[Dark_4ce]

You're quite right.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Stunaep


at least they got that right.

Yep. Always good to see child molesters getting awards

[01010]

Originally posted by karajorma


Yep. Always good to see child molesters getting awards

Michael Jackson won an oscar?

[karajorma]

I was talking about Roman Polanski. How a convicted child molester who can`t set foot in America because he'd be sent to jail manages to get a nomination for best director when Peter Jackson gets nothing is beyond me.

[Dark_4ce]

Well I don't really agree with that. Though I really am shocked that PJ wasn't nominated, I don't think he should have replaced Polanski. The Pianist is a GOOD movie. PJ should have replaced the guy who directed Chicago. Chicago wasn't any good, and nothing compared to LOTR or the Pianist.

And about the child molestation. Well, thats half right. It was actualy a "sex with a minor" conviction. He supposedly didn't know how old she was. And she didn't file for the rape either, it was her parents. Though I don't agree with what he did, I should think that he got a bit more exentric after Charles Manson & Co. Got a little knife happy with Polanski's family. Not to mention the fact that he is one of the few people who survived through out ww2 in the concentration camps of Poland.

The Pianist was a good movie and it deserves that oscar amongst those that were nominated. Of course if PJ would have also been nominated, and Polanski won, then I might think a bit more on how they came to that discision.

Polanski deserved to be nominated, but the director for "the Hours" and "Chicago" didn't.

[karajorma]

Getting a 13 year old drunk and drugged up so you can have sex with her which even she claims wasn`t by consent is pretty close to my definition of child molestation. As for his defense that he didn`t know I might have been more willing to believe it if he hadn`t run away.
 I wouldn`t use the murder of Sharon Tate as a defense either since that happened 9 years earlier.
 As for his defense that he didn`t know she was 13 even if she was an adult her story sounds pretty much like rape anyway. As far as I`m concerned the guy should have been extradited to the US and left to rot in a cell.
 Read this version of the story and then try to tell me he shouldn`t be in jail right now.

[Dark_4ce]

Like you said, that is just a version. And all versions of "the story" are biased to their own beliefs. As is everything.

 And like I said, I didn't agree with what he did to that girl. And anyone would run after that kind of conviction. But I'm pritty sure having his wife killed does affect his mentallity even if it did take place only 9 years earlier. But I'm not deffending him as a person. His movie the pianist was a good one. I'm deffending that. And it was well directed.

And yes, for what he did, he should spend some time in jail.

[karajorma]

Which is why I don`t particularly like the idea of him getting the free publicity of an oscar. I`m certainly not going to give him any money and If I do choose to watch his movie I`ll make sure I`ve got hold of it via the internet or in another way that doesn`t put more money into the already healthy bank balance of a convicted child rapist.

[01010]

Originally posted by karajorma
I was talking about Roman Polanski. How a convicted child molester who can`t set foot in America because he'd be sent to jail manages to get a nomination for best director when Peter Jackson gets nothing is beyond me.

I was messing with you

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by karajorma
I was talking about Roman Polanski. How a convicted child molester who can`t set foot in America because he'd be sent to jail manages to get a nomination for best director when Peter Jackson gets nothing is beyond me.

so a child molester can't be a good director? One doesn't prevent the other you know.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Stunaep

so a child molester can't be a good director? One doesn't prevent the other you know.

Maybe but you won`t see me hanging an original Adolf Hitler watercolour on my wall no matter how good he was at them. You certainly won`t see me giving someone like Polanski a standing ovation either.

[Stunaep]

well, Hitler wasn't good. no, really. Polanski is one of the greatest directors of the 20th century.

[Bobboau]

I don't think he cares...

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I don't think he cares...

Got it in one. Wouldn`t care if Hitler was universally acknowledged as the greatest painter of all time and at least with someone like Hitler the artist is already dead so you`re not giving the guy any money.

[Dark_4ce]

I don't think you should asociate Hitler with Polanski. It was Hitler who KILLED Polanski's immedate family in WW2.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
I don't think you should asociate Hitler with Polanski. It was Hitler who KILLED Polanski's immedate family in WW2.

I`m not equating them. I`m using Hitler as a more extreme example of what I mean. I don`t want to give money to rapists or mass murdering dictators. Yeah one is worse than the other but I can choose not to have anything to do with either.

[Ryx]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
EHehehe. The director who did "Bowling for Columbine" spoke out about Bush and Blair and Iraq. The first time in the history of the Oscars did someone get BOOed off the stage! I felt so embarrased for him.

He (Michael Moore) didn't care. Click. Click one of the links under Documentary Feature heading.

[Warlock]

LMAO Watching that kinna shows he's a moron.

"Half wanted to carry you out on your shoulders and half wanted to throw fruit at you"

"Oh that's not what I saw...I saw the entire audience stand up and applaud."

LMAO!!!!!

He's even saying the "boos" were set up    lol