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I don't think it was the lack of the nice resolution that was troubling me about the movie...I tend to like like sort of thing...there was something else about Brokeback that stops me from being able to being a screaming Brokeback fanboy...but for the life of me, I really can't say what it was. When I try to figure out what it was, all I can come with is that didn't move me emotionally as much as it did all my pals. For some reason it wasn't resonating with me emotionally. It was well crafted. The acting was good. The direction was good. It was well shot. I have lots of respect for the film...but somehow it left me wanting. It didn't frustrate me, it didn't devastate me, it didn't make me feel good, or feel bad...it didn't make me feel as much as it did my pals. It didn't me want analyse it for days and days afterwards...it didn't haunt me in any way...and a day after I'd seen it, it was gone from my body/mind/heart. Great movie, it certainly deserves all the accolades that everyone is heaping on it. But it left me cold. I wish it hadn't done. I wanted it to win the Oscars only on principal, not on merit. Ah well.

As for Crash...I'm just going to have to see it and see if I like it or if it annoys me...either one could happen.

As for the fashion...Morgan Freeman's Ascot was a poor choice. He's not sipping Mai-Tais on a boat...he is at the Oscars. If he wanted to rock the ascot, he needed a closed collar, a brocade vest, and a different coat. Jake's bow tie was bad...but not as bas as Morgan Freeman's ascot...and Larry McMurtry's awful outfit...as for Charlize Theron's parrot outfit? I just don't know what to say. I also don't know what to say about Jessica Alba wearing a dress that seemed to be the same shade as her skin.