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[FreezerBurn]

answer the question, merv. have you seen any of the movies? or is this just another one of your prejudiced views based on pure ignorance?

by the way, your favorite film of the three, brokeback mountain, was an independent film.

[jimmyboy]

I went out and rented Crash immediately after the Oscars. It was great writing and deserved best original screen play. Weaving 5 main characters into a story is terribly difficult. And all the ironies were great.

However, the movie ended too abrumptly without tying up some loose ends. What happens to Matt Dillon after the Crash? What happens to the film director? I felt as though the end wasn't edited correctly... like it needed 15 more minutes to finish.

Best original screenplay yes. Best picture no.

Brokeback Mountain got robbed.

[jmervyn]

answer the question, merv. have you seen any of the movies? or is this just another one of your prejudiced views based on pure ignorance?

Oh, sorry, thought I had stated it clearly - must have lost it editing. I've not watched a new movie in theatre since "Fantastic Four", which I regretted. Everything I watch is on DVD through Netflix; I'll be seeing "Four Brothers" tonight and generally watch pretty unusual (often foreign) material.

As to prejudiced views based on pure ignorance, you're a fine one to talk.

by the way, your favorite film of the three, brokeback mountain, was an independent film.

You couldn't tell from the sheer volume of hype being piled atop it. If a *** movie like "To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" can't even get a mention, what is a "*** cowboy" flick that all but bombed at the box office doing in the running?

[innorton38]

I don't particularly enjoy things that rely on offensive values to sell themselves.

And yet you enjoy Ann Coulter? Talk about a contradiction.

[jmervyn]

And yet you enjoy Ann Coulter? Talk about a contradiction.

Guilty as charged. At least she's not making boodles of dollars.

I'll happily 'fess up that my hatred of Hollywierd is more due to my 'liberal' attitudes against the MPAA than to any artistic view of films. I enjoy visual storytelling, and don't care much if certain films are deliberately tasteless or offensive; I don't need to pay to watch them anyways. However, I support an environment where talent and merit are rewarded, rather than one where being in the correct religious cult or knowing the right people get you work & power.

I view the power wielded in the American psyche by the actors and studios as almost obscene. And I guess I view these awards as a celebration of that obsessive culture.

[maccool]

A U.S. gross of 73+ million for a movie that cost 13 million is a bomb? Interesting.

[Drosselmeier]

I have no interest in what they've been peddling lately, true - OMG I must be teh KKKRISTIAN FASXIST!! RACIST RACIST BLCD!!

It's interesting how you and Coulter use the same arguments go for the same points as actual neo-nazis when talking about Hollywood. Only difference is the name of the evil that's corrupting America. **** in their case and homos in yours.

Nota bene, I'm not calling you a nazi. This is just an observation I can't get around.

You're a fairly sharp person jmerv. Isn't it better to leave politics out of these discussions and concentrate on the artistic aspect of the movies? That way you don't have to rag on "ideologically flawed" but otherwise good movies and can join the thinking crowd in our condemnation of formulaic commercialized art instead.

EDIT: Read the thread to the end. I'm sure we pretty much agree on what's really ruining movies today. Just drop the ***-agenda schtick and we could be in complete agreement. We both know that bloated corporations playing it safe is the real evil, not some conspiracy of jewish homo-communism.

[innorton38]

Guilty as charged. At least she's not making boodles of dollars.

Quoted from wikipedia: "In June 2005, Coulter purchased a $1.8 million home on Palm Beach Island in Florida."

Yeah she's really scrapping by...

[Anakha1]

And here's Ann.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think anyone who describes a movie about the brutal murder of olympic athletes because of their religion and nationality as "*** athletes who had it coming" should be immediately ostrasized and ignored.

[Drosselmeier]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think anyone who describes a movie about the brutal murder of olympic athletes because of their religion and nationality as "*** athletes who had it coming" should be immediately ostrasized and ignored.

Or just laughed at. I doubt that's the message Spielberg tried to send with that movie.

I liked the other summaries as well. apparently, "***" tells us all we need to know about Brokeback Mountain.