Crash has won the Best Picture Oscar

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Out of all the hype for Brokeback Mountain I can't believe this actually won. Also, Ang Lee won for Best Director.

Three 6 Mafia won for best original song for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp".
 
Yeah, definitely a surprsing night in a couple categories: 3 6 Mafia's win, Crash's win (which I preferred to Brokeback), and the lovely and amazing Felicity Huffman's upset. My condolences to her.
 
I was pulling for Crash all night long. I'm glad it won. Crash and Good Night and Good Luck were my two favorite movies for best picture.
 
I am EXTREMELY happy for Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He is an amazing talent, and it's about time mainstream America knows his name.

Crash for Best Picture? WTF? That movie was an insult. Hardly a realistic look at racism in America.
 
The only person I was rooting for was Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line. That was definetly my favorite movie of the year. I was glad to see Reese win, however.
 
Damn I am so pissed off that Good Night, And Good Luck was so robbed from this piece of shit & alot of other movies that didn't diserve the award. Damn I am so fucking piseed off....:bomb::bomb::bomb::bomb::bomb::bomb::bomb::twoguns::twoguns::censored:.
 
Crash was an amazing and awesome movie, so I'm really glad it won. I have to say, though, I haven't seen any of the other nominees.
 
I thought Crash was ok...although, as a friend pointed it, it's simply Hollywood going, "WAIT A SECOND! RACISM CAN BE A COMPLICATED ISSUE! HEY, EVERYONE! CHECK OUT THIS RACISM, AND HOW COMPLICATED IT IS! WE ARE FANCY!"

*ahem*

Anyway, yeah...it was ok.
 
The Academy obviously hates teh ghey. In my honest opinion, they can go fuck themselves.

At the very least, Good Night, and Good Luck should have won instead. WTF is with CRASH winning?
 
Crash was a huge pile of manipulative crap. If Lifetime made movies about race rather than bitches getting hit, Crash would be their signature film.
 
In a display of unity millions of gay men console each other (In regards to Brokeback Mountain not winning Best Picture.) tonight through countless acts of gay sex.

In the event that Brokeback Mountain had won Best Picture, millions of gay men would be celebrating tonight through countless acts of gay sex.

Either way.... a whole lot of gay sex happened on this Oscar night. However that happens each and every Oscar night, the gay man's Super Bowl.
 
I didnt see this movie, nor have I seen any of the movies nominated. However, I saw this and does not get the joke if it is one?

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[quote name='Dead of Knight']The Academy obviously hates teh ghey. In my honest opinion, they can go fuck themselves.

At the very least, Good Night, and Good Luck should have won instead. WTF is with CRASH winning?[/QUOTE]

Even though Ang Lee won Best Direction?
 
I, too, was rooting for Crash. I thought I was dreaming when it won best picture. One of the best movies i've ever seen. I was also upset about Joaquin's loss, but Reese's win has the news stations and fans here in Nashville ecstatic. Reese looked beautiful. I'm going to watch Crash again in the morning.. that scene with the little girl and the invisible cape moves me every time. I never, ever thought it'd beat Brokeback. I thought Brokeback would sweep it, and i'm glad it didn't. Crash deserved it. Excellent, excellent movie.
 
First off I'll be the first one to give a congrats out to Crash for winning. I am so happy that at least this movie won instead of Brokeback Mountain...if you truly want to talk about a heaping pile of shit, then there is know greater mountain of it then this film. I was actually rooting for either Goodnight and Good Luck or Capote or even Munich, but Crash was an excellent film as well, though I wish Syriana would have been nominated for Best Picture as I think it is the film that truly deserved.

Brokeback Mountain is just a big giant gimmick. Unlike Capote where being gay was just an aspect of the man and the film, Brokeback Mountain simply tried to push itself as being entirely gay and that that was the reason it deserved to win. It tried to do a sappy love story with a gimmick to win, but as it turns out it didn't.

I'm just trying to show that I'm not trying to be racist or prejudicial or hating or anything.
 
Of all the nominated movies I only seen Crash and it sucks ass.
It must be the most overrated movies I've ever seen.
 
