78th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS: COMMENTARY: Movies with meaning

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | March 4, 2006 | Phil Kloer

[madprof98]

This is what the Atlanta paper dished up as the lead story in its "Faith and Values" section this morning, complete with the requisite picture of the gay cowboys. As my wife said, they used the same photo (which they called a "now iconic image") just yesterday in their breathless story about the film's success in the entertainment section. I wonder how many other people are getting the same perverse madness in their local papers.

[beyond the sea]

'Good Night, and Good Luck'

Murrow smoked a crapload of cigs, and Hollywood is blowing smoke up America's *ss with this load of bull/distortion.

[billorites]

[beyond the sea]

'Capote' --- Hoffman truly deserves the Oscar for this work.

jmo

[mewzilla]

Triumph of the Will had meaning, too...

[Fintan]

 

[demkicker]

Lots of bird cage liners for people that still subscribe.

[leadpenny]

At times I thought I was watching Truman himself. Hoffman made me not want the movie to end.

[txzman]

LOL on teh Lee Marvin photo. I'd like to see the same thing except Marvin from Cat Ballou. Damn, a drunk Marvin being told the cowboys next to him are faggots....lol

[Phlap]

Stupid is as stupid does. Movies don't mean anything. They are for entertainment purposes only. Even for a box office blockbuster, say $300,000,000.00, at $10.00 a pop, far less than 30,000,000 people would see it.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Not having been to a movie in a long time I am still qualified to speak on the Academy Awards. I won't be watching the Awards either, I have scheduled something more important for Sunday night -- organizing my sock drawer.

I might have missed a good movie or two over the years but I have also saved myself a ton of money, my hearing and skipped the danger of coming home late at night in a city with a homicide and robbery rate that makes Baghdad a stroll on the beach.

Here are the reasons many people stopped going to the movies.

1. the flicks are simply too bad.

2. box-office prices are too high.

3. the poggy-bait in the lobby is to costly.

4. the sound volume is so high it's deafening.

5. too many actors have lost credibility

6. too many actors have little or no talent.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

'Cinderella Man' and 'Walk the Line' should have been nominated for Best Picture. My brother went to see 'Munich' against my advice and WALKED OUT. According to him, not only was it a bloodbath, but you got to see the Palistinian's point of view.

[Fintan]

 

[Hostage]

As far as the Murrow-McCarthy dig, I am still absorbing the context of the era back then and so far it appears McCarthy may have indeed got a bum rap from the leftist press.

I think it was Ann Coulter that attempted to set the record straight about McCarthy. I haven't read her account of McCarthy but maybe someone will summarize it here for us.

But the new film (which I haven't seen) 'Good Night...' I would guess is another hit on McCarthy's character. In fact with Clooney as the main driver in it I am sure it is in the same way as 'Tailgunner Joe'.

Now here is what I would like to see: That some filmmaker would do a film about McCarthy that presents both perspectives on his character and merits.

And here is what I really wanted to point out: Marlon Brando made a hugely successful film 'Mutiny on the Bounty' which depicted an English Naval Captain Bligh as a monster of inhumanity. Viewers of that film left thinking that authority figures such as Bligh deserved what they got.

But years later Anthony Hopkins delivered a performance as Bligh in the film 'The Bounty' that depicted Bligh as balanced and fair authority figure who was victimized by a spoiled and insolent young officer Christian. Viewers of that film left thinking that Christian was a bipolar case who acted in a wild fit as a mutineer.

So we need a film on McCarthy to balance the film accounts so far. Mel Gibson comes to mind as a director that has the capacity to take on the Hollywood Left. Whoever does take on the Hollywood Left eventually will need a powerful film with lots of Box Office appeal to counter the onslaught of critics and political backlash that will inevitably come.

[RayChuang88]

And you wonder why ABC is very concerned about low ratings for the Oscar ceremonies this year.

[beyond the sea]

He's a wonderful actor...... and I very nice person.

[dalight]

I couldn't be less interested in the Academy Awards this year. Each year it seems they attempt a new bottom, only to surpass themselves. But this year, they have gone past low, to boring, inane and irrelevant to anything like a movie I might be interested in.

The box office has been in a free fall because on the whole Hollywood, like the MSM have gone off into their own fantasy land which just went from bizarre and outlandish to just disgraceful and sickening. Oscar has "jumped the shark" at long last.

[RayChuang88]

The box office has been in a free fall because on the whole Hollywood, like the MSM have gone off into their own fantasy land which just went from bizarre and outlandish to just disgraceful and sickening.

Last year the movie constantly wondered why box office revenues were way down compared to 2004--totally missing the point that American moviegoers don't want to be preached the Leftist point of view. I mean, look at the most successful movies of 2004--Passion of the Christ, Shrek 2, Spider-Man 2, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban--they appeal to a far wider audience and did a lot of repeat business, too. I LOVED Shrek 2 because to so successfully poked fun at the entire Hollywood culture.

[freeangel]

"have gone off into their own fantasy land"

Let's face it --Hollywood is for the people(of Hollywood) and by the people(of Hollywood) only.

[goldstategop]

Its a love story. If you don't sob uncontrollably in the theater, you're an ice cube.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")