Crash
Crash
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
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broadwayboy1939
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/05
peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#11re: Crash
Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:39pmTomorrow, it'll be the move that stopped BROKEBACK. 6 months from now, the movie everyone rented and couldn't finish. A year from now, 'WTF? 5 years from now, this year's GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. It's still a hodgepodge of SHORT CUTS, MAGNOLIA, and a at its heart, a wannabe NASHVILLE (without NASHVILLE's entertainment value.)
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#13re: Crash
Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:40pm
Yes, I've a personal bias. I wish "Brokeback Mountain" would have won Best Picture, but I'm not denying "Crash" was an amazing film. "Crash" had a more all-encompassing theme for many more audiences whereas "Brokeback" had a more personal message. Both powerful and landmark films.
SweetQintheLights: "Crash" won Best Picture when a large amount of the viewing audience was expecting "Brokeback Mountain" to win. I am making a metaphor to the Tonys 2003 awards when "Avenue Q" won Best Musical when much of the audience thought "Wicked" would win.
Both movies and both musicals are fantastic with important social and political issues.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
TheaterAddict7652
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
#15re: Crash
Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:41pm
I really liked Crash, but I thought Brokeback Mountain deserved to win. There have been lots of movies about racism that have won the Acadamy Award, but there has never been a movie with predominatly gay themes that has won.
But, whatever. I agree with Cruel_Sandwich, Brokeback still will have higher cultural significance and is much more likely to be remembered as a good and grounbreaking movie in thirty or forty years.
#16re: Crash
Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:41pm
He made EVERYTHING about race. NOT every decision someone makes is about race. It was almost laughable.
But it had some good moments.
Some amazing ones actually.
But overall, mediocre.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#17re: Crash
Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:42pm
Your post confuses me, Auggie. But I agree with the first part. Who still talks about Million Dollar Baby???
But for the moment, I'm so proud of the little film that could.
"There have been lots of movies about racism that have won the Acadamy Award, but there has never been a movie with predominatly gay themes that has won."
--And we should just give them an award for that?? The Academy hasn't given a BP oscar to a film about dancing toads but that doesn't mean the first person who tackles the project needs a golden statue. That's harsh, I know, it's just how I feel.
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#24re: Crash
Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:47pm
What little film that could? Weren't they all, basically? In that sense, you have to say, if you are being fair (and who among us is?) it was a good night for everyone, except GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK. And tally wise, it looks like KING KONG won as many, though not in any significant way.
I stand by my feeling that BROKEBACK will be the most famous loser in a 20 year period. The film that "peaked early," and won everything but Hollywood's ultimately imprimatur. And I agree with all posts that suggest BROKEBACK's ultimate profile will transcend tonight's loss.
It will be MORE famous tomorrow for losing, which I posted here about a month ago, when many people, to be fair, posted that CRASH would take the big one.
Those of you depressed about BROKEBACK's loss: Remember, ALL ABOUT EVE and SUNSET BLVVD didn't win Best Picture either. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH did.
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