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I hear (via cleolinda) that a huge flap has already started in various internet circles about how terrible it is that Crash won. And like I said, I haven't seen it - is it really that terrible, or is this just the Brokeback fans that are mad because their movie didn't win? Some of the people in Cleolinda's comments seemed to be intimating that the Academy didn't have the guts to vote for a gay-themed movie, but honestly, I have trouble believing that. The Academy is pretty gay-friendly, on the whole. I don't have too much trouble believing that people just got tired of hearing about Brokeback - and maybe the whole "gay cowboy movie" business, too - and decided en masse to vote for something else, though. That's not quite the same thing. And I suspect that it was a very close vote, in any case.

I do have to admit, though, that one reason I haven't seen Crash is because I haven't heard that it's really that great. And because somebody-or-other said that it's one of those movies that pounds you over the head with its Big Message, which not something I'm much interested in. But I didn't think that Brokeback was really all that and a bag of chips, either. I still maintain that out of the three I've seen, I would've voted for Capote.

But Big Message movies do tend to win Academy Awards, let's face it. So it may be as simple as that.


Also: not that this has anything to do with anything, really - but in my mind, Brokeback isn't exactly a gay-themed movie, anyway, except in a very loose way. Both those men are bisexual, not gay, don't you think?