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Sorry for the double post, but Crash rightfully won best picture.

Too bad they cut them off during the speech.

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Originally posted by Cerpin Taxt Contrary to popular belief, Jon Stewart is probably the worst hose since Letterman.

I thought I was the only one who thought that.

Oh, thank God that Palestinian movie didn't win foreign film.

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Contrary to popular belief, Jon Stewart is probably the worst host since Letterman.

I liked him, but..well, I already described why. The "and none of those issues were ever a problem again" joke was funny. I'd have expected someone to become offended over that..but..lets be perfectly frank here. The audience truly didn't seem to get alot of the jokes, and the ones they did understand they only aknowledged on the lowest level they could.

Also when did Letterman host these? I was completely unaware he ever did.

It dosen't really matter. They usually neuter the hosts for these anyway...at least Stewart and Rock tried to cram in some of the funny. But for the most part the audience just wants to be patted on the back.

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Oh, thank God that Palestinian movie didn't win foreign film.

Oh good. I was sort of..zoning in and out of watching.

Anyway...I have to admit, I'm glad crash won. I'd been meaning to rent it for a while, and the scenes they showed from it made it look very good.

I think brokeback may have lost because it was so hyped up. I'm not saying it was bad (since...I haven't seen it). But from the time it was released up until now, all I've heard is "best picture, right here". Whereas Crash was realeased...I think wasn't it released during that slump in box office sales? Maybe they just wanted to go for the underdog.

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What the HELL is with all of these friggin' montages?

I just found it...bizzare how they went from Robert Altman, to the song "It's hard out here for a pimp". And then followed that with an acceptance speech that sounded more like something I'd hear on the MTV music awards. I don't mean to imply I think the Academy Awards have some special dignity to them, but...if I'd seen this at a regional meeting of amway salesmen I'd have thought something was awry. Though I should have known something was rotten in denmark once they brought Ludacris on stage.

Then again..."hustle and flow"? What the hell was hustle and flow? I only saw Syriana and Goodnight and Good Luck. With the exception of Capote (and only because I'm vaguely aware of who Truman Capote was) I feel like I need an explanation of what half of these movies even were.

Also..I forget, did goodnight and good luck win anything? Because if it didn't, it should have.

EDIT: Speaking of Altman...what in gods name was with the lead-in to his speech? Is there some inside joke about Lilly Tomlin and Meryl Streep being stoners that I'm missing? Was it supposed to be a DREADFULLY executed gag about overlapping dialogue? Hell, people say Lauren Bacall seemed off...she had an excuse, she's in her 80s. I'm wondering what the hell Tomlin and Streep were on.

Also. Let me just say one thing I noticed in one of the minor technical awards. The makeup award...with the exception of sith, I probably could have done most of that work. Honestly. I've seen better makeup in zombie movies...narnia was what, a man growing a goatee and having strange ears you might be able to buy at a joke shop glued on him. And Cindarella Man? Oh wow..you've made someone look as if they have a black eye and slight bruising. Such cinematic WIZARDRY there...at least with the guy who played Palpatine it looked like they took more than ten minutes to apply the makeup.

Coincidentally, if there was a "best actor pulling along an otherwise drab film" award, I'd have given it to whoever played palpatine.

Thanks for holding the thread down when I was away everybody. Watched all of the Oscars, the pre show, the big show, and the post show and here are some things I noticed:

-Jon Stewart did okay, he wasn't really good and he wasn't really bad either. I liked his line after Three 6 Mafia left when he said "Martin Scorsese:0, Three 6 Mafia:1" and “You know what? I think it just got a little easier out here for a pimp,” Down right pathetic for a filmmaker such as Scorsese but really funny overall. When the hell did Mel Gibson host the Oscars?

-Ben Stiller needs to get shot. I was hoping that Eric Bana would get into Munich mode and just snipe away at him. The bit wasn't even funny, neither was Will Ferrell and Steve Carrell's part either.

