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The OSCARS!!!! Live Thread..... Red Carpet 6pm.. Awards 8pm Est
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Posted on 02/27/2005 9:54:03 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs



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To: Borges
I think it was embraced by the Academy because it has an undeniable emotional punch

Uh-huh. Sorta like The Passion, right?
3,221 posted on 02/27/2005 9:55:17 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: squarebarb
True. Sometimes I consider feeling sorry for the mega stars.

They have no privacy, they have endless worries about their next job, they have to obsess about their appearance.

Sometimes I really do think about feeling sorry for them. Then I think again. They simply forgot to read the fine print before they took the path to celebrity status.

3,222 posted on 02/27/2005 9:55:21 PM PST by bd476 ("You can't get there from here." from "Which Way to Millinocket?" Bert & I)
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To: over3Owithabrain

I wouldn't speculate on that since it didn't happen, and Clint has said he doesn't glorify it.....you may think Hollywood does but I don't think Clint does....did you see Schindler's List......do you think it glorified killing Jews just cause the director or producer chose the film, no, but becuase the WHOLE story was compelling......I don't say you have to like the end, but speculating on Clint's motives is just that.....speculating ......


3,223 posted on 02/27/2005 9:55:49 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: wardaddy

Yeah that's true.


3,225 posted on 02/27/2005 9:56:37 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Borges

Borges, man, what a beautiful night this was!

The 77th Oscar ceremony was, on the whole, spectacular. Coming in at a tight (for the Oscars, that is) three hours or so, producer Gil Cates managed to fit in not one but TWO moving tributes, a few surprisingly good songs (who knew such a beautiful song came from such a loathsome film as the Motorcycle Diaries?), an often hilarious opening stand-up act by Chris Rock (though I could have done without the Bush-bashing, the ONLY Bush bashing of the entire night I might add to the naysayers here on FR), a few wonderful acceptance speeches by the winners, AND a hilarious little "presentation" by the animated costume designer from the Incredibles.

The Academy voters may not have made any MAJOR surprises tonight, but their top selection showed that their minds, hearts, and taste were all in the right place tonight.

Everything was as it should be, I think.

The two Best written films of the night, Sideways and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, won the two Screenplay awards, and I let out a whoop of joy whenever the absolute genius Charlie Kaufmann won an Oscar for his mind-bending Eternal Sunshine script.

I would have preferred Virginia Madsen win for Sideways instead of Cate Blanchett in the Aviator, but who can deny the wonderful feeling they got when Morgan Freeman, one of our greatest living actors, FINALLY won his golden man, for his riveting work as the one-eyed ex-boxer in Million Dollar Baby? Somebody tell me why Morgan isn't getting paid the twenty million per film that Adam Sandler and Cameron Diaz are. Who deserves it more than he?

Jamie Foxx and Hilary Swank for Best Actor and Actress? Hell yeah! Foxx makes you sing out loud with the power and passions of brother Ray Charles, and Hilary Swank is so perfect in MDB that I can't even imagine another actress with the role of Maggie Fitzgerald.

And when the effortlessly engrossing, deeply realistic (the first time I saw it I forgot I was even watching a movie), and devastatingly moving (I still can't stop thinking about the ending...) Million Dollar Baby took home the Best Picture prize, I fely like little David had slew the mighty, grandiose giant that was the Aviator through nothing but the sheer force of it's beauty, not to mention a little great word of mouth.

Sorry, Marty. Lord knows you deserve a boatload of little golden statuettes (and you should have won for Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and GONY), but I just can't fault the Academy for going with Clint Eastwood this year. Damn, but MDB was good! And it WAS Clint's "baby" after all. So much care went into crafting MDB, yet so little BS that Eastwood deserves the Oscar for making the film as muscular and powerful as Maggie's left jab. The Aviator's not the one, Mr. Scorsese. Maybe next year...


In fact, I feel so damn good right now that I think I'll just send this one post off to you, turn off this computer that I just turned on in the first place and go right to bed happy, leaving my loaded mailbox of friendly-fire venom for another day.

Keep on "Kicking against the pricks" for me Borges, and to movie fans all over the world I say: THIS WAS YOUR NIGHT, and I hope you enjoyed it.

Goodnight.


3,226 posted on 02/27/2005 9:56:41 PM PST by RockAgainsttheLeft04 (Chaos is great. Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling. -- from Heathers (1989))
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To: Borges

"Clint plays a troubled believer. Hardly anti Catholic."

