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[cleolinda]

Well, holy shit, y'all. Have the howls of outrage started yet?

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[bwaypella.livejournal.com]

They have where I've been reading. Heh.

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

I noted that the overriding theme of this year's Oscars were "DVDs suck. Don't watch them." Must have brought that up three or four times.

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

and I was so, so unimpressed by said theme that I can't even begin to explain....

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

I'm still working through the tears of devastation and fury.

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

ONTD is full of Crash flaming.

[thehighbrow.livejournal.com]

What is this "ONTD" you speak of? =0 I am in need of some indignant flaming at this moment.

[irishabastard.livejournal.com]

Crash was a great film. THe outrage should have been for the best song in a movie

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

Agreed 110%.

And what was with the 1,001 montages to random shit? That was annoying as hell!

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

I'm howling, but not surprised. Of all the nominated films, Crash was the only one that didn't deserve to win. Hence it was the Academy favorite. Remember Forrest Gump? Gladiator? Braveheart? We're not exactly dealing with aesthetic rocket scientists here. Still... am howling. A Brokeback win would have sent a powerful message. So fuck the Academy and their little dogs, too.

[count-01.livejournal.com]

What, Chicago didn't win Best Picture again this year?

I'm almost surprised.

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

I was pulling for Crash, so I'm good. Sorry, Brokeback fans.

[punkiejeannien.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I just jumped on the Net after reading A BOOK.

Thank you, Larry McMurtry. Please, everyone, think of him the next time you hear rude jokes about Texans, for he is most like the Houstonians, Austenites and Dallasites I know: he book lovers who wear jeans to the opera.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Seeing Larry McMurtry was such a hoot. The jeans. The book-pushing. That and the fact that the song that won best song actually had something to do with the movie were the best parts of the night.

Well, and the 2 seconds of Russell.

[etherealshores.livejournal.com]

YES!

I'm still cursing cause I'm so mad.

Bloody hell I STILL can't believe it.

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

Defamer (http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/oscars/we-are-all-in-this-thing-together-liveblogging-the-oscars-158481.php) expresses my feelings on the subject rather well.

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

You should see my Flist.

I kind of want to step up and ASK them if they've at least seen Crash, as a way of comparing it with Brokeback Mountain so their opinion has some reasoning behind it apart from "ZOMG GAY AND DOOMED LOVE STORY JUST LIKE MY OWN LOVE LIFE". I kind of want to do it, but I won't, since drama is just as enjoyable from the sidelines.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i saw Crash and Brokeback Mountain and i don't think either of them deserved Best Picture, honestly.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

up the wazoo. my journal is now a rage fest of Goodnight, and Good Luck not winning anything.

p.s. did you notice Joaquin Pheonix mouth "I love you, River." at the camera when they were doing Best Actor? i just found out that's what he said and i almost cried. i would have if my sister weren't in here with me.

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

He did?? I didn't see that.

[fateorlate.livejournal.com]

People went insane on ONTD, but even though I have nothing against gay people and in fact love them, I hated BBM and freaked out when Crash won, mostly because A I loved it and B it was directed and co written by a Canadian, which makes me happy.

(And oh, how I LOLed over the win for "It's hard out here for a pimp".)

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

after Crash won, i went straight to ONTD 'cause i knew it would be a flame fest. i really didn't think Crash deserved it.


and it makes me really happy that Jon knows that it's hard to be a pimp.

[laerwen.livejournal.com]

Oh believe me, I'm howling with my f-list in my wee corner of fandom.

Let's choose "racism is bad" versus "love knows no gender". The Academy are gutless. :P

[potatofishy.livejournal.com]

My mom commented earlier in the night that the academy seemed to be making a point with all its Brokeback-love. My comment about the lack of Trans-love: "So you can be gay, and its awesome, but if you're transgender Hollywood hates you?" "Well... yeah, kinda."

Apparently, though, Hollywood hates you either way. Wahh.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

CRASH?! CRASH?!?!!!! Munich lost to mofoing CRASH?!

What the ding dong diddly CRAP!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_paulie/]

I, too was pulling for Munich, even though I knew it wouldn't stand a chance. A master film maker's greatest work, (it made Schindler's List look like Michael Bay dreck), but it won't win because it's too "ambiguous" or "political"
Puuhleeaze!

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

HOWL indeed. Moving Castle that is. Didn't win. YEAH. WHAT THE FUCK, MAN. WHAT THE FUCK.

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

Great movie, but even the Howl people said Wallace and Gromit would win.

[potatofishy.livejournal.com]

Crash? wtf? Freakin' Munich was better than Crash, and NO ONE even considered Munich as having a chance, because it simply wasn't Super-spectacularly-awesome. So..... Crash? NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YOU SUCK I HATE YOU ARGH.


Seriously. Lest goos movie in the category. HOW DID YOU WIN???

[potatofishy.livejournal.com]

And by "Lest goos," I mean "Least good." Ahem.

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

I called it.

I feel inordinately proud.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I called an upset as my backup, which... doesn't really mean anything, I guess. I won my Oscar pool, though.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Er, ah, yeah. Paul Haggis' LA is definitely NOT my LA, nor is it the LA of any other person I know -- white, black, Latino, Asian, whatever. Narnia was more realistic, actually. I guess those 500,000 DVDs the Crash producers sent out to Academy members really worked their magic on the tender sensibilities of guilty white liberals. I don't care so much about Brokeback losing Best Picture, even though I liked it, but this win was beyond the pale. Jesus.

[wilecoyote.livejournal.com]

So, how long until the Academy elects Fred Phelps as its president? I mean, since they are going down that path, they might as well go all the way...

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

Munich WAS super spectacularly awesome, DAMMIT! Any movie that will make my 21 year old brother CRY in front of his mom and his little sister is awesome.

Oh, wait. You had to have a triple-digit IQ and have some knowledge of current events and history of the Middle East beyond "Ragheads suck" to actually get the point of that movie, or want to see it in the first place.

And how pissed am I that Star Wars was absolutely and totally pissed on? Don't even ask me.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Munich was pretty awesome, but I knew it didn't have enough buzz to win anything. Alas.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Why, yes. Yes, they have.

[elbales]

*icon love*

[stella-gold.livejournal.com]

I was surprised, yes, but not extremely so. People kept on talking about Crash, over and over, about the 100 000 DVDs and Paul Haggis (heh, haggis) and all that stuff, so I had an inkling it would win. Kind of mad at the Academy, but...Jon Stewart was funny. He even put in a Brokeback Mountain parody video. That has to count for something.

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

Icon love! You make the world cuter!

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

Well, if it means anything at all, Ang Lee won for Best Direction, and no film came through with a whole sweep of wins... It was pretty much scattered throughout everything.

IMO, it is good to see Ang Lee get recognised for his work - He also did Sense and Sensibility, as well as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon among others - even if it didn't win Best Picture.

But then, this is all IMO.

C.

[thunderphoenix.livejournal.com]

He also directed The Hulk, which I think is the most underrated superhero flick in history.

[luleh.livejournal.com]

Not too much of a surprise, alas. Crash is tailor made for the Academy, piece of crap that it is. But it can now stand in line with a whole host of other shitty and overrated movies.