Cooley 350Z
03-18-2006, 05:44 PM
I was glad to see Crash win it this year. It's a really brilliant film that I highly recommend to everyone. I saw Brokeback and thought it was very well done, but Crash easily was the best film.
What really gets to me about the whole thing is the way people involved in Brokeback (i.e. Ang Lee & the woman who wrote it) are going around throwing a temper-tantrum because they got beat. The woman who wrote Brokeback even went so far as to write a rant in a pretty big newspaper basically saying Crash was a bad film & only won because the Brokeback was such a controversial subject. She even belittled herself by referring to Crash as "Trash".
Now I know that a movie based around romance between two cowboys might be controversial, but anyone who has seen Crash will tell you this is as controversial a film as you will find, about race, prejudice & the snap-judgements we make about others every day.
Whatever happened to losing with class? To even be considered for "Best Film of the Year" should be considered an absolute honor, not a reason to spit & cry upon finding out you didn't win it all. Kudos to those involved in Crash. End of rant.
That Guy
03-18-2006, 05:45 PM
i was ok with crash winning best picture, moreso than previous oscar winners. i haven't seen brokeback, but ang lee tends to be overdramatic and drab.
i actually thought jarhead was underrated this year... a fine film, but not political enough for either spectrum to really make any noise.
i thought jarhead was just a really really bad remake of full metal jacket. they spend half the time in training, wander around the desert for a few days and then the movie just ends. Felt kinda pointless.
itvnetop
03-18-2006, 07:34 PM
i thought jarhead was just a really really bad remake of full metal jacket. they spend half the time in training, wander around the desert for a few days and then the movie just ends. Felt kinda pointless.
yeah, but coincidentally i think that was what a lot of marines out there felt too... i saw it with my buddy who was in the gulf during that time (he's a marine) and he thought jarhead was spot on (except they never hydrated out of water bottles). before seeing it, he said if the movie was anything close to his reality, a bunch of people weren't going to like it at all. one of the scenes he identified with was when the marines were told to take a pill without question- my friend's unit was told that if they didn't want to die, they had to basically take this new drug that wasn't commercially available yet (much less FDA approved).
it's kind of interesting comparing the boot camp scenes between FMJ and Jarhead... the marines have changed with the times. I was reading a book by a former drill instructor where DIs aren't really allowed to curse or "verbally denigrate" a private anymore during camp... quite a fascinating read when you compare the tone of today's drill camps to the 60s.
Bushead
03-19-2006, 03:08 PM
I read the book jarhead; it is a pretty nice read actually. I just don't see how it could have been translated to the big screen.
firstdown
03-22-2006, 04:30 PM
I have not been to the movies in about 2 1/2 years. I just got tired of all those idiots who have no clue telling us what we should think from the poor to the war. If you notice they never date or socialize out of their click. They think we are all second class citizens and they turn their nose down to us. I realy don't care what they think and laugh at all the people who run around them like their gods. I'm not saying I will never go to the movies again but it will have to take another movie like Forest Gump to get me there. Oh, I just remembered me and my daughter went to see Chicken Little.
That Guy
03-22-2006, 04:35 PM
I have not been to the movies in about 2 1/2 years. I just got tired of all those idiots who have no clue telling us what we should think from the poor to the war. If you notice they never date or socialize out of their click. They think we are all second class citizens and they turn their nose down to us. I realy don't care what they think and laugh at all the people who run around them like their gods. I'm not saying I will never go to the movies again but it will have to take another movie like Forest Gump to get me there. Oh, I just remembered me and my daughter went to see Chicken Little.
there are plenty of movies that have nothing to do with politics... the lord of the rings trilogy, batman begins, etc...