General Chat / Academy Awards 2006

WTF? Brokeback didn't win cinematography?! Appaling!

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!! Witherspoon got it!!

Huff got the puff.

CRASH WINS

What the hell? Crash won?

WTF CRASH WON?

It was the weakest movie of all the movies in the category. Lame.

Edited by Geoff, 05 March 2006 - 10:17 PM.

Lame.

I believe the proper word would be "fixed."

It was obvious it was going to win. BBM didn't deserve the award.

I love Crash. It's the only movie out of all those nominated that I've seen more than once.

I think the only reason why Brokeback didn't win was because it wasn't a manipulative movie, that forced any sort of homosexual message. The Academy is always picking movies that shove messages down audience's throats.

Oh well.

I think the only reason why Brokeback didn't win was because it wasn't a manipulative movie, that forced any sort of homosexual message. The Academy is always picking movies that shove messages down audience's throats.

Oh well.

Erm, Lord of the Rings?

What was the message in Titanic?

What was the message in Titanic?

Poor people, especially the Irish, deserve to have their lungs flooded with arctic waters.
Also, never trust women. Ever.
"I'LL NEVER LET GO JACK"

Anyway. I am of the opinion that Naomi Watts - who shockingly wasn't even nominated - should have won everything. ESPECIALLY "Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published".
The oscars are a bad joke.

I do approve of Crash winning, though, because writer/director Paul Haggis created Due South, and Due South is about a Canadian, and Canadians are the true chosen people of God.

I met a Canadian once, and he was all like, "What's up, eh?" and I started crying out of sheer awe.

Gah. You got me Bruckner, and postit... but anyway you know what I'm talking about. I'm just so mad about Crash

ah, well, who cares.

Actor in a Leading Role: who i want: Joaquin Pheonix "Walk the Line" (looks and sounds EXACTLY like Johnny Cash, and one of the best performances i've seen in a while)

i know everybody says this, but, really, i can't hear it. he just adopted a general "southern" accent and a baritone voice, and sounded like, at best, he was mocking johnny cash. and his "music"? i can't even describe how unbelievably bad it was. he just sounded like the worst johnny cash "tribute" artist ever.

i wonder how many of these people who say he "looks and sounds exactly like johnny cash" know anything at all about johnny cash, particularly how he looked or sounded.

anyways.

no good movies won, as no good movies were nominated. well, that's not true, i haven't seen most of them, and the ones i have seen were good, but, i don't want to see the rest. i believe that politics is the absolute lowest thing on earth, and art is the highest, and hate to see one tarnished (or glorified) by the other, even if i agree with the point they're trying to make.

my best picture this year was 2046, which everyone else hated, it seems. oh well. i also liked howl's moving castle, old boy, king kong, batman begins, and the new world. but, really, i didn't see many movies last year. actually, that's all of them, really. oh well.

Edited by cg?, 06 March 2006 - 07:04 AM.

You liked the new world?! It could have won if there were a realism award. Or a most fucking boring movie of all time award. I can't believe we watched that whole thing.

You liked the new world?! It could have won if there were a realism award. Or a most fucking boring movie of all time award. I can't believe we watched that whole thing.

yeah, i loved it. i think terrance mallick is one of the great filmmakers, uh, ever.

anyways.

since writing that i realised that i've seen a lot more 2005 movies in 2005 than i thought, and those are definetly not all of them. my mind just doesn't work too well in the morning (or ever, really.)

oh well.

Edited by cg?, 06 March 2006 - 12:20 PM.

The New World was awful. Art movie wannabe

I loved 2046 and Old Boy. In fact, both of them made it into my top 10 movies of 2005. So there.

The New World was great, but in order to get anything out of it you would need analize it.