In one of "the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history," the movie "Crash" nudged ahead of frontrunner "Saddlesore Mountain" to nab the Best Picture award earlier this evening. It's true that occasionally this happens, that a relatively unknown film beats out a frontrunner but I must admit that I was a bit shocked that Brokeback didn't clean house. We've been told the last few months what a great movie it was and in the end it got away with only one of the six most coveted Oscars (Ang Ree got Best Director). Could it be that in the face of rapidly declining theater attendance, the Academy decided to try and throw a twist into what was looking to be a pretty straight-forward evening? Just a thought I suppose...

Either way, no matter how 'good' Brokeback was, I am sick of hearing how brave the director was for producing a movie about a couple of loser idiot men who ditch their families to screw eachother up in the mountains all day. There's noting brave about Brokeback Mountain. Making a movie about gay cowboys in Hollywood is like making a movie about how great Mohammad is in Mecca. I don't think I'll ever pay to see another movie with Heath Ledger or Jake Gyllenhaal ever again (not that I really liked either actors to begin with I suppose). What a bunch of piece-of-crap drivel.

One would think that with such amazing blockbusters like Narnia (which didn't win anything at the Oscars) or The Passion of the Christ, Hollywood would friggin wake up and realize that an overwhelming portion of the country would rather see uplifting movies rather than gay cowboy sex, movies that hate America/Christianity (like Jarhead or Kingdom of Heaven) and re-re-re-remakes of old crappy TV Shows (such as Starsky and Hutch or the Dukes of Hazard), but I guess it's asking to much for the arteest to have business sense. When a movie takes 150m to make and only pulls in about 35m (such as Oliver Stone's Alexander), there needs to be some major self-reflection within the industry (it may be worth noting that the Passion pulled in nearly 620m while costing a mere 30m to make). I think I may just start staying home.

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