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Oscar Nominations, Anyone?

i just saw the movie Crash and i am blown away by it. amazing. i had to come on here and tell someone about it. ;)
i don't know if i am just cynical or cold or what but it takes a lot to genuinely "get to me" and that movie succeeded. i actually cried. i can count on one hand how many times in my entire 28 years that a movie actually made me cry. (and in more of a feeling of emotional shock than anything else) stunning movie.

strangely enough i heard all this buzz about "crash" and i saw the wrong movie the first time. there is also another movie called crash that is about people who get all turned on by car crashes... the most sickening and stupid movies i have ever seen. so i remember thinking "who are these idiots who raved about this movie?" now i get it... wrong movie. duh. :p

anyway, [the right movie] Crash was absolutely oscar worthy in my opinion.
 
iBlue said:
Crash was absolutely oscar worthy in my opinion.
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Thank goodness. This year has seemed pretty lean to me. Brokeback Mountain had its good points (scenery for one), but it was very slow. A movie set in 1963 shouldn't move as slowly as movies made in 1963. I don't think it was in the same class as past Oscar nominees, and certainly not past winners.
 
Doctor Q said:
There is a nomination this year for a movie named 9.

Since I'm sure you were wondering if this was the shortest-ever film title to get an Oscar nomination, I checked for you.

It is the shortest all-numeric title, but it only tied the record for shortest title, since the movie Z got there first. That 1969 movie won for Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Film Editing and was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

With only one Oscar category, 9 won't be the best one-letter-title film even if it wins, but I'll root for it since it is nicely numeric.

Here are some previous all-numeric Oscar nominated film titles: 8 1/2, 10, 1776, 1941, 2010, not to mention Three, Seven, and Thirteen. Even though "9" is longer than "8 1/2", it's notable that "8 1/2" is still smaller!
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All this and no mention of π? Probably the longest numeric titled movie. That is until they come up with "e".
 
iBlue said:
strangely enough i heard all this buzz about "crash" and i saw the wrong movie the first time. there is also another movie called crash that is about people who get all turned on by car crashes... the most sickening and stupid movies i have ever seen. so i remember thinking "who are these idiots who raved about this movie?" now i get it... wrong movie. duh. :p

anyway, [the right movie] Crash was absolutely oscar worthy in my opinion.
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I did the same thing. i was so hype to watch it then this movie came on showtime and the channel had the description listed wrong. The crash that came on was with James Spader and i was like "what the hell is this"...i went out and rented it.

Bless
 
Any thoughts on why they still don't have a category for stunts? Personally, I think they should - given that these people put their bodies (and sometime lives) on the line for our entertainment, they should be given some public recognition.
 
Not only should stuntpeople get their own category, but gadgets should too. By this time next year, there should be a nomination for the pink iPod mini that stars in the movie Firewall. (Harrison Ford is in it too.) It was a magnificent performance and I'm sure Steve Jobs will be happy to accept the Oscar on behalf of the iPod.
 
Doctor Q said:
Not only should stuntpeople get their own category, but gadgets should too. By this time next year, there should be a nomination for the pink iPod mini that stars in the movie Firewall. (Harrison Ford is in it too.) It was a magnificent performance and I'm sure Steve Jobs will be happy to accept the Oscar on behalf of the iPod.
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OT - Firewall is on my must see list. Was it good? I didn't know it had come out already.
 
xsedrinam said:
OT - Firewall is on my must see list. Was it good? I didn't know it had come out already.
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It was formulaic, but a formula that I happen to like. I'd rate it "medium" - nothing wrong with it, but not memorable either.
 
I don't imagine that too many people have seen "TransAmerica" since it seems to have played only in large-city cinemas rather than in the suburbs, but I am definitely rooting for Felicity Huffman to take home the Oscar for Best Actress. She did a superlative job portraying a man in the process of becoming a trans-gendered woman. I didn't really fully appreciate her performance until I later saw an episode of "Desperate Housewives," which up until that point I'd never watched. Prior to "TransAmerica" I had never seen Felicity Huffman. Her performance in "TransAmerica" is truly outstanding and IMHO definitely deserving of an Oscar.
 
emw said:
Any thoughts on why they still don't have a category for stunts? Personally, I think they should - given that these people put their bodies (and sometime lives) on the line for our entertainment, they should be given some public recognition.
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INDEED! <applause for this idea>
 
clayj said:
Wouldn't those two have equally-long titles?
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I guess "e" would be both a very short title and a transcendental title that never ends. Perhaps the movie would be infinitely long too. They could even bend the filmstrip like a Moebius strip for extra fun. At least until the theater goes digital. :(

Now we need somebody to make a movie with a null title. And another that has a non-null title that is entirely space characters! Just think how many movie databases would stop working properly!
 
I have just caught Brokeback, and it is damm good. Out of the 5 best pictures, I have only caught Crash and Brokeback and I must say this 2 films are really good although I preferred Brokeback.
 
We watched "Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (one of three nominations for "Best Animated Feature Film", along with "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" and "Howl's Moving Castle) on DVD and it was great. Fun for all ages.

We never got around to seeing it in the theater, and now I'm glad we got the DVD instead. The DVD was full of great extras, including three mini-movies about Wallace's inventions and a tour of the studio.

Plus the movie is so full of little sight gags that you want to watch it more than once.
 
MacNut said:
Ok I'm confused about best song.:confused:
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I hope my comments didn't confuse you; as we now know (but didn't at the time I wrote my other post), the winner in the Best Song category is "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp." Not my kind of music, but whatever....

In my other post I was simply remarking on Dolly Parton's performance. I liked how she got the audience to participate towards the end.
 
Clix Pix said:
I'm confused as to WHY that song won! As I said earlier, it's sure not my kind of music and I didn't think it offered a lot in the way of musicality...
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I know why it won. It was interesting.

"In the Deep" and "Travelin' Thru" were OK, but not songs that you'd particularly notice or that would make you say "Gee, that oughta win an award."
 
Doctor Q said:
I know why it won. It was interesting.

"In the Deep" and "Travelin' Thru" were OK, but not songs that you'd particularly notice or that would make you say "Gee, that oughta win an award."
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I disagree, I think for a song to win on Oscar it has to be one that has depth and meaning not just a catchy beat. This isn't the Grammy's where awards are given out for just no reason.
 
Well, "interesting" it may have been, but without seeing the film with which it was connected I don't know if it was well integrated into that film. As a stand-alone song it certainly didn't excite me, nor is it something which I could easily hum along to or actually attempt to sing myself. Neither, for that matter, was "In the Deep." "Travelin' Through" had a somewhat catchy rhythm to it, is more-or-less easily hummable/singable and definitely was well integrated into the film without being intrusive.

Whatever... Obviously the members of the Academy had their own thoughts about which song should win!
 
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