The envelope, please...
...or maybe not. Should I comment on the Academy Awards? I mean, I'm pretty apathetic, really. Well, OK, just one comment:
I'm glad that B*****ck Mountin' didn't win Best Picture.
Update! Hilarious B*****ck spoof.
Tip o' the 'do rag to Hankmeister...
posted by camojack | 07:21
29 Comments:
ME 2!!
I didn't watch it just because of all the fuss they were making about this movie.
Well, OK, I admit it, the other reason is , it's freakin boring to watch a bunch of overpaid actors/actresses try to tell us how we don't fit in with their so-call make believe world!!
I feel much better. Thanks Jack!!
I agree with you, its a waste of good time. The only thing good thing about "Brokeback" is the string of jokes here at work.
kwl:
I don't remember ever watching the Academy Awards, because as you said: freakin' boring.
Oh, and you're quite welcome.
Libby Gone™:
There've been a lot of jokes about "Brokeback"; there was a slideshow at my last caving club meeting where a bunch of guys dressed in lingerie for a picture underground...when I saw it, I asked them if that was beneath Brokeback Mountain.
onlineanalyst:
A "collection of self-absorbed, self-congratulatory shells of humanity posturing as significant", really sums it all up quite well.
Maggie:
The yellow would be a preview; you have to publish it after that appears.
Actually, "Crash" was well done, but depressing. Not what I go to movies for, but they sent me a free DVD...
I was going to do a satire on the results but I am rather sick of hearing about Oscar. To much media claptrap
I didn't watch the Oscars, and yes, I'm glad that "Brokeback" didn't win, in spite of the best efforts of the LSM/PC/LIB crowd! It used to mean something to win an Academy Award...just as it used to mean something to win a Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer. Now they just hand these things out to whomever is the biggest KOOK! [Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, George Clooney, etc]
Speaking of meaningless awards, how 'bout that Acadamy handing out the Oscar for "Best Song" to some imbecilic rap group for the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp?" Of all the idiotic things...THAT song was the "best!" Hysterical! What a bunch of morons!
Yesterday, on Laura Ingraham's radio show, she was totally ridiculing this song and the fact that it had won! Several African-Americans were calling in to complain about this song winning, because it's a stereotypical glorification of criminal behavior on the part of blacks. One guy said "it's hard out here for a parent!", as he's trying to raise his children amongst the "influences" of this cultural wasteland. Yet another example of rendering the Oscars completely irrelevant!
If I have to see two cowboys kissing, I think I'll hurl chunks. I know it's acting, and I know a little bit about male bonding, but the combination is repulsive.
Did this movie win some award? I didn't stay up late enough to watch the outcome.
Didn't the pimps do well in the "Best Nominated Song", jannymae?
The ad campaign worked and Crash won best picture… As for Ang Lee winning best director for a gay cowboy love story, it was well deserved, because everyone knows those boys are straight… This is where I throw in the list of guys that would have prevented Lee from being best Director…
Ms. RightWing, Ink:
Well, the Academy Awards are already a self parody of sorts...consequently, there's really no need to satirize 'em.
'da Bunny:
Yes, the choice of recipients for various awards tends to make a mockery of any meaning they may have had at one time.
JannyMae:
Much like my sentiments regarding B*****ck¹ Mountin', I'll gladly remain forever unapprised of those pimp lyrics, too.
The trotting Possum:
B*****ck¹ still won awards, just not for best picture.
JR:
The ad campaign for Crash did work, apparently. It was a poignant film, with some excellent performances, but the lousy way people treat each other (the theme) is an unhappy subject, even though true.
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¹Bareback
It's so lovely to be able to say that I just got back from five days hiking, and I have no idea what went on in the hallowed halls of the academy.
:-)
Nightwalker:
Hallowed halls? Hmmm...more like hollow halls, I'd say, as in lacking content or substance.
Welcome back!
Well, big surprise, I watched more of this years than I ever have because
A) nothing else was on, period
B) I think John Stewart is a hoot. Yes he strikes more at George than at the Dems right now but that's because George is in power. He has not trouble pointing out the glaringly funny shortcomings of either party.
Ah well, out standing in my field again, nothing new here
boberin:
Why am I not surprised?
(Rhetorical question)
JannyMae:
I have now, thanks.