How is it NOT anti-Catholic when he MURDERS his trainee????

I am astounded that people cannot see this simple fact!

Ed


3,227 posted on 02/27/2005 9:57:24 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: wardaddy

no....in the end the Indian guy smothered Jack Nicholson with a pillow after his lobotomy......it wasn't glorifying the act....it was following the story line like the book. Seems like even conservatives here get too PC also...too many seeing "dead people"


3,228 posted on 02/27/2005 9:57:47 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: Torie

I think a lot of men who cheat on their wives love their wives.

They just can't resist or the wife is out to lunch.

I would guess more men cheat than leave their wives from what I've seen in almost 50 solar orbits.

As for the gals...used to be most of them cheated looking to leave.

It's expensive to leave one's wife and rough on the spawn.

I do know wives who have lost interest and don't mind discretion if properly compensated. That would be the jaded view.

Oh well...what do I know.


3,229 posted on 02/27/2005 9:58:13 PM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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To: Torie

Well, it IS late -- I get MY wires crossed when I'm tired myself.


3,230 posted on 02/27/2005 9:58:30 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (THANK YOU LORD -- John Kerry is still just a senator.)
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To: mass55th
No, you're just smart. Face it. Deal with it.

I think we are psychically connected, because I almost lost it watching House of Sand and Fog. It was relentlessly miserable, and I can deal with that, but it has to be for something more important than just saying "American people suck sometimes!" The whole episode with the shooting was another of those "Gimme a break" moments. This was two hours of nonstop pointless misery, and at the end I wanted to ask the director when I could come over to his house and talk about how miserable life was for two hours and ruin HIS evening.

3,231 posted on 02/27/2005 9:58:38 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Condi Rice: Yeaaahhh, baybee! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350654/posts)
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To: ReignOfError
Glorifies? Are you kidding me? This reminds me of the claim that Trainspotting somehow "glorified" heroin addiction. Clint's character agonizes over the decision. When he finally does the deed, he walks away from everything he has ever known and is never heard from again. There's no glory there. Whether you agree with his decision or not, it's clear that it's a crushing burden.

Horrible comparison - Trainspotting clearly rejected the heroin lifestyle when the protagonist walks away from that life in the end. In MDB, all the emotional buttons are pushed to show how killing this woman was justifiable. No other alternative was clearly presented. Clint skips town because he's a murderer on the loose.
3,232 posted on 02/27/2005 9:59:01 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: Petronski

a nice gift for all who do wrong knowing it's wrong.

i used to be rather blessed with that talent myself.


3,233 posted on 02/27/2005 9:59:11 PM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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To: wardaddy

"I think a lot of men who cheat on their wives love their wives."

What?


3,234 posted on 02/27/2005 9:59:12 PM PST by marajade
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To: Deo volente

haha.....do you see "dead people" too.....just cause a film ends the way the story was written doesn't mean it glorified it.....Schindler's List killed alot of Jews, do you think they were glorifying it??????


3,235 posted on 02/27/2005 10:00:49 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: over3Owithabrain
Yep, mocking our fight for freedom gets applause and acceptance in Hollywood. Now you want to tell me why I should like Hollywood? They are an enemy within.

OK this is the stuff that gets me the rep around here! :-) Some comedian does a bad routine and ALL of American film making (Hollywood or otherwise) is the enemy within? Even British films like Vera Drake are part of the Hollywood conspiracy! I don't understand why so many good people here become conspiratorial when it comes to movies. I worked at a film school. People who go into the industry just love movies. I just wish more of us (conservatives) would go into movies or invest in them.
3,236 posted on 02/27/2005 10:00:56 PM PST by Borges
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To: wardaddy

I think you have it about right, but I don't know much either.


3,237 posted on 02/27/2005 10:01:16 PM PST by Torie
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To: NorCalRepub

I bet you that I am about as un-PC as any FReeper and I see a few on this thread that will vouch for that.

But FR has veered left on the culture war since 9-11-01 and Rathergate ....both big FR membership bumps.


3,238 posted on 02/27/2005 10:01:20 PM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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To: marajade; wardaddy

They love their wives but are sometimes slave to their erections when they have them for other wimmin.


3,239 posted on 02/27/2005 10:01:25 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: marajade

What I said dear.

They love their wives but they cheat anyhow.


This stems from Torie's compartmentalization post upthread.


3,240 posted on 02/27/2005 10:02:24 PM PST by wardaddy (I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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