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Author Topic: Academy Awards 2006 Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-05-2006 10:31 PM                     Well that was forgetful!  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 03-05-2006 10:37 PM                     As Reese Witherspoon was thanking everyone that had ever come into contact with a member of her family, I could just imaging what was going across the prompter: >10 seconds >Wrap it up >Wrap it please >FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WRAP IT UP!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-05-2006 10:41 PM                     The High Definition was respectably good this year. I will remember that part of it. Mark  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-05-2006 10:49 PM                        I only watched the last part of it, and while the HD picture was pretty good, the Dolby Digital EX HD TRU X-TREME MACH 5 sound sucked ass! The movie clips leaned to the right side, and they forgot to turn on the left surround. Lots of clapping through the right surround, though (and sometimes none up front). Whoever was responsible for the sound deserves a nasty sunburn in the face and the resulting skin cancer. I muted Reese Witherspoon after about 5 seconds (as I did with everyone, because who cares what they have to say? Seriously! These are actors, not human beings). I saw her there ramble on and and and on. Her face is now burned into my CRT TV, but her ever-moving lips sure aren't!  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 03-05-2006 10:56 PM                        Oh, was that tonight? Edit: Okay, I guess it was. I strike my earlier comment in the 2006 nominee thread wherein I stated my status as Not Giving A Crap. I revise my position by saying I'm very pleased that Wallace & Gromit took the Animated Feature. Take THAT, Burton! I just saw Walk The Line last night, and while I cannot confirm or deny Witherspoon's "rightful" claim to the prize, she was darn cute in that film, the whole darned time! The southern twang in 'er voice came off caricaturish more times than not, but it fit her personality.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-05-2006 11:09 PM                        quote: Well that was forgetful! I thought it was more "forgettable."  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-05-2006 11:16 PM                        I never heard of "Crash" until yesterday. In fact "Brokeback Mountain" was the only nominee that I had ever heard of ever. What a crappy selection! Movies I have not heard of do not deserve to be nominated for anything. When that John Woo guy won for best director I couldn't believe it. That guy has never made a good movie. That Crouching Tiger shit was one of the worst pieces of crap I'd ever seen. I hate him. How can the actors understand him when he is trying to direct? I suppose they just guess as to what they should be doing, yet Woo gets all of the credit since he is the director, technically.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-05-2006 11:17 PM                     Yeah, I agree, this was a sub-par year -at least in terms of the quality of the actual Oscars telecast. I think Jon Stewart did a better job hosting than Chris Rock or David Letterman (and the intro showing all the previous hosts declining the job was really funny); however, Jon wasn't quite at the top of his game. The material was a bit watered down for safety. And the audience had a collective stick up its ass. So even some of the good jokes fell flat. While the group of honored films had a collectively more political tone, they all sort of had a blah kind of feel as well. It sure wasn't a Titanic versus L.A. Confidential kind of thing. Most of the results on Oscar winners were extremely predictable. When the Oscars are preceeded by the DGA awards, SAG awards and other ceremonies by the time the Oscars roll around you already know who is going to win. However, I was pretty surprised Crash took the Best Picture honor instead of Brokeback Mountain. It was pretty funny when the rap group (whoever they were, I forget) won the Best Song Oscar. They're rappers. They talk fast. They rhyme. But dammit, their acceptance speech was gibberish. Just unintelligible rambling with marbles in the mouths. quote: Joe Redifer When that John Woo guy won for best director I couldn't believe it. That guy has never made a good movie. I'm not a big Ang Lee fan. But he's a damned sight better than John Woo. I don't get the fascination with the whole John Woo action movie style. Just my opinion, but I think it's bullshit filmmaking. Calling Ang Lee a name like John Woo is quite the put down! Hehe.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 03-05-2006 11:31 PM                        I promise that if, for some reason, I win an Oscar, I'm going to thank all the people who have/are working at a movie theater. But other than that.... The girl who won for best make-up for Narnia is from my home town, Peoria IL.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-05-2006 11:31 PM                        Oh yeah. Angry Lee. How the hell am I supposed to know? It is far easier to stereotype all bad Asian directors into a simple John Woo (since he is king of Asia). Didn't he also direct some crap movie about women who get along, then they get into a tipsy fit, and then they get along again? What a great director.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-05-2006 11:52 PM                    Sounds like I didn't miss much.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-06-2006 12:04 AM                    The big surprise out of the whole thing was Crash winning best picture. I even think Jack was surprised. I have to say though I liked that movie when I saw it way back last summer sometime there bouts.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-06-2006 12:11 AM                     Now, we can put the "BB" thing behind us and it will soon all but be forgotten.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 03-06-2006 12:23 AM                        I'm just glad it didn't take long to end.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-06-2006 02:13 AM                     I did not watch the Awards at all. The only thing that interested me was the Memorial Tribute that I just happened to catch as I was flipping channels. Unless I missed something all together, Al Lewis, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver were not mentioned.  |  IP: Logged

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