Oscars: Best Picture

Well, I agree with you about this being a shocking upset.

But you're wrong about the predictions. Roger Ebert is a prophet.

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Probably shouldn't speak from a state of shock, but I will. This is America. BBM just wasn't ALLOWED to win.

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Hollywood covered their ass on two fronts tonight. Please don't stop going to the movies and please don't stop watching the oscars - we are in touch with the average idiot who could not stomach Brokeback Mountain and so the academy's gift to you is Crash. I want my 3 and 1/2 hours back.

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OMG, i got better info from you all night than surfing all the other sites. (I don't own a television)

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I think the Academy was bombarded with two many good choices and didn't know where to go. Wow. This was a weird year. I was almost sure Brokeback Mountain was going to take the oscar. Or if not Brokeback than Good Night, and Good Luck. I did like CRASH. But I was suprised even to see it nominated for best picture. Hmmm. Interesting politics.

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I for one am so glad that Crash won. It had the best message and hopefully others will take from it

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i cannot fucking believe...I CANNOT FUCKING BELIEVE CRASH WON!!!


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unfuckingbelievable...unFUCKINGbelievable...to think that a movie this barely above average can be close to even being a contender is mind boggling, but to WIN??? are you out of your fucking mind???!!

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The Academy couldn't win this one. If BBM had won, it would have won because of its homosexual content. And it lost, as you can see in the above comments, because of its homosexual content.

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Brokeback Mountain was robbed. I think it was definitely political. Racism is obviously more fashionable to object to than homophobia. It just shows how conservative our country is.

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Well, well, well. Christian America can sleep tight tonite. Pathetic!

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Every year we're cursed with the same exhausted mantra from critical cacophonous:"films released in the early part of the year are never remember by Academy voters in the following spring." Well 'Crash' proved that statment's fallacy -- I was, or misheard, confused by the producer's statement that people voted for 'Crash' because of it's 'inspiring' message. It inpspired me to getout and stay out of LA.

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A good measure of the BLAME for getting the Crash bandwagon rolling goes to Roger Ebert. Objectively, Brokeback was the most impressive movie I've seen in several years, not only this year. The way I feel now, I will never read another one of his reviews with any confidence or trust. God, I miss Gene Siskel!

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Brokeback was a horrid, stupid movie that nobody I know went to see. Let's see: deviant sex, the fiction that guys in Wyoming like homosex, and finally that running out on your wife and kids is somehow "romantic." It'a loser story from loser people made for losers. Yuck yuck yuck. If this movie had won it would have simply confirmed the suspicion that Hollywood is more interested in jamming crap down our throats than making a movie real America wants to see. Maybe they wised up?


Kent in SD

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I personally feel Crash was a much better movie that Brokeback Mountain. BBM only received the acclaim it did because it was about a controversial subject: homosexual love. While I feel homosexuals should have their rights taken from them, that is no reason to consider an average movie great.

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#10 ...objectively??? What the hell so objective about your OPINION of a movie? Ebert is a movie critic by profession. I tend to trust his opinions far more than some drive-by critic who is disappointed because lovy-dovy movie did not win best picture.

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Kent? Are you gay and in the closet, big guy?

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#11: "horrid, stupid movie that no one you know went to see"? Man, am I glad I don't know you, or anyone you know.

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America - the land of the brave and home of the free where every man is created equal unless they are black, jewish, muslim, gay, woman.....Brokeback losing is just another example of the religious rights hold on that poor little rich country.

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crash was a wonderful movie that got people talking about race relations. It deserved to win and had a wonderful cast of talented actor's. BBM did not win so what, its make believe people after tonite i will not be talking about the land of make believe but checking to see how our troops are doing and who was the latest to die in this senseless war

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Straights in the academy would never let a "fag" movie win...race relations are soooooo much more important than gay bashing and the murder of gay men....fuck the academy awards. Steven Speilberg and eat out Tom Cruises ass.

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