Why Brokeback Lost the Oscar?

Rating: 2/10 (21 August 2006)

Do you really want to know why it didn't win the Oscar? Well maybe because prior to the Academy Awards, we were bombarded with how great this film was. It was considered groundbreaking, controversial, etc. and it widely praised. Did it ever occur to anybody that it would turn off the Oscar Voters? Of course it didn't that would be too easy, you make a film and promote it so heavily that brokeback fever became brokeback annoyance. You just wanted to get away from all the hype. I hated seeing the signs on the London tubes and billboards everywhere. This film was not going to get to me as it did others. I'm too strong for that. Just like Titanic which I never saw, I got sick of hearing about how wonderful Brokeback is. I think Mad TV depicted a great sketch about it with two girls. When one said "I wish I could quit you but my husband won't let me?" and the other replied "My husband drove me up here." THe first replied "My husband is over there." I have to say that I never laughed so hard because that was the depth of the film itself. So Crash beat Brokeback, finally a film inspired by life in Los ANgeles for a change, set in Hollywood and filmed there. Who are the Hollywood Oscar voters? The people who work there that's who. THey didn't film Crash in Vancouver because they could for cheaper but anyway, who gets the last laugh. Now if only I bet on Crash in the first place. By the way since I wrote this interview, I got a very negative email about my comment. Funny, I have written over 400 reviews for this site and this one came back. I won't delete this review because I think I have something important to say about the film itself. I don't care about the homosexuality. I am a liberal lefty feminist who does support gay rights to marry, adopt children, divorce and equal rights to benefits. I am not homophobic in the least and if you think I am then I recommend reading some of my other reviews for Portrait of a Marriage and Paris Was a Woman. Just for the record, this is only a movie.