2006 Oscar Nominations

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 09 Feb 2006, 16:05

Markgway wrote:Jon Stewart's show, The Daily News, is trash.

They show it on More4 in the UK.

It's fucking awesome. Best show around, although Letterman is up there as well

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 09 Feb 2006, 17:13

Letterman is mince also... Jay Leno is funnier; though only the opening monologue is worth staing up for. The should get Jay to do the Oscars.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 09 Feb 2006, 17:28

Markgway wrote:Letterman is mince also... Jay Leno is funnier; though only the opening monologue is worth staing up for. The should get Jay to do the Oscars.

I liked Leno when they still showed it, but I really prefer Letterman, basically because with Leno I could already feel where the joke was heading, while Letterman is a bit more surprising and 'original'.
I also liked all the goofy stuff Dave does, plus his crew is great as well (Alan Kalter, Biff, Rupert). Yeah I really prefer Dave. He's just cool

I like Stewart because he's got a brilliant timing and delivery and facial expressions and voice etc. Just perfect. And I also like how it deals with politics etc. Most talkshows make fun of celebz and stuff, but Stewart focuses more on the news. And the material is just top-class. Very well written, topical, refreshing, etc etc. Occasionally the interviews at the end of the show are boring, and some of the cast I dont really like (luckily I like most of the regulars though), but overall it's brilliant.

One of his former crewmembers now has his own show, The Colbert Report. I've only seen 1 episode so far, but it was pretty entertaining as well.

Conan O'Brien; worthless piece of cack. Absolutely no comic timing, or any other recommendable performing attributes, to speak of. Sometimes the show has some nice ideas, but his delivery of the jokes/subjects is just really bad and un-funny.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 10 Feb 2006, 01:10

Conan is easily the worst.

Leno used to be a stand-up comedian and it shows.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Feb 2006, 11:28

Conan O' Brian was a writer for The Simpsons wasn't he?

(Oh no, I've opened the floodgates.... cue Romero saying "That explains why he's shit")

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 16 Feb 2006, 13:44

The Simpsons writing has been mostly blunt on a regular basis ever since Phil Hartman died. I wish they'd end the bloody thing TBH and go out with a film as has been rumoured in the past (will prob just feel like an extended post-Hartman era episode though).

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 16 Feb 2006, 16:18

But Phil Hartman never wrote anything for the show (I think?) I know what you mean though, the show is now considerably weaker than it was in its' Golden Age (1992-1998).

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 16 Feb 2006, 22:45

I know, but you get what I mean. The show's decline just seemed to coincide with his death.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 17 Feb 2006, 00:04

Hi, I'm Troy McClure... You may remember me from such hit forums as Bullets n' Babes and the Asian DVD Guide....

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Feb 2006, 09:21

You may remember me from such driver films as Alice's Adventures Through The Windshield Glass...

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 Feb 2006, 08:28

"...I'm going to Sea World!"

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Mar 2006, 15:04

Found this article at DVD Talk:

'Brokeback' Author Peeved About Oscar Loss
By SANDY COHEN
AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES - Annie Proulx, whose 1997 short story inspired the film "Brokeback Mountain," has penned a scattershot blast in a British newspaper unleashing her anger over the film's best-picture Oscar loss.
Proulx criticizes Oscar voters and the Academy Awards ceremony in the 1,094-word rant, which appeared in Saturday's issue of The Guardian, a liberal paper boasting 1.2 million readers daily.

The best-picture Oscar went to "Crash," which focuses on race relations in Los Angeles.

Academy members who vote for the year's best film are "out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city," Proulx writes.

The 70-year-old Pulitzer-prize winning author points out that "Brokeback," which was nominated for eight Academy Awards, was named best picture at the Independent Spirit Awards one day before the March 5 Oscars.

"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit choices," Proulx advises.

She even lashes out at Lionsgate, the distribution company behind "Crash."

"Rumour has it that Lionsgate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline," Proulx writes.

She decries the "atmosphere of insufferable self-importance" inside the Kodak Theatre, the Oscars site, and describes the audience as a "somewhat dim LA crowd." The show, she writes, was "reminiscent of a small-town talent-show night."

"Clapping wildly for bad stuff enhances this," Proulx writes.

She notes that "Brokeback's" three Oscar wins, for original score, adapted screenplay and direction for Ang Lee put it "on equal footing with King Kong."

When Jack Nicholson announced "Crash" as the best-picture winner, "there was a gasp of shock," Proulx writes.

"It was a safe pick of `controversial film' for the heffalumps," she writes, using the elephant-like "Winnie the Pooh" character to describe academy voters.

"For those who call this little piece a Sour Grapes Rant," Proulx concludes, "play it as it lays."

Calls by the Associated Press to Proulx's Wyoming home and her literary agent, Elizabeth Darhansoff, were not immediately returned Tuesday.

I'll check out Brokeback when it comes on in an Arena (theatre) showing. Jeez, that article stinks of sour grapes to me.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 15 Mar 2006, 19:59

Bad loser.

It's the first time I've heard of filmmakers believing they have a right to win an Oscar.

Like, it's gay, so it must win, surely???

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Mar 2006, 20:09

As Brad said, I'm sure its a love story first and about homosexuality second.