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U2@NYC said:
Box office is down again.
Crash won best movie.
Reese Witherspoon won best actress.
Three sad reasons.
U2@NYC said:
Box office is down again.
Crash won best movie.
Reese Witherspoon won best actress.
Three sad reasons.
PlaTheGreat said:
I'm done celebrating Crash. Now I'm just celebrating the fact that Crash winning Best Picture is actually making you this riled up.
Keep going!
If you shout... said:I almost threw up when the sexually abused woman is narratively forced to submit to the redemptive authority of her attacker. Disgusting.
Has nothing to do with this.U2@NYC said:
Box office is down again.
U2@NYC said:
Crash won best movie.
I've never liked her and thought she did an amazing job, she deserved it.U2@NYC said:
Reese Witherspoon won best actress.
Bono's shades said:
That's exactly how I felt when I saw that scene.
Dorian Gray said:
It seems to me that some people here believe that if a film shows racism, then it inherently is racist. But Haggis is telling a story. A real, believable story. Listen to the dialogue. It's natural, unforced. These are people who exist in this world.
melon said:
Oh well...I spent Oscar night watching "'F' for Fake" (1976), Orson Welles' eccentric final film. What a fantastic movie.
U2@NYC said:
Which ended up in Reese Witherspoon winning best actress, after her amazing performances in Legally Blonde and Cruel Intentions...
doubleU said:Thank you If you shout... for your very unelitist point of view.
If you shout... said:
This comment also interests me very much, and it's not just you whom I hear saying it--it seems to come up a lot when people are talking about Crash.
This is exactly what I was talking about with the intentional fallacy, though. Probably unconsciously, you're trying to have your cake and eat it to. Allow me to explain...
During an acceptance speech, Haggis himself mentioned how the film was meant not to be used as a mirror held up to society (a literary metaphor long, long ago dispelled...remember that Realism/Naturalism died as artistic movements around the dawn of the 20th Century), but as a hammer. Or something like that, you know? I'm pretty sure he used the hammer as his metaphor.
I'm straying from my point, though. Sorry. That point is that you're in part lauding the film for showing the world as it really is, saying that Haggis is trying to show us as we really are. He specifically said, though, that this is/was not the "aim" of the film. This is why this type of criticism does not work. The author-function exists, to be sure, but as was written some time ago (by Foucault...? I think it was Foucault...), "The author is dead."
You ask good questions in the rest of your post in quoting me, but I'll be honest and say that I both already answered most and anticipated some of them in previous points (VERY briefly, yes...sorry) and that it's damned late and I have a long day ahead of me. In closing, peace out.
melon said:
I have six years of collegiate-level media education, including film studies, and I'm an aspiring screenwriter/director/editor (i.e., film auteur) myself.
In other words, I have a good idea of what's good, what's bad, and what's just plain mediocre.
BrownEyedBoy said:Best movie of the year was Brokeback and everyone knows it.
If you shout... said:Kudos to you. Easily among my all-time favorites from the Welles canon. I love this film more than I can begin to say. Kudos, I tell you!!!
doubleU said:
Has nothing to do with this.
theblazer said:I'm 23 and have watched an insane amount of movies from every decade that films have been made.
In other words, I have a good idea what's good, what's bad, and what's just plain mediocre.
Edit: Oh, and as an evil, white, American conservative, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have won both director and best movie honors. I thought it certainly was the best movie out of the 5 in the running in terms of seeming to be most believable, even though BM and Crash were the only two "fiction" movies.
But, I always like movies that aren't based on specific events better than movies like "Munich."
U2@NYC said:
It is exactly a reflection of what is going on with movie quality... if you cannot see beyond the numbers you are not looking at the big picture.
Irvine511 said:
no, it doesn't.
the decline in the box office has much to do with the rise of DVD sales and home theathers -- notice the emphasis on "extras" and stuff that is shot, on set, specifically for the DVD. this is where studios are making the bulk of their profits, not theater tickets.
if anything, the quality of movies this year was the best it's been since, i'd say, 1999.
deep said:
her amazing performances were in
election
and the off-beat dark comedy
freeway
doubleU said:Thank you If you shout... for your very unelitist point of view.
U2@NYC said:
Numbers don't lie.
bsp77 said:
What do numbers have to do with quality? My general assumption is that people are stupid until proven otherwise. People that consistently choose to not see important movies only confirms that fact.