-What the hell was Jessica Alba doing at the Oscars?... That's it really. Cerpin Taxt said in another thread that she's one of the worst actors and he's so damn right. If she ever gets nominated, let alone wins, then you know something off in LaLa Land. She did look good though.

-Dolly Parton scares me. Period.

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 EDIT: Speaking of Altman...what in gods name was with the lead-in to his speech? Is there some inside joke about Lilly Tomlin and Meryl Streep being stoners that I'm missing? Was it supposed to be a DREADFULLY executed gag about overlapping dialogue? Hell, people say Lauren Bacall seemed off...she had an excuse, she's in her 80s. I'm wondering what the hell Tomlin and Streep were on.

Yeah, this got to me as well, Sharpie. It was funny at first but then a few more couple minutes in, I was like "what the hell are they doing?". And Lauren Bacall can do whatever the hell she wants in my book, great actress and the widow of Humphrey Bogart. She's holding it down.

Then there's this:

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When all else fails, try the Cheney joke One of Stewart's few big laughs came when he suggested Bjork, whose swan dress was a standout of the 2001 Oscars, was unable to attend because she had been shot by Dick Cheney. But the audience laughed most uproariously as Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin introduced honorary Oscar recipient Robert Altman. They pretended to go off-script, offering meandering dialogue in an Altman-style tribute/joke. The theater's audiences of celebrities laughed almost too hard, as if to prove that, finally, there was some intelligent, sophisticated humor for them to appreciate.

I guess that explains it, if nothing else.
Peace.

Oh, that's what they were doing? I thought they were just idiots.

It's possible I missed the joke since I was barely paying attention to the t.v., and that I've seen..maybe two Altman films (that I can remember right now at least).

Or it..was just a horribly executed bit.

Or maybe it was a little from column A and a little from column B.

....And again, yeah. Lets go from Altman to "The 3 6 Mafia". Thats a really natural transition.

Whats sort of interesting is, in regards to Scorsese never winning an Oscar..neither has Altman, save for the achievement award he was just given, in fact I think they've both been nominated (but lost) the same number of times.

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 Whats sort of interesting is, in regards to Scorsese never winning an Oscar..neither has Altman, save for the achievement award he was just given, in fact I think they've both been nominated (but lost) the same number of times.

Films Martin Scorsese has been nominated for:
- Raging Bull (lost to Robert Redford's Ordinary People)
- The Last Tempation of Christ (lost to Barry Levinson's Rain Man)
- GoodFellas (lost to Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves)
- Gangs of New York (lost to Roman Polanski's The Pianist)
- The Aviator (lost to Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby)

I mean, COME ON! Look at that list. Give the man an Oscar already. Yeah, also to Scorsese and Altman never getting an award for Best Director, neither has Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick.

Also, you can think about it this way:

Scorsese, Hitchcock, Kubrick: 0
Eminem, Cher, Three 6 Mafia: 1

And check this out. This is from Slamonline, a basketball site:

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This was the biggest win for Memphis in Los Angeles since… Three Six Mafia pulled the upset of upsets and won an Oscar. Seriously, I can’t believe we now live in a world where Three Six are Academy Award winners. If you asked me, out of any rap group ever created, who’s the last one you’d ever expect to win an Oscar, it would be them. I first got into their music around the time of “Tear Da Club Up” and everytime I listen to their albums (a music format where one artist had a bunch of songs together, before the randomness of shuffling ipods) I always wonder, what are these guys smoking besides crack, are they on PCP or dust too, and what other crazy drugs are they taking that I don’t even know about. For years I’ve been lobbying for Project Pat to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the group as a whole winning the Oscar is just as amazing.

I thought that was pretty funny... so was their acceptance speech. The ol' boys at the Academy are probably saying; "OMG, a rap group?! What have we done??!!"

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Oh, that's what they were doing? I thought they were just idiots.

