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Wonder why Brokeback Mountain didn't win the Oscar for best picture?

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Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Crash won the Screen Actors Guild award for Best Ensemble Cast (an equivalent of Best Picture). Actors are the biggest voting block in the Academy. Crash is also set in LA and had a huge marketing campaign for the award.

It's pretty common for scripts to languish for quite a while, too.

You are right... Hollywood isn't liberal... I mean, they just voted for a movie about racism and prejudice, a theme common in Brokeback Mountain as well. 😕 Both movies were showered with awards and nominations.
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Wow.....the answer (or most of it anyway) is six posts in on this thread and I don't think anyone realized it.

The marketing for the award is as important, if not moreso, than the quality of the film itself. A great case in point: Shakespeare in Love winning against Saving Private Ryan in the 1999 Academy Awards. SIL was an inferior and forgettable film in just about every respect yet the incredible pre-awards marketing and smoozing done by Miramax (namely Harvey Weinstein) caused it to carry the day.
 
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Vic
How about your obvious prejudices towards straights?
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You also might benefit from watching this film. Might help you overcome your neurotic, uptight attitudes re: sexuality and sex.
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I think you are mentally ill at this point. Vic is about as socially liberal and pro-individual rights as you can get. I doubt his hangups are the problem. Yours are.
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the funny thing about you is that you seem to believe you are somehow better than all of the other homophobic morons on this forum, when in fact you're no different at all 🙂
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Nice strawman.

You want to be victim. You want to feel like an outcast. That's why you make these threads or interject your commentary into threads -- even unrelated threads -- so that someone can disagree and you can feel like a victim. It isn't that you made 4 or 5 threads (in addition to MANY MANY MANY other threads on the Film), it is that everyone here is anti-gay. Nope. There are some homophobes and gay bashers here. That's for sure. But that's not why you have a problem in all these threads. You have a problem because you want one. You want to feel like a victim and incite negative comments. That's why you are unyielding and childish in your outlandish responses, and that's why you bash anyone that doesn't 100% agree with you. If you even slightly compromised or read your own threads, you'd find that people don't disagree with gay rights or disagree that there's a gay backlash in many mediums, but that your delivery is so horribly nasty and ignorant that you make people not care. You make people despise your posts and your persona because you WANT that. If you didn't, then it wouldn't be hard to reflect on yourself, and realize that while some comments may be because you are gay, at least 90% are because you act like an ass. That's your crutch. If someone says something it is because you are gay. If someone doesn't like your view of an issue it is because you are gay. If someone doesn't like your movie review it is because you are gay. No. It is because you are an uncompromising and pompous ass.
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exactly

i couldn't have said it better myself
 
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: OdiN
Probably because the movie was gay. It sucked. It blew.
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You get the multiple repeating redundancy award. 😀
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If I don't get best poster award then it's rigged and biased against me because I'm straight.
 
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: OdiN
Probably because the movie was gay. It sucked. It blew.
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You get the multiple repeating redundancy award. 😀
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If I don't get best poster award then it's rigged and biased against me because I'm straight.
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you homophobe
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Who says only straights can be homophobes?
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you're a homophobe because you dont agree with my viewpoint.
 
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: OdiN
Probably because the movie was gay. It sucked. It blew.
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You get the multiple repeating redundancy award. 😀
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If I don't get best poster award then it's rigged and biased against me because I'm straight.
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you homophobe
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Who says only straights can be homophobes?
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you're a homophobe because you dont agree with my viewpoint.
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I tihnk you're both homophobes.
 
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: OdiN
Probably because the movie was gay. It sucked. It blew.
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You get the multiple repeating redundancy award. 😀
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If I don't get best poster award then it's rigged and biased against me because I'm straight.
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you homophobe
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Who says only straights can be homophobes?
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you're a homophobe because you dont agree with my viewpoint.
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But what am I if I agree with your viewpoint AND I dislike homos? 😕


 
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
I was also kinda pissed that the director of the movie was obviously pissed afterwards like he thought he was guaranteed the win. I hate when people think that way/
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The movie was about gay cowboys, but it left off the part where they should have been eating pudding. Hence, why it lost for best picture.
 
