Posted on 01/13/2006 7:54:16 AM PST by Millicent_Hornswaggle
If there's a phonier, more self aggrandizing "industry" on earth than Hollyweird et al, I'd like to hear of it.
"There are no critics in the Academy hence none who vote for the Oscars."
Yea, you bet'cha.
No Socialists or Communists in the Democrat Party, USA.
No chicken-hawks in the BSA.
It [really] was just about sex.
Republicans are homophobes, racists & bigots.
Have you heard, there's a "Vast righwing conspiracy" (honest). :o)
Democrats fight for the "little guy" (and everything else moral & decent).
"Bush lied. People died".
Need more?
Well you get the idea, huh.
Say, Vic.
...can you spell naive? ;^)
Long before then, even: Stuart Whitman received a nom for playing a sympathetic child molester in The Mark...in 1961.
me too!
Uuum OK. Which branch are the critics in then? The Actor's Branch? The Director's Branch? The Cinematographer's Branch? Critics have their own awards. You don't know what you're talking about.
Brokeback Mountain was a borefest to me personally. However, to criticize it for portraying 2 homosexuals in the West when there have been 75,000 movies made of heterosexuals in the West seems stupid.
Face it, there are homosexuals. If one out of every 75,000 Westerns shows a homosexual relationship you can't complain we are being inundated with this stuff.
There is certainly a higher percentage of Gay accepted themes in film today than ever before. I think it's mostly because it couldn't exist until relatively recently. The overwhelming films made by Hollywood still portray hetero relationships rather than home relationships.
If you want to see a good movie for the most part you are better off seeing foreign films or documentaries.
For my money I thing that Grizzly Man was the best film of 2005 (In some places it is credited as 2004 so it doesn't qualify for the Oscar).
Laurence Olivier received a nom for a playing a sympathetic murderer in Hamlet.
You're right that most Americans aren't going to be watching the Academy Awards this year.
For the same reasons you describe, too.
I wondered why Grizzly Man wasn't getting that Best Documentary nom, thanks for that info. Herzog deserves some sort of Oscar, even if it's just a career award. He's the most daring director alive.
1990: Politically correct Dances with Wolves Beat out Goodfellas
It didn't make the cut for the list of Documentaries. It's a shame. I agree with you about Herzog. At least Robert Altman is getting a Career award.
Congratulations for you ongoing emphasis, there, because I noticed yesterday that FOX commentors are now referring to "BM" as being "about sheep herders." On FOX morning yesterday, someone actually corrected someone else with, "it's a film about sheep herders, let's get that straight."
Ha. At least FOX gets it straight.
Well, it's also been advertised as a WESTERN yet it takes place in 1963.
To me, a western is pre-automobile.
Where would that put Sam Peckinpah's best Westerns (Ride the Hight Country, The Wild Bunch, Ballad of Cable Hogue), where the automobile is an important symbol of the passing of the old West? And hey, what about Roy Rogers and his trusty jeep? :-)
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Right! The Oscars are awarded by industry insiders to industry insiders according to whatever agenda fad is current.
Yeah, but Kiran Chetry thought the movie was absolutely fantastic! She looked as if she were going to come out of her chair with excitement. Well, at least she doesn't try to hide the fact that she's pimping for the homosexual lobby. Good going, Kiran. You have earned so much respect from the Fox News Channel viewers.
If Fox doesn't get the libs off of their channel (they've acquired half of the CNN staff already) they will soon find out that many of us can just as well find our news elsewhere.
I skip it every year. Why? Because I, like many others, could care less.
Billy Crystal wouldn't do the show even though they begged him. He was the only thing that kept me watching.
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