Your Predictions about Oscar Winners?

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[bannie]

I never watch movies until they "come out" in video.

[Euro-American Scum]

In contrast to Leftists (don't refer to them as "Liberals;" there's nothing liberal about those people)

Great tagline if you care to use it.

[DoughtyOne]

Oh well, the Academny Awards is an iffy proposition around these parts. Heh heh heh...

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Mel.

[napscoordinator]

I saw Munich also and found it good. I also loved Walk the Line - go see that it is good or at least rent it. I hope the actors win. Reece and Joaquin should win.

[Proud Conservative2]

Crash is an excellent movie about perceptions and racism in America.

[John W]

2005 Domestic Gross http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2005&p=.htm

Best Film Nominees

Brokeback Mountain 76.4
Crash 55.4
Munich 46.3
Good Night, and Good Luck 30.6
Capote 23.6

2005 Top Ten

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sit $380,270,577
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $288,870,728
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe $288,405,047
War of the Worlds $234,280,354
King Kong $216,752,280
Wedding Crashers $209,255,921
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $206,459,076
Batman Begins $205,343,774
Madagascar $193,595,521
Mr. & Mrs. Smith $186,336,270

[mware]

My prediction is that it will have one of the lowest Nielson ratings in history

[RobbyS]

I have no intention of watching BrokeBack Mountain. I saw Crash and liked it. I would have nominated Creadle, Concidentally I saw Crash and Hotel Rwanda on consecutive evening. Two totally different characters. The guy can act.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

THANKS!

Butt (no pun intended) NO thanks! In spite of the author's best efforts to "sway" us into watching by implying that this septic runoff is somehow worth watching, I'll pass.

Never before, in the history of the Hollywood, have the ratings, the audience and the box office take been so low.

The British have now become the Box office kings by maintaining and promoting moral decency. The statistics speak loudly for that fact. Out of 8 nominated films, 3 of them are promoting the Gay lifestyle. And the rest are all promoting an anti-American theme. This is Hollywood's best attempt at social indoctrination. And I'm not buying!

[txhurl]

Me neither, but I've decided I'd pay to see a movie about gay terrorist penguin smugglers.

[beyond the sea]

Big night for queers. Low low ratings.

seat fillers fear for crabs.......... and low low ratings.

[freedumb2003]

saw Crash and Hotel Rwanda on consecutive evening. Two totally different characters.

Hotel Rwanda gor buried because it exposed the entire Leftist Western world -- Europe + the Clinton Administration -- as being the racists that we know them to be.

And Cheadle was fantastic and deserved the Acadmy Award. But if you expose the Left's hypocracy you will never win an Oscar -- ever.

Poor Don Cheadle not only didn't win then, but he ruined his chances of winning ever.

[jocon307]

"Concidentally I saw Crash and Hotel Rwanda on consecutive evening. Two totally different characters. The guy can act."

Yes, he can. Finally saw Hotal Rawanda, great movie, even though they had to give it that happy hollywood ending. Cheadle was excellent, even kept up the accent for the whole movie. The wife was very good too. And it was good in that it didn't make "the white man" out as the bad guy the whole time. Very scary and a good example of it CAN happen here, that is to say where ever.

[RobbyS]

The lesson I got from Hotel Rwanda was the tremendous cost of interventions. We did the right thing by destroying the Saddam regime, but the cost of holding the place together is daunting. Neither the European nor their soulmate Clinton had the stomach for it. To be fair, neither would Bush had not 9/11 happened. He has made mistakes, but this is usually the case when one tries to do the right thing.

[SuzyQue]

I know this has been posted before, but it seemed like a good place for a re-post:

Ben Stein's Last Column... (for Morton's)

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How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?

As I begin to write this, I "slug" it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is "eonlineFINAL," and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it. On a small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that Splendor in the Grass was a super movie. But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails.

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him.

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists.

We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.

There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament...the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.

Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin...or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.

But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.

This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human.


Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
By Ben Stein