Dammit!
Can I please get a mod to fix my coding?
God, I need some caffeine.
I see you’ve been poking around on eBay recently too. 
Personally, I can’t wait to see the dance number for It’s Hard Out There on a Pimp.
Everyone who has seen the 2005 “Pride and Prejudice” assures me this nomination is the worst acting nomination in the history of the Oscars.
Personally if I push Ennis’ button I expect him to do more than just spit.
The song performances at the Academy Awards are not necessarily accompanied by dancers. About half of the time the singers perform them solo.
I don’t know why he would be. He’s got material a good 40 shows right there. I don’t even want to know what he’s doing with that loofah.
We’re all beside ourselves in Memphis. Hustle and Flow got two nominations–Terrance Howard for Best Actor and “Hard Out Here For a Pimp” for Best Song. This is a movie made by a director nobody had ever heard of unless you went to the 2000 Hollywood Film Festival for $3 million (producer Stephaine Allen took out a second mortgage on her house for part of the money, John Singleton paid the rest out of his pocket) that won Sundance and got its star a Best Actor nomination. It’s really a great film, and I encourage everyone to go see it. I can’t wait for the “Hard Out Here for a Pimp” performance! (The first time I heard the song was on the director’s car stereo the day after it was recorded.) But man, I hope they let Terrance Howard do it rather than Three Six Mafia, who are the big rappers in Memphis but who suck, suck, suck live.
Walk the Line was also filmed here, and both of its leads were nominated, and Reece Witherspoon (from Franklin, the richest town in Tennessee) is going to win it.
My pick for Best Picture is Good Night, and Good Luck, but I haven’t seen Crash. Brokeback Mountain will win, though. Hoffman deserves to win for Capote. I’d like to see McDormaid win for North Country, which is a pretty good, but not great, movie. Ang Lee will probably win Best Director, but to tell you the truth, I would like to see Clooney get it, although I will admit Lee surprised me–I’m not a big fan of his, but I liked Brokeback Mountain.
John Singleton got a good return on his investment!
A symptom of Ennis envy.
Why the hate for the Keira Knightley nomination? She was fantastic in “Pride and Prejudice”. If you’ve seen it & didn’t like it, that’s fine, you’re welcome to your opinion, but if you haven’t seen it, then please wait to form your opinion.
My question for the Academy watchers in this thread: Why “Crash” and not “A History of Violence”? The L.A. setting? More well-known stars? What?
I think it’s a great crop of movies this year. I’ve seen all but one of the Best Picture nominees (Munich) and I liked them very much.
My pics:
- Capote–best picture and best actor
I just can’t say enough good things about this movie. It blew me away, moreso than any of the others.
and the rest I’d put in order like this:
2. Brokeback
3. Good Night and Good Luck
4. Munich (without even seeing it)
5. Crash–I just wasn’t terribly impressed with this one. I know the critics and Oprah loved it, but I think it was trying too hard. I’m really surprised that it got as many nominations as it did.
I think Reese will win for Walk the Line, but I think Felicity is right behind her on that.
Not sure about the rest, I just wanted to give my .02. 
I think they’ve moved away from dance numbers for the songs.
Really? I thought it had all the subtlety of a shotgun blast to the face. While the performances were decent, I thought the script was godawful. The only moral I got from that is that everyone is racist 100% of the time except for the blacksmith, his daughter, and the arab shopkeeper’s daughter. They’re all perfect. Everybody else is somehow able to blame a stubbed toe, lost keys, or a shaving cut on an other races.
Thanks for fixing that up, Dex.
Much appreciated.
Wow, I’m shocked and disappointed to see Crash and Munich nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. I found Crash preachy and pretentious and Munich felt like it tried too hard to be an “important” movie. Those spots belonged to Match Point and Syriana, IMO, though I’m glad to see Woody Allen picked up another screenwriting nomination. I was also really hoping that David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello would score Directing and acting nominations for A History of Violence.
At least I hope Clooney wins Best Supporting Actor for Syriana because he was outstanding in it. I like his chances at winning for Best Director also because actors turned director have a great track record at the Oscars (Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson have all won Best Director).
Still, there some lightweight nominees in several key categories that are disappointing as hell considering the number of quality films released last year.
The only one on the list above that I still have not seen is Crash. I can get it possibly as a free rental, and maybe that would be best, considering that I have a feeling it will be heavy-handed and fall on me like an anvil. But I will give it a chance.
I saw Munich today. I don’t have a problem with it being nominated, but I really thought Walk the Line and Cinderella Man should have been on the list instead.
:smack: D’oh! Haven’t seen Capote yet either, and I would like to.
But why isn’t it in wider release by now? Going to see it would require driving to a small theatre about 15 miles away. I could, of course, but I don’t understand why it isn’t in the multiplexes yet.
Should a movie about terrorists killing athetes and the quest for revenge by a government and what violence does to people have been a musical-comedy?
Of course it was important, no trying too hard about it.
And if Walk The Line or, to a lesser extent, Cinderella Man had taken Munich’s place on the Best Picture list (as was expected) it would have been one of those Academy Awards oversights that people would look back on and snicker at in the future, like we do 1969 (Oliver getting a nomination for BP instead of 2001: A Space Odyssey).
I like all three films. I even think Cinderella Man is Oscar-quality (especially Crowe’s performance), but Walk The Line, while interesting, was a fairly standard biopic though with brilliant performances. It got exactly the nominations it deserves. Munich stands out far above WTL, in quality and scope.
I’m still having trouble believing the voters had such good taste and foresight in this year’s nominations. To steal from Harry Potter, the voters did what was right, rather than what was easy. I’m rooting for Brokeback Mountain all the way, but if BBM isn’t going to win, oh please let it be Munich.
While I kind of liked Crash, due to the acting performances, I think, I pretty much agree with this sentiment. You forgot the crucial, “moment of understanding” that all the racists go through. Wow, never saw that coming.
[nitpick]Locksmit, not blacksmith[/nitpick]