[quote name='bobo2k4']Of all the nominated movies I only seen Crash and it sucks ass.
It must be the most overrated movies I've ever seen.[/QUOTE]

An 8.4 rating on IMDB with over 40,000 votes isn't half bad if you ask me. Now I don't go by rating or reviews, but you have to admit that that is fairly good especially for IMDB where some movies can just get thrashed (yet I can admit the system is a bit flawed).

All I see in this thread is how much Crash sucked this and crash sucked that. Can't anyone come out with an explanation anymore about why they think that or is everyone just jumping on the band wagon
 
[quote name='bobo2k4']Of all the nominated movies I only seen Crash and it sucks ass.
It must be the most overrated movies I've ever seen.[/QUOTE]

What was so bad about it? I'm curious why you didn't like it.
 
Gotta hand it to crash. I never would have thought a story about a bandicoot would make for such a great movie, especially considering the mario bros. movie.
 
[quote name='Fire']An 8.4 rating on IMDB with over 40,000 votes isn't half bad if you ask me. Now I don't go by rating or reviews, but you have to admit that that is fairly good especially for IMDB where some movies can just get thrashed (yet I can admit the system is a bit flawed).

All I see in this thread is how much Crash sucked this and crash sucked that. Can't anyone come out with an explanation anymore about why they think that or is everyone just jumping on the band wagon[/QUOTE]


No bandwagon here but from seeing how good the trailer looked, the allstar cast and by people telling me how good it was it seemed like a must-see movie.



The movie was a terrible let down. Everyone was overracting and I hated how racism had to be pointed out every 10 seconds. It's just like the picture Dr. Mario posted. Race had to be pointed out in every sentence.

I guess it was a love it or hate it film. I havent met a person yet that said it was just ok.
 
I saw all five films, and I would have to say that (Good Night and Good Luck appealed to me the most) Crash was the most thought provoking and engaging film out of the five. Brokeback Mountain was a great love story but I didn't really care for it, not because it was about a gay couple, but because the characters didn't appeal all that much too me. Munich is Munich not much to say here (a typical Speilberg film). Capote is the equivalent of Ray from last year. It was primarily focused on the portrayal of Capote by Phillip Seymour Hoffman (He did a great job).
 
I really didn't like Crash either, yay, a movie featuring a bunch of racists, big freaking deal. And oh, isn't that clever, he's saying "hey why do people always assume Black people are going to do X" and then they do X... brillant? Though I would say the particular scene in which the film jumped the shark for me was the invisible cloak scene. The writer wanted the gut reaction of believing a child had been shot, then backed off without it having any real, lasting impact, a hollow, extremely manipulative scene that I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

Maybe it's a regional thing, if I lived in LA or some similar atmosphere it would have some relevance to me, but alas, I don't, so it has none. I am very much looking forward to seeing Good Night and Good Luck when it is released on dvd and I have a feeling I am going to enjoy it much more.
 
[quote name='Scahom1']I am EXTREMELY happy for Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He is an amazing talent, and it's about time mainstream America knows his name.[/QUOTE]

I agree with you on that. I do think that crash was a great flick that deserved best picture.
 
Yeah, I was kind of surprised about Crash winning best picture, since I thought it was overrated and imo Munich and Capote were better. However, I'd rather see Crash win instead of Brokeback... Kudos to Hoffman and Clooney taking the supporting actor/actor awards though. They both deserved it and I felt that they finally made a good decision for once on the best actor awards
 
Three 6 mafia now has a Oscar, while not having a grammy and single platinum album in 10 years that they have been around. I like them. They are pretty good to me. They also seemed happy as hell to win, unlike Eminem who didn't even show up to perform or get his award. Also, yay to Ang lee, now that the hulk didn't fuck up his career.
 
Is Capote that good?

I have not seen it and saw or heard very little about it. To be honest if it weren't for Jon Stewart I would have not watched the Oscars.
 
Did anybody else think this movie was WAY too preachy for its own good. It felt like I was watching one of those after school specials where they teach you racism is bad. It didn't feel personal..or.. in any way a movie you could walk away from and the message would be lingering in your mind. It seemed very forgetful. I dunno maybe that was just me...
 
[quote name='bobo2k4']No bandwagon here but from seeing how good the trailer looked, the allstar cast and by people telling me how good it was it seemed like a must-see movie.



