invisible_r Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 from the bbc website: Bafta 2006: The winners The full list of winners for the Orange Bafta Film Awards 2006, held the Odeon Leicester Square, central London. Best film Brokeback Mountain Best British film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit Best actor in a leading role Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote Best actress in a leading role Reese Witherspoon - Walk The Line Best actor in a supporting role Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain Best actress in a supporting role Thandie Newton - Crash Original screenplay Crash - Paul Haggis/Bobby Moresco Adapted screenplay Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry/Diana Ossana The David Lean Award for achievement in direction Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain The Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British Director/Producer or Writer in their first feature film Joe Wright (Director) - Pride & Prejudice Best film not in the English language De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrete The Anthony Asquith Award for achievement in film music Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams Cinematography Memoirs of a Geisha Editing The Constant Gardener Production design Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Costume design Memoirs of a Geisha Sound Walk the Line Achievement in special visual effects King Kong Make Up and Hair The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Short animation film Fallen Art Short Film Antonio's Breakfast Academy Fellowship David Puttnam The Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Robert (Chuck) Finch and Bill Merrell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy1104 Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Outside of Reese Witherspoon winning best lead actress, I do not agree with any of the other major categories mentioned in your post. Hollywood is in the decline and it is obvious. Over the last couple of years how many remakes of movies have opened? Currently we have "When A Stranger Calls" previously from the late seventies and "Pink Panther" from the late sixties in the theatres. Has Hollywood run out of ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) don't shoot the messenger, i am just posting the news! i have no opinion because i haven't watched most of the films, which is why i haven't posted in the oscar pool anyway, even if they have done some remakes, there are plenty of great films around, i don't see your point Edited February 20, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy1104 Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Invisible, I mentioned my point in my post. Basically, Hollywood is running out of ideas. Over the last few years it seems that remakes have become prevalent. That was the point. Also, I did understand it was just a copy and paste job. I knew it wasn't your opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 I watched part of this tonight...I'm a sucker for awards shows. I think these are a fair indicator of the Oscars. Thandie Newton wasn't nominated in the supporting actress Oscar category, so we know she isn't going to win, but she did give a great performance in "Crash". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Invisible, I mentioned my point in my post. Basically, Hollywood is running out of ideas. Over the last few years it seems that remakes have become prevalent. That was the point. no, i know, i just don't really agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy1104 Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Hey invisible...how do you not agree? Do you not think Hollywood has hit us with remake after remake over the last few years. I certainly do. Most times the remakes are worse than the originals and indeed at times insults the original movies. I am sorry we disagree. In my perspective, making Pink Panther my example here, Steve Martin can be and is a very funny guy. I have enjoyed some of his movies while the others I felt were a waste of two hours of my life. With that said, the Pink Panther will have Martin playing Inspector Clouseau. In my opinion there is only one person that role is suited for and that would be the great English actor Peter Sellers. Anyone else playing that role I regard insults the role. There have been other times when the remake may not have been possible so they went on to the next generation. An example would be The Mask. I was not a fan of that movie but did Hollywood really have to do "Son of Mask"? That movie was so bad it made Mariah Carey's flop Glitter look half decent. Lastly, there are the movie sequels. The Planet Of The Apes was the first movie which produced multiple Ape movies following it as well as a remake. Rocky has 5 sequels and a 6th on the way. Alien has 3, Star Wars albeit was in chapters has 6 (but well worth the money), and so on. These sequels become stale after a while and people lose interest. Hollywood can only recover with fresh ideas. Seeing the same old movies and sequels every few years can and will continue to hurt box office numbers. One man's opinion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible_r Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 don't get me wrong, I agree on the remakes, can't think of anything in particular at the moment , but re-hashing the same movie over and over again is not a good thing. Same with sequels, which normally just get worse and worse. what i don't agree with is that hollywood, or the movie industry in general in not producing anything decent. I think there are some great movies out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Don't forget The Bad News Bears! I have to say that it might be a generational thing... my son loved the new movie with Billy Bob Thornton, but I thought the old one with Walter Matthau was much better. My son couldn't sit through that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Hollywood has got to STOP making movies out of TV shows and previously bad movies. Why was a Dukes Of Hazzard movie made? That had to be abysmal. Then Jessica Simpson destroys , These Boots Are Made For Walking. Nancy Sinatra was not Aretha Franklin, but Jessica Simpson is just brutal. Other bad remakes; Bewitched, Fun With Dick and Jane, The Longest Yard, The Honeymooners and The Pink Panther. What's next a remake of Dharma & Greg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 I agree with you on the TV series movies , Phil . Honestly , how can any studio presume that they will capture the essense and dynamics of any TV series that at the very least would have been built over ~60 episodes , but more often than not , many, many more in a 2 hour movie ? The only movie(s ) that came close , IMO , were the "Addams Family " movies ... as their quirky nature , the short-lived series , and the casting lent itself to a movie rather well . People actually felt they were watching the characters again in a new adventure -- unlike the other attempts , such as Charlie's Angels , Mission Impossible or , as you mentioned , the Dukes of Hazzard or Bewitched . What's next ? Gunsmoke with Keanu Reeves as Marshall Matt Dillion and Luke Wilson as Festus ? Steve Martin , I confidently predict , will fail miserably as Clouseau -- at least try to get Geoffery Rush who did an excellent characature of him in " The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers " ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanAm Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Basically, I agree with Jimmy. With a few exceptions, most of the films released by the big Hollywood studios are drek. There are the aforementioned "dreadful" sequels, big budget special effects laden extravaganzas(long on action and very short on plot or characterization) and gorefests like Hostel or Saw. A great many of the most interesting movies are made by samaller, independent studios or by foreign studios. While Hollywood likes to blame the popularity of DVD's and satellite T.V. for declining box office receipts, I believe people are just tired of paying big bucks to watch mediocre or just plain awful films. As for the Academy Awards, I haven't watched more than 20 minutes of any awards show in more than 10 years. Long, boring acceptance speeches, lame jokes and narcissistic behaviour do not, IMO, make for good television. Please bring back Billy Crystal!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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