Oscars

[redfiona99]

Here be big spoilers

Best film I don't get why people are complaining - film about race relations beats film about how life will fuck you over repeatedly. That's one of the things that annoyed me about the hype for Brokeback Mountain - "see how sad it is, and they just have to put up with it" - well that's true of the life of every single person I know, that they're gay cowboys does not make their suffering unique.

Best Animated Film - Cracking cheese Gromit. Sorry, this is official the Oscar that made me happiest because it's Wallace and Gromit.

Hee!

Most of the others are cool and groovy, kind of unhappy about Rachel Weisz winning because I hate the concept of The Constant Gardner - okay big pharma aren't exactly nice, but they're not evil.

But Morgan Freeman gains even more brownie points for saying her name right however not as many as the Eurosport ski-jumping commentators get for calling Kaernten Kaernten and not Carinthia like most Britons do.

Comments

[wolfshift.livejournal.com]

Damn, I haven't seen the Wallace and Gromit yet! Is it out on DVD yet, do you know?

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

I think if it isn't yet it will be soon. I'm guessing that because Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is due out on DVD soon, and that came out at the cinema at about the same time.

[saturdayshoes.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I'd make an argument about the message of Brokeback Mountain being more important than Crash's, but I felt like it was a better movie in general (granted, I have only seen about 2/3 of Crash because we watched it in a class, so there could be some great stuff I'm missing out on) and that the award should go to the better movie all around, not the movie with the better message.

That said, Walk The Line was better than both of them and I feel cheated, though it wasn't even nominated, was it?

[coneyislandbaby]

You know, I think I agree with that last part.

Though admittedly I've not watched Crash yet.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Oh the thing that annoyed me about that was that the Guardian film critic was all 'and this will obviously be middle America's choice because it's all about a country singer and we know they're all hicks' and I was all 'do not say that about Johnny Cash'.