The movie was a terrible let down. Everyone was overracting and I hated how racism had to be pointed out every 10 seconds. It's just like the picture Dr. Mario posted. Race had to be pointed out in every sentence.

I guess it was a love it or hate it film. I havent met a person yet that said it was just ok.[/QUOTE]

Ah I see. Soundsl ike basically the film was just overhyped to you and you put it on some plataeu only to be disappointed. It's happened with me and movies as well.
 
I only wish there was a way to make it impossible for the people who go along with this decision to watch any movie other than Crash for the rest of their lives.
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']Either way.... a whole lot of gay sex happened on this Oscar night. However that happens each and every Oscar night, the gay man's Super Bowl.[/QUOTE]

A whole lot of gay sex happens everywhere, every night. It's a terrifying thought, I know, and it threatens to shatter the moral foundation that this country was built upon, so on and so forth. Thanks P, we get it.

Have you ever considered a career in talk radio? I can assure you, you'd be a hit. Now, go make some pudding jokes in one of the other Oscar topics.
 
Crash is the only one of the nominees I've seen so far. Though I enjoyed it, I thought it was pretty much the throw away nomination for this year. Very suprised it actually won.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Crash is the only one of the nominees I've seen so far. Though I enjoyed it, I thought it was pretty much the throw away nomination for this year. Very suprised it actually won.[/QUOTE]
Also the only one I saw. I don't think it was bad, but it was very forgettable. Considering I... forgot about it.
 
Walk the Line is by far a better movie than Crash. At best Crash is a decent movie in the "It" genre of the moment. I'm tired of seeing the 6 degrees of separation that is every new movie right now. However, it seems like we have no choice unless we want to watch remakes.
At least the gay cowpokers didn't win though.
 
I think my problem with Crash was just that it didn't seem to have the polish that an academy award winner, or even nominee usually has. I mean it was a good movie but it didn't seem like an academy award calibur movie.

Oh and the scene where the girl is accidently shot but then not shot just annoyed me. It was point blank at the girl, how could she have not been hit?
 
[quote name='Scorch']I'm going to watch Crash again in the morning.. that scene with the little girl and the invisible cape moves me every time.[/QUOTE]

EDIT: This is not a personal attack, just a hatred for that scene ;)

Oh, you mean that scene where they pull a fast one by making us feel for the little girl because she was shot, but WAIT! the bullets are blank! WOW this movie really knows how to mess with you! Of course they were blank, I spotted it in the scene where he bought the bullets. They made a big deal about what type of bullets they were, but they never showed the box. 10 points to whoever knew the bullets would play a factor later on in the film. :roll: guardian_owl hit it right on the head.

Or how about Ludacris? He bitched for the entire movie about how black people are stereotyped, yet are we supposed to sympathize with his character? He steals a car, kills a man, and doesn't tip, all while blaming "da white man" I especially liked how he criticized the same type of rap music that he makes himself.

What the hell was the need to point out racism every 10 seconds? Real life isn't like that...in real life people keep their feelings to themselves. They don't walk around saying the things they think outloud to the person they are racist of. If that was the case the world would be one big battlefield.

Ah well, enough ranting. I'm still pissed at the Academy for catering to every housewife in America by robbing Ellen Burstyn of her performance in Requiem To A Dream, instead giving the Best Actress it to the blah Julia Roberts.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Oh and the scene where the girl is accidently shot but then not shot just annoyed me. It was point blank at the girl, how could she have not been hit?[/QUOTE]I think you missed something ...
They were blanks.
 
[quote name='Scahom1']Oh, you mean that scene where they pull a fast one by making us feel for the little girl because she was shot, but WAIT! the bullets are blank! WOW this movie really knows how to mess with you! Of course they were blank, I spotted it in the scene where he bought the bullets. They made a big deal about what type of bullets they were, but they never showed the box. 10 points to whoever knew the bullets would play a factor later on in the film. :roll: guardian_owl hit it right on the head.

Or how about Ludacris? He bitched for the entire movie about how black people are stereotyped, yet are we supposed to sympathize with his character? He steals a car, kills a man, and doesn't tip, all while blaming "da white man" I especially liked how he criticized the same type of rap music that he makes himself.

