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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1120728" data-attributes="member: 5171">I didn't mean to turn this into an Oscar-bash-fest, but really... perhaps the geek hackles are rising a bit out of proportion?Well, as somebody who liked both The Two Towers and Chicago, I was fine with the 2002 verdict.  As someone who never saw A Beautiful Mind, I'm not in a position to judge -- I'm not a huge fan of Russell Crowe, and the movie seemed to be a Shine-like tormented brilliance movie.  I'm not a huge fan of those movies, but if it was a really really good one, then it deserved to win.  I loved Shakespeare in Love and liked Saving Private Ryan, and would have been fine with either of them winning.  I wasn't a huge fan of Fargo, but I did like the nested storytelling of the English Patient.My point is that, while I can understand your personal dissatisfaction with movies you liked not winning, I'm not sure I see that as a license to toss out the Oscars.  Oh, wait... I'm in an SF forum... I'm supposed to be complaining that Spider-Man isn't up for Best Picture.I certainly don't want to put myself in a position of defending Halle Berry, because a) I was unimpressed with her in the first X-Men movie as well and b) I'm not drooling over her like everybody else.  But come on.  Look at the way she acted on late night shows -- she obviously didn't take her role as Storm seriously and thought it was a bit stupid.  It's likely that her agent pushed her into it in order to get her more recognition in the young adult market.  One can dislike her in a particular role without completely discrediting her acting ability.  Well, I can -- but according to your definitions, I'm an art-house snob.  And if an actress who was respected in other performances was lousy in a particular movie, I'd chalk that up to bad casting.In other words... I still think Jeremy Irons is a great actor despite having seen him in both Dungeons & Dragons AND The Time Machine.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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