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On now...

And the first two awards go to:

Animated Feature Film -- Spirited Away

Visual Effects -- Lord of the Rings: TTT

Haha, what did I tell ya?

I'm very surprised that Spirited Away won the animated Oscar though. It deserved it. So it shouldn't have gotten the Oscar! Unprecedented. Maybe Martin Scorcese will also win an Oscar for the first time!

...Nah. That would be getting carried away.

I thought TTT would win too... but I just don't understand how anyone could think its visual effects were better than AotC's...

That's very easy to answer. It's more popular. The media hates the SW prequels. The movie that's the most popular is the one that gets the awards, usually. That's why LotR won over AI and Pearl Harbor last year and why The Matrix won over TPM. And Spider-Man got nominated this year but Minority Report didn't? What the hell is wrong with these people? They had to do one main effect right in Spidey and they completely fucked it up. The actual Spidey model looked good, but the animation was horrendous. And don't remind me of that part when Peter Parker climbs up the wall without his mask. That's got to be one of the worst f/x shots I've seen in a looong, long time.

My predictions:

Prediction 1: The Two Towers will win Best Picture.

Prediction 2: Seconds later the world explodes.

Both of my predictions have a roughly equal chance of occuring.


That's very awesome that Spirited Away won Best Animated Feature, but it should have won Best Picture!!

The New York Times said that Spiderman deserved the special effects oscar...

Oh, and its very doubtful that TTT will win Best Picture... it greatly deserves it, but won't... though Spirited Away did, surprisingly, win... I mean, I never expected a deserving movie to win!

Oh, and its very sad that popularity counts for more than a objective look at the movies... for some categories that doesn't work, but it sure should for visual effects!

I still don't like the idea of making all animation be just one catagory, and seperating it from all other films. Sheesh, Attack of the Clones had so much CG that it IS an animated feature, so with all the mixing of animation and live action the catagory is really just revealing stupid biases. Eh, regardless of who won, I really don't like the idea of award shows anyway. "Let's all gather together to call this the best." I mean, who are these judges anyway? Why isn't the local group of movie geeks just as respected? Any reasons you can give are of course, stupid :D. All opinions on movie quality are equally valid, which is my main beef. Oscar award? Congrats because a couple of people here think you are the best they have seen? What about the other people, and the other, and the other? It's just silly.

While ratings are obviously by their very nature subjective, and very often a lot of people will disagree with decisions, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't have awards shows... if just to give something for us to complain about... :)

Oh, and Chicago won best picture. Expected... but it wasn't the best movie of the year...

Hollywood exploids in outrage by Tolkienite Rebels.:woo: :hammer:

Did you see that part with Michael Moore? That was hilarious. I thought that all of those Hollywood people were liberals...

It was kind of funny... Hollywood does have a lot of liberals, but just the fact that there was some people booing loudly doesn't mean that others didn't support his statements... which were completely accurate...

There were a lot more than just a few people booing. You can boo loudly, but you can't sound like dozens of people booing all at once. There were plenty of people booing.

I really liked how Harrison Ford smiled though. I bet he thought the whole thing was funny.

True. But there were also people cheering... and also I bet that some people wouldn't boo because they completely disagree but because they might think that in this world situation saying that is innapropriate or something... which is wrong, but a common viewpoint...

Quote:Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much.

There isn't a word of the political commentary part that I can disagree with...

Even the Dixie Chicks part?

What about it? They said that they don't like pres. Bush (remember? It was something about them being sorry that Bush is from Texas...)... not something I'd disagree with...

I thought it was kind of funny that he mentioned them.

I'm sure he wanted a entertainment example, what with it being at the Oscars... and thats a good one, what with how some idiotic radio stations refused to play their music over it...

Michael Moore is such an idiot.

He makes good documentaries.

He's great! Most people don't have the courage to go out in a time like that and say the tough truth, but he did and on a national stage... it was nice to see someone at least won't let media pressure force them into silence...

Oh, and his movies are good too... Bowling for Columbine was great...

Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Most people don't have the courage to go out in a time like that and say the tough truth, but he did and on a national stage...

If by "courage" you mean "self-serving motives" and by "say the tough truth" you mean "spout off his own opinions in a situation where they were entirely uncalled for" then I totally agree!

