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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.


3 posted on 03/17/2006 7:19:45 PM PST by livius
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To: livius
I don't approve of Brokeback Mountain, but I think some people are fooling themselves that it was a flop. It's made $81 million so far on a budget of $14 million. I don't think this is going to scare studios from making more homosexual movies. That much monet, closing in on $100 million, is not a flop in any way. And now the studios will figure that the first one took the flack, each successive movie will be more accepted. I hate to say it, but Brokeback was a huge success for the homosexual movement.
5 posted on 03/17/2006 7:25:53 PM PST by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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I checked and it was the 25th grossing movie overall for 2005, and it will probably pass up several of the movies ahead of it. It grossed more than Dukes of Hazzard, with a budget of $50 million, and tons of publicity, which was considered a hit.
6 posted on 03/17/2006 7:32:41 PM PST by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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