Wed, March 15, 2006
Blood on the Red Carpet (How would it even show up?) Only one film was less Best Picture-worthy than Crash, and its original author has an axe to grind.
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Wed, March 15, 2006
Blood on the Red Carpet (How would it even show up?) Only one film was less Best Picture-worthy than Crash, and its original author has an axe to grind.
© onebee · all rights reserved
AC — Wed, 3/15/06 2:11pm
I LOVED this essay, even though I was lukewarm on the film. Annie's one of my favorite writers, and it was so fun to get her take on the ceremony.
Bee Boy — Thu, 3/16/06 9:05am
What "take"? She was just bitter and vituperative, and seems to be among the group that says if you don't shower adulation upon "her" lukewarm gay film that you must be some sort of skinhead homophobe who can't handle gay themes.
That's like saying if you didn't like Crash, you're a racist. Or if you didn't like Catwoman you're a chauvinist. Maybe she should consider the fact that it was just a dumb movie.
Joe Mulder — Thu, 3/16/06 1:39pm
You don't even have to go that far. Maybe it was just a slightly less relevanta and affecting movie than Crash (I haven't seen either, so I'm not saying it was or wasn't).
I'm with Jameson; I think she needs some cheese to go with that whine.
By the way, by far the greatest thing I saw connected with the Oscars was this footage of a gay cowboy Oscar party at some gay cowboy bar in Phoenix; they showed Jack Nicholson on TV saying "Crash," then the camera swung around to all these entitled douchebags in their little outfits who couldn't have been more hissy.
Look, I know that sounds harsh. I have nothing against gay people, but I do take in issue with the specific gay people I saw in that clip. They were douchebags, the same way that any guy who's super, in-your-face into what he's into is a douchebag. You want to be western-themed gay guy, or go snowboarding, or race cars? Fine. But if that's pretty much all your life is, when you're super, super into something to the point where you can't even be bothered by people who aren't also super, super into it, you're a douchebag.
I'm sure people will think I'm a terrible homophobe, but, believe me: if a snowboarding movie had been the Best Picture favorite, and I got to watch a bunch of a-hole snowboarders' faces as they found out their movie had lost, it would have been satisfying for me in exactly the same way.
Having said that, if you didn't like Catwoman, you're definitely a chauvinist.
AC — Thu, 3/16/06 2:53pm
I don't care about the bitterness (or the movie)– I just think it was a really fun read. She's a brilliant writer, and in most of the essay, she's pretty much doing exactly what Joe just did in his post: make fun of people who are way too into their own little circle.
Joe Mulder — Thu, 3/16/06 4:22pm
I forgot to say this before: it was a fun read. A fun, whiny, sour-grapes read. But, I can say that I liked reading it, and, based on the article, I'd read other stuff of hers (or "her's," maybe? And how could a person not know that? What's wrong with me?) if I happened to come across it.
Brandon — Thu, 3/16/06 7:28pm
According to Strunk & White: "The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and ours have no apostrophe."