Michelle Williams Questions ‘Brokeback Mountain’s Oscar Loss: “What Was ‘Crash’?”
Michelle Williams Questions 'Brokeback Mountain's Oscars Loss
After 20 years, Michelle Williams is just as confused as the rest of us by a major Academy Award injustice.
And Stanley Kubrick never won shit. These award shows are nonsense. Just the industry jerking itself off.
And specifically the cinema owning part of it.
Had a boss at a video star joke often that the reason Titanic won so many awards including best picture was because everybody in Hollywood worked on the damn thing and they weren't going to not vote for their own work.
Not necessarily running that movie down but there were a lot of really goddamn good movies that came out that year that got absolutely no attention whatsoever.
It's even worse than that. The Oscars began as a tool to prevent unionization in the film industry.
Easy, awards aren't granted on technical or creative merit as often as they are praising the people and institutions the award electors prefer.
The Shawshank Redemption would also like a word.
I mean it was a good year for movies overall
In addition to Shawshank there was Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction it was up against.
The real tragedy was Saving Private Ryan losing it to fucking Shakespeare in Love 🤮
Goodfellas: (clears throat)
Brokeback Mountain was a much better movie than Crash.
Both movies suffer from making societal statements, Crash about race and Brokeback Mountain about acceptance of homosexuality.
Both movies were nominated so we could pat ourselves on the back. Neither movie was particularly good.
Haven't seen either in ages, probably never will again. Crash struck me as hamfisted, but pretty good for a single viewing. Brokeback Mountain hit hard in the feels, maybe a little too hard, but I didn't get the "in your face" vibe I got from Crash.
Counter point, Brokeback Mountain was brilliant
Isn't "Crash" that movie about people who get horny from car crashes?
Great points!
Crap is what it was. The academy's award of that as best picture also caused the Oscar bait pictures for the following decades to follow its crappy format as well. Resulting in a lot of poorly made, multi-threaded bore fests that couldn't even live up to the bar of that POS.
Every time someone would mention Crash I would be confused and think about the weird late 90s movie about people getting it on in crashed cars I saw a trailer for once
I saw that movie! A Cronenberg movie. I usually like his movies, but that one wasn't very good.
20 years ago i was ten, and both of these movies were boring and sad. I was too busy ripping beyblades, trading yugioh card, playin smash bros, and rewatching the cinematic masterpiece and tour de force that is The Mummy, starring the Brendan Fraser, for my autistic bedtime ritual....every. single. night. and so i could not give one single fuck about some lame ass award show for rich people, or how they felt about its outcome afterwards.
however, watched both films once, enjoyed them enough. and much like virtually every award grabbing drama film, they dont really have a rewatch factor to me. they get 3 big booms, out 5.