[RayChuang88]

Based on this column, if AMPAS is trying to make a political statement, they sure did it alright. Mind you, when the movie industry finds out again in 2006 why Americans are shunning the movies en masse and the movie studios lose huge amounts of money, they may just have to start changing their attitude fairly quickly before the movie industry starts suffering HUGE job losses.

[kenth]

What's the percentage of ticket sales that goes back to the studios to recoup their costs?

[Constantine XIII]

He's also a grouch.

[Darkwolf377]

They are making a political statement and it couldn't be more obvious. Even the libs I know HATED Crash and found Good Night... a snooze. (Couldn't resist.) Munich looks to be nominated out of some kind of guilt about it not making much money, and Capote is about the lead. Brokeback Mountain is going to win.

ANY of these winning would be seen as a victory for liberal politics in Hollywood. So they can't lose.

A very bad year in movies. I've seen fewer this year than in any other since I started going over 30 years ago.

[hsalaw]

Call it a triumph of art over commerce. In a year of small but quality films, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has followed to the letter its artistic mission. Or call it a massive disconnect with popular culture, a lineup of blue state movies playing in a red state multiplex.

Yeah, these guys can pat themselves on the back all they want for their wonderful "art over commerce," but I vote for number 2: a massive disconnect with popular culture. Pretty soon Hollyweird will find it's hard to buy groceries with "art."

[Anti-Bubba182]

The industry is headed more and more toward straight to DVD.

It gets harder and harder to fill theaters.

[martin_fierro]

[msnimje]

Let them keep awarding each other for being different from most of America and we will keep spending our money on GOOD movies.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Roll'in roll'in roll'in keep those faggots roll'in...RAWHIDE!

[mewzilla]

I see Paradise Now was nominated for best foreign film. Is that what it sounds like, an homage to homicide bombers?

[Semper Paratus]

Will they reprise the 'tent scene' from Porkbutt Mountain whenthey announce the nominees for best picture?

[HHFi]

"Capote" is really good, and I don't think it had a political agenda. It was just a really good story and character study with an amazing performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman. It didn't push a gay agenda; Capote was bizarrely effeminate so he was played that way, but it was just presented as an historical fact, not a major part of the story. And it wasn't even anti-death penalty: I don't recall any impassioned speeches about those murderers not deserving what they got.

As for the rest of them, I couldn't possibly care less. The penguins were far more entertaining, and certainly more inspiring. I'm also ticked off that the "Best Documentary" category nominated the Enron movie, but snubbed "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill." The parrots live in San Francisco, but I guess they just didn't parrot the local liberal talking points enough.

[bray]

Could care less about Homo Mountin!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[dogbyte12]

I disagree mildly with the premise of this article. A good analogy would be food. Just because McDonald's sells more beef than any other place on the planet, does not mean that they should be given an award for tasting swell.

I have no idea how good these movies are, because I haven't seen any this year other than Walk the Line, but they either are good or bad. Box Office doesn't matter. There are some truly bad movies that get huge box office, and vice versa.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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T'was US vs THEM at the 2003 OSCARS:

http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030324antiwar0324p7.asp


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[freedumb2003]

When the top movie of the week is "Momma's Big House #2" then the message should be clear to Hollywood: You stink.

[Conservomax]

Vincent Gallo said it best:

"I want to make a film about
a handicapped black Jew lesbian so I can win."

[Duke Nukum]

Hollyweird to American Movie Going Public: Drop Dead!

[TC Rider]

How much is ABC worrying about lack of viewers?

I recently got a big hdtv.

ABC is running ads on the few HDTV cable outlets like DiscoveryHD, urging viewers to watch the Oscars, because it's being broadcast in HDTV. That was their total pitch, "hey, we're in High Def, we know you watched that pigeons in NYC documentary, just because it was in HD, give us a try."

I may watch the red carpet stuff just to see the hollywood bimbos in HD, but that's it.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Trouble with Oscar...

...is that it's becoming too Felix.

-PJ