Look, it’s the Oscars, it’s not a speed-skating race at the Olympics where there’s an actual fastest time which determines who wins. It’s more like….ice-dancing. Is it possible that BBM deserved the Best Picture Oscar more than Crash? Yes, quite possible, but your film was nominated for a bunch of awards, it won Best Director (which is a fairly prestigious gong) as well as two others, and it got lots of free publicity. So quit whining in public about the unfairness of it all when everybody knows the Oscars aren’t always about fairness. I mean, come on, the boat movie won Best Picture one year, for crying out loud! Does Proulx thinks it deserved Best Picture just because it won?

This kind of rant is for the late-night long-distance call to your significant other, where you cry in private and eat room service chocolate. It’s not for throwing all over a major newspaper. There is such a thing as dignity.

For me, it was nothing new, but I was very happy to see someone took the time to make it for a broader audience. So I’d say it was profound in that sense.

And fer realz, I cried when the little girl ran out to help her dad because he had given her his magic cape the night before.

I haven’t seen Capote yet and Brokeback was good, but I’m not sure Michelle’s part warranted a nomination, though I do believe she definitely proved her actress worthiness. I know why Heath Ledger got nominated, because he seems to live that true cowboy machoness in real life so Ennis was definitely outside his norm and expanding on his acting skills.

I was very glad to see Terrance Howard get nominated for Hustle and Flow because he was wonderul in it I thought. The movie itself was doing good ’til the end…but oh well. They can’t all be perfect.

(and this took so long to post bc my IP’s server went down while composing it.)

Annie’s rant was entertaining, if nothing else. But everyone knows that the Oscars are bullshit, whether it’s due to homophobia or just plain bad taste.

For “Crash’s” biggest asset is its ability to give people a carload of those standard Hollywood satisfactions but make them think they are seeing something groundbreaking and daring. It is, in some ways, a feel-good film about racism, a film you could see and feel like a better person, a film that could make you believe that you had done your moral duty and examined your soul when in fact you were just getting your buttons pushed and your preconceptions reconfirmed.

Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver.

I think she meant that Crash was not really a challenging film, not that racism is either obsolete or uncontroversial.

Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver.

Did anyone else find this sentence puzzling? Is she saying that racial problems are a thing of the past? If so, why did she also call LA “segregated”?

Nuh uh! Jake Gyllenhaal was way hotter than Bruce Greenwood!

And thus Piny sums up the argument of 12,482 homo blogs in one line.

Crash sucks, Brokeback was, well, a disappointment (especially compared to Proulx’s story), and Capote was really good.

Nuh uh! Jake Gyllenhaal was way hotter than Bruce Greenwood!