The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Gladiator won. I was hoping for Traffic as Best Picture. Oh well....hopefully next year, Snatch wins.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I still need to see Traffic...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Cell took Gladiator hands down in Visual Effects, and Russel Crowe was so not Best Actor. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for Best Picture, I suppose, and the same with Julia Roberts being Best Actress (because I didn't see Erin Brokovich)...I still don't like it though.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I was happy they finished the telecast before midnight. And Steve Martin was quite amusing.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>The Cell didn't win best Visual Efffects because it wasn't nominated for it. Anyway, Hollow Man should've won it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I loved Snatch, but I don't think it's the type of movie that gets considered for best picture. Personally, I'm still bitter than Saving Private Ryan didn't win.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Erin Brokovich is a very good movie, you might be surprised.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I think the Cell got nominated for make-up...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yes it was. Cell, Gladiator, Perfect Storm, and Hollow Man</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, it looked pretty good. That's why I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Anyone else catch Julia Roberts' laugh?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Fell asleep halfway through her speech, woke up a couple hours later to see her leaving the stage : )</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Gladiator was the best, how could you NOT like that movie?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Bet you $100 Snatch doesn't get a single nomination save for Best Editing.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I thought Gladiator was really good. I didn't see any of the competition though ('cept CTHD)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I don't think Crowe deserved it for Gladiator. Maybe they're just making it up to him for The Insider and LA Confidential.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion, Modern; text-align: left; '>Gladiator was GREAT! W/O Crowe it wouldn't have been nearly as good</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion, Modern; text-align: left; '>Sometimes I put in the DVD just to watch the opening battle :)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Traffic's about twenty times better.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: justify; '>I agree. The visual effects in The Cell beat Gladiator any day of the week. Haven't seen much of the Best Picture nominees other than Gladiator or CTHD, so I'm not going to complain too much on that one.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Oh please. Against Geoffrey Rush in Quills, Ed Harris in Pollock, or Tom Hanks in Castaway?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>They have been a travesty for years</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I didn't see any of those movies... but they must've all given "just good" performances if Crowe won for Gladiator.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Well, I hafta say, she did do an amazing job in Erin Brokovich. As for best actor, I didn't see two of the movies for it (Pollock or Castaway) so I'm not sure. They apparently didn't wanna just hand it to Tom Hanks, as he'd be setting a record that way.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Well hell, the "prize" they gave for shortest speech (lowend HDTV set) is hardly appealing to anyone with a Hollywood salary. They may as well have given away a two-week-old loaf of bread.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>She won because she's Julia Roberts, not because of her acting.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>The was barely any acting in Cast Away, it was a stupid nomination.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Where on this page do you see it nominated?

<a href="http://mrshowbiz.go.com/features/oscars ... tml">Oscar Noms</a>

That's right it wasn't.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Did you even see the movie?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>Of course not, but can you honestly say you've seen all the other nominees' work? Some of those clips were touching (the same thing happened with the SAG awards).

Basically Julia Roberts has never really been in an acting role of 'nomination caliber' (let's pretend that concept truly exists) and this is probably the only time she'd ever enter it (said it herself). And she's loved by all American moviegoers for some reason.

But no, I have not seen the movie. Don't tell me you've never made a conscious, half-cocked statement such as this before, either. :)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>More than in Gladiator. Crowe had like 3 lines</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>I liked the movie, Erin Brokovich. But I didn't think it was Oscar calibre.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Lots of webpages have info on nominees contrary to whether or not they actually were one of the final 4-5. I found pages with Castaway and Dinosaur and Chicken Run placed in the visual effects category. Your page means nothing.

Did you actually <i>watch</i> the awards ceremony, Slappy? Because, unless I'm <i>completely</I> insane, I distinctly remember them announcing Cell as one of the nominees and showing a little footage, and I distinctly remember myself jeering the screen when Gladiator beat it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Then you're not qualified at all to say why she got the award. I'm not all that fond of her and think she's basicaly know for her smile, but she was REALLY good in that movie. I was more impressed with it than I was Gladiator.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You're saying it had no acting because he didn't interact much with other people, but that's not the case. I was very dissapointed with the movie, but Tom Hanks was incredible. Imagine trying to do everything he did.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Not everyone in the movie business is a millionaire</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Well....this is Hollywood. I'll keep my hundred bucks, thank you.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>I'm not her biggest fan, but that movie was good. And she was darned good in it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>I suppose it was Steven Soderbergh more than anything.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>But have you yourself seen any of the other nominees?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>I have great respect for him and the fact that he actually went to a remote island and lost weight, but I was very unimpressed with some of the acting in the movie . Like at the end where he reunites Helen Hunt. That scene just seemed horribly forced to me. And the delivery of the package to that woman (before the weak ending) was certainly not his best work, to say the least.

And on top of that, almost every interaction with Wilson seemed like a continual gag to me, he didn't quite sell me on insanity, although it was funny (the last scene with 'him' was the emotional best, however).

Do you evaluate every movie you see using this process? Heh.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>how about the OFFICIAL Oscar website...

<a href="http://oscar.com/nominees/nominees_home ... car.com</a>

Once again, it wasn't nominated. So you're clearly insane. ;)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>He talked more than that. Besides, there's more to acting than talking.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Argeed. It wasn't THAT good of a movie, and the acting was average. I'm still wondering why Titanic won anything those few years back. (At least last year's was pretty good.)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Over what?</div>

<div style='font: bold 12pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>Uhhhh.....</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Shakespeare In Love.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>You're kidding?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Nope, Shakespeare in Love got best picture over Saving Private Ryan.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>The HDTV's they give out go for $1700 retail. I know people on foodstamps who have one (no exaggeration).</div>