The 78th Annual Academy Awards Show Discussion
03-06-06, 08:29 AM
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So Crash wins it...Interesting. I havent seen it as it looks like something I would loath, but maybe I'll rent it to see. To be honest, the only best picture film I watched this year was Brokeback and although I thought it to be a decent movie, was never really sold on it being best film. Stewart made the show watchable for the most part, and the Three 6 Mafia was priceless. I actually like the song, just liked it in the movie much better. Im glad they won though, because one, it made the night much better, and two, I thought those other 2 songs pretty much sucked.
03-06-06, 08:51 AM
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I thought Jon Stewart was freakin hilarious! To me Jessica Alba won the most stunning award. She looked flawless. Selma Hayek (?) was a close second. How sexy is she? Wow.. And Jennifer Gardner almost wiping out was pretty funny. She recovered nicely though.
I agree the pimp song was good, and I dont usually enjoy rap, but I'm not surprised it won. I liked the Crash song, but it wasn't great, and the Dolly Parton song was horrible. Why is everyone so surprised it won? I just wished I could have understood their acceptance speech though! Just because it doesnt speak to you, doesnt mean it isnt music! Honestly, aren't we passed that?
Crash is a very powerful movie... It is riveting. And I think it appeals to a much broader range of people since we all have felt some of those emotions in the film.
Thought the award show was pretty good. I fell asleep much later than I usually do, so I had me a little longer than usual.
I agree the pimp song was good, and I dont usually enjoy rap, but I'm not surprised it won. I liked the Crash song, but it wasn't great, and the Dolly Parton song was horrible. Why is everyone so surprised it won? I just wished I could have understood their acceptance speech though! Just because it doesnt speak to you, doesnt mean it isnt music! Honestly, aren't we passed that?
Crash is a very powerful movie... It is riveting. And I think it appeals to a much broader range of people since we all have felt some of those emotions in the film.
Thought the award show was pretty good. I fell asleep much later than I usually do, so I had me a little longer than usual.
03-06-06, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ItsGreekToMe
"No samples" rule? In other words - STEALING. Jeeze, Fight The Power 'sampled' from over a half dozen other songs. That's stealing, no matter how you try to explain it away.
If I recut a film and change it around, could I claim it as my own? If I take some paint and change a work of art, could I claim it as my own? If I take someone's novel and take away and add things to it, can I say it's mine?
Maybe you should quit it. There's nothing you can say that will change facts.
If I recut a film and change it around, could I claim it as my own? If I take some paint and change a work of art, could I claim it as my own? If I take someone's novel and take away and add things to it, can I say it's mine?
Maybe you should quit it. There's nothing you can say that will change facts.
03-06-06, 08:56 AM
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03-06-06, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by ItsGreekToMe
"No samples" rule? In other words - STEALING. Jeeze, Fight The Power 'sampled' from over a half dozen other songs. That's stealing, no matter how you try to explain it away.
If I recut a film and change it around, could I claim it as my own? If I take some paint and change a work of art, could I claim it as my own? If I take someone's novel and take away and add things to it, can I say it's mine?
Maybe you should quit it. There's nothing you can say that will change facts.
If I recut a film and change it around, could I claim it as my own? If I take some paint and change a work of art, could I claim it as my own? If I take someone's novel and take away and add things to it, can I say it's mine?
Maybe you should quit it. There's nothing you can say that will change facts.
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03-06-06, 09:03 AM
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And here is the Three 6 Mafia performance and acceptance speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-LvLkJnJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-LvLkJnJI
03-06-06, 09:14 AM
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lolol.... they were coherent at first and then all i heard was RERTG@#YT#YG%RGRT...
.... good stuff but they were the most excited to win of all the winners...
.... good stuff but they were the most excited to win of all the winners...
03-06-06, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by RayChuang
Crash won Best Picture? 
I think AMPAS voters must have gotten a bit nervous about Brokeback Mountain winning Best Picture for reasons unknown. This is the first time in over ten years a picture released early in the previous year won Best Picture (I believe Silence of the Lambs was the last to do so).
I think AMPAS voters must have gotten a bit nervous about Brokeback Mountain winning Best Picture for reasons unknown. This is the first time in over ten years a picture released early in the previous year won Best Picture (I believe Silence of the Lambs was the last to do so).
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one (Kevin Kline) finds himself in jeopardy in the other's (Danny Glover) rough neighborhood. Features an all-star cast including Steve Martin (Kline' friend), Mary McDonnell (Kline's wife), Mary-Louise Parker (Kline's mistress/assistant) and Alfre Woodard (Parker's friend).
