I'm going to bed now, but yes, they werepainful, what I saw of them.
I watched about 20 seconds of NPH and punted. Why do prisoners drop the soap?? One quick glance back that caught Martin and Baldwin in full glory and I'm done for the night.
My landlord is either having an Oscars viewing party, or he just decided to invite a bunch of people, plus a dog, into his home just for today. I assume it's the same dog that was here when he had a party last Halloween, but from the basement, all dogs running on wood floors above sound about the same.
4: Apparently, the director or producer originally suggested Sacha Baron Cohen to host but the Academy nixed it.
re: 6
According to the UK press, Cohen had a skit with Ben Stiller but it was cut because they were wary of offending James Cameron [apparently] and Cohen wasn't prepared to cut or alter it in some way or other. Cohen was to perform as one of the smurf-like things from Avatar.
7: The second interview here is where the Cohen-as-host story broke, I think.
♫ Nom nom nominees, nom nom nominees
9: That was the reference. Well remembered.
I remember, but I wouldn't have made the connection to the reference.
8: I am making the mistake of listening to the one with Cameron. The combination of my hatred for Terry Gross and my hatred for James Cameron hurtttttts.
ARRRRG. Cameron is like doing this kinda like Rousseau-type thing, and thinking about how like indigenous people are, um, something, and really really wants a cookie for a having disabled protagonist.
Also, he basically sees himself as a Surrealist, which is why he doesn't have to explain any of the images or plot points.
To merge threads, I've gotten out of arrests....because I'm a surrealist.
If I could screen-capture and lolcatize what I just saw on my TV screen, it would read: "Smug Tarantino is smug".
That sound-editing thing narrated by Moran Freeman was pretty good. They should do more shit like that.
"Take pause" sounds awkward to me.
So does James Taylor.
Pictures of the pretty pretty dresses are already up at New York Magazine, so there's no point to watching the damn thing anyway. Not that I even have a TV etc.
Keanu Reeves: still bad at speaking out loud.
I have no idea what you're talking about. (Okay, I had a typo in that comment that I fixed.)
So is this the "actors known for comic roles get the prize just because they finally did something serious" Oscars? Or were Bridges and Bullock actually deserving? The only 2009 movies I've seen are District 9 and Up (after they came out on DVD), so I'm clueless.
Bridges was supposedly very good in his movie (which I haven't seen).
Oh, never mind, I saw more 2009 movies. Like (500) Days of Summer. Thank god it didn't get any awards.
Mark Boal looks a lot like someone I know. It's very distracting.
Sandra Bullock is known for comic roles? I guess it's been a long time since Speed and The Net.
Also, didn't this blog once get lots of comments for an event like this. I don't really care, but the quiet is pushing me more and more towards doing work. Speaking of which, what does "become a leader in adherence to [local legislation]" mean? Of course organizations should adhere to the law, but how is that supposed to be an "opportunity", rather than just what they're supposed to do?
She wasn't known for comic roles until about six months ago. Although I think Miss Congeniality, was her only comedy of the past decade (except its sequel) and also her only big hit of the past decade.
I'm surprised to see it happen, but the expanding of the Best Picture field to include movies that literally nobody thought had any value except as moneymakers has really made the whole thing seem different to me. I always wanted to watch it before if I liked the hosts. and I like this year's hosts. Oh well.
Has anyone actually seen The Blind Side? I will believe it if someone says Bullock was amazing in it, but I've only seen the trailer and it looks just awful. Every line is a cringer. "You're changing that boy's life!" "No, he's changing mine." How do you do good work with material like that?
|| If part of the assignment was to talk about the effect of various influences on a subsidiary organization's budget, "perhaps there is an overall organizational budget" for the larger organization doesn't cut it. Do some research, please. Like maybe a couple of google searches and some clicking on the results of those searches. You expect us to turn in a "perhaps" in this context?
I should have read this over earlier. |>
W/r/t Blind Side, it apparently comes down to the combination of (1) everybody (for certain values of "everybody") loves Sandra Bullock, and (2) she both changed her hair color and remembered in every scene to do her southern accent.
It was one of the commentariat who linked to this on facebook and I suddenly can't remember his pseud my god I'm losing my mind
I saw The Blind Side (at the request of a teenager we were taking, so I couldn't say no, and while it wasn't as offensive as I'd expected it also wasn't anything extraordinary. The actor playing Michael Oher did a great job with what he was given. Bullock, whatevs. There was no tension, no character development, nothing. The teen we took loved it.
The best line I saw about why Blind Side was nominated (can't remember where) was that it speaks to two things people in the Academy love: 1) helping those less fortunate and 2) using charity to crush everyone else on the field.