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This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on December 27, 2006, 08:23:39 pm ---"No prisoners, no prisoners!" = ________________________?
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Lawrence of Arabia
kirkmusic:
I found a webpage with the sources of all of the quotes on the poster. I already knew about 2/3 of them. But I won't spoil it by listing them here.
As far as boycotting the Oscars, come on guys! The Oscars have never been the last word on film quality and my favorite hardly ever wins. You just have to take it for what it is. I've always been a big fan the process of giving out the acting awards; reading the names, showing a clip of the film that reminds you why they were so great (except when they choose a bad clip, and then you can say to your friends "they should have shown the part where..."), and the acceptance speeches, which are hit and miss, but sometimes you get a good one. Besides, don't you want to be watching if Scorcese finally wins?
Looking at the frontrunners so far, they're all good movies: The Departed, The Queen, Letters from Iwo Jima, Babel (my favorite), United 93, Little Miss Sunshine, Dreamgirls, all of them were at least a 7 to me. Personally I can't wait to see the nominees and watch the show. I want to see if Beyonce can pull off "Listen" live. And if Prince will be nominated for "Song of the Heart" from Happy Feet, and if he performs it if he is. And what the final nominees for picture and director will be out of a field of 7 or 8 very deserving possibilities.
I have all of the Oscars since 1987 on VHS, except for two years ago when Million Dollar Baby won. The DVR didn't work for some reason and I didn't mind because that particular broadcast was the most mindnumbingly dull I can remember. The best was for the 1991 films. It was Billy Crystal's 3rd year (the best host we've got), the song performances, mostly from Beauty and the Beast, were very good, and overall it was simply more entertaining than other years. It was the year Silence of the Lambs won all the big ones.
Front-Ranger:
You have a good point, Kirk.
Does Jack Nicholson have more quotes than anybody else? It looks like it to me.
Where is, "You can't handle the truth?" I thought that one would be there!
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: kirkmusic on December 27, 2006, 11:35:33 pm ---Looking at the frontrunners so far, they're all good movies: The Departed, The Queen, Letters from Iwo Jima, Babel (my favorite), United 93, Little Miss Sunshine, Dreamgirls
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I haven't seen a single one of these, though I wanted to see The Queen. (Well, I saw part of United 93 when my other half rented it and I discovered that I was listening to it. I didn't want to see it.) Most of them have been here and gone, so I'm not going to see any of them. Which means that my boycott of Oscar-bait movies is holding.
(But then, I just plain don't like most Oscar bait. There's only one movie that I genuinely love that's ever won Best Picture, and it was a departure for the Academy. So it isn't as if I'm giving anything up.)
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 28, 2006, 12:21:46 am ---
Where is, "You can't handle the truth?" I thought that one would be there!
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Our left of Oscar's belly button.
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