So instead of taking that time to thank his family and friends and the academy, he bashed President Bush?

...Yeah.

I respect his views, but it was a bit out of place.

I recently beat MGS2 again, and as such I must agree, he's spouting public opinion and falling perfectly in line with what his closed circle of memetic life tells him to do, under the geiss of "free will". Democrat, Republican, as I said before it's a stupid system that results in EVERYTHING that some say being interpreted ONLY in comparison to those two sides. Evidence of this is when someone said I simply MUST be republican merely because many of my views fall in line with that group's views. It's as though he couldn't imagine someone actually being outside such considerations. More importantly, the first thing he did was contrast and compare my views to two parties, for what reason I ask? Why must everyone's views be measured and stacked up against two groups that some don't even CARE about the opinions of? Just because someone is vegitarian it doesn't make them PETA. If you ask me, republicans and democrats are pretty much the same thing. For another matter, regarding my first comment, without free will there is no difference between submission and rebellion. That person "rebelled" in exactly the way the public wanted him to.

Are you sure you replied to the right thread?

It sure doesn't look like it...

Yeah, I agree with you that Puyo Pop is the best GBA puzzle game out there, but I'm also looking forward to Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo which is coming out tomorrow. You can never have enough puzzle games, am I right? Am I right? Right? Right?

Oh, and SPF2T is a really great game... its my favorite puzzle game, actually... um, but what does that have to do with this thread? :)

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I'm playing along with DJ.

Well, I agree that Donkey Kong Country 3 wasn't the greatest in the series (that title belongs to Donkey Kong Country... amazing game), but still, it wasn't as bad as Donkey Kong Country 2. Actually, I haven't played #2 in years, but I don't remember it being that good. I remember this guy would club you to death if you didn't have his tokens. The big jerk... and Swanky Kong? NOBODY likes Milhouse. Seriously.

DKC3 was still cool, though. It brings many good memories of winter nights of me curling up into a ball and sobbing over all we could have done and all that could have been.

I was actually responding to the conversation above my post about the guy who decided to accept an award by insulting someone. Someone said he wasn't being rebellious at all, and I was agreeing. You know, sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who even pays attention to video game stories, and other people just skip all the cinemas...

Yeah, I agree, isn't it great that Disciples II is getting an expansion pack this summer? That game was awesome!

Uh, DJ, understanding what that post meant is pretty challenging... :)

Oh, and story is important to games! I never skip story in games...

And yes, the first DKC was the best one. The others were so similar...

And DJ. I don't see why you argue so much that you hate party politics... and then agree on almost every issue very squarely in the republican camp...

Oh, and I just don't see how ANYONE can possibly say that the parties are the same anymore... I always knew they were dramatically different, but if anyone hasn't been convinced by the stunts this republican administration has pulled that the Democrats disagree with completely then they are BLIND! That, or willfully ignorant...

And yet again, Nintendo is releasing DKC on a Gameboy system for the third time now, and it's still all alone (why won't they release all three DKC games on one cart??). I refuse to buy the new port unless it's either super cheap or comes with tons of cool extra stuff.

Third? No, second. DKL, unlike DKL2 or DKL3 (which I haven't played but have heard just copied the SNES levels exactly), wasn't a straight port of the SNES game in B&W... I have it and it isn't identical to DKC -- it has just 4 worlds, no other Kong huts (no Cranky Kong, etc), and you can only save by getting the 4 K O N G letters in one level...

But they did port DKC to GBC so why port it again? Kind of strange...

So it was a stripped down port. That still counts.

They're porting it again because they want more moolah. I'm just dissapointed that they won't include the other two games. Nintendo is so greedy.

No! The levels were different too! That means its not a port... its a new game of the same style but made simpler (it has only levels with no Kong huts or anything... and fewer levels overall... and just 2 friends to ride (the ostrich and rhino)... and no Team mode where both Kongs are on the screen... and a new save system... AND ALL-NEW LEVELS!) That isn't a port!

Oh, and the second and third DKL games are MUCH closer to being ports. They clone the SNES games pretty closely and many of the levels are exactly the same...

You miss the point. My views happen to be similar to that party purely by coincidence (and some of my views are not reflected by them). I had these opinions before I even figured out what either party stood for.

