Why Did "Brokeback Mountain" lose the Acadamy Award?

[Riverwind (imported)]

If you look at what movie got the Academy Award for best movie for the last how ever many years, about half of them you will have never herd of or seen.

This is not uncommon in tinsel town; remember the Academy Awards are not for the public's approval but for self-gratification.

What really suprises me is when the Academy actually gives the award to a movie that the public's actually has seen and approves of their decision.

Having grown up in LA, actually about 2 miles from Universal Studios, you have the occasion to see these "stars" around town, everyone I ever saw was so impressed with him/herself as to be totally unaware of what was going on around them.

So don't let it bother you that they picked the wrong movie, remember our vote does not count.

River

[Blaise (imported)]

The hottest gay film has to be the 1959 Ben Hur with its passionate scenes between Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd. The film did win an academy award.

[Paolo]

by the way - If you look up IMDB's page for Phillip Seymor Hoffman, it lists him in 40 shows and movies starting in 1991. He's a character actor not a leading man.

He looks like Truman Capote

He sounds like him, too.

In the early 90's, ABC TV ran Capote's "A Christmas Memory" which was narrated by Capote himself. I think it was filmed in 1962 or something. Capote died in 1984 of complications of alcoholism. What's creepy is the boy actor who played little Capote sounded like him, too. Donnie Melvin was his name.

I'll admit, I haven't seen the notorious Cowboy flick yet, and I don't plan to. Capote was an awesome movie, though.

[Slammr (imported)]

I haven't seen "Brokeback," usually waiting these days for the DVD. I did see "Crash" on DVD. It was OK, but I would never have considered it to be worthy of an Oscar. But when the gave the Oscar to "Forest Gump" over "Pulp Fiction" and "Natural Born Killers" and to "Shakespeare in Love" over "Saving Pvt. Ryan," (Actually, my favorite movie that year was "Thin Red Line). I decided the Oscars were a farce, anyway.

Funny thing is: I had to watch three of the aforementioned movies, Thin Red Line, Natural Born Killers, and Pulp Fiction several times before I decided I liked them. Now, I think all three are outstanding movies.

[Losethem (imported)]

Only thing I have to say about Brokeback Mountain is, "So many sheep, so little time..."

[A-1 (imported)]

Only thing I have to say about Brokeback Mountain is, "So many sheep, so little time..." :

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BaaaaaaaaaaD!



...or, as some Texans would say, "...well, at least he's not Gay."

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[SplitDik (imported)]

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BaaaaaaaaaaD!



...or, as some Texans would say, "...well, at least he's not Gay."

well, you can't conclude that unless you know the sex of the sheep and whether the sheep is the top or the bottom ...

[boyinterrupted (imported)]

Well, we are all waiting for a hardcore adaption being released soon named:

"Brokeback Balls"

YEEEHAAA!

[A-1 (imported)]

well, you can't conclude that unless you know the sex of the sheep and whether the sheep is the top or the bottom ...

When crusing sheep REAL Texans don't care. A hole is a hole is a hole...

What's in a hole?

Well... you know...

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[tugon (imported)]

Texas where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.