Sunday, February 24, 2008

Oscar


No Country basically swept the big awards: Director, Supporting Actor, Screenplay, and Picture. The only "major" award it lost is Cinematography, and it almost feels like the voters gave it to There Will Be Blood out of pity. I was happy to see Sweeney Todd win an Oscar. Not because I thought it deserved it, but it's just so rare to see Hollywood honor a horror film on such a big stage. I was disappointed 3:10 to Yuma lost some of the technical awards to Bourne Ultimatum (huh?). How the hell did Transformers lose Visual Effects? Chalk that one up to the anti-Michael Bay sentiment that's all over Hollywood. Classy move for Jon Stewart to let the "Once" girl come back out after the commercial break and give her acceptance speech after her partner hogged the light and they cued her off the stage. That was ridiculous. Anybody else notice that Brad Renfro wasn't in the "In Memoriam" segment? They extended it from 2007 into 2008 to accommodate Heath Ledger. Tacky. Diablo Cody is such a flash in the pan. I'll eat my words if I'm wrong, which I'm not, but this chick is a one-Oscar wonder. She's like Cuba Gooding Jr. of strippers. Happy today, writing Snow Dogs 2, tomorrow.

I'm finishing up everything for the Splatcademy Awards. I think this will be fun. As far as I know, we'll be the only podcasters that have ever attempted something like this (I could be wrong on that. Honestly, I just don't listen to podcasts very often. I find them annoying) and maybe this will get us some more listeners.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Just some random pieces of useless information

Currently listening to Soundgarden's "Fell on Black Days", via Pandora.

Watched Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn (B) and Curtiz's Casablanca (always an A) today.

Girlfriend is pestering me to go see Juno, which I might be seeing Monday afternoon. After that, I'll be checking out The Orphanage.

Did an interview tonight with some newspaper called Red Line (I think?) about politics and why Obama is so great.


Did anybody else notice tonight that Dwight Howard's "Superman Dunk"wasn't really a dunk at all? It was cool to watch, don't get me wrong...but the guy threw the ball into the hoop. That's not a slam dunk.

Watched the latest episode of Nip/Tuck tonight. This show jumped the shark in the 4th season (one could argue it happened in the first episode of the first season, but whatever) and it just added incest to its scroll of ridiculous plotlines. I love this show.

Next four films in my Netflix queue in order: American Gangster, We Own the Night, Gone Baby Gone, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Currently contemplating: Should I buy a cheap HD-DVD player and cash in on the bargain price discs before they go out of print, buy a stand alone Blu-Ray player, or buy a PS3 which comes with a Blu-Ray player (and will allow me to play this game when it comes out in 2010...it'll be delayed even longer, you just know it)?

Obama opens up a significant lead in the Gallup tracking poll. Best case scenario: double digit victory in Wisconsin, upset win in Texas, narrow loss in Ohio= Hillary out of the race

Did you know that this amazing band came from this amazing band (disregard fan made music video)?

Debating whether or not to see Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend...or Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers at the Ross this week. Decisions, decisions...