Ang Lee, please shut up:
Golden Globe-winning movie Brokeback Mountain was named last year's Best Motion Picture at the 17th annual Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Awards in New York City Monday night. Oscar-winning director Ang Lee received a standing ovation when he took to the stage to accept the award on behalf of everyone who worked on the heart-breaking tale of a secret love affair between two cowboys. He told the audience, "Finally, an award that actually means something. (It will probably be) the very last award I will accept for Brokeback Mountain. And to end the journey here tonight is like coming home. The fact is Brokeback Mountain has helped to change the world."
We get it, Ang; you really wanted Brokeback to win Best Picture. Guess what? It didn't. Crash may go down as one of the more, uh, "unexpected" upsets in Academy Award history, but it doesn't rank as high on the "Buh?" scale as: Driving Miss Daisy, Ordinary People over Raging Bull, Rocky over Network and Taxi Driver, or Titanic, period. And those are just the last 20 years.
Nobody likes a sore loser, Ang. Even Quentin Tarantino, who had better reason to bitch after Gump beat Pulp Fiction, shut up after a couple of days. You lost, let it go.
And referring to the GLAAD Award as "meaning something," implying it's somehow less of a popularity contest than the Oscar and is therefore free of politics and hidden agenda, is almost as funny as Keira Knightley getting nominated for Best Actress.
I am sick to death of the whining and wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Brokeback Mountain crowd, who have succeeded in alienating me when I am usually supportive of the agenda that is currently being shoved down our collective throats.
From Annie Proulx to Ang Lee, everyone involved with that movie has acted like a shrill harpie over their desire to force acclaim on it. It's beyond disappointing now to hear it; they've succeeded in alientating many of what should have been their supporters. I wish I could quit them.
At the risk of causing HWRNMNBSOL to rant until his eyeballs pop, I must say that Gump actually beat out Shawshank that year, a fact that still makes me go all Tourettes when I think on it.
:p