We should all know by now that LOTR will always be screwed.

I'm at odds at Hayao Miyazaki winning - I so wanted Powerpuff Girls to win, but it's nice that anime has won something as significant as this.

Well the Powerpuff Girls was not nominated. The movies of Hayao Miyazaki are not really "Anime". I mean he is a Japanese animator but his films transcend the stereotypes and restrictions of "Anime"

i'm so glad i didn't watch the Oscars...it just would have been "Oh my God! What the F*ck were they thinking??" over and over again...bad enough i was disgusted when i read about who won this morning...i don't think i was "happy" about a single one of them...:( sucks...

I think you need to accept this, Eminem has an Oscar and Moby doesn't. Put your dislike for him aside and listen to the words, they are pretty good.

I actually thought that Paul Simon or U2 were much more deserving than Mr Mathers.

So I should listen to his words? Like these?

EXCERPTS OF LYRICS FROM THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP

From the song "Killing":

"You faggots keep eggin me on
til I have you at knifepoint, then you beg me to stop?
SHUT UP! Give me your hands and feet
I said SHUT UP when I'm talkin to you
YOU HEAR ME? ANSWER ME!
Or I'ma kill you!"

From the song "Criminal":

"My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge
That'll stab you in the head
whether you're a fag or lez
Or the homosex, hermaph or a trans-a-vest
Pants or dress - hate fags? The answer's 'yes'"

I was surprised there wasn't more political commentary at the Oscars...I mean, I know the producers asked the winners to refrain from speaking at length about the war...but since when does Hollywood follow the rules?
Also, it seemed like Steve Martin was waaay off his game. What a yawner.

Ugh... again we have gone off course. eminem has other songs that don't have lyrics such as those you reference. "straight from the hip *somethin.. this is when i ad lib, but i know the next part* i'll tell a m*therfucking slut to her face" no hatin there...

And we didn't need political commentary, change it to any channel other than that one and there was plenty. There is so much pro/anti war crap spewing out around this place that i stopped paying attention to anything that mentions the words "hussein" "war" "our troops" or any other buzz words du jour. I'm growing terribly desensitized and thereby, apathetic. My concern wanes. i have nothing tangible to go on to relate to what is happening a dozen times zones away. i haven't lived in a country where i have to worry if the bus i'm riding is gonna blow up. I haven't had foreign men come in my house to rape and kill me. I haven't seen mangled, disfigured, mentally unstable soldiers come home to their families. I have nothing to relate to that even comes close to me being able to compare the two. I am a 22 year old woman who lives in a quiet little town of 10,000 people tucked away from the big city. I have a decent job, a great family and amazing friends. I don't want for anything really, all my needs are met. Compared to the families living on top of one another in refugee camps, or the children who dig through garbage heaps at the dump, or even the smelly old homeless men on the streets of Seattle, I'm doing well. I have nothing to really complain about. My growing apathy for the situation is concerning me because i know i'm not the only one. apathy among twentysomethings is an epidemic. out of all the groups who should care the most about what is going on due to the fact that we have to live with the consequences of what is going on, we care the least. that both saddens and scares me. i know i'm one of them.

Apathy among twentysomethings is due to thier coddled and easy lives. America freaks out when the stock market drops a few points because they need some perspective from thier elders who lived through what we would refer to as "hell" during WW2. I think it is time to take a step back and be thankful for what we have. Americans are selfish. While people worry about themselves and thier 401k accounts they need to recognize that there are men out there right now fighting for thier lives and the people of Iraq are waiting for the shoe to drop. Apathy?
How could you?

my point is that i'm not worried about anything. not myself, not what's going, not what people are going through. i'm just going on being the selfish spoiled american girl i was born to be. and that fact is what scares me the most. i know i'm not the only one feeling this way either..

Colin Farrell? I really, really hope you don't mean Adrien Brody.

Eh. I dunno about "Gangs" getting shafted. It was great, but so were its competitors. This year was weird in that not one of the best picture nominees was an utter piece of shit. I personally think "Pianist" deserved the statue, but that's just me.

Have you actually seen "Chicago?" I thought it was incredible as musicals go (and it didn't make my head explode from jumpcuts like Moulin Rouge did). It was a lock for BP because it was really good and had a happy ending. The Academy eats that shit up. Never mind that it was probably the most vicious satire to come out of Hollywood since probably the '70s. Spoonful of sugar, and all that.

If LOTR wins at all, it'll win next year. Awarding Return of the King will be tantamount to awarding the whole trilogy, whereas Two Towers lost out because it can't really stand on its own as a film. It's the middle of a story, and as such has no beginning or end.

As for Eminem, well... Jesus, he's Eminem. He's all but admitted he's playing a character, and it's probably all just a cover for him being a big, fat closet case. And I'm sorry, but as rappers go he's pretty talented, enough so that the Academy liked his song.

And Roman Polanski may be a creepy date-rapist child molester, but as far as I know he's never directed a bad film.