Try Top Gun 2: Brokeback Squadron
JannyMae:
I suspect there are quite a few parodies of Bareback Mountin'...it kind of begs for them, y'know?
The last movie I saw was "The Incredibles" and I probably wouldn't have seen it except my granddaughter wanted to see it with me.
It was pretty good! At least not much to complain about, it was pretty clean I thought.
I have a standing rule for movies, If Roger Ebert likes it, I do NOT go!
He was the genius co-writer, (EXTREME sarcasm), behind "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/
36 years ago, and the movie is still pretty filthy by todays standards! They seem to like it at Fox Movie Channel. I have seen it is playing about once every month or so, late at night.
And some people respect this guy's reviews? Amazing!
JannyMae:
I wonder how many Bareback Mountin' parodies are out there.
RAM:
The original Valley of the Dolls was weird, and I had no interest in a sequel. The last movie I saw was "Firewall" with Harrison Ford, who I think is a fine actor. Next I'm planning to see "16 Blocks" with Bruce Willis, who is another one...
Durn near killed my gerbil, but a fine job of video-clipping! Brokeback to the Future--bwahahahahaha!
MargeinMI:
Speakin' of gerbil abuse, did you see where Scott pulled a [deleted] on my paraphrase Bareback Mountin'?
It's happened to the best of us. ;o) I got it for not being 'nuanced' enough about what was on Monica's blue dress. :o(
I saw a great list of alternate names for this NON-acadamy award picture somewhere when I was surfin' the other day. Wish I could find it again 'cause I would LINK it here! (I know how to do that now!
MargeinMI:
Links to other alternate names for "that movie" notwithstanding, I still think mine is pretty apt...and also nuanced enough that it should not have been [deleted], but we all get to make those decisions for ourselves.
Having said that though, if you run across it again, I'd love to see it...
Found it! Here they are via Dr. Sanity, via The Nose on Your Face, etc. (feel free to delete or edit as you see fit camo):
Knowing our interest on the topic of all things Brokeback, our colleague Bob of Crazy Politico's Rantings was kind enough to forward along his excellent list of rejected titles for that film.
They are as follows:
Prances With Wolves
Jeremiah's Johnson
The Pleasure of the Sierra Padre
Butch Assidy & the Bundance Kid
How the West Was Hung
The Legend of the Long Ranger
Lonesome Doug
Hi, Plains Drifter!
The Magnificent Seven... Inches
Quickly Down Under
The Good, the Bad & the Fabulous
Silver-rod-owww!!
Upon receiving Bob's list, we did a bit more research and were able to uncover these other rejected titles:
Two Tools For Mister Harrah
Why-it Hurt
Saddle On My Back Again
My Darling Clem, All Tied
Silly the Kid
The Sot Who Manned Liberty Valance
Unprotected
The Ox-Blow Incident
True Grip
The Buns of Katie's Elder
The Gerbil Whisperer
MargeinMI:
Thanks for the list; some of it is a bit risqué, but it's all in good fun.
FYI, I can't edit comments, only "to [delete] or not to [delete], that is the question..."*
*With apologies to Shakespeare.
Sorry, I should have emailed it to you, then you coulda copy and repost what you liked.
I LMHO when I read it. My favorites are Hi! Plains Drifter, and The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous.
MargeinMI:
No actual obscene language in the list, so it can stay, although some of the terms are kind of "pushing the envelope" as 'twere.
My favorites from there are "Prances With Wolves" and "Hi, Plains Drifter!"...
I see Askinstoo has visited your blog yet. Do you delete advertisers or just let them rattle on?
Just wondering. He doesn't bother me but I don't care for his selling stuff.
Ms. RightWing, Ink:
Askinstoo is an example of what is called a "spambot"; enabling word verification prevents those autoposts from occurring...
JACKNIFE JOHNNY:
That's pretty funny. What left wing blog did you see me posting on?
I'm thinking you mean "Blame Bush!", which although not labeled as such, is pure satire...
JACKNIFE JOHNNY:
Were you really, or are you just playing along?
Bob_inSpain:
There really is some beautiful country out West...but backdrops alone don't make a movie worth seeing. I can look at pictures of scenery on "Da 'Net".
Or at my own pictures, for that matter...
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