Was I right about Crash or what?

[Julius Seeker]

It won best picture, what do you say about the Canadian film industry now? =)


The other big winners were Memoirs of a Geisha and Kong.

[Blotus]

Crash was the only nominated film I saw and if its win is any indication, the rest of the movies must blow (I know they didn't).

Fuck Crash. I haven't heard so many people back a shitty movie since Garden State.

[Julius Seeker]

Crash was the only nominated film I saw and if its win is any indication, the rest of the movies must blow (I know they didn't).

Fuck Crash. I haven't heard so many people back a shitty movie since Garden State.

Yeah, yeah, whatever =)

I still absolutely love the movie, certainly my favourite of the year. I'm happy to see it getting all the critical recognition it has been receiving.

[Eric]

Crash Bandicoot?!

[Ishamael]

Suprised by the hate for Crash. I just thought it was decent. I haven't seen any of the others. I know BL is probably a big Brokeback and Capote fan.

[SineSwiper]

I really liked Crash myself. Can't vouch for Brokeback Mt, so I'm not going to make the usual gay jokes about it since it's probably a really good movie. (Ang Lee doing another love story, as he should.)

[Julius Seeker]

One thing about Crash is that it is a great example of how a movie can do big things without a massive budget. The same thing was said about American Beauty and its 15 million dollar budget. Crash's budget was only 6.5 million dollars.

[SineSwiper]

Actually, a majority of Oscar winners aren't exactly big budget. After all, the Oscars doesn't usually reward the action flicks.

[Julius Seeker]

Actually, a majority of Oscar winners aren't exactly big budget. After all, the Oscars doesn't usually reward the action flicks.

I think I remember reading that almost all the other movies that have won in the past 15 years have had a 30M+ budget. 6.5 million is next to nothing in comparison; I can't think of any other major winners who have a budget below 10 million dollars in films from our generation. But yeah, a lot of the big actiontype movies have a massive 80-150 million dollar budget, a few as high as 200M.

[Zeus]

I really liked Crash myself. Can't vouch for Brokeback Mt, so I'm not going to make the usual gay jokes about it since it's probably a really good movie. (Ang Lee doing another love story, as he should.)

I'm VERY curious if there's a scene where they eat pudding in Brokeback

[Ishamael]

I really liked Crash myself. Can't vouch for Brokeback Mt, so I'm not going to make the usual gay jokes about it since it's probably a really good movie. (Ang Lee doing another love story, as he should.)

I'm VERY curious if there's a scene where they eat pudding in Brokeback

LOL! This point begs the question - how can a movie win Best Picture if freakin' Cartman predicted it on "South Park" 8 years ago? Just doesn't seem right.

[Torgo]

I'm also baffled by all the hate for Crash. I haven't seen the other nominees, but when I saw Crash I pretty much knew it would be a strong contender.