Comments on: Academy Award Winners

By: butlimous

butlimous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:45:03 +0000

Thanks for your nice entry. All of those whom you stated REALLY desreve the awards. Thank you again!

By: [deXter]

[deXter] — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:44:13 +0000

I actually liked the whole global warming “agenda”. So what if its Al Gore, atleast one politician is taking this issue seriously. Publicize it on a popular platform like the Oscars, and you have instant awareness.

I’m very disappointed with the Bush administration for not agreeing with the Kyoto Protocol, while its known that a majority of Americans support it.

“In March 2001, after reneging on a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, President George W. Bush announced his administration’s opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 international accord setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions. In renouncing the protocol, the president and members of his administration have used a number of seriously flawed arguments.”

From Wikipedia:

“On August 31, 2006, the California Legislature reached an agreement with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions, which rank at 12th-largest in the world, by 25 percent by the year 2020. This resulted in the Global Warming Solutions Act which effectively puts California in line with the Kyoto initiative.

As of January 18, 2007, 369 US cities in 50 states, representing more than 55 million Americans support Kyoto after Mayor Greg Nickels of Seattle started a nationwide effort to get cities to agree to the protocol.”

By: J

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:07:31 +0000

Apocalypto was a great movie, but the Academy is probably full of Jews…
…and sugar tits.

By: Bonkie

Bonkie — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:01:53 +0000

An Inconvenient Truth gets an Oscar? Just Hollywood promoting their Agenda(s) – global warming and Al Gore.

While Jennifer Hudson has a set of pipes she is not an actress yet. Grammy yes but Oscar no. Don’t understand how Rinko Kikuchi, the deaf-mute girl in Babel, could not win for her amazing performance.

By: fy

fy — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:29:22 +0000

@joey, my first impression of departed was exactly like that– total ripoff of IA. but then rewatching it a few times you appreciate how scorsese reworked it, retaining only key scenes and modifying others to make the plot stronger. @Sammy dude, babel was totally weak. if u havent seen hyperlink cinema before try syriana or 21 grams. hell even crash was better than babel. scorsese deserved the award, there were really no strong contenders in that category. i mean departed was way better than GONY and aviator so there’s no question about it being a giveaway. if you want humorous consider o’ toole who’s now what, 74, with 8 noms and no wins, more than any actor ever. his venus performance was weak but i thought they’d still give it to the guy instead of a first-timer like whitaker. fwiw i think the oscars did a pretty good job this year

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:31:01 +0000

IMO the Babel should been the winner as Best Movie. The Departed was not that good. Only good is that Scorsese got now his Oscar and they can give up on blabla about it in next coming years, it was already on humorous scale. Maybe it was prank that they got him waiting it so long , heh. He has many good movies, but though not my favourite director.

By: Salicious

Salicious — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:08:11 +0000

Children of Men deserved cinematography at least.

By: Markieman234

Markieman234 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:50:07 +0000

Awesome that Das Leben Der Anderen won Best International..
but where is the torrent of the awards? Was gonna download and watch and be surprised with the results as opposed to reading them here, but as from what I can see heres no scene release, just some random low quality MPEG2 cap of them on the Pirate Bay that will take a day to finish (TPB has terrible DL speeds), it just wasn’t worth the wait.

By: robert

robert — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:48:53 +0000

I am so glad Laberinto del Fauno received awards at Oscars. It deserved even the best film.Also Das Leben der Anderen is a great movie but I guess u really have to live in Europe especially Central Europe to understand the movie and fully apreciate it.
Jennifer Hudson wow, “U will love me….”

By: ZV

ZV — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:46:10 +0000

Yeah, what happened to Apocalypto? That movie was SOOO good, I did’nt want to like it, comming from that racist Mel Gibson but
it was good. Forest Whitaker is the man, very good for a movie nobody saw that much. Pan’s Labyrinth was GREAT, but not what I expected. I expected to see much more of a fantasy world, but there were only a couple scenes of that. If you saw the commercials for the movie, you basically saw all the special effects. Infernal Affairs is still the standard, nice of us Americans to take a foreign movie and have it get best movie.

By: joey

joey — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:22:51 +0000

I was pretty pissed off that The Departed won since it is a complete knockoff from INFERNAL AFFAIRS in 2002. How can a film win when it was copied off about 90% of the original story. Only thing I was happy about was that forest whitaker won something finally. Great actor in my opionion of the least.

Apocalypto should have at least won something, the acting was great in that movie. The oscar people just don’t want to give the spanish immigrants an award. lol just my food of though.

By: fy

fy — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:55:22 +0000

prestige is to illusionist as capote was to infamous. acting in illusionist was remarkable (oh and jessica biel was just heavensent) but the emotional and narrative richness pales when compared to the prestige. LMS was a sweet charmer with a very simple vehicle (pun): everything is about character development. there is the delightful quirkiness you find in many similar small films these days, like napoleon dynamite: it is quirky comedy, not LOL-comedy. the departed was an awesome movie. if you’d seen infernal affairs, you’d appreciate how scorsese made the story his own: departed was very stylized and tight in terms of narrative. personally, i’d say it was better than goodfellas (at least, the ending of TD was more fulfilling: it rounded a lota things up).

i was actually surprised they snubbed o-toole of best actor. thought they’d give it to him as a pity award. he now holds the distinction of having the most # of noms (8) without having won. i dont think venus was even widely distributed; of course it didn’t help that the subject matter will probably be considered bad taste by most viewers.

pan’s labyrinth and children of men, tho undoubtedly impressive, really just hallmarked a few elements. there’s the ending scene in PL (which makes up for–and explains– the somewhat boring narrative leading up to this point) and the backdrop futuristic setting in COM (whose plot lacks depth). there’s also of course the cinematography in both films, which is truly astounding, and for which one of em is bound to win. as for best language, das leben der anderen wasnt even that good, but was mos def better than any of the contenders, including PL (storywise at least).

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:50:22 +0000

the only funny point of little miss sunshine was the last dance part

By: Transie

Transie — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:36:09 +0000

little miss sunshine was the biggest disappointment ever

By: guy106

guy106 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:58:32 +0000

Most were deserved, but still not surprised with the political awards. I wonder when they’ll actually start asking the people who go and see these movies