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Offline Mikaela

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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #40 on: December 28, 2006, 07:44:19 am »
Thanks for the list, would be more than difficult to keep track of this otherwise!  :) OK, one more from me and one of the really obvious ones:

The force is strong with this one - Star Wars (Episode IV, A new hope)


(If I'm not mistaken that was the one which was actually up for a BP, so I'm going with that although they keep making similar comments on the strength of the Force in the main protagonist in all of the SW films as far as I can recall.)

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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #41 on: December 28, 2006, 07:49:10 am »
Where is this one?

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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #42 on: December 28, 2006, 01:44:23 pm »
What Mikaela said!  Great post.  8)

Watching actors I'd like to see profoundly thanked and honoured being trotted out for big Entertainment to be slapped in the face by bigots like that while having to smile as polite "losers" do - it hurts. It's not entertaining anymore, if it ever was.

Amen.  The awards ceremony is not just silly and pretentious and boring any more.  I have to add "painful" to that list.  :(
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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #43 on: December 28, 2006, 08:28:54 pm »
In my opinion, the Oscars were a Gala event.    The elite of elite dressed in their finest were there to honour and be honoured.    Great movies were chosen.  We saw clips and honoured those who has passed on in the year.   

I almost puked when "It's hard to be a pimp" was the featured song performed.

But when it was mentioned post Oscars about how voting members didn't have to watch all the movies, or that Crash was allowed to mail out extra DVD copies right before the voting just smacked me of improper and betrayal of the system.

No,  now that I know the event is rigged, I wont watch it any more.

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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #44 on: December 28, 2006, 10:59:21 pm »
"Attica.  Attica"  - Attica (?)

"Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzle" - Chicago

"Think you have enough dynamite there, Butch?" Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

"ET phone home" - ET

"Von Trapp children don't play.  They march"  Sound of Music

"I'm goina make him an offer he can't refuse" The Godfather

The Oscars?? - Just not the same anymore.  I may watch the lead-in (love the clothes & looks).  May watch the opening / may not.  But I won't even pretend it actually represents the best ever again.
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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #45 on: December 28, 2006, 11:11:10 pm »
"Stella!" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Frailty, thy name is woman" Macbeth

Ones they left out:

"It would be a sweet life" Brokeback Mountain

"chewing gum and duct tape"

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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #46 on: December 28, 2006, 11:15:39 pm »
"Stella!" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Isn't that A Streetcar Named Desire?
Watch out. That poster has a low startle point.

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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #47 on: December 28, 2006, 11:33:51 pm »
As far as boycotting the Oscars, I kind of will, but it will be hard to distinguish it from my pre-brokeback IGNORING of the Oscars. I'd rather watch a rerun of the Simpsons than watch those overdressed people parade down the red carpet and be asked "who they're wearing? ;D".
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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #48 on: December 29, 2006, 12:46:39 am »
I actually enjoyed "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" by Three Six Mafia...not the actual performance or song, but the unlikelihood of its chances for a win.  I got a kick out of it.  It kind of helped to underscore the Academy's fear of a "Gay" Best Picture.  The Academy members  were just trying to appear to be cool with Race, to compensate for how uncool they are with Homosexuality.  Funny how it works that way in Government as well Entertainment  - closeted homosexuals do everything to defeat anything sympathetic to gays.

Nah, I'll pass on the Oscars for now.
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Re: This time Oscar recognizes Brokeback Mountain (not Crash)!
« Reply #49 on: December 29, 2006, 03:22:19 pm »
Isn't that A Streetcar Named Desire?

Oh jeez, I will have to look that up. Tennessee Williams vehicles get me confused.

Meanwhile, there's another one they left out:

"As long as we can ride it. There ain't no reins on this one." Brokeback Mountain

I love that he says "it" because they're on one horse and the horse's name is love.

"chewing gum and duct tape"