Only in the Movies - (Oscars ignore Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ)

BREAKPOINT.COM ^ | FEBRUARY 24, 2005 | GINA R. DALFONZO

[CHARLITE]

Ping!

Char :)

[Darkwolf377]

(Of course, I’m sure it didn’t help the movie’s chances that Mel Gibson refused to campaign for it. But I think many of us found his attitude a rather satisfying rejoinder to all the people who hated the movie but nevertheless felt it their duty to tell him how he should spend the profits from it.)

This is spin, and an extremely important point which pretty much squashes the argument. In Hollywood, if you don't campaign for an Oscar, you ain't getting one. Look at Michael Moore--no one can tell me he is not loved by Hollywood, yet he deliberately avoided the Best Doc category (and put the movie on TV before the allowed date) to get Best Pic. He failed because of the politics of wanting to give those noms to movies with directors and producers who could give the Academy members work (and hwo are the voters friends).

I didn't know Gibson didn't campaign; this puts a whole other reality on the table. Not campaigning is a snub of the process, and is flipping them the bird. No wonder they didn't nominate the movie.

[BipolarBob]

The Passion was the last movie I saw in theaters. I don't care if I see another movie or not at the theater.

[Darkwolf377]

"A scene where Kinsey confesses his infidelity with a male assistant (Peter Sarsgaard) establishes [his wife] as the audience surrogate, an emotional victim of his hurtful philosophy that not all sex has to be sanctioned by love. . . . But her acceptance of her husband’s behavior slyly foreshadows the sexual revolution.”

YECH! Thanks for the warning.

Doesn't Luara Linney play the wife? There's something hot about her...

[mowkeka]

I'm a subscriber to Premiere (a movie magazine). When the Premiere magazine critic gave "The Passion" a 0 star rating, I canceled my subscription.
If they are too blind to see past their prejudices, then I want nothing to do with them.

[humblegunner]

I didn't see it, I don't go to movies.
I heard it was very moving, though.

Also I hear that there will be a released "tamed" version...

[lizma]

When I went to see The Passion, the theater was about half full. At the end of the movie, even after the credits were done, all most everyone remained in their seats, most crying.

I truly doubt there has ever been another movie in the history of Hollywood that has had this effect.

This snub is glaring bigotry from the left.

[Cicero]

Part of it is political, of course. Another part of it is that in the postmodern age there are hardly any sensible critics left: of literature, of art, of drama, of movies. The critics who dominate the academy and the media today wouldn't know good art from bad art if they saw it.

"There's no accounting for taste" is an old saying. It sure is true today.

[fight_truth_decay]

The Passion has three mentions -cinematography, makeup and score.

USA Today writes: "Drug addiction, mercy killing, mental illness, genocide, abortion, ill young mothers and borderline alcoholism — these are a few of Oscar's favorite things this year".

[marmar]

Bottom line........Mel laughed all the way to the bank. It is also the last movie I saw on the screen. Most actors are not worth a penny, because of their attitudes.

[GhostSoldier]

I didn't know Gibson didn't campaign; this puts a whole other reality on the table. Not campaigning is a snub of the process, and is flipping them the bird. No wonder they didn't nominate the movie.

Nonsense.

[SJSAMPLE]

Who cares?
You can't claim to despise Hollywood values and then clamor for their approval. Being left out is a GOOD thing.

[Darkwolf377]

Great argument.

[sam_whiskey]

hehehe...that brought tears to my eyes, I laughed so hard. I must be slap-happy tonight. Something that simple shouldn't be so funny to me...unngh

[Darkwolf377]

It's one of the joys in life to find humor in simple things, such as Howard Dean or Terry McAuliffe. I mean, I just mentioned their names and I bet you're laughing just as I am!

[Joey Silvera]

Most of the theater stayed through the credits when I saw it too...I remember the same kind of feeling in the audience for Platoon in 1986.

[Corin Stormhands]

You know, "The Passion" is an incredible movie. I would have loved to see it win the top honors.

But something within me just tells me that Jesus isn't all that worried about Oscar. He's more concerned that we're still not getting His message.

[Carry_Okie]

The Passion has three mentions -cinematography, makeup and score.

Photographically, the Passion was gorgeous. The textures of the backdrop surfaces worked almost as powerfully as black and white.

[Caipirabob]

A scene where Kinsey confesses his infidelity with a male assistant (Peter Sarsgaard) establishes [his wife] as the audience surrogate, an emotional victim of his hurtful philosophy that not all sex has to be sanctioned by love. . . . But her acceptance of her husband’s behavior slyly foreshadows the sexual revolution.”

Did anyone see this? It sounds like a cheaply made porn movie.