Comments on: A.k.a. Dummy Awards (updated)

By: sy

sy — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:09:01 +0000

A friend best summed it when he said "Somewhere,PT Anderson is crying himself to sleep knowing that a Magnolia ripoff walked away with the oscar."

Aw, poor guy. Maybe he shouldn't have ripped off Altman's "Short Cuts".

By: BOON

BOON — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:40:07 +0000

"Oh, and note to Clooney - making a movie about McCarthyism 50 years after the fact is not bravery. I eagerly await his timely take on the Teapot Dome scandal."

"In the current political climate, when the ability of the press to hold the government accountable is under attack, the movie was timely if not brave."

Exactly.

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:32:44 +0000

I think when you attach the word "pimp" to something it conjures up images of Snoop Dogg with some wicked curl and a long fur coat, but the reality of it as shown in the movie is very unglamorous and not fun at all for anyone involved.

that was one of the reasons that quentin tarantino listed 'hustle and flow' as 1 of his top 5 movies of the year.

By: turbanhead

turbanhead — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:14:45 +0000

A friend best summed it when he said “Somewhere,PT Anderson is crying himself to sleep knowing that a Magnolia ripoff walked away with the oscar.”

By: Fei

Fei — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:35:55 +0000

M. Night Shyamalan’s movies are boring as hell…..just because the “Surprise!?” thing worked once, it doesn’t mean that it will work over and over again. I feel that he pretty much screwed himself up by doing the same thing over and over again….and over again.

By: sahej

sahej — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:22:18 +0000

even though not having seen Hustle and Flow, my reaction to it was multi-facted…one thing i thought was that it’d be nice when african american movies portraying more generally positive life styles get nominations as well. there’s so much out there about african american culture as with all cultures to portray, we could be getting realyl good movies. seeing a more broad picture of african american culture has been quite eye opening over the years as to how much there is that gets missed by the mainstream portrayals. its like the portrayal you see in movies and rap videos is like all you see about african americans but there’s so much that just gets completely missed. those who are not african american miss out because of it as well as those who are african american

By: dhaavak

dhaavak — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:58:45 +0000

it's an antidote to all the crashes in the world and will make you fall in love again with friends and family.

ok. i sounded like a ball of asiago there, a BIG ball. beam me up oprah.

By: Pattie Kaur

Pattie Kaur — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:33:58 +0000

Pattie Kaur - Is there any man you don't find attractive or cute?

yes.....many...but i prefer to stick the positives. woever, we'll just say i'm not too fond of nsync or backstreet boys, and rappers.

By: dhaavak

dhaavak — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:44:07 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t say it was uncomfortable scenes that made it a bad movie. I think we need those uncomfortable scenes once in while, sans the shock just for shock’s sake aspect.

yea… shock for shock’s state summarizes the whole movie – a sequence of painful events pulled together to rationalize every wicked, depraved act out there.
ok.. but just to share what happens when someone takes the same idea of people crisscrossing paths in a lifetime and creates something wonderful… i finished albom’s “five persons …” on a plane ride the other day… it’s an antidote to all the crashes in the world and will make you fall in love again with friends and family.

By: metric ang

metric ang — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:02:53 +0000

ne needs to have masochistic tendencies to think that's entertainment

Well, I wouldn't say it was uncomfortable scenes that made it a bad movie. I think we need those uncomfortable scenes once in while, sans the shock just for shock's sake aspect.

Like someone else said, it didn't tie anything together, there was no point, and it addressed the race issue really simplistically. I can't believe that anyone would think this a complex, multidimensional film!