D'OH!
If there is no real momentum, manufacture some...
This is no different than the hundreds of "polls" predicting a huge Kerrey "landslide"...
The Polar Express tipped the scales at $20K per theatre. Never heard of it.
Giant Commie Robot sez:
YOU CAPITALIST, BOURGEOISIE FILTH! How little you see, plutocratic, homophobic scum. "Brokeback Mountain" is the height of aesthetic realism, and gay, robotic, Soviet artistic expression. You shall lap up our tendentious propaganda about gay sheep-rustlers eating the pudding of the proletariat, or YOU SHALL BE CRUSHED BY THE ONCOMING ONSLAUGHT OF THE WORKER-LABORER STATE! Fascist-capitalists who despise the heightened consciousness aroused by the brilliant, politically correct oeuvre of Kushner and Larry Kramer will have no place in our classless utopia. *buzz* *clank* *sssssst* DEVIATIONISTS MUST BE CRUSHED!!! *plonk*
Early awards buzz only among self-absorbed Hollywood moviemakers. Talk about Spiro Agnew's "effete corps of impudent snobs."
Ha...homomentum.