# 78th Oscars Thread (unboxed spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198 "2006-03-06T00:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/301 "2006-03-06T04:30:10Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > I thought it was amusing when Ang Lee said he made the movie mostly for his recently deceased father. I have to wonder how an old world Taiwanese man would regard a movie about American cowboys humping each other. Maybe his father is gay? Oh. Wait… ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/302 "2006-03-06T04:30:13Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Next year they’ll do one about an interracial street gangmembers having a gay affair in South Central LA and it’ll be a shoe-in. You write it. We’ll get Johnny L.A. to film it. Need to get someone to direct. Can I be like a fourth producer or something? ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/303 "2006-03-06T04:30:23Z")
Jon Stewart was disappointing, I hate to say. I had high hopes for him but he didn’t do it for me. Maybe next year they’ll have Steven Colbert as host and some truthiness in the Best Picture award. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/304 "2006-03-06T04:30:27Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > _ **Crash** _ is the only one of the nominated Best Picture movies that I saw…and I thought it was laughably bad. Over-wrought, painfully ‘sincere,’ and totally unbelievable. It was like the worst kind of “Oprah Book Club” movie. Oh well. Totally ditto. It seemed to want to make the point “racism is bad, complicated, exists on many levels and nobody is completely free of it, but working together we can overcome it”. Hell, [The Defiant Ones](http://imdb.com/title/tt0051525/) got there a half century ago. So, the homo-haul: PSH for Best Actor, McMurtry/Diana and Ang Lee for _BB_. Three awards for straight people on gay themed films, still not bad. (Oh, and George Clooney… so four.) ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/305 "2006-03-06T04:31:09Z")
Well, one cut-off person with the speeches and it hadda be best picture? Having had distilled moviegoing these past ten days, I can say that while all the movies were great, there were two movies that really surprised and engaged me–MUNICH and CRASH. GNGL was too self-congratulary and BM slowed down like a crippled sheep going uphill in its second act. CAPOTE had the best performance evah but the rest of the movie (except for Catherine Keener and the cinematography) was not as perfect. Oooh, come ON, Jon, “drive home safely”? Why didn’t you just tell us to try the veal and tip our waitress? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/306 "2006-03-06T04:31:38Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > You write it. We’ll get Johnny L.A. to film it. Need to get someone to direct. Can I be like a fourth producer or something? **Eve** can make the costumes, **Otto** can do the lighting and we can put on the movie right here in this old barn! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/307 "2006-03-06T04:32:26Z")
Hmmm, the whole thing really petered out there towards the end. _Crash_ doesn’t seem too bad a choice for Best Picture, but then I only saw two of thenominated films. Stewart was not entirely horrible as emcee; hope he does it again. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/308 "2006-03-06T04:32:40Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > Why didn’t you just tell us to try the veal and tip our waitress? Actually that would have been cuter. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/309 "2006-03-06T04:32:48Z")
Heck, it was more fun commenting and reading the comments on this “live” Academay Awards thread than it was watching the actual show. Yeah the SDMB is a fun group of folks. 🙂 Good Night … and Good Luck. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/310 "2006-03-06T04:33:45Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Heck, it was more fun commenting and reading the comments on this “live” Academay Awards thread than it was watching the actual show. > Yeah the SDMB is a fun group of folks. 🙂 > > Good Night … and Good Luck. You think this was good, wait until the 2008 Presidential Debates. Or look up the threads from 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/311 "2006-03-06T04:33:55Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Heck, it was more fun commenting and reading the comments on this “live” Academay Awards thread than it was watching the actual show. > Yeah the SDMB is a fun group of folks. 🙂 > > Good Night … and Good Luck. Amen to that. **Rubystreak** signing off for the night. Thanks guys! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/312 "2006-03-06T04:33:59Z")
I’m just so p.o.d that they didn’t give the award to _GN&GL_ or _Brokeback_… Somebody go to [YellowPages.com](http://YellowPages.com) and get me the address of the nearest Danish Embassy and an Explosives Wholesale House. Somebody’s gonna pay for this! ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/313 "2006-03-06T04:35:15Z")
The Academy goes for _ **Crash** _ over _ **Brokeback Mountain** _? Looks like Hollywood isn’t quite ready yet to recognize a romance between two men. Closed-minded bigots! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/314 "2006-03-06T04:36:34Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > The Academy goes for _ **Crash** _ over _ **Brokeback Mountain** _? > > Looks like Hollywood isn’t quite ready yet to recognize a romance between two men. Closed-minded bigots! 😉 I think Tom Cruise must’ve spent a lot of time campaigning. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/315 "2006-03-06T04:37:27Z")
When JOn Stewart signed off , it sounded like there were only two people left in the theater to respond. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/316 "2006-03-06T04:37:35Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > The Academy goes for _ **Crash** _ over _ **Brokeback Mountain** _? > > Looks like Hollywood isn’t quite ready yet to recognize a romance between two men. Closed-minded bigots! 😉 Or they recognize quality films without considering their “sexuality” and decided Crash was better than Brokeback Mountain, which is a fair argument in my humble opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/317 "2006-03-06T04:38:30Z")
I’m dumbfounded that so many people think _Brokeback_ is Oscar worthy. I agree that _Crash_ was contrived and painfully obvious, but so was _Brokeback_. Take away the “significance” and _Brokback_ is just another cloying love story. Frankly it’s just like _Crash_, except with socially important dialogue inducing mores about homosexuality instead of racism. It’s basically the ACLU wheel-of-fortune. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/318 "2006-03-06T04:41:05Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I’m dumbfounded that so many people think _Brokeback_ is Oscar worthy. I agree that _Crash_ was contrived and painfully obvious, but so was _Brokeback_. Take away the “significance” and _Brokback_ is just another cloying love story. Frankly it’s just like _Crash_, except with socially important dialogue inducing mores about homosexuality instead of racism. It’s basically the ACLU wheel-of-fortune. Well, I haven’t even seen \ ***Brokeback Mountain** \* yet, but I’d be stunned if there were _two_ movies as bad as _ **Crash** _ up for Best Picture. It has to be better! ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/319 "2006-03-06T04:42:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Best Song: > > “Hard Out Here for a Pimp” w00t! Holy Shit! Too fucking weird. Three-Six Mafia just won an Oscar. Y’all have no idea how truly surreal that is. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/320 "2006-03-06T04:42:41Z")
To be fair, I didn’t see any of them. Not interested in a love story, so never saw Brokeback Mountain. Munich struck me from trailers and reviews as Spielberg trolling for Oscars. Not sure I ever heard of Crash. Have some interest in Good Night and Good Luck, but I’ll probably just give it a rental later. Never really heard much about Capote either, and by now it’ll be a rental. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198.md?page=17)