Awards Aftermath - Part 2

[kathy]

SFgate, second day on Oscar missteps:

Best Picture: What Should Have Won

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: Six years later, the Academy's mistake more obvious than it even was at the time.

Amen to this!  Everyone knew it then; everyone knows it now and it will always be remembered.  What those damned "ampas" members (?) did with what their blatant homophobia (along with their willing cohorts in that inside job, has-beens, and in the press) was and remains a damned shame.

Oh, they've made lots of mistakes but in this one they proved just what a total, biased, deliberate travesty those awards have become.  I read recently online something to the fact "...I believe if the "academy" could go back and change one best picture award, it'd have to be the one that denied Brokeback Mountain BP".   Kind of late, huh?  

That damned TRASH; played the lousy race card and won.  Damn.

kathy            
p.s.  Nothing was mentioned of the boys - they definitely should have won; however, we know how  deliberately those jackasses neglect younger men, no matter how great a performance may be.  
Oh - I forgot cinematography too...

[Marge_Innavera]

I haunt DVD bargain bins also, but I call it prestige dumpster-diving.  The good news is that the last time I gave the town library a mitt-full of movies, the librarian handed me a document and told me to list the dozen or so films, and I'm thinking to myself, damn!, I'm donating stuff and they want me to inventory it for them!  But no, as it turns out: she'd handed me an IRS form - each disc is worth $20 for tax deduction purposes.  Pleasant surprise for those who do deductions.

An update on the two DVDs looking for a home --

When we did the DVD to Libraries project, our town had just built a new library and they weren't offering DVDs yet.  Fast-forward to late last year, and after FINALLY getting around to asking our librarian, it's now in our library.

Still have another copy to donate, though, but I haven't really gotten around to searching.  It's the "theatre" version with the FNIT blacked out      but that might be just as well considering that the library the first donation went to is located in a rural area of a conservative state.

IMO the darkened theatre version was creepy.  It put me in mind of some rural gay remake of Psycho.

[dback]

Goldderby.com has been running a poll on the greatest Oscar injustices--" Brokeback" is creating some discussion, but some die-hard "Crash" fans are loftily arguing otherwise. Feel free to pop over and add your .02, especially with statistics.  (Someone already mentioned the 25 Best Picture citations BBM had.)

[fofol]

SFgate, second day on Oscar missteps:


Best Picture: What Should Have Won


BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: Six years later, the Academy's mistake more obvious than it even was at the time.

At the local Barnes & Noble there is an 'award winners' DVD section.  They started out with 6 each BBM and Crash - with one BBM left, all six Crashes are still available at $14.99...so hurry in now before they go to the $4.99 bin.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Goldderby.com has been running a poll on the greatest Oscar injustices--" Brokeback" is creating some discussion, but some die-hard "Crash" fans are loftily arguing otherwise. Feel free to pop over and add your .02, especially with statistics.  (Someone already mentioned the 25 Best Picture citations BBM had.)

Do you have a link?  My computer isn't navigating that site very well.
 

[dback]

http://www.goldderby.com/films/photos/48/10-worst-oscar-outrages.html

[kathy]

It's unbelievable that some 'people' (what kind could they be anyway) could actually defend (?) Haggis' race card piece of TRASH.        What a total, inferior waste of film! 

What was deliberately done to Brokeback Mountain in Mar. 2006 is universally known as "...the 'academy's' biggest mistake, more obvious now than it even was at the time".  Well, to be truthful, this was recently stated, but it has been said since day one - and everyone knows it.

kathy

[Marge_Innavera]

At the local Barnes & Noble there is an 'award winners' DVD section.  They started out with 6 each BBM and Crash - with one BBM left, all six Crashes are still available at $14.99...so hurry in now before they go to the $4.99 bin.

Well, that's one item in the $4.99 bin I'll pass by when I'm looking for bargain library donations.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

This is part of AMPAS's CELEBRATE THE MOVIES:  84 ICONIC FILM
IMAGES SHOWCASED IN ONLINE AND OUTDOOR GALLERIES exhibition.

Online I have only found 31 of the images.  If anyone finds the other 53
I was, of course, looking to see if there was one for Brokeback Mountain.
The outdoor gallery part of this are on digital billboards in Los Angeles and
Times Square in NY.  I have not come across any of them in L.A. as of yet,
but I will be walking down Sunset Blvd. for about a mile tonight and I'll see
if I do.

P.S.:  In my opinion, a photo from Brokeback Mountain would be better
suited for the above tagline.

[kathy]

Oh, yes.  A scene from Brokeback Mountain would be much better suited for that tagline.  I loved TDK and of course Heath in it,  but the Joker photo is not right for the tagline.

[garyd]

P.S.:  In my opinion, a photo from Brokeback Mountain would be better
suited for the above tagline.

LOL.
So Lyle, just which screencap from BBM would you choose to accompany the tag line:
"There's a little bit of the movies in all of us". ?

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Heh!  Well, this one of course!

[garyd]

^^^^^^^^^^^
 
Nice.

I'm afraid only true Brokies would recognize it as BBM, though.
The image could even be mistaken for a cap from "The Last Picture Show". 

[Lyle (Mooska)]

The image could even be mistaken for a cap from "The Last Picture Show".

Except that theater was indoors!   

[garyd]

Except that theater was indoors!   

yeah, I know. 
I"m just josh'in with ya.