Crash into me

March 6, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized 

And the Oscar goes to…

1952 - “The Greatest Show on Earth” tops “High Noon” and “The Quiet Man”
1968 - “Oliver!” upsets “Funny Girl” and “The Lion in Winter”
1997 - “Titanic” steamrolls “L.A. Confidential”
1998 - “Shakespeare in Love” beats out “Elizabeth”, “Life is Beautiful”, “Saving Private Ryan”, and “The Thin Red Line”

- and adding to the injustices -

2005 - “Crash” robs “Brokeback Mountain,” “Capote,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and “Munich”

Okay, okay, okay… of this year’s Best Picture nominees, I’ve only seen “Brokeback” and “Crash”, so I maybe cannot be trully authoritative that “Crash” stole the award from the others, but I’m trusting the critics on this until I get a chance to see them. “Brokeback” had me holding back sobs in a packed theater for the whole second half of the movie (and I’m not someone who cries all that easily). It is the first and only movie for which I have ever signed up for an email notification of the DVD release date on Amazon.com.

I thought “Crash” was good, I watched it at my grandpa’s over the holidays (it was my brother’s copy) after it sat around there for a few weeks. After viewing, I considered buying the DVD for a few minutes before deciding it wasn’t worth it (and I have several hundred DVDs, so this IS saying something).

On a lighter note, Salma Hayek and Uma Thurman had awesome dresses. Eric Bana is really freakin’ sexy. Clive Owens too.

“Constant Gardner” is the Monday-night-English-language movie in Potsdam tonight. I’d like to see it, but I’ll probably wait till it comes on cable. I’m considering buying “A History of Violence” sight unseen. It sounds really good and I didn’t know Ed Harris was in it until yesterday, which means it probably IS really good.

I’m also really into the HBO series “Rome”, which is currently playing on pay-tv here. Last night was the episode where Caesar and Cleopatra got together. How is this series going over in the US? There’s an awful lot of male full frontal nudity (it’s about time!) and sex (this is perhaps a bit overdone).

Wow, Ang Lee’s brother was just on CNN International and he looks just like Ang. They also just reran the announcement of “Crash” as Best Picture and this reminds me that the lady in the orange strapless dress made a bad choice (I think she’s wife of the director - ???). She looked like she was about to fall out of her dress all night. It’s just not elegant to be pulling up your top every time you’re on camera.

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