Talking Best Picture while blowing my nose.
It found me.
Despite my high consumption of vitamin C and washing of hands anal-ness, that dreaded cold that has been spreading around has found its way into my lungs.
Bastard.
I’ve got too much to do to slow down at all. I’m a little behind on my Superhero pages, plus there are other writing assignments that can’t wait.
In regards to the Oscar nominations, overall I agree with most of their choices. I am disappointed, however, in the ten nominations for Best Picture.
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Up
Up in the Air
An Education
The Blind Side
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
The intention of increasing the number of nominees, supposedly, was to allow more room for genres that don’t normally get recognition to do so. Great! So, I see Up there, which would have probably unfairly been snubbed had there only been five nominations, but–
An Education? A Serious Man?
Both fit into the popularly-nominated drama category, yet neither can hold a candle to Up in the Air or The Hurt Locker.
Where’s The Hangover? Geez… I would have even been happier to see Paranormal Activity there. At least that way, there would be more variety instead of the handful of drama flicks that have no chance in hell of winning.
Perhaps increasing the number of nominees to ten is simply a way to get people to go to the movies more, like my wife suspects. I guess it’s worked. We’re planning on going to see The Blind Side this week, when normally a movie like that would only be a Netflix pick. Suckers…
Ugh, the lead was cute and all, but overall, “An Education” was pretty weak. Like a bad TV movie. It was mostly insufferable.
Oh great. That’s one I’m planning to go watch this weekend. You’re saying I should sneak a drink into the theater?
It’s an OK cast and all but overall I kind of regretted wasting the time seeing it. The premise is a bit creepy, the parents and Emma Thompson overact as usual, and any ambiguity the story might have is overidden by the ham-fisted direction and bad TV/theatre lack of subtlety throughout. The music in the opening credits is quite possibly the weirdest, most annoying music I’ve ever heard open a film. And that says a lot.
Anyway, enjoy!