Ya think?!?!?
Anyhow, nobody is pretending that the Oscars are a scientific cross section of America, or of any other country for that matter. It's a total glitterati affair.
i have to congratulate tony curtis. seriously, i listen to radio quite a bit and i must hear commercials for hump back mountain every minute, i surf the radio and it is on every station, constantly. its just sick. i dont know one person who has seen it and people i know go to the movie theaters alot.
I really really love independent film and I don't think that box office draw should really be an indicator of what is the best film of the year. However, I do think that in choosing these films Hollywood has had FAR too much of an eye to the politically correct. They should be looking at these films to see if they are well made films, not if they bring across the "right" message.
And these hollwood turds wonder why ticket receipts have fallen so.
Give them anything that will push the limit of bad taste or work to destroy accepted norms. Shove the gay agenda down their throats. Push abortion and anti Christian views.
Here's hoping the lot starve.
tony ping
A liberal friend of mine saw Brokeback Mountain and wants to see it again. She said the dialogue is SPARSE.
The other night I saw 'Walk the Line' for the second time and recommend it to everyone. IMO Joaquin Phoenix gave an Academy Award winning performance. He deserves to win, not the Brokeback guys.
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I am waiting for Hollyweird to select their next cause with a magnificent love story between a 34 year old male and a 4 year old female. Imagine the glorification of the human emotion all wrapped up in innocent passion. From the nursery school play ground to Disneyworld...so we numbskulls can be more understanding of the pedophile's plight.
They can't even portray it as a gay movie. In all the trailers, it's about a "love story," but they won't show the two homos kissing.
They fool you into going.
Tony, one more time; they're not cowboys., they're SHEEPHERDERS!
BTW, has anyone stopped to consider how the sheep are affected when they realize that the shepherds would rather freak out with each other rather than the sheep? What do you suppose this situation is doing to the self-esteem of those sheep?
(What would John Wayne Do?)
The only "appeal" this story has is the supposed shock value of the gay element. Well, I'm not shocked and I'm not even offended. I'm bored.
Here's a clue for the folks in Hollywood, stories about gay cowboys are probably most interesting to the gay audience, 1-2% of the total population.
"The simple fact that twice as many people have seen the documentary "March of the Penguins" than have seen any of the five nominations for Best Picture ("Brokeback Mountain," "Crash," "Capote," "Munich" and "Good Night, and Good Luck") drives the point home."
Wow, if that statistic is accurate, that's pretty amazing. But it is clear three of these movies were nominated out of political reasons, although BBM might be somewhat deserving on its own merits, as even those who have codemned it have said it is quite well made, if rather simplistic.
It now falls to us, the consuming public, to demonstrate whether we have the financial clout to call their bluff.
"Yonder is da castle of my fodder." (/Brooklyn accent)
I have always enjoyed Tony Curtis movies - - fact is, anything he was in was better because he was in it. 'Some Like It Hot' (with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon) was, of course, a classic. But I also enjoyed Tony's medieval movies and especially 'The Vikings' with Kirk Douglas.
I'm happily anticipating computer generated "actors" -- the sooner Hollywood drops narcissistic liberal larger than life filth, the better.
And Tony Curtis probably does not see that cross-dressing was the pre-cursor to acceptance of the queer lifestyle. Cross-dressing was the highest level of shock that could be accepted back in the day.