Definition of a sore loser
from cnn.com:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Annie Proulx, whose 1997 short story inspired the film "Brokeback Mountain," has penned a scattershot blast in a British newspaper unleashing her anger over the film's best-picture Oscar loss.
Proulx criticizes Oscar voters and the Academy Awards ceremony in the 1,094-word rant, which appeared in Saturday's issue of The Guardian, a liberal paper boasting 1.2 million readers daily.
Academy members who vote for the year's best film are "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city," Proulx writes
"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit choices," Proulx advises.
She even lashes out at Lionsgate, the distribution company behind "Crash."
"Rumour has it that Lionsgate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash -- excuse me -- Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline," Proulx writes.
Oh now where do I begin with this slice of heaven? I've seen all the best picture nominees and I have news for this lady: CRASH WAS THE BEST FILM OF 2005! Brokeback Mountain is indeed a good film and might even be a great film, but it's not worthy of licking Crash's taint. The beauty of Crash as opposed to Brokeback is that in Crash, the movie presents a problem to the audience (racism) and just tells a story and doesn't preach. There is not one good character in the lovie, but they all think they are good. The movie doesn't offer solutions to racism, juat shows us the problem and lets the audience come to its own conclusions. Some of you may not think this makes a good movie, but I believe it does. Brokeback preaches that homosexuality is a-ok and that everyone should not only accept homosexuality, but learn to love it. I am personally morally opposed to homosexuality (not for religious reasons, but I'm not about to get into that discussion), but believe that if two people want to pound each other in the ass, then they should do it, but shouldn't have to go out of their way to let me know they do it. The film tries to preach a message and while preaching a message of tolerance is a good thing to do, it is pretty standard and not original. Annie Proulx likes to think that Brokeback is the most original thing ever written, well I have news for you....IT'S NOT!!!. Take away the homosexuality and the cowboys and all you have is a story of forbidden love, which Shakespeare had been writing about centuries earlier. Crash is original because it portrays the racism we all have in our hearts and doesn't apologize for it. It only displays what we all think and feel, but never admit. For her to call Crash, "Trash", shows her immaturity. True, the Academy screws up more often than not (remember Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction? Titanic over LA Confidential? Marissa Tomei?) but the actual awards don't really count, the nomination is what really matters. Martin Scorcese hase been nominated for 6 Best Director Oscars and has won none. Kevin fucking Costner has been nominated once and won once for Dances with Wolves (beating out Scorcese and Goodfellas). Tell me who's the better director!!! Annie Proulx tries to blast LA for not being accepting of a gay movie....HELLO!!!! There is no more liberal place in the world than Hoillywood!!!!! Just face it.....Brokeback Mountain is good, Crash is great!!
Tags: What the fuck is a tag?
posted by NoOneSpecial @ 12:58 PM
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6 Comments:
Crash was not great. You complain that Brokeback is the same story retold. So was Crash. Black people are one way, white people are another way, hispanics are a third way. Also... black people and white people and hispanics, etc are all racist or not racist. Yawn, that topic has been done repeatedly.
The concept that most of the characters were tied together by a car crash reminded me so much of Amores Perros where all three different subplots and characters come together near the end with a terrific car scene.
Don't get me wrong, I liked Crash but it wasn't fantastic and mind blowing. It was a clever and insightful rendition of an old topic that we're all racist.
I haven't seen Brokeback so I can't comment on it but I have seen Capote. I thought was very good, perhaps better than Crash but the fact that it was such a downer probably hurt its chances.
Tags are keyword subjects relating to the individual post on a blog. Technorati is a search engine for blogs that indexes the content through the use of tags.
As I stated earlier, a tag looks like this:
[a href="http://technorati.com/tag/CHANGE+TOPIC" rel="tag"]CHANGE TOPIC[/a]
And you have the change the CHANGE+TOPIC and the CHANGE TOPIC sections to the topic you want. You can't just change the one.
Here are two examples:
Topic = Penn State
[a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Penn+State" rel="tag"]Penn State[/a]
Topic = PSU
[a href="http://technorati.com/tag/PSU" rel="tag"]PSU[/a]
So, get on the ball depressed writer, cause it seems you're the only one who can't figure it out.
what i'm saying about Crash is that its great in the respect that it doesn't preach...it just lets the story unfold and thats it. all other movies dealing with racism have a moral at the end and yada yada yada. Is Crash as good as Do The Right Thing? Absolutely not, but it's still great i think.
i actually wanted it to preach. i came away from with thinking it didn't say anything. if i want to see a movie that doesn't say anything, i'll watch a summer blockbuster craptastic film like bad boys 2 or dude where's my car. but thats just me.
don't bash dude where's my car!
it does have kristy swanson and jennifer garner looking hot
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