would point toward the latter as being the better work.
RE: "The Passion wasn't nominated for Best Picture? Outrageous!
I guess we'll boycott the Oscars this year.
Maybe I'll go out on February 27 and purchase the DVD instead and watch it again."
Whoa! Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was skunked for Best Picture, and Kill Bill: Volume 2 and The Life Aquatic weren't nominated for anything at all. I guess I'll have to boycott the ceremony because they didn't read my mind and select my personal favorites...that'll show 'em to disagree with me.
//Heavy sarcasm off//
Really, though. It was a great and moving film for certain, but DAMN, if you read only FR you'd think that the Passion was the only good movie that came out last year. Don't be so tunnelvisioned...
RE: "I may not be a movie student.. but Shakespeare in Love comes to mind here.That was a "critical darling" of a movie too, wasn't it?"
I agree wholeheartedly. The oversight of the classic Saving Private Ryan in 1998 in favor of the cute but slight Shakespeare in Love was one of the Academy's biggest screw-ups in the 1990's. But like the man said at the end of Some Like It Hot "Well, nobody's perfect."
I'm not sure I agree with that sentiment. Just because someone does comedy doesn't necessarily mean that he or she is a bad actor.
Could you watch Bosom Buddies and imagine what Tom Hanks has done since? Or how about watching old Rawhide episodes with Clint Eastwood and picture what he has done lately?
well- you don't know my sources of information.. now do you?
Oooooh...lemme guess...you know people deep inside, right? I also don't buy claims from internet posters.
Now there was a comic genius!
It was the only flick I could see investing twenty dollars in, thank you. LOL
RE: "No of course, they had to choose the movie with nudity in it. Now don't get me wrong, I quite frankly liked seeing Gweneth Paltrow with her top off, but the movie was not better than "Ryan"."
The film with the nudity in it-- just what are you trying to imply? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who view the sight of a man's head being blown off of his shoulders as somehow more acceptable that the sight of a woman's breasts?
Saving Private Ryan was the far better picture, but what an absurdly silly reason to criticize it for ("mommy, the boobies scare me...waaaah!").
I give "In Living Color" three snaps in a Z formation!
I actually think they made the right choice between SPR and SIL. The former trod over ground much travelled over previously but the latter had the wit of an Oscar Wilde play. The script of SPR really was second rate. They did the right thing by honoring Spielberg, who's brilliant direction resuced what could have been a completely ordinary war movie.
No, that isn't what I said. I simply said that I take everything with a grain of salt. Healthy skepticism is a good thing. I prefer to look at all sides of a subject and hear the opinions of sources from both sides, and then form an opinion.
But she doesn't know anything about any of the movies nominated.
Yeah, I'm buyin' it. [rolls eyes]
RE: "I'm wondering how they could overlook the actress (Morgenstern?) who played the Virgin Mary in The Passion for Supporting Actress"
I agree. Maia Morganstern made a touching Mary, managed to convey almost entirely through her weathered face and deep eyes conflicting emotions: the emotionally crushing foreknowledge of her Son's execution, balanced by the comfort of knowing that her Son's death was a necessity to change the fates of the entire world (the fulfillment of His very reason for coming in the first place).
Fortunately, it was done by Damon Wayans, not his-much less talented-younger siblings.
They have box sets of "In Living Color", the first few seasons-I believe-on DVD, now.
My faves: the gay movie critic/gossip and Homey the Clown.
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