Last Night's Oscars...

[kosmo vinyl]

somebody did the analysis for me already...  

[chaz]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
  a)  i couldn't stand "crash" ... it just beat you over the head constantly with the same goddamn simple message ... but i could see how this movie would be great for a huge chunk of people in this country who simply aren't "thinkers"

Oh Hoya..you really love yourself don't you?
 
 It must be hard...being such an enlightened genius and all.

[HoyaSaxa03]

do you read movie reviews?  you must get pretty frustrated on a frequent basis if you think my thoughts were annoying
 
 crash had a ham-fisted message that was repeated over and over and over again and was well-fashioned for people who aren't exactly critical thinkers
 
 this isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff i'm saying, it seemed to be a popular consensus for those critics who gave the film mediocre reviews (and there were plenty of them)
 
 http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/crash

[Guiny]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
  March of the Penguins   $77,437,223
 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room   $4,071,700
 Murderball   $1,531,154
 Darwin's Nightmare   $163,487
 Street Fight   $4,779
 
 i haven't seen enron yet, but murderball was incredible, 10x better than penguins ... penguins is the 2nd highest grossing documentary of all time ... still behind farenheit 9/11, i think

Shows you how much I know, I didn't even know it was a documentary.  But it sounded very successful.

[ChampionshipVinyl]

Looks like I didn't miss that much going to the Belle & Sebastian show last night.

[Arlette]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  Who the hell saw "March Of Penguins"?

March of the Penguins   $77,437,223
 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room   $4,071,700
 Murderball   $1,531,154
 Darwin's Nightmare   $163,487
 Street Fight   $4,779
 
 i haven't seen enron yet, but murderball was incredible, 10x better than penguins ... penguins is the 2nd highest grossing documentary of all time ... still behind farenheit 9/11, i think [/b]

Enron was awesome, so was Murderball, Penguins was like a Discovery Channel program.  When it was over, I was mad.  If I had seen it on TV, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, but in a theater?  No.

[lily1]

i was thrilled to see that tsotsi won for best foreign language film. all of south africa must be a giant party right now. i thought for sure that joyeux noel would win, and that the palestinian film (whose name escapes me right now) and tsotsi, being south african, didn't stand a chance. i am so glad i was wrong!
 
 btw, tsotsi opens in dc this week or next. i was fortunate enough to see it last month. it is excellent. i highly recommend.

[chancegardener]

"Munich" was the best-made, most-moving, most thought-provoking, most relevant movie of the year. It focused on the conundrum, ambiguity, and never ending madness of the Middle East conflict and its relevance to the current world. It is brutal and devastating -- the best movie of '05.

[Guiny]

SAW II was the best movie of 2005.    :cool:

[chaz]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  SAW II was the best movie of 2005.     :cool:  

What about Hostel?

[Guiny]

Originally posted by Chaz, Lover of all Beings:
 What about Hostel? [/QB]

Haven't seen that one yet, was it 2005 or 06?  I'm looking forward to that one on DVD.

Wolf Creek?

[Darth Ed]

All joking aside, the best English-language movie of 2005 was The New World, IMHO. Unfortunately, I guess it just wasn't seen by enough voters or it didn't get enough press, possibly because it wasn't released widely until last January. I was shocked and angry when it didn't win the lone Oscar it was nominated for, Best Cinematography.

[kosmo vinyl]

kosmette's waiting for the Colin Farrell-less version of that movie..