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After 20 years, Michelle Williams is just as confused as the rest of us by a major Academy Award injustice.
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Brokeback Mountain was a much better movie than Crash.
Both movies suffer from making societal statements, Crash about race and Brokeback Mountain about acceptance of homosexuality.
Both movies were nominated so we could pat ourselves on the back. Neither movie was particularly good.
Great points!
And Stanley Kubrick never won shit. These award shows are nonsense. Just the industry jerking itself off.
Had a boss at a video star joke often that the reason Titanic won so many awards including best picture was because everybody in Hollywood worked on the damn thing and they weren’t going to not vote for their own work.
Not necessarily running that movie down but there were a lot of really goddamn good movies that came out that year that got absolutely no attention whatsoever.
It’s even worse than that. The Oscars began as a tool to prevent unionization in the film industry.
Every time someone would mention Crash I would be confused and think about the weird late 90s movie about people getting it on in crashed cars I saw a trailer for once
I saw that movie! A Cronenberg movie. I usually like his movies, but that one wasn’t very good.
20 years ago i was ten, and both of these movies were boring and sad. I was too busy ripping beyblades, trading yugioh card, playin smash bros, and rewatching the cinematic masterpiece and tour de force that is The Mummy, starring the Brendan Fraser, for my autistic bedtime ritual…every. single. night. and so i could not give one single fuck about some lame ass award show for rich people, or how they felt about its outcome afterwards.
however, watched both films once, enjoyed them enough. and much like virtually every award grabbing drama film, they dont really have a rewatch factor to me. they get 3 big booms, out 5.
The Shawshank Redemption would also like a word.
I mean it was a good year for movies overall
In addition to Shawshank there was Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction it was up against.
The real tragedy was Saving Private Ryan losing it to fucking Shakespeare in Love 🤮
Wait is that fucking true? That total bullshit. I couldn’t get through 3 minutes of that Shakespeare movie.
Forrest Gump was a terrible movie. It’s just boomer masturbation.
Including some pretty relentless bigotry and whitewashing pretending to be inclusive.
It wasn’t a terrible movie in my opinion but it was absolutely a boomer masturbation.
Goodfellas: (clears throat)
Easy, awards aren’t granted on technical or creative merit as often as they are praising the people and institutions the award electors prefer.
The extra quotation mark in this headline is confusing.
