As far as controversy goes, this has actually been a fairly dull year in terms of movies.
Brokeback Mountain: Gay shepherds. In ancient Greece, this was more the norm than the exception.
Syriana: Makes the shocking allegation that the U.S. manipulates Middle Eastern politics out of concern for the oil supply.
Munich: Palestinian terrorists at the Olympics.
Paradise Now: More Palestinian terrorists. It seems like their year.
Jon Stewart for Host: maybe he can inject some decent humor into the proceedings. I doubt it. Updates to follow.
Updates: So, Brokeback Mountain took alot of awards - although mot Best Picture. 'Crash' won that, and though I haven't seen it, everyone else in the room seemed pissed.
Jon Stewart was mildly amusing, although the negative ads voiced by Stephen Colbert were probably the highlight of the whole thing. I
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"It seems like their year."
Nope, neither "Munich" nor "Paradise Now" won a single thing.
Which is comforting, because it is hard for one to enact an Angry Zionist Boycott when there are all those pretty dresses to be seen in the years to come.
My favorite quote about the Oscars came from Ann Coulter, who noted that Al-Jazeera rated "Paradise Now" with 4.5 pipe bombs...
I haven't seen Paradise Now (and, I assume, neither has Ann Coulter) but it doesn't change my opinion that Ms. Coulter is simply a blow-up doll that has gained the ability to speak and hate minorities.
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