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: OdiN
Probably because the movie was gay. It sucked. It blew.
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You get the multiple repeating redundancy award. 😀
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If I don't get best poster award then it's rigged and biased against me because I'm straight.
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you homophobe
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Who says only straights can be homophobes?
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you're a homophobe because you dont agree with my viewpoint.
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But what am I if I agree with your viewpoint AND I dislike homos? 😕
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then aidanjm's brain is going to explode because he doesnt know what to do when people admit things that agree with his view point.
 
Originally posted by: Phil
Maybe it's because a movie about gay cowboys eating pudding isn't worthy of the award.
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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Phil
Maybe it's because a movie about gay cowboys eating pudding isn't worthy of the award.
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NO WAI!
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Wai.
Poor aidanjm. He must cry himself to sleep every night, sobbing about the vicious attacks on teh gay community and cowboys.
 
Originally posted by: bamacre
Originally posted by: Phil
Maybe it's because a movie about gay cowboys eating pudding isn't worthy of the award.
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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
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I'm just saying, is all... 😀
 
Originally posted by: Phil
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: Phil
Maybe it's because a movie about gay cowboys eating pudding isn't worthy of the award.
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NO WAI!
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Wai.
Poor aidanjm. He must cry himself to sleep every night, sobbing about the vicious attacks on teh gay community and cowboys.
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i think he jerks off because he thinks he can get more and more sympathy the more and more he feels the gay community is oppressed.
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: mugs
Didn't you post a thread COMPLAINING about the movie after you saw it? 😕
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It's not wonderful. But it is certainly superior to Crash.
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sorry. you felt that way, but obviously others didnt.

and could you post a MORE bias source?

Bay Windows: New England's Largest LGBT Newspaper...

LGBT... Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite???

honestly, you are a homosexual, we get it. stop pushing it in our face and trying to make us feel the same way you do. i know some gay's i respect them. but not ONE of them pushes the fact that he is gay in my face.

please get over yourself already, you give the gay community a bad name.
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my vote for best gay themed film from 2005 would be Garcon Stupide (Stupid Boy) - a movie about a young guy's search for indentity/ purpose/ love. It has lots of explicit gay sex (lots of nice c0ck shots) and the young guy is very cute. But it explores a deeper theme of meaning from relationships as opposed to casual sex. Someone like you might actually benefit from watching this film, it might help you overcome your many prejudices.
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So to you...a "best film" winner would have to have lots of c0cks and gay sex? Forget plot and all the rest of that drivel.
 
Originally posted by: OdiN
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: mugs
Didn't you post a thread COMPLAINING about the movie after you saw it? 😕
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It's not wonderful. But it is certainly superior to Crash.
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sorry. you felt that way, but obviously others didnt.

and could you post a MORE bias source?

Bay Windows: New England's Largest LGBT Newspaper...

LGBT... Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite???

honestly, you are a homosexual, we get it. stop pushing it in our face and trying to make us feel the same way you do. i know some gay's i respect them. but not ONE of them pushes the fact that he is gay in my face.

please get over yourself already, you give the gay community a bad name.
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my vote for best gay themed film from 2005 would be Garcon Stupide (Stupid Boy) - a movie about a young guy's search for indentity/ purpose/ love. It has lots of explicit gay sex (lots of nice c0ck shots) and the young guy is very cute. But it explores a deeper theme of meaning from relationships as opposed to casual sex. Someone like you might actually benefit from watching this film, it might help you overcome your many prejudices.
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So to you...a "best film" winner would have to have lots of c0cks and gay sex? Forget plot and all the rest of that drivel.
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:laugh:
 
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