I think Oscars should be awarded

[XemaSab]

about 4 years after the film comes out.

Four years ago "Crash" beat out "Brokeback Mountain."

I rest my case.

[Shell Beau]

1. I absolutely loved Crash. I thought it touched on so many

things wrong with our society. I never saw Brokeback Mountain though.

[Oregone]

2. Crash was very good

I understand what you are saying. A lot of hype and marketing is involved.

But, the Oscars aren't important enough to give out 4 years later, much less even think about long enough to conceive such a plan

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Great idea, except for the fact that they serve a double purpose, in

generating box office for recent films.

Maybe that's why Avatar didn't win - it had the box already locked up.

[Johonny]

4. some would argue they are

particularly the acting ones often go not for the current film so much as make ups for previous slights etc...

[CBGLuthier]

5. Contrary to your "argument" Crash ranks higher on imdb

With 110,000 votes Brokeback Mountain scores a 7.8
With 161,000 votes Crash scores an 8.0 and is placed at 209th in the best films ranking.

Sounds like the better film won but I really don't think either of them were truly great, once a year required viewing movies.

[Red Knight]

6. These kinds of awards are dumb anyway

It's about campaigning and marketing more than it is about the film.

Who was it? Geroge C. Scott? Somebody thought it was a dumb idea to compare different performances in different films. How do you do that?

If it were five actors playing the same role you could say that A was better than B and so on, but different roles? How do you judge? Isn't the role itself as much a winner as the actor? Palance even said that.

Also--let's say you have a great movie year with three classics going against one another--only one will ever be called, Academy Award Winner--and the next year it's all junk but something HAS to win. So lesser films benefit from weak years.

I don't know--the whole thing strikes me as pointless.

As a competition, I don't get it.

If you want to acknowledge great films and performances, just pick the truly worthy ones and give them a HOF kind of film award. Maybe so many get in but eventually there's room for the truly great ones and the junk is left out.

I'd like to thank XemaSab for starting this post and Democratic Underground for distributing it. Also--my wonderful wife of 25 years who steered me away from devoting any posting time I had to the "Eukanuba Dog Show Winners" thread at Pets-R-Us discussion board. Thanks, honey.

Is that music playing?

Okay, I'm done, I'm done.

[pansypoo53219]

7. the oscars are hollywood ego blowjobs.

it's bullshit. titanic? are you series??!?