03-06-06, 09:38 AM
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Oh yeah - thought Stewart was good, though admittedly he started losing steam. I think the producers were pounding on him to keep things on time and he had to cut stuff he wanted to say.
Also, thumbs up to Stephen Colbert who obviously collaborated with Stewart on a lot of the jokes (not to mention doing the voiceovers for the fake TV commercials).
Also, thumbs up to Stephen Colbert who obviously collaborated with Stewart on a lot of the jokes (not to mention doing the voiceovers for the fake TV commercials).
03-06-06, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Giles
hence why Crash won - thanks PopPit for reiterating what I felt what happened to the majority of the Academy members votes and why they chose to shaft 'Mountain'
I thought the Ben Stiller skit was tacky, and just plain bad.
the ABC HiDef broadcast was great - however the montage about 'movie theatre experience' some of the film snippets looked horrible.
I thought the Ben Stiller skit was tacky, and just plain bad.
the ABC HiDef broadcast was great - however the montage about 'movie theatre experience' some of the film snippets looked horrible.
This could also be Hollywood pimping "People need to go see their movies on the Big Screen". Everything the showed a movie clip that we should see in the theater, was a movie that everyone would go see because it is a qaulity movie, not the junk they expect to see just because they put it make it.
03-06-06, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Gil Jawetz
The sampling of the Bomb Squad and the other best hip hop producers (i.e. not Diddy) is an artform and is hardly different than musicians taking their influences and reconfiguring them into original music. How many guitar players slightly change Jimmy Page licks and structure a new song around them? And how Many Jimmy Page riffs originally come from Robert Johnson? How many drummers steal rhythms from jazz and funk greats and build new beats on them? Hell, how many older plays did Shakespeare use as templates for his own stories? Fight the Power may be built on samples but I bet you can't listen to it and name all the sources. Because an artist used them as raw materials and built a new collage. The "No samples" rule is actually just an interpretation of the "original song" category. Someone determined that a certain percentage of the song must be original, as if such a thing can be measured and as if a song like "A Whole New World" or "My Heart Will Go On" is actually "original" and not just the same schlock that always gets played in movies. It's all crazy.
03-06-06, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Iron_Giant
I hated the "Non-HD" clips, I could not believe what I was seeing. This is the Academy Awards show and that can't show everthing in HD.
This could also be Hollywood pimping "People need to go see their movies on the Big Screen". Everything the showed a movie clip that we should see in the theater, was a movie that everyone would go see because it is a qaulity movie, not the junk they expect to see just because they put it make it.
This could also be Hollywood pimping "People need to go see their movies on the Big Screen". Everything the showed a movie clip that we should see in the theater, was a movie that everyone would go see because it is a qaulity movie, not the junk they expect to see just because they put it make it.
03-06-06, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by charlesp138
Am I the only one who thought that Mr. President's rant on theatre vs home viewing kinda reeked of desperation?
Not likely.
Not likely.
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03-06-06, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by superfro
My favorite was the whole idea of the package being based around how people need to go see movies in the theaters and yet they show the altered E.T. footage from the DVD release where the agents had radios instead of shotguns. Really? Cause that's not how I saw it in the theater.
03-06-06, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by ItsGreekToMe
Someone who was walking in before the show said that there were protests outside. That just HAD to be them. Stupid people crack me up!
Stupid people crack me up!
03-06-06, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by slop101
Why is everyone making this into a Crash vs. Brokeback thing?
Out of what was nominated, I thought Munich was the best film.
Out of what was nominated, I thought Munich was the best film.
P.S. I felt that Munich was a really intense film that was a masterpiece from Spielberg. It was more about how human beings are flawed as a whole than taking arabs or jewish sides. From what I had heard about it, I thought they were going to portray terrorists as freedom fighters or something. I did not see that.
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03-06-06, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Iron_Giant
This could also be Hollywood pimping "People need to go see their movies on the Big Screen". Everything the showed a movie clip that we should see in the theater, was a movie that everyone would go see because it is a qaulity movie, not the junk they expect to see just because they put it make it.
03-06-06, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by ItsGreekToMe
Really?
I guess I've been too busy listening to music all these years.
(I have honestly never heard of them.
)
I guess I've been too busy listening to music all these years.
(I have honestly never heard of them.
)
03-06-06, 10:38 AM
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Ratings numbers are out and this telecast was the second least-watched telecast in Oscar history behind 2003's show with Chicago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060306/ap_on_en_mo/oscars
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060306/ap_on_en_mo/oscars