Posted on 02/01/2006 2:38:50 AM PST by jimbo123
"Brokeback Mountain" and a slew of other arty, less-widely seen Oscar-nominated flicks are expected to take the polish off ABC's ratings for the Academy Awards this year.
With no big-budget films like "Titanic," "Gladiator" or "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" in this season's crop of nominees, ABC may be staring down the barrel of one of the lowest-rated Oscar telecasts in recent memory when it airs on March 5, say TV-industry analysts.
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I suppose that next you'll be trying to point out that spelling has something to do with acurate articulation of thoughts. (sarcasm)
Acurate = accurate. I swear I knew it was spelled that way. I swear.
It's interesting "Narnia" got 3 tech nominations and absolutely no mention in the press that it will likely end up making more money than any movie except the "Sith".
ROFLMAO, good pun!
Please, try not to give the plot away in case there's one or two people reading that want to go see it.
I wouldn't say that too loud in Hollywood, you'd get some takers.
I would like to create art ----- I was thinking of placing an oscar replica in a big fish bowl filled with Moose urine and display the art in a western cowboy museum.
I'll do just that. (Tivo it)... that way I can fast forward through the acceptance speeches and all the blah, blah, blah.
It changes the meaning of what was being said, unlike simply leaving a c out of "accurate". :)
Hmmmmm....I don't think so...one has to consider the enormous amount of funds expended for the continued print and on-air advertising. For a movie released before Christmas!
I think he larded up what might have been a more interesting story with a lot of heavy-handed propagandizing. Even so, I doubt the original story from the novelist, which I have not read, had the makings of a great movie. More to the point, I don't think the subject would have mass appeal.
Yeah, that statement was one of assumption, which you know makes....
Anyway, I had seen that, as of a month ago, it had grossed something like forty million some-odd dollars. I didn't bother to track it's progress. Now it's up to 51. Not exactly the consistent improvement you want going into the Oscars.
Seems like it had a massive novelty effect, for a while anyway. I saw it with my girlfriend, and it was alright, but if Ang Lee hadn't directed it, I don't know if I could say even that. I've seen most of the Oscar nominated movies, and some others, of this year and this falls in the middle. It's pretty much just a typical love story, with the obvious twist.
Actually, the Narnia series is made up of 7 books (not a trilogy.)
Yeah, I corrected my statement somewhere in near four hundred postings...I was thinking of the Ransom/Space Trilogy.
And the seven books of Narnia makes Disney's claim that the books are merely fantasy even more rediculous.
Look at the movies up for awards; gay filth, sexual deviancy, supporting terrorism, excusing crime, pro-communism, anti-Americanism. Hardly one of these movies is acceptable in mainstream America at all.
Which would make a good movie series!
I agree with you. If a viewer, however, pays close attention, they will still see that Jack Twist is the worst sort of predator. He married a woman because she was from a wealthy family. He seduced the wife of a friend. He seduced the husband of his wife's friend. And he tormented the protagonist of the film. Ennis realizes he's been had at the end and that's one reason he physically assaults Twist when he throws a tantrum over having to wait for his next visit.
But Lee misleads with a lot of "Matthew Shepard" stuff. Twist is "Iago," but that is never made plain. Somehow he, too, is made a victim of the times.
If you ever travel to Kentucky I might be able to arrange a tour of the mansion setting of "Raintree County" movie. Peggy is a wealthy friend and a wonderful lady who is the owner of the home where the film was made many years ago.
The old house was also a field hospital during the major Civil War battle at Perryville.
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