The Monk watched NONE of the Oscars yesterday because there was not one movie nominated for Best Picture that he had any real interest in. Indeed, the only Best Picture nominee The Monk saw was Crash -- a well-acted if somewhat unoriginal (everyone is a racist in LA) movie. Interesting to see Sandy Bullock as a b-tch, to see Terence Howard before Hustle & Flow made him a semi-household name and to see Mr. Reese Witherspoon doing some work. And it had Don Cheadle, who is always good.
Here's the one thing The Monk is missing -- why does Brokeback Mountain get so many kudos when all it is about is how two family men wrecked their lives and the lives of their wives and families by their cheating? In the minds of the cognoscenti, the gay love aspect overrides any notion that what these men did was fundamentally wrong because they violated the Seventh Commandment (Sixth for those of you Christians who cannot count properly) -- thou shalt not commit adultery.
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