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SLADE775

03/15/06, 01:58 PM

Boring Pop Song

03/15/06, 02:01 PM

i enjoyed walk the line and narnia more than crash

SLADE775

03/15/06, 02:03 PM

i enjoyed walk the line and narnia more than crash

So did I.

DroppedUrPocket

03/15/06, 02:07 PM

We know this already Slade.

DroppedUrPocket

03/15/06, 02:08 PM

Ang Lee did the Hulk...lolz

marbury1414

03/15/06, 02:15 PM

This is a little beaten, but yes, I thought Brokeback was the best movie of the year by far.

A picasso blue

03/15/06, 02:26 PM

Ang Lee did the Hulk...lolz
i would hate to have The Hulk in my list of movies i directed along with Brokeback

DroppedUrPocket

03/15/06, 02:27 PM

i would hate to have The Hulk in my list of movies i directed along with Brokeback
I know, it's funny.

radiofriendly

03/15/06, 02:30 PM

kirbs84

03/15/06, 02:30 PM

I had no interest in seeing Brokeback Mountain. It did not appeal to me whatsoever. I enjoyed Crash. I thought it was a very good film. I'm glad it won.

SLADE775

03/15/06, 02:44 PM

We know this already Slade.

Thisi s in responce to TJ's thread hombre. :wink:

somethingyellow

03/15/06, 02:45 PM

i enjoyed walk the line and narnia more than crashagreed

DroppedUrPocket

03/15/06, 02:48 PM

Thisi s in responce to TJ's thread hombre. :wink:
j00 s00k

DeathCabForCoon

03/15/06, 02:49 PM

I for one will be bitter forever about "Crash" winning best picture at the Oscars.

If fact, I may never watch them again..."Crash" getting best picture is on par with Marisa Tomei winning.

Brokeback was a milestone and way too emotionally engaging to lose to a sloppy mess like "Crash".

Yeah but if you were the writer of the short story, would you have released that sloppy shit storm against the academy? I mean most people won't judge you or I for saying something like that, but that was classless.

FondestMemory

03/15/06, 03:05 PM

i liked crash a lot. i'm glad it won best picture.

i could care less about the oscars though. they lost me when when they went with shakespeare in love over saving private ryan.

radiofriendly

03/15/06, 03:07 PM

Brokeback Mountain was immensly good and deserving of its nods.

however, it seemed more like a rough draft of a good movie. it started off so good, but proceeded to wallow in this needless melodrama. the ending was too obvious and obligatory to have as much emotional pact as the conclusion could have. performances were exceptional(Gyllenhaal was miscast to an extent. that moustache was a joke too), the direction was great. while i thought the music was intrusive, its simplicity complimented the film well at times. But at the roots of these great performances was a story that was made all to conventional by it's decent but unincredible script. i doubt that Annie Proulx's characters would have to resort to such lines as "I wish I knew how to quit you"

i don't know how you could consider Crash a sloppy mess. Ludracis was woefully miscast, and the writing at times was over the top(like it should have been) but the editing was genious. the performances were incredible, and the scenes themselves were so brilliantly shot and calculated by Haggis. The scene between Dillon and Newton is unforgettable, and Michael Pena's supporting role was as down to earth and touching as anything that came out this year.

now im really playing good and evil with these two movies. they were both great. hell i was just as emotionally involved in Munich, and it was arguably the most well executed of the films(that's another debate) but it's a far cry from an upset or Marisa Tomei's win for that matter(that's nonsense)

Darren McLeod

03/15/06, 03:12 PM

oscars are always bullshit.

celine dion beat elliott smith. 'nuff said.

TJ Wells

03/15/06, 03:14 PM

oscars are always bullshit.

celine dion beat elliott smith. 'nuff said.
that is truly an oscar blunder.

TJ Wells

03/15/06, 03:15 PM

by the way, slade, clever thread title...never heard that before...now excuse me, ive got to go wash this sarcasm off, cause im dripping with it.

SLADE775

03/15/06, 04:33 PM

by the way, slade, clever thread title...never heard that before...now excuse me, ive got to go wash this sarcasm off, cause im dripping with it.

:rotfl:

JunkBondTrader

03/15/06, 05:06 PM

brokeback mountain>>>>>>>>crash

though im not a huge fan of either's movie taste

slades movie taste>>>>>>tj wells movie taste

Nick Lopez

03/15/06, 05:23 PM

Slade..you'd certainly be more likable if you didn't always resort to insulting something that has nothing to do with the argument rather than just stating your case.

SLADE775

03/15/06, 05:38 PM

Slade..you'd certainly be more likable if you didn't always resort to insulting something that has nothing to do with the argument rather than just stating your case.

Being likable isn't really a concern of mine.

Thanks tho.

SLADE775

03/15/06, 05:38 PM

brokeback mountain>>>>>>>>crash

though im not a huge fan of either's movie taste

slades movie taste>>>>>>tj wells movie taste

Tj has good taste.

We actually agree most of the time.

Nick Lopez

03/15/06, 05:41 PM

Being likable isn't really a concern of mine.

Thanks tho.
You're welcome.

JunkBondTrader

03/16/06, 12:40 AM

Tj has good taste.

We actually agree most of the time.
brokeback pwns crash, thats all im saying. i like TJ too.

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 02:20 AM

I disagree...I actually had Brokeback as my #4 movie of the year, behind Crash, A History Of Violence, and Capote...but whatever, to each their own.

