DUN DUN DUNNNNNN

[Cookie Monster]

Heath wins the Oscar as expected. Good for him, imho.

 

[Ⓐaron]

awesome

 

[seattle]

Too bad he's dead.

 

[Purple]

Awesome. I don't know if it would be the same story if he didn't die though.

 

[seattle]

Of course not. He gained popularity through death.

 

[Max Payne]

Predictable shit is predictable.

 

[Max Payne]

[quote author=seattle link=topic=569.msg21715#msg21715 date=1235360655]
Of course not. He gained popularity through death.
[/quote]

More like through being the Joker.

You'd be surprised how many people had no idea he was dead until AFTER The Dark Knight was released.

Society sucks.

 

[Tennyo]

lol wut? How could they not know that he was dead?

 

[Max Payne]

[quote author=Tennyo link=topic=569.msg21727#msg21727 date=1235363309]
lol wut? How could they not know that he was dead?
[/quote]

Some people just don't care, others don't watch the news, or E!.

Hell, My aunt didn't even know, and she was watching the news when it aired.

"What? THAT'S WHO DIED? What a shame."

 

[Nocturne]

Thing is, most people are glorified through their death, take James Brown for example, it's cool if you liked his music and all, but to act like he was a great person, thats completely far off. He was a womanzing drunk for the most part.

 

[A]

Although I think Heath Ledger played amazingly in The Dark Knight, I was really rooting for Robert Downey Jr. His performance I found was exceptionally good... though, of course, he's coming out with a new movie that's already generating Oscar buzz, so that's alright with me.

 

[Tennyo]

I kind of feel the same way about Kurt Cobain. Sure I like Nirvana and all, but so many people play him up as some tragic hero when in truth he was a drug addict who committed suicide and left his wife and daughter alone. :/

 

[A]

The problem is though, people take it as taboo if you speak negatively of someone that dies <_< I'm not saying that Heath Ledger was a bad guy though.

 

[Ⓐaron]

To be fair, Cobain was a drug addict mostly because he had a crippling stomach condition that routinely caused him unbearable pain. Also, something about Courtney Love irks me. His music is still overrated though.

 

[A]

Have to agree with that.

 

[seattle]

[quote author=Tennyo link=topic=569.msg21738#msg21738 date=1235365722]
I kind of feel the same way about Kurt Cobain. Sure I like Nirvana and all, but so many people play him up as some tragic hero when in truth he was a drug addict who committed suicide and left his wife and daughter alone. :/
[/quote]
Shame he didn't beat the wife, she was a whore.

And to be honest, people consider him to have reinvented a genre. So that's why.

 

[Channy]

Dead people can't win. FIXED

 

[Ⓐaron]

He didn't reinvent it so much as he brought it to a mass audience. Honestly he didn't do anything that the Pixies hadn't already done three years earlier.

 

[seattle]

[quote author=V link=topic=569.msg21750#msg21750 date=1235367635]
He didn't reinvent it so much as he brought it to a mass audience. Honestly he didn't do anything that the Pixies hadn't already done three years earlier.
[/quote]
I actually agree with this.

 

[kunoichi]

Good for him that he won for a great performance. And now he's won it'll all go back to normal.

 

[Purple]

And he may rest in peace at last.

 

[Super Mario]

Welcome to Club 28, Ledger. LAL


I thought Robert Downey Jr. Would also win for his Iron Man performance. sigh.

 

[kunoichi]

Wonder what he's doing now....

 

[Ⓐaron]

Rotting, most likely.

 

[kunoichi]

Didn't mean his body.