Being trapped in the partisan circle, you would of course view "the enemy" as completely different. If you ask me though, both parties pretty much are the same old argument. Big deal regarding the issues, it's how they go about their business that's exactly the same.

But issues are what matters, and the two parties are lightyears apart on them!

Oh, and if I was voting for the party I agreed with most on issues I'd almost certainly vote for the Green Party... but voting for a 3rd party is essentially voting Republican, unfortunately, so I wouldn't do that... its not good to take votes away from the Democrats -- look how Nader managed to put Gore right on the edge in Florida in 2000! If not for Nader, Gore would have won that one by thousands of votes, voting problems or no... :(

Um, what? How on Earth is voting for a 3rd party voting "republican" any more than voting 3rd also voting "democrat"? There's no logic there. You seem to think everyone voting for Green would CERTAINLY have voted Democrat otherwise. That's just silly talk, and it's things like that (republicans make the same stupid comments about voting for other people, party or no, with their whole "throw your vote away" campaigns in the past) that keep this ridiculous party thing going. As far as I'm concerned, they ARE the same grouping, fighting together for the cause of keeping themselves the only choices.

Michael Moore rules,
you could tell Bono and that guitarist were going to say somthing after their performance, the guitarist started walking towards the mic and bono started to open his mouth but the mic started to go down into the floor before he could say anything

Well. The Green Party is a hard-left party... so the majority would have voted Democrat. In MOST cases, the Greens don't affect the result... the major party difference is usually much larger. But in this case, because it was so incredibly close, it did matter. Even if half of the people who voted Green had not voted at all otherwise and 1/3 of the rest voted Republican (reasonably conservative estimate there), it still would have been MORE than enough to give Gore a close, but certain, victory...

Just like how its entirely possible that the first Pres. Bush would have won a second term without Perot... he got a lot of votes and in some areas was well over the margin...

And I must respond "So?". I might as well say "If Bush hadn't run, Gore would have won 100% of the vote and you know it!". Calling an extra option a "vote stealer" is about as petty and stupid as it gets. Like I said though, both main parties have stooped to this point before.

Anyway, that comic really just wasn't funny, but THIS is!

http://www.theonion.com/onion3911/pt_the..._iraq.html

You see? That's how you make fun of my views! That's comedy gold!

It was just frusterating to see Nader run on a "the other two parties are the same" platform and insist that voting for him wouldn't hurt them and then see that indeed Nader did defeat Gore...

Um, a vote for Nader was against BOth of the other ones though. They obviously didn't want Gore to win either, so they got what they wanted. Getting frustrated just because of what you perviece to be a problem is silly. Bush won this, and Clinton won back then when Parrot supposedly "stole" Bush Sr's win. No need to be a spoiled sport about it. It's like little kids arguing about some school lunch vote not going their way.

I only played DKL for a short while, so I didn't know that it wasn't a straight port.

Yes, he was against both parties and people who would have voted for both parties (or wouldn't have voted at all) voted for him. However, when you look at his positions, it is VERY clear that most suppport would be from people who would otherwise be democrats. That isn't a debatable point, really... and he DID have something like 50 or 60 thousand votes in Florida... and when the margin (in that absurd "vote" in those counties where the loser "won") was under 300 and FAR FAR more people than that would have voted for Gore if Nader hadn't run than would have voted for Bush it is a fact that Nader direclty helped do in Gore... though the Supreme Court chose the loser to be president, Nader made all that absurdity happen...

The Green Party is one of those wonderful absurdities. I mean, ideologically, they're complete morons, but they did help Bush get elected. What's to complain about, Clinton would have never gotten in office had it not been for Perot, it works both ways.

Anyway, Michael Moore is an extremist liberal idiot, and that he got soundly booed by one of the most liberal group of people outside of North Korea just proves how much liberal beliefs are the exclusive property of mental defectives :)

Oh come on... it wasn't all booing... some people clapped...

If I had to guess, between 69 and 76% of them booed him. That is, if the audience's demographics on their opinion of war is anything like the percentage of Americans who support it.

Thing is, most of Hollywood is liberal, yet it was pretty clear that there was a lot more booing than cheering. It could be that they were just booing Moore himself, because the man is a supreme idiot.

Or maybe, as I said before, they just thought that it was the wrong time or place for political statements of that nature no matter their personal opinions. I can see how people would think that, though I disagree...