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I was hoping Brokeback Mountain would win best picture but I haven't seen Crash yet so...

I also haven't seen Capote.

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I want to see Capote, it looks quite good.


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lets go Crash!!!

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Tom Hanks dropped the envelope when he handed the award to Ang-lee, haha.

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I think Three 6 Mafia got some bad words off.

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Personally I hated Crash, but it's nice to see some Canadians represent.

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Lame...I wanted to see Capote, Good Night, And Good Luck, Squid and the Whale, or Brokeback Mountain win more than Crash, but oh well, the Oscars never go as I please.

I thought Jon Stewart was pretty good though..I stayed up to watch this whole stupid show on UK time after all...

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I was glad Crash won, considering it was the only one of the nominations I actually saw, and it was a very powerful film...

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I'm not necessarily unhappy that Crash won, but I am certainly very surprised. Everyone expected either Capote or Brokeback Mountain to win. I never saw Capote, but Brokeback certainly deserved the Best Picture Oscar (I didn't see Crash, either, so I can't comment on whether it should or shouldn't have won).

The only award that I was happy/unhappy about was Reese Witherspoon's win for Best Actress. She really deserved that, and I think her speech was probably the best out of the whole show...


/mw shrugs and walks away

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I thought Brokeback was a good movie, but certainly not the best of the year. A lot of the hype for that movie was because of the controversy it made. Someone said, and I think it was Ebert, “even if people don’t look at Crash as the best movie now, I think 10 years down the line it will ring as a much more powerful movie than Brokeback.” I hacked that quote up, but I agree.

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Out of the top 5, I only saw Crash, and although I most certainly thought it was a pretty good movie, I doubt it was the best of the year. If so, then this years movies were pretty lackluster.

Crash was cool and all, but it wasnt really as moving and powerful as I expected it to be. I guessed most of the late revelations of the movie half way through so nothing was a shock.

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Capote was pretty good, actually.

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out of all the nominees, the only movies I had seen were Crash, and Hustle And Flow (best original music/best actor)

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I didn't see any of them. :) Only Narnia, did that win anything?

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I heard the exact opposite thing from another critic...He said something along the lines of "Yeah, people are going to be wondering about this one 5 years down the line. Brokeback will be considered classic along with Capote (because of Hoffmann's performance) and Good Night And Good Luck will be as well, but nobody will remember Crash."

Remember when Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan? Same kind of deal...Maybe neither of those are classics, but I bet people would think about Saving Private Ryan as a better movie than Shakespeare in Love.

Also, Chicago won a few years ago and I feel like nobody ever talks about that movie...Sometimes it's better not to be a Best Picture winner...

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Best make-up

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I like Saving Private Ryan so much better than Shakespeare In Love.... I've never seen Chicago, nor do I want to. Sounds to me like a cheap ripoff of Moulin Rouge. :)

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I typed a nice post but the server was too busy and now I don't want to retype it.
Edit: apperantly I did post my post....

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I just wanted to comment on Chicago. It was a thousand times better than Moulin Rouge. Better cinematography, better music, better plot (although that was already set) and better stage to screen adaptation.

I didn't really see many movies this year so I don't have much to say about this years awards.

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That's what you get for not copy and pasting every single post you type into a Word document file and saving it to your hard drive. :nono:

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Yeah, I really love Chicago too. The soundtrack is fantastic - the people they got working on it were really experts.

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Last week Stephen Colbert made his predictions and went 5 for 5

Video

amazing.

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I loved Moulin Rouge, one of my top 5 movies. In the same list as Amélie, Jurassic Park.... ehm maybe State Garden, I'm not sure yet.

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Was anyone else waiting for Lauren Bacall to say "and boom goes the dynamite"?

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It's Garden State :p

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Monologue
Jon Stewart's opening monologue

For those who dream....

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Oh hehe..... State Garden has such a better ring to it.... but Garden State probably makes more sense, they could mean the state the guy was in before he stopped taking his medicines. :)

So Munich didn't win anything? :(

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You said you only saw Narnia, you spoiler!

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Ha! Classic. That would have made her speech a whole lot less painful.

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garden State is a popular nickname for the state his home was in. New Jersey i believe

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Ah ok. Thanks. :) Man, I have to watch that movie again, this time with friends. The movie was never popular in Holland.....

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Crash was a great movie, Im glad it won.

Joaquin Phoenix deserved some sort of award, even though Hoffman had a tougher role. He was just so good in Walk the Line...I really wonder how many actors could have pulled off Johnny Cash the way he did...Reese certainly deserved her award, too.