Interesting. I was stunned that Narnia - although very much a children's movie, as the original books were very much children's books - didn't get more nominations.
However, I thought Crash was excellent and I was surprised that it won. The language may have been crude, and the resolution of the many plots eventually went back to the bad/scared white guy, but the film was certainly thought provoking and also very well done, even with unknown actors.
Capote was also very good. The fact that Truman Capote was gay was not important and was not the point of the film. It was about a literary celebrity going out to interview and intrude on the lives of people he'd always considered lower than dirt, and somehow discovering that they had values, that he was using them, and that he was impressed and even attracted by the evil of the killers of this family. Yet at the end he himself recognizes this and realizes what is happening to him - and basically, he chooses his own good morality.
Brokeback Mountain, on the other hand, was not only a box office loser, but appears to be able to gain an audience on one point alone: you're the type of person who wants to watch gay male soft porn. Not worthy of anything, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that for once, somebody somwehere in Hollywood seemed to believe this too.
Since when are the Academy Awards about how much money the movie makes...it's about being judged by your peers. These movies are the movies Hollywood thought were good. It has absolutely nothing to do with popularity.
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The good Movies count for a lot:
MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
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But there is a danger in spending our limited energy on criticizing and tearing down, without ever daring to build up. We need to shield our children from evil, but first and foremost we need to teach them the beauty of God and their faith. Children can't love what they don't know.
In the past, parents relied heavily on healthy environments to teach their children what is good and what is bad. The advent of the Internet age has changed all of that.
The new challenge represents a new opportunity: Be with your kids, teach them with your own example that the truth of the Gospel is the source of real joy.
Well Fr. Morris, I have a solution.
Apparently Hollywood itself thinks many of its products will do better if many of us have no clue as to what its product is actually about. This is just one other reason why Hollywood is fading away. Once we have the technology on our desktops to make movies with similar technological qualities, its end will come quickly.
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." - Matthew 23:9
What about Pride and Prejudice? I'm about half way into the DVD right now but had to stop so I could watch KU lose last night. ;-(
That certainly is worth repeating.
This is an excellent article, I noticed it on ZENIT News tonight and was going to post it on the Forum, but then I checked if it was already posted and noticed it is already there, thank you.