Posted on 01/25/2005 11:45:29 AM PST by Robert Drobot
Master and Commander was nominated for Best Pic last year. Deserved to win, but didn't.
My protest to the oscars is simple...buying another copy of the passion on dvd to give as a gift the day of the oscars and not watching the f-cking show for one minute.
"Vera Drake"...the feel-good abortion movie of the year!
VD was praised by Vatican Radio btw.
At least the Aviator was nominated. Better than last year when that TOTALLY GAY Lord of the Rings crap won. ;-)
Hell, I would have voted for it.
I have to disagree with you there - out of the current batch of comics, only Rock and Dennis Miller are even capable of intellectual comedy. Rock is marginally PC, but drifting toward the more conservative side at times; Miller is as Un-PC as most of us here.
Aviator - A big overblown movie about a big blowhard. Scorsese directing gives it "street cred" in Hollyweird, however.
Million Dollar Baby - Somewhat of a sleeper of a movie, I thought. All the parts were well cast and well acted. A typical Clint film, set in an aging boxing gym, instead of the Wild West or the Streets of San Francisco. My personal favorite for the award, BTW.
Ray - Good for a bio-pic. Jamie Foxx was incredible as Ray Charles. No, he WAS Ray Charles. The mannerisms and everything. If he doesn't win Best Actor, then the Oscars have EATEN the shark.
Sideways - The artsy-fartsy film in the bunch. The premise was quite fun, though I couldn't see how the two main guys were such buddy-buddies through time. You had the nebbish wine snob and the horny, me first/second/third guy who sees wine as the way to loosen up women. Just didn't work for me.
Finding Neverland - This is the one I haven't seen. Johnny Depp does nothing for me, and the synopsis of this movie gives me little reason to want to see it. Which probably means that it'll win it all.
The one good thing about Michael Moron taking his mock-umentary out of that classification is that he probably blew his chance at another Oscar.
I'm just glad Michael Moron's CROCKumentary was ignored. Although, being ignored sure has gotten him a lot of MSM publicity . . . ( sigh)
Master and Commander was based on books by Patrick O'Brian.
The Hornblower series was written by C.S. Forrester.
M & C was last year, the year everything lost to the also very deserving Lord of the Rings.
IMHO, the Oscars jumped the shark when the very people who voted Halle Berry best actress celebrated their own vote as some kind of victory for black actresses. They're experts at blowing their own horns.
This discussion about jumping the shark has jumped the shark ;~D
LOL
Each category is nominated by their own. Actors for actors, directors for directors. No commitee meetings to decide. Secret ballots that go righ tto a private accounting firm that counts em up. No deals made amongst groups of people. One group has no control over how another votes.
Actually just Berry did that. Well her and Kwase Mfume or whatever his name is.
I do want to see "Ray"...it comes out on DVD in a week or two. Other than that we're not really interested. Wake me up when they make better movies than Lonesome Dove and better records than Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads or when The Beatles start touring again.
I won't be seeing any of the nominees. I'm still bored from the last two batches.
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