Yeah, more or less.
Peace.

I thought Jon Stewart was pretty good. The audience only didn't like him because he was making fun of them.

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Originally posted by Mike I thought Jon Stewart was pretty good. The audience only didn't like him because he was making fun of them.

That and they're shallow Hollywood folk. But yeah, Stewart rocked.

Getting back to the Silent Hill movie...



New Poster

Nice find, CT. And to add on to that, I found this little number:

Silent Hill Picture

God, you think Mariah Carey would have learned after Glitter. But hell no. Hell no.
Peace.

Mariah Carey... in a film? About brothers? And leukemia?
And... waitressing?

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DIGNITY A-SPLODE.

Theres no parallel between either of the poster images, and anything in the games. At least not that I can think of.

Having said this, they still absolutely work within the general atmosphere. I know everytime someone mentions this movie I'll remark how I'm growing surer and surer they've nailed it..but...yeah, it does look like they have.

*wonders when R&B/rapstars are going to stop trying to act*

Also nice SH poster, while it has nothing to do with the games, it does however fit the SH image.

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Originally posted by Gaddes *wonders when R&B/rapstars are going to stop trying to act*

Dude, I wonder the exact same thing a lot of the time. Give it up, Mariah and 50. Stick to and don't quit your day job, although your hardly any good at that either. Aha Ha!

The only rap stars I can think of the top of my head that were any good at both rapping and acting was Tupac and Mos Def. Everyone else can just go to hell.

Anyway... oh yeah, John Travolta's playing a drag in a movie for Scientology.

EDIT: Sorry, my bad. Change it. Thanks for the lookout.
Peace.

I didn't see the part in the article where it mentioned the movie being ABOUT scientology.

Which bothers me, since I was so ready to say "Nobody saw this the first time, when it was called 'Battlefield Earth' "

You took the words out of my mouth.

The article said it was a drag FOR Scientology, since apparently it(the aforementioned cult lie heresy cheesy sci-fi bullsh** on a stick belief system) is anti-gay.

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A recent Rolling Stone article about Scientology reports that its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, felt that gays “should be taken from … society as rapidly as possible” because “no social order will survive which does not remove these people from its midst.”

Yeah, that's a little harsh and it just makes all this Scientology (insert what Zaphod said so well here) look even more asinine and trite.

I liked this quote though that was in the second half of the paper;

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In a recent poll, more people said they’d rather spend the night with Saddam Hussein than the “Top Gun” star. Stuff magazine asked its readers who they would least like to share a camping tent with, and 41 percent chose the couch-jumping star.

The thing is, is that I have to agree with the majority here.
Peace.

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Yeah, that's a little harsh and it just makes all this Scientology (insert what Zaphod said so well here) look even more asinine and trite.

You'd think it would hit a point where it couldn't look any MORE stupid.

Then it surprises you.

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 quote: Yeah, that's a little harsh and it just makes all this Scientology (insert what Zaphod said so well here) look even more asinine and trite. You'd think it would hit a point where it couldn't look any MORE stupid. Then it surprises you.

Yeah, you would think so. I mean from Tom Cruise to spaceships to Tom Cruise jumpin' couches to their beef with medicine to Tom f***in' Cruise, you would think the boys in the drawing room couldn't think up of anything else. I think Scientology is way past the point of pathetic and rock-bottom, just going straight to hitting oil.

Anyway, on some news that has nothing to do with Scientology, there's going to be some adaptive prequels for Crouching Tiger (not sure about Hidden Dragon though) and it Looks like Jacko has to pull the plug on Neverland. And not for the reasons you're probably thinking of. Although, truth be told, those are probably the reasons why it should have been burned to the ground a long time ago.

EDIT: Oh, and Stephen King had Crash down for Best Picture but thinks that Brokeback, Capote, and the Squid and the Whale was a helluva lot better. Interesting read. Check it out here.
Peace.