WHen I viewed Crash, I had no clue as to what it was about. All i knew was it had a large cast. I thought it was going to be about car crashes. Once I realized that was not going to be the case, I was much more interested. Though that interest faded quickly. I got the points it tried to convey. The problem I had was out of all the individual storylines, there were only 2 that I cared about. That was the one with the little girl and the magic cap or whatever it was. The other was the Ryan Phillippe/Terence Howard story. All of the characters annoyed me to the point I just couldn't bring myself to care about them. Also it jumped around way to much, which took all of the impact that the film could have had away from me.
I could not identify with anyone, and by the time it was over I just wanted to kill Paul Haggis for making such a horrble film.
But I can commend the film for at least trying to hit at something that needed to be done.
Brokeback Mountain, was just as lame to me. As a gay man myself, I could not bring myself to care about anyone in it either. Except for maybe Jack. I know it was a different time, and it was much harder. Still they all made their own choices and just because they were "So in Love" and chose to lead a straight life, I can't have sympathy for that. Ennis' wife was also someone who annoyed me. If you saw your husband making out with some guy, you wouldn't keep your mouth shut about it.
In the end neither of these films should have won best picture, sadly the movie that should have gotten it, was overly overlooked by the academy.
Ooh, what movie do you think that was? I'm extremely interested to know.
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Ennis' wife was also someone who annoyed me. If you saw your husband making out with some guy, you wouldn't keep your mouth shut about it.
I commented on this in my BBM post (which you should read, I think you'd like it, the link is in this post). I think that that was 100% percent a sign of the times. Completely and all the way. There's no way that a woman of that era would ever question her husband about an issue like that unless she was ready to completely end things which of course she was.
One of the successes of BBM was that it caused you to really think and rationalize things like that. I believe that it deserved the nomination, but I think it picked the wrong year you know?
Once I realized that was not going to be the case, I was much more interested. Though that interest faded quickly. I got the points it tried to convey. The problem I had was out of all the individual storylines, there were only 2 that I cared about.
That was the one with the little girl and the magic cap or whatever it was.
The other was the Ryan Phillippe/Terence Howard story.
All of the characters annoyed me to the point I just couldn't bring myself to care about them.
Also it jumped around way to much, which took all of the impact that the film could have had away from me.
I could not identify with anyone, and by the time it was over I just wanted to kill Paul Haggis for making such a horrble film.
But I can commend the film for at least trying to hit at something that needed to be done.
Brokeback Mountain, was just as lame to me. As a gay man myself, I could not bring myself to care about anyone in it either. Except for maybe Jack.
I know it was a different time, and it was much harder. Still they all made their own choices and just because they were "So in Love" and chose to lead a straight life, I can't have sympathy for that.
Ennis' wife was also someone who annoyed me. If you saw your husband making out with some guy, you wouldn't keep your mouth shut about it.
In the end neither of these films should have won best picture, sadly the movie that should have gotten it, was overly overlooked by the academy.
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Ennis' wife was also someone who annoyed me. If you saw your husband making out with some guy, you wouldn't keep your mouth shut about it.
I commented on this in my BBM post (which you should read, I think you'd like it, the link is in this post). I think that that was 100% percent a sign of the times. Completely and all the way. There's no way that a woman of that era would ever question her husband about an issue like that unless she was ready to completely end things which of course she was.
One of the successes of BBM was that it caused you to really think and rationalize things like that. I believe that it deserved the nomination, but I think it picked the wrong year you know?
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Heh, I'll have to see what you mean. Hmm... you're fun Jayden.
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I try to be fun.
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