Best Picture

Onibubba · Post by **Onibubba** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:32 pm

OK, so it went to Crash. Did it deserve it? So far I've seen Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, and Crash. What were the other nominees? Brokeback Mountain and Hustle and Flow? I need to see them.

But I've got to say that Good Night and Good Luck was seriously short-changed. An impressive film about 2 important subjects: the McCarthy witch hunts and the decay of television news. Outstanding on all counts. While Capote was a fine film, this was the more important and significant one. Crash was a decent movie, but was way to sappy to have beaten out either of the aforementioned films. Any opinions?

Zeo · Post by **Zeo** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:15 pm

Crash was good. One of the better films of the year. Did it deserve best picture? Meh, I personally don't think so. I felt a bit an irony rugburn by the end and it just seemed too overblown in some parts. It was good, but not in the deserving of best picture kind of way in my opinion.
As for the others, I found 'Good Night and Good Luck' to be kind of lacking. While it is an interesting historical account on the McCarthy pinko-commie witch hunt and conflict with broadcast journalism,
The tone of the film seemed lagging and it ended too abruptly with no apparent resolve.
I give all the credit to Philip Seymour Hoffman for his work in 'Capote' and think he was deserving of the best actor award, although the film it's self I didn't see deserving of best picture nomination.
Brokeback, I have not seen all of, and honestly don't really care to.
I was duped into watching the one "crucial" scene in the movie, (Thanks Chris and Kelly) which to me was grossly lame, and the build-up around it I think I could do with out, thanks.
Hustle and Flow is really good. It's gritty and real, comic, dramatic and tragic. I never thought a story would make me feel sympathy for a pimp, but indeed it did. I think it was both deserving of best picture as well as Terrence Howard's nomination for best actor.
Whoop that trick. Get em'.
All in all the academy awards are what they are, and I can't complain too much. If it were up to me best picture would have gone to a movie, which by their standards, would probably never have gotten nominated, and that's Rob Zombie's 'The Devil's Rejects', which I thought was probably the best film to come out of 2005.
Then again we all know what a blood and guts horror and exploitation freak I am.

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:49 pm

if you ask me, best flick of last year was walk the line.

it deserved more nominations

alot of the flicks i enjoyed last year (devils rejects, ep3, sin city, land of the dead) i can see why they didnt get nominated.
well maybe not sin city.

but walk the line was superb.

Coor · Post by **Coor** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:52 pm

You can't give a movie about a pimp turned rapper the Best Picture award over a film about racisim, of every race, in America. Sorry. While Hustle & Flow was pretty good...it was also an MTV Film. No way was it going to win, and in all honesty I was suprised it was nominated.

Brokeback...didn't deserve it either...However...I suggest you finish watching it...It finishes quite nicely.

Never got around to seeing the Clooney direction, but I would really like to. Still...I doubt it has the kind of impact that Crash did, which is most likely why the film won.

As for Capote. I still haven't seen it. Tinsley doesn't want to watch it, and I'm just going to have to wait until next week to try and buy it.

Zeo · Post by **Zeo** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:05 pm

junkie christ wrote:if you ask me, best flick of last year was walk the line.

Damn, that was nominated and totally slipped my mind for some stupid reason. Yes, it was a great movie. I think Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash was more deserving than Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote.

downbeforetheworld · Post by **downbeforetheworld** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:06 pm

When i first watched Crash i thought it was super fuckin good. now when i think back on it...meh, it was good... but was it seriously the best movie that the good ol' U. S. of A could make in a year? well, apparently...so says the academy.

for my money i'd say Walk The Line should have walked away with it. Sure it had a couple flaws or whatever but everything was good and i enjoyed myself.

Capote was great for phil hoffman, but the movie itself was good but not really great... i think most of us will prolly agree on that.

as for Hustle and Flow....im gonna have to be a dick for a minute so if you liked this movie..that's awesome...it's more then likely just bad taste on my part. here we go.

this movie is dreadful. i was really embarressed for most of the cast of that movie especially that skinny white dude, DJ watever. Howard wasnt really bad but who the fuck cares? "because is hard out here for a pimp/tryin' to get the money for the rent" or whatever that stupid fuckin song says. didnt that win best song at the oscars? wow...that's almost as fucked up as giving slim shady an oscar for that goofy "loser yourself" jingle. actually, that's more fucked up.

brokeback moutain....um...look in the other thread if you really care.

now with brokeback and hustle i have to say i wasnt sober when i watched either of them and i wasnt drinking...cough cough. ya know, eating anything in sight (yep, now ya got it). so there is a good chance that i was looking into the movie to much and i should go back and watch them again.

good night and good luck- i only saw about half of it, but what i saw was really good.

damnit now i feel like one of those bastard "movie snobs" who always has something negitive to say. i liked The Blair Witch 2, so what do i know?

Sir Diddimus · Post by **Sir Diddimus** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:39 pm

Walk The Line was the Best!

I'm glad that Reese won, but Joaquin should have won too. They both did an outstanding acting job ontop of singing the songs themselves (without wanting to take credit).

Overall, Walk The Line was robbed......