It's always tradition. When the Oscar noms are announced, I am presented with a list of movies that I haven't seen, heard of, or interested in. And I thought this year would be different. Two of the years biggest grossing and critically acclaimed films were superhero films (Iron Man has a 93% on rottentomatoes.com and The Dark Knight has a 94%), yet the Academy decided to give those technical awards. Instead, the nominations went to the usual suspects. A feel-good romance about poor people, Slumdog Millionaire (94%), two movies about notable historic politicians, Milk (92%) and Frost/Nixon (91%),a romantic fantasy epic, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (72%), and a historical romance set in Nazi Germany, The Reader (60%).
Now, if you went by critical reviews, Iron Man and The Dark Knight are better than four out of five of the Best Picture nominees. (Even my third favorite film of the year Tropic Thunder (84%) got a better score than Benjamin Button or The Reader)
At least there is some justice with a nominee, even though its a snowball's chance in hell. Robert Downey, Jr. got in. I mean, it's not Best Actor for Iron Man, but he turned in another pitch perfect performance in Tropic Thunder and deserves the nomination for that. Now, there's a problem here. It's for Best Supporting Actor. And he's up against Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Don't get me wrong. Ledger deserves it for his portrayl as the demented Joker in what has to be the best film of the year, it's just that I feel the award would be awarded not because of his performance, but because he died so tragically. (To quote Ben Stiller in TT, "It's all very political".) Or, think if Downey (who is the odds on runner-up) wins instead. How pissed off is everybody going to be over that?
Would the Oscar be for TDK, or would it be penance for not receiving the award for Brokeback Mountain (Which, let's face it, was probably one of the few good movies he made).
But then again what can I say about an organization that awarded a Best Picture Oscar to Crash or Titanic and not Goodfellas or Fargo?
Screw it. The Dark Knight is the Best Picture, Christopher Nolan is the Best Director, and Downey, Jr. is Best Actor. Much in the same way Sacha Baron Cohen was the Best Actor for Borat.
Did you know Norbit was also nominated for an Academy Award last year? Who the fuck did that?!
First up-
pepe:
Doe's Hussein Obama have the intelligence to run America? Did he pass his eam at Harvard fairly?
Did he pass exam Harvards because of Affirmative action?
easilydissolved (me):
Do you have the intelligence to know there's no apostrophe in "does" and "exam" has an "x" in it?
"Did he pass exam Harvards because of Affirmative action?"
-Are you on crack?
bmovies60:
"Doe's Hussein Obama have the intelligence to run America? Did he pass his eam at Harvard fairly?"
Heavens! A Yale Man! -Thurston Howell, III
bmovies60 earned an epic win for that.
Second question-
GOP 2.0:
Blind people can't see it so why does the Government waste money on Closed Captaining?
Should we expect more brainiac decisions like this from the Obama administration?
easilydissolved:
And I suppose the government shouldn't buy seeing-eye dogs for the deaf, right?
Should we expect more brainiac questions like this from an Obama basher?
Both pepe and GOP 2.0 deserve epic fails for those.
Links:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090125200704AAL5ScN&r=w#NbUvWzO4WTn6Bj6k.RA5
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090125234457AAamiNo&r=w#NbUvWzO4WTn6Bj6k.RA5
While I was watching TV, I just thought of the best way to fix any relationship, for cheap!!
When ever I see a commercial for Jared's Jewelers, women apparently greet each other by telling each other if their boyfriend went to Jared's or not ("He went to Jared's!").
If I had a girlfriend this is what I'd do...
Every time we would have a fight, I'd just take her over to Jared's, and let her run wild. Now, I don't have any money, so I would probably just get her something from a nearby quarter machine. She gets something from Jared's and I would be the best boyfriend ever!
I could just imagine my wedding ceremony. The priest would say "Now repeat after me, 'with this Batman figurine, I thee wed'".
I was watching Spike's Video Game Awards last night, and it pissed me off. First off, no love for No More Heroes on the Wii? Come on!
Second, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put LL Cool J and let him do "Mama Said Knock You Out" (or that new song) for a minute, but All American Rejects got to perform an enitire song? I felt like I had an aneurysm after I heard it.
This is Handy Manny.
He's the illegal immigrant version of Bob the Builder.
He has a button on his belt that you press and he talks in English and Spanish.
He comes with a Home Depot parking lot playset and is about half the price of Bob the Builder.
Can we fix it?
Si se puede!
Was it strange that I thought the highlight of the SNL episode with Sarah Palin was the appearance by Mark Wahlberg? ("Say hi to your mother" cracks me up for some reason).
So I'm confused. Is the Republican candidate John McCain, Sarah Palin, or Joe the Plumber? At this point, does Paris Hilton look to be a more competetant leader than anything the GOP is throwing at us?
I'm dating a girl right now who is obsessed with the Twilight books. In those books, vampires don't drink blood (the good ones, at least) and they sparkle in the sunlight. I happen to like the Blade movies. The only time they sparkle is when Blade kills them and they turn to ash.
I still get IM messages from Becerra "chick", only this time she goes by Debbie Dream (or something like that). She's pretending that she's a chick who is in love with me, I pretend that I'm married. I think I scared her off when "my wife" asked "her" if she was "bi".
I began studying about Lesbians.
And to curb any impure thoughts, I mean the people of the island of Lesbos in Greece.
Apparently, they like to eat out. They love fish tacos and fuzzy clams. Oh, and they hate sausages. If your curious where it is, just look for the little man in the boat.
Vagina
Saw the funniest thing on Olbermann last night.
Republican Sarah Palin was giving a speech at one of her "Palin for (vice) President" Rallies when I suppose there were some sound or technical problems. The people in the back couldn't hear her, and began chanting "LOUDER, LOUDER". Then for some reason, the people in front began chanting "SARAH, SARAH" at the same time.
In all the confusion, Palin said that she hoped the people in the back were brave enough to thank the soldiers for protecting their right to protest. Then she was pulled off to the side and told "No, they aren't protesting, they can't hear you".
Then there was the fact that she was boo-ed while dropping the puck at a Flyers/Rangers game. That was hilarious.
Then when she was found guilty of violating ethical conducts as Governor of Alaska, in one of her rare on the spot interviews, she said she was glad that she was cleared of the charges.
I kinda had the feeling that the choice of Sarah Palin was going to bite McCain in the ass.
Joe Biden does have his share of gaffes, but I think he has less of a negative reaction from people, and is less embarrassing than Palin's (He called Obama "Barack America", pretty funny, I thought).
Honestly, as someone who would like to have some sort of future in comedy, I hope Palin continues on the national stage, even if she isn't Vice President.
