Trumpeteer 302 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I guess it's no surprise that two scores that many here will say unjustly won over a John Williams score are the finalists in the Oscar showdown: Fame and Brokeback Mountain.Vote for the one you dislike the most. Don't vote on whether one deserved the Oscar least over the other. This about the quality of the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg1138 3 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I didn't like the other thread devoted to this - since too many were judging on whether or not someone else deserved it that year and not purely on quality.....so it's not really with any particular surprise that Fame finds itself in the final when really it shouldn't be........Fame may have not deserved it's Oscar that year, but that does not stop it being a decent score.Brokeback Mountain, however, is a bowel movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I vote Babel, dammit!- Marc, who hasn't heard/seen Brokeback Mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg1138 3 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I vote Babel, dammit!- Marc, who hasn't heard/seen Brokeback Mountain.You haven't missed much.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 So I've heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Actually you're missing a lot... of overrated crap.Seriously, that film was rubbish. I have no problems with the subject matter (loved Gods and Monsters), but I hated the way it was written, directed and acted - just relying far too heavily on the subject matter. I'm not really sure to explain it... the film's attitude was the equivalent of saying "look, this is a film about gay people so if you don't like it you're homophobic". It would have been much more effective if they'd developed the characters better and let the story evolve more naturally, so we the audience choose (or think we choose) to side with them, for want of a better term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I don't like westerns..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 I vote Babel, dammit!- Marc, who hasn't heard/seen Brokeback Mountain.If you saw/heard "Babel," you've essentially heard the score to "Brokeback." Thus the frustration over the win this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dole 17 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I don't like westerns..... Well I guess you could put it in that category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Guys with cowboy hats, horses and sheep.What else would you call it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dole 17 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Guys with cowboy hats, horses and sheep.What else would you call it?I know it's been described as a Western but it really doesn't fit the stereotype of that genre. If Ledger and Gyllenhaal were attacked by Indians while they were on the mountain, then maybe I'd be more comfortable classifying it as a Western. I guess it can be a Western, just an atypical one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I didn't see Injuns attacking Clint Eastwood in the Leone westerns, ot The Unforgiven. Stefan Cosman says Bob Dole's logic is flawed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I'm not really sure to explain it... the film's attitude was the equivalent of saying "look, this is a film about gay people so if you don't like it you're homophobic".Exactly!and Babel was by the guy who scored the gay movie last year so if you don't vote for Santaollala your homophobic.By now we all know any person displaying the slighest homophobia needs long sessions of rehab and therapy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 It really ticks you off that people genuinly liked the score, doesn't it? Morlock- who thinks that Santaolalla winning for fear of showing homophobia is the most pathetic excuse he's yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 It could be worse...soon the MV scores will be on a 5 year sweep I predict.PotC 3 will win over the next JW masterpiece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 What Williams masterpiece?Were....when?Johnnie has forsaken us, you could see it in his eyes when he lost last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Indeed. And while the good MV (Powell, Gregson-Williams, Zimmer in his non-MV mode) might start getting nods, the MV sound will never be awarded anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dole 17 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I didn't see Injuns attacking Clint Eastwood in the Leone westerns, ot The Unforgiven. Stefan Cosman says Bob Dole's logic is flawed!Well there was gunfightin' in them Westerns. If you're not shootin Injuns in a Western, the cowboys have to be shootin one another like in Unforgiven or High Noon. No gunslinging in Brokeback Mountain. I suppose you could make a horror film without killing anybody off onscreen but it would be strange. Brokeback can be a Western, I concede that, but it doesn't fit into the stereotype of that genre. Just because the main character wears a cowboy hat and/or the film takes place on a ranch in the West doesn't make it a Western. Midnight Cowboy has "cowboy" in the title and Jon Voight wears a cowboy hat in the film but it's not close to being a Western. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Exactly,and Westerns take place in older times when there wasn't any cars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I thought they were shooting at each other in Brokeback Mountain....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dole 17 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I thought they were shooting at each other in Brokeback Mountain....... Ok, that made me laugh... I give up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Brokeback Mountain.Rediculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 I thought they were shooting at each other in Brokeback Mountain....... I can't vote for either one, both are terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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