What the hell was the need to point out racism every 10 seconds? Real life isn't like that...in real life people keep their feelings to themselves. They don't walk around saying the things they think outloud to the person they are racist of. If that was the case the world would be one big battlefield.

Ah well, enough ranting. I'm still pissed at the Academy for catering to every housewife in America by robbing Ellen Burstyn of her performance in Requiem To A Dream, instead giving the Best Actress it to the blah Julia Roberts.[/quote]

I havent seen the movie, but thanks for fucking it up for people who havent. I guess using the spoiler tags would of been too much trouble.
 
I've been here almost 2 years, and had never seen a spoiler tag before on this board. I honestly never had the need, or even knew they existed here. Besides, the movie has already been discussed in this thread. I'll put them on, and I apologize.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I think you missed something ...
They were blanks.
[/QUOTE]

I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. Well then I'll just move my complaint to the fact that I found it hard to pay attention to the movie ;)
 
[quote name='Scahom1']:( I've been here 18 months, and never seen a spoiler tag before on this board. I honestly never had the need, or even knew they existed here. Besides, the movie has already been discussed in this thread. I'll put them on, and I apologize.[/QUOTE]They haven't been around very long.
 
Like many of you, I can't believe "Crash" won best picture. It had the moral complexity of an ABC After School Special. RACISM IS BAD. Oooooo...Thank you, Hollywood, for that scintilating bit of social commentary. We hadn't heard.

Sadly, I know why it won (and I won't even play the "Hollywood is homophobic" angle...even though it is). Everyone in Hollywood either worked on the film, knew someone who worked on the film, or had money invested in it. Hell, it had like 12 producers (half of them are in the process of suing each other). And of course, it's ABOUT Los Angeles, and if Hollywood has one market cornered, it's narcissism. But any movie that tries to sell me Sandra Bullock as a viable dramatic actress will reap only scorn. I mean, Tony Danza was in the freakin' movie. TONY DANZA.

The fact is, "Crash," while okay, was far and away the worst movie nominated, and that's coming from someone who saw all of them. It was ham-fisted and simplistic, poorly acted, and amateurishly written (the only bigger outrage than it's win for best picture was its win for best original screenplay). But it was also the safest film nominated, and that put it over the top. It was rewarded for maintaining the status quo, for promoting a message that even soccer moms with magnetic yellow ribbons on their bumpers could get behind. It didn't force anyone to embrace gay love, to question the validity of fighting terror with terror, to acknowledge the humanity and complexity of a gay artist, or to recognize the role of the press in speaking truth to power. No, the "Crash" victory was the cinematic equivalent of "Why, some of my best friends are black!": A statement that inadvertently reveals the truly shallow nature of its author.

I've always had a love/hate relationship with the Oscars. I love the way they celebrate cinema and the people that make it. But they cheapen it as well, reducing art to little more than a popularity contest. By no means am I the first person to express this sentiment. But I'm certainly feeling it a little bit more after last night.
 
Ang Lee winning Best Director was a mere consolation prize to attempt to shut people up who knew it deserved Best Picture by saying, "Hey, it won Best Director, STFU, no political correctness here!!" The Oscars is a fucking joke.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']The Academy obviously hates teh ghey. In my honest opinion, they can go fuck themselves.

At the very least, Good Night, and Good Luck should have won instead. WTF is with CRASH winning?[/quote]
They should make a category, "Best Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding" movie. Then Brokeback can win every year.

That is to say, I was not impressed. I think Ang Lee should go back to making "Hulk" movies. I think I'm still the only person who liked that film.
 
[quote name='Quillion'] I think Ang Lee should go back to making "Hulk" movies. I think I'm still the only person who liked that film.[/QUOTE]

You are. The Hulk was a huge snoozer.
 
[quote name='Quillion']They should make a category, "Best Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding" movie. Then Brokeback can win every year.

That is to say, I was not impressed. I think Ang Lee should go back to making "Hulk" movies. I think I'm still the only person who liked that film.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, I enjoyed it. Of course, I also didn't think Daredevil was awful, and no one agrees with me there.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']You are. The Hulk was a huge snoozer.[/QUOTE]

You'd think it'd be hard to make a bad movie with Ang Lee, Eric Bana, Jennifer Connely, and Nick Nolte on board, and yet they managed it in spades.
 
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