Signals Corrupted

03/16/06, 03:08 AM

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 03:13 AM

why do you hate movies/things that make you think a little?
yeah...and personally, i thought marissa tomei was amazing...here were the other nominees, you decide:

Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives
Joan Plowright in Enchanted April
Vanessa Redgrave in Howards End
Miranda Richardson in Damage

now you tell me if you remember ANY of those performances.

radiofriendly

03/16/06, 05:42 AM

yeah...and personally, i thought marissa tomei was amazing...here were the other nominees, you decide:

Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives
Joan Plowright in Enchanted April
Vanessa Redgrave in Howards End
Miranda Richardson in Damage

now you tell me if you remember ANY of those performances.

Tomei was good, but if you saw any of these you would know it was a blunder. Miranda Richardson's performance in Damage was incredible, as was both davis' and Redgrave's as well

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 05:44 AM

really? i really believe the oscar should go to the most memorable performance...which was definitely tomei

radiofriendly

03/16/06, 06:04 AM

really? i really believe the oscar should go to the most memorable performance...which was definitely tomei

oooh, i don't know. that's pretty shaky criteria, but i guess whatev...

SLADE775

03/16/06, 07:13 AM

Crash was.....pretentious.

hahahahaha

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 07:27 AM

Crash was.....pretentious.

hahahahaha
really wanna go there?

radiofriendly

03/16/06, 07:37 AM

really? i really believe the oscar should go to the most memorable performance...which was definitely tomei

okay so i was thinking about what you said and i knew i would think of something

A Few Good Men. no scene more memorable than Jack Nicholson's performance in the courtroom climax. or Jaye Davidson showing his wang in the Crying Game. both scenes were far more memorable than anything Gene Hackman did in Unforgiven, but he still gave the best performance of the nominees. does that make sense? i guess if you don't agree on hackman, then we're still not getting anywhere. i dunno.

SLADE775

03/16/06, 07:44 AM

really wanna go there?

No no....I was kidding.

I liked Crash, I really did, but it wasn't one of those movies that was meaningfull to me.

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 07:52 AM

No no....I was kidding.

I liked Crash, I really did, but it wasn't one of those movies that was meaningfull to me.
i understand what you mean, thats kind of how i felt about brokeback, but i think i liked brokeback alot more than you liked crash.

JunkBondTrader

03/16/06, 08:13 AM

wanna talk pretentious.......lets talk a history of violence.

radiofriendly

03/16/06, 08:24 AM

wanna talk pretentious.......lets talk a history of violence.

William Hurt Rules!

.runs away.

SLADE775

03/16/06, 08:46 AM

wanna talk pretentious.......lets talk a history of violence.

That is quite possibly the most inacurate statement ever made.

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 08:56 AM

haha im completely with slade on this one...a history of violence was the second best movie i saw all year.

SLADE775

03/16/06, 09:03 AM

haha im completely with slade on this one...a history of violence was the second best movie i saw all year.

You thought Crash was the best?

radiofriendly

03/16/06, 09:04 AM

i loved it too, but you could understand why some people hated it though, right?

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 09:05 AM

You thought Crash was the best?
indeed...check my journal.

SLADE775

03/16/06, 09:16 AM

indeed...check my journal.

You at one point said that Brokeback was the best film of 05.

I remember that clearly.

SLADE775

03/16/06, 09:19 AM

i loved it too, but you could understand why some people hated it though, right?

If you disliked AHOV you have bad taste in movies....plain and simple.

The same cannot be said for brokeback and Crash.

I can see why some might dislike things about those movies.

radiofriendly

03/16/06, 09:47 AM

If you disliked AHOV you have bad taste in movies....plain and simple.

The same cannot be said for brokeback and Crash.

I can see why some might dislike things about those movies.

preposterous. to say that it is easier to dislike an Ang Lee or paul haggis film than a david cronenberg movie is absurd.

SLADE775

03/16/06, 09:51 AM

preposterous. to say that it is easier to dislike an Ang Lee or paul haggis film than a david cronenberg movie is absurd.

You're being a fool, AHOV is brilliant in every sense of the word. This goes much deeper than the director of the film my friend.

Brokeback confronts social issues....as does Crash, AHOV is a STORY about a mans past. There are no difficult everyday issues bogging it down, unless you're a mobster. Hence my point.

TJ Wells

03/16/06, 10:24 AM

Yeah, I really don't understand how people can say it's pretentious...I don't buy DVD's much, but this was one that I picked up on Tuesday.

radiofriendly

03/16/06, 11:46 AM

You're being a fool, AHOV is brilliant in every sense of the word. This goes much deeper than the director of the film my friend.

Brokeback confronts social issues....as does Crash, AHOV is a STORY about a mans past. There are no difficult everyday issues bogging it down, unless you're a mobster. Hence my point.

right but there is a famliarity in which stories such as Brokeback Mountain and Crash are told. A formula, if you will, in moviemaking. AHOV techniques and storytelling are anything but old fashioned(brutal violence, casual graphic sex, intentionally melodramatic dialogue). the film(aside from it's final shot) was a borderline Lynchian experience. not all people can appreciate that as much as the can appreciate old fashioned(gritty as it might be) drama. were you shocked that AHOV wasn't nominated for picture. even if it was, i can't think that you'd be surprised that it lost out to movies more easily accessbile like...any of the other nominated films.

niveK

03/16/06, 01:16 PM

I can see why some might dislike things about those movies.

I had an very conserative Uncle who hated movies that had anythign to do with Homosexuality. He couldnt even enjoy Best in Show becasue of the gay couple. My sister works at a BB in a white consertive neighborhood and she said about 1/3 of the people who rent Crash return it after only getting about 15 minutes into it.