CRASH wins Oscar for Best Picture

[tsluva]

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"CRASH " suprisingly wins '06 Oscar award for Best Picture of Year.

.... deservely so. IMO.
it was not only one of the very best dramas
movies i've seen in 2005, but also one of the very best
drama movies i've ever seen. (never a dull moment)

Crash beat out the leading favorite "Brokeback Mountain" .
Because of it's contents, i have no interest in seeing
BBMountain, so i have no idea of whether it's even
worth the Oscar hype it's been generating up to the moment.

for those who have yet to see Crash
( don't confuse it with the James Spader version)
i very strongly recommend it.

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[AllanahStarrNYC]

i have not seen crash

but i can tell you that brokeback and capote were also both EXCELLENT films

and can i ask why you find the content of brokeback mountain offensive?

its a really good story- they gay relationship is a small part of it
and the film actually transcends many different meanings and themes

don't be so close minded

[twowaybro]

Crash....sorry, but 2 thumbs down....didnt like this one @ all....forced multi-culturism. Walk The Line was my fav this year...

[AllanahStarrNYC]

another excellent film- walk the line

[Dengoza]

I feel so left out! I didnt see any of the films, but actually now I cant wait to see them all!!! so I guess the Oscars is good advertising! And I have an open mind, I can tell from the reviews that bokeback is not just about being gay... I am looking forward to seeing it, but imagining those guys kissing is honestly a yukky thought... hahaha
I loved the oscars, I think its nice to see these people at the pinacle of their life dreams being emotional etc...

[GroobySteven]

I gave "Crash" two thumbs in the middle - it was ok but never moved me - BUT months later it has stayed with me, so something worked.
Thankgod for little girls...Reese Witherspoon, bless you for being so sweet.
Thank GOD for Clooney - girls like him, guys want to hang out with him - an all round, true Hollywood star.

Best joke of the evening;
"I'd like to introduce two talented brothers, the Owen brothers, I guess I could say the same of the Baldwin family."

All in all - IMO these were the best Oscar nominations forever - all good actors (although Mssr Hurt tad overacted in "History of Violence") and generally movies with some social agenda.
Jolly good.
My pic and not just because I'm a Brit was "Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Wererabbit" fantastic...Cheeeeeese?
seanchai

[south ov da border]

ok movie, but it came 8-10 years too late. By the time it came out nobody really cared about the themes going on in it. When I saw it, it gave everyone that uncomfortable feeling of how fucked up ppl can be rather than a sense that anything really happened at all.

I'm not surprised that it won, they made a big hooplah. I met Haggis a few months ago, he's cool.

BTW did anyone else feel like Brendan Fraiser was getting it his assistant???

[InvisibleTS]

The only one I hadn't seen yet is Munich. My Oscar rankings out of those films would have been...

1. Capote
2. Crash
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. Good Night and Good Luck

But I also loved The Constant Gardner and Grizzley Man last year. Saw the least amount of films in the theater this year. I used to see nearly everything but have put that off to save money instead.

The David Cronenberg "Crash" (Jame Spader) is one fucked up movie.

[DJ_Asia]

I only saw Brokeback Mountain and Crash,and while I thought Crash was good,I think Brokeback was a superior movie.

Certainly the subject matter was not appealing to the mainstream,which I understand but totally disagree with.Look at it this way...people love vampire movies,cop movies,zombie movies,but most folks that go see them arent cops,vampires or zombies,so why do people think that because the movie involved homosexuality that one needed to be gay to understand it,get it or enjoy it?!


DJ Asia

[Kramer]

Hey twowaybro, what do you mean by:

Crash....sorry, but 2 thumbs down....didnt like this one @ all....forced multi-culturism.