How's Duke Of Hazard doing?

Do you have any insight into how the winners are selected? I'm rather ignorant of the logistics.

I finally saw "Crash" this past weekend.It's a good movie,but it wasn't as great as I thought it would be,considering all the hype and good reviews.I don't know...maybe I need to watch it again? It's a provocative film,for sure.

DavidEye said:

That's exactly how I see it. A great cast too. Everyone in it was perfect for the story but the story started well but I was dissapointed at the ending.

the SAGS are voted on by the actors in the union. And with such a large ensemble cast it was pretty obvious that Crash would nab the best picture.

I wouldn't necessarily consider it backlash if Brokeback doesn't win all the awards, there's just a handful of really good movies that came out the past year that all deserve some recognition.

The backlash I've noticed lately though are all the parodies of Brokeback, trying to make a joke out of the movie. It's such a well made film that really got a hold of alot of people, that opponents of gays/gay rights, don't know how to react.

There is a huge gay population in Hollywood so i wouldn't count it out at the Oscars.

Ok, I saw Brokeback last night, and I have to say, WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL? They could NOT have made a more boring film about gay cowboys. I never felt that these two characters were in love until the last 30 minutes or so, that first sex scene was ridiculous, and the characters (especially Anne Hathaway) never really aged just got dumber-looking wigs...

The only character that I really felt anything for was Enos' wife. Great performance; you really felt her shock and betrayal and the pain she felt though she waited for years to confront him.

Oh yeah, and why was "Enos" always pronounced "Anus"? I anticipated this film for months, thought I was going to love it, and was bored senseless.

"Crash" deserved to win. That was a powerful film with a great ensemble performance.

Crash? It was a good movie, with some good performances, but best picture

If the storyline weren't sooooo contrived, maybe. And that's such a fairly common criticism of the movie that it could (should) hurt it chances, imnsho.


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Universaluv said:

but heres my take...million dollar baby was equally contrived and it went on to win....

so my vote goes for Crash...today.

A movie with Matt Dillion and Ryan Phillipe winning Best Picture would destroy the universe.

My vote is for the movie with the hot gay sex!

It's "Ennis"

Ok, I saw Brokeback last night, and I have to say, WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL? They could NOT have made a more boring film about gay cowboys. I never felt that these two characters were in love until the last 30 minutes or so, that first sex scene was ridiculous, and the characters (especially Anne Hathaway) never really aged just got dumber-looking wigs...

The only character that I really felt anything for was Ennis' wife. Great performance; you really felt her shock and betrayal and the pain she felt though she waited for years to confront him.

Oh yeah, and why was "Ennis" always pronounced "Anus"? I anticipated this film for months, thought I was going to love it, and was bored senseless.

"Crash" deserved to win. That was a powerful film with a great ensemble performance.
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CaptainChaos said:

But the gay sex wasn't even hot.

I really liked what Jake said about Brokeback Mountain "It really is a beautiful love story." BUT what was going on when they were announcing their movie at SAG awards. Heath and Jake started giggling when they were reading the description of the movie. Maybe they were giggling about the description of the movie, bad writers. It was just weird. They were so uncomfortable.


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Ledger's strange SAG behavior

Jakegyllen_caulf_7218077_600Some viewers were shocked at Heath Ledger’s apparent gay spoof at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night.

At the podium with Jake Gyllenhaal to introduce a clip from "Brokeback Mountain," Ledger kept putting his hands on his cocked hip as he read the teleprompter, acting like he was auditioning for the role of Carmen Ghia, the flamboyantly gay choreographer in “The Producers.”

“It was insulting,” said one Hollywood insider after the show. “Heath lost a lot of support from the Hollywood gay community after that bizarre performance.”

No one can figure out what Ledger could have been thinking or why he behaved so bizarrely onstage.

Which makes it a real shame that the Directors Guild Awards, held the night before, weren’t televised. Then viewers would have seen Ledger’s heartfelt and sincere expression of gratitude to director Ang Lee, who won the DGA’s top filmmaker award that night.

Paying tribute to Lee, Ledger thanked the director for “introducing us to these delicate characters. It took a delicate man to tell this story and that’s you.” To which, Lee then joked, “I don’t know about you, but that feels a little gay to me.”

Maybe Ledger’s frankly fey SAG performance simply followed Lee’s DGA gay joke lead? Maybe he thought he was being really funny? Hey, it’s a theory. What's yours?

http://stylescenes.latimes.com/