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QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) Did you read the reviews for Sin City and Crash. Kill Bill vol.2 was a masterpiece. Crash will be looked at and be considered for Best Picture (lock for best supporting actor). Sin City will probably get some technical awards. Sure I love all those movies and I think Crash is probably currently my second favorite move of all time but I'm trying to be a realist. Sin City was never going to get any kind of recognition at the Oscars for anything other than Special Effects, it just wasn't that good. Kill Bill was way too wacky for the Oscars and Crash's lack of recognition at the Globes probably illustrates its small potential at the Oscar's outside of its screenplay. However, perhaps it will and I hope it will get a Best Picture nod. I also strongly doubt it will get a supporting actor nomination, there were too many good performances, no one stands out above the others, I'm not sure why Dillon was nominated for an award. What did Dillon do better than Howard? Sorry for being hostile.

http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_21_05_EK.html I'm glad Koch brings fresh, new arguments to the table.

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 12:53 PM) The Big Problem I have is that the Academy rarely nominates films that were released in January-June. That is a problem for films like Crash and Sin City. Both of those films had they been released in November or December would be big players for Best Picture and Mickey Rourke would have a great chance at Best Supporting Actor in Sin City. I still think that if Crash does get nominated it has a good chance of winning but that is a big if. Look at Kill Bill Vol.2. That was released in April. Had it been released in November or December I think it would've been nominated for Best Picture and David Carandine wouldn't of been robbed of a Best Supporting Actor nomination. Off topic but I still think Adam Sandler was robbed of an Oscar Nomination for Punch Drunk Love. I'm starting to think you're on crack now too, hate to say it. Just because you think movies rock doesn't mean the academy will spend more than 2 seconds looking at them. P.S. I hate Punch Drunk Love.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 11:04 PM) 'Brokeback Mountain" A-, don't knock it til you've seen it. This might be the sleeper come Oscar time. Try the favourite come Oscar time.

excerpt from George Packer's book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037429963...=books&v=glance http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 02:04 PM) no it wasn't. He was supposed to be alive. At first I did think it was his imagination but when you go back and watch it over and over again it is very clear it is not his imagination. Go back to when the cop stops Clive Owen and you will see through the cops perspective that his Del Toro's head is moving and his eyes are moving. Also Bruce Willis living even though he is shot 5 or 6 times in the chest in beginning of the movie. He is also shot in other places yet he lives. Or when Marv gets hit by the car over and over again... Sin City doesn't operate in a reality based environment and that's a-okay in my book.

"a need to find reasons for change of government" full story and video http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/12/23.html#a6456

I'm a Falcons fan. f***.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=12422

Miami Vice trailer, looks really cool, directed by Michael Mann starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell. http://www.bacardilive.com/ Mission Impossible 3 trailer http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/missionimpossible3.html

I can't believe Arnold Schwartzenegger was forced to decide whether someone lives or dies. Just think about that for a second, f***in' ridiculous.

Anyone else thinking about The Stranger?

The new War of the Worlds has some great sound.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/nyregion...agewanted=print You may remember Lillo Brancato as Matthew Bevilacqua wannabe gangster who tried to kill Chris on the Sopranos.

QUOTE(sec159row2 @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 03:00 PM) Right. Everytime a conservatve speaks at a college they should expect to be heckled. EVERYTIME Ann Coulter makes a public appearance she should be booed and egged. Ann Coulter is not a conservative.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 09:46 PM) Yeah banning handguns is really going to reduce violence. I mean the criminals who make streets unsafe wouldn't THINK of violating the law now would they? I think it's really a big political move frankly. The conservatives while stagnant in the polls have dominated the headlines with their policy announcements, but this will probably dwarf all the tax cuts which weren't all that bold.

Huge Campaign Announcement http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...8793972154' more at link not sure about the specifics yet

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 05:45 PM) I expect no less from someone who tossed his medals away and got up in front of the Senate and denounced US troops as "murderers, rapists and baby-killers" like he did in 1971. I was pretty sure he never threw his medals away.

Howard Dean's comments would have perfectly described the Vietnam conflict What in the hell would have equaled a US victory in Vietnam? The people of Vietnam were sick and tired of having leaders imposed on them. They weren't about to let a bunch of Westerners try to dictate to them who would govern them. The people of Vietnam had decided who they didn't want running the country and the US had no place telling them who they should pick. If the US failed for any reason it was for supporting the wrong goons to run. After Ho Chi Minh it was, do we want American supported goons, or our communist goons running the country? *Trying to figure out if the idea of 'Communist containment' or 'Fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here is more ridiculous.*

http://www.peacedelic.co.jp/sf/english/index.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/trivia That's not very clear

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/5/234519.shtml more at link

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Dec 5, 2005 -> 10:57 PM) Too bad I don't have quicktime loaded up on my computer to watch it. I'm not sure if you have the same problem but Quicktime screwed me. When they changed to Quicktime 7 they didn't have an edition compatible with s***ty Windows ME (what I got). So now I pretty much can't watch any of these wicked new trailers.

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 2, 2005 -> 12:52 PM) Is that what it is? I was beginning to wonder. Those making the decisions here have to realize they are at fault with this politics thing, come up with a reasonable solution, and move on.