{"id":109,"date":"2007-02-27T00:42:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T13:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-02-19T21:31:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T10:31:05","slug":"academy-awards-07-deadblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Academy Awards ’07: Deadblogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to my Australianity, I have chosen to avoid the internet so that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spoil the Oscars for myself. My computer is going King Slow, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly update this anyway. So here we go: faking the Oscars in a stream of consciousness, as inspired by Mark<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have predictions for reals, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll say who I think should win and whatnot at first.<\/p>\n

Best Picture:<\/b> I get the notion that Babel<\/I> might win, but part of me says that The Departed<\/I> could. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that Little Miss Sunshine<\/I> is a real contender, and The Queen<\/I> seems an odd duck.
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve actually been ignoring the other awards ceremonies, so we shall see.<\/p>\n

Best Actor:<\/b> This is actually the category I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen the least of, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m throwing it at Forest Whitaker for persuading me in The Last King of Scotland<\/I>.<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actor<\/b>: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to say Jackie Earle Haley. Much as I love Mark Wahlberg, I think it would be a bit of a joke to give him the award. I suppose that even if he technically qualifies, The Departed<\/I> was so long you wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t notice how good he was. I mean, that role for me is more about the C word than it is about dramatic quality.<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actress:<\/b> They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to give this to Jennifer Hudson maybe and, while she was good, check out that Cate Blanchett! She was white hot with passion and fire in Notes on a Scandal<\/I>! Adriana Barraza is also deserving of recognition.<\/p>\n

Best Director:<\/b> What do I know of direction? Give it to Scorsese \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 although Eastwood should definitely be respected for getting people who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even speak the same language to give him such dynamite. But! The same could be said of my friend Inarritu! Also, The Queen<\/I> had magical atmosphere!
\nDamnit, these directors all caught the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

Foreign Language Film:<\/b> Just give it to Pan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labyrinth<\/I>, because no one has heard of the other films.<\/p>\n

Adapted Screenplay:<\/b> Children of Men<\/I> should win based on the fact that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good script that bears little or no resemblance to its source material. The Departed<\/I> is also a good departure from its source material to make something awesometacular. Little Children<\/i> still feels like a book<\/I>, and Borat<\/I> – the whole point was to make it seem unscripted. Oops, forgot how awesome Notes on a Scandal<\/I> was.<\/p>\n

Original Screenplay:<\/b> Go Pan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labyrinth<\/i>! Perfect ending! The Queen<\/I> was meticulous, Letters from Iwo Jima<\/I> was heartfelt, Babel<\/I> intricate and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 you know what I think of Little Miss Sunshine<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Animated Feature Film:<\/b> Monster House<\/i>, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only one on the list that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make me wretch with hatred at the industry. I guess Happy Feet<\/i> would have been super awesometacular great if it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so freaking boring<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Original Score:<\/b> You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think much about this category until you realise that Pan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labyrinth<\/I> haunts your dreams.<\/p>\n

Original Song:<\/b> “Listen”, already beloved by the drag acts on Oxford Street. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to seeing Beyonce take it to the limit.<\/p>\n

Warning:<\/b> The contents inside are rambling, unedited and somewhat more political than I usually allow to get out on the site.<\/p>\n

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The nominees video was fun, and it reminded me of why I like the movies and like the industry despite the fact that everyone is supposed to hate it. Also because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m leftist pinko commie scum, and you know it.<\/p>\n

Ellen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first foray onto the stage was fairly good, but I could really feel where she felt her jokes were falling flat. I think that the people who attend the Oscars hate anyone who isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Billy Crystal. The Steve Carell joke was great, though.<\/p>\n

Yeah! Will Ferrell and Jack Black! John C. Reilley! Helen Mirren will be coming home with me! I love how they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make a pretentious speech about how important make up is \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 they just sang whatever the hell.<\/p>\n

Pan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labyrinth is cleaning up in a way that only a film nominated primarily in technical categories can! Except they cut off the second winner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech, which didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem very nice at all. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like they were boring the heck out of us. I vaguely recall last year that, after Crash<\/i> won, the woman who accepted the award tried to give a speech and she was immediately cut off – probably because the Academy was disgusted with the PC nature of the win.<\/p>\n

Judi Dench isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there? Does that mean she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ceded the contest to Helen Mirren? I like both of them, dangit! <\/p>\n

Children are apparently cute, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not quite sure I get it. Oh, look! Look how scripted it is!
\nAnd this time they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually reading out the names \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it appears that Will Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read very well. I suppose he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only seven, but we should get these people to work earlier, dangit!<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stick-to-it-iveness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is not a word, for your record.<\/p>\n

The sound effects choir lost its novelty very quickly. But Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear came onto the stage and made everything right!
\nInteresting: Flags<\/i> and Letters<\/i> both nominated in this category, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the same people. I have to wonder if Pirates<\/I> will get any tech awards.
\nThere we go: first Letters<\/I> award of the night.<\/p>\n

Yeah! James McAvoy! I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand the teaming up of a lot of these people. Why is he with Jessica Beal? I suppose they want the eye candy covered on both sides, but that facial hair does little for McAvoy.
\nHooray! Dreamgirls<\/i>!
\nYou know, this whole drowning out speeches with music thing is mean.<\/p>\n

Oh, hay: Rachel Weisz. That means that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the first non-technical award of the night. This is a pretty good category, especially Jackie Earle Haley. Wow, never would have picked Alan Arkin. Little Miss Sunshine<\/I> seems like the made up dark horse of the awards this year. I mean, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give my favourite movies respect! Little Miss Sunshine<\/I> is a little miss awesome film, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not Academy attracting material in my eyes. Maybe the Academy just wants to kill me after they stabbed my friend Brokeback Mountain<\/I> in the face with a tire iron and then embarrassed me and itself.<\/p>\n

Silhouettes are fun?<\/p>\n

NO CARS<\/I>! DEAR LORD, STOP HAUNTING MY DREAMS, YOU TALENTLESS FOUR WHEELED HACKS! YOUR MOVIE MADE NO SENSE!
\nI know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m supposed to love Randy Newman or whatever, but come on! Stupid sentimental songs about things that your target audience cares not a fig for!
\nJohn Lasseter, you are fired!<\/p>\n

The mics aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be transmitted to the TV. Oh, check it out, environmental messages are being flashed on the screen behind Melissa Etheridge. Really ironic that they played this song directly after the song from the movie about cars.
\nWait a second, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a message in the background about praying for environmental change? What the heckfire is up with that? You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to be a godless society, Hollywood! Either that or run by Jewish people, make uppa you minds.<\/p>\n

I like Al Gore, although I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell entirely why he was on the stage. Oh, right, climate crisis. Shut up, leftoro. Oh, wait \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jack Nicholson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hair? Cameron Diaz isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that great at presenting this award, but she does it all the time! Putting the characters in the audience is also really stretching it.
\nBooooo, communist penguins! Go home!<\/p>\n

Ben Affleck? As if you ever wrote a movie! Check you out, Nancy Meyer, you think that you wrote The Holiday<\/i> as a tribute to olde Hollywood \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and you did, which was the best part of the movie.
\nPlus two appearances by Geoffrey Rush. Then I saw Woody Allen and thought he was Geoffrey Rush. Then I realised I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t type Geoffrey Rush if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not looking at my computer screen.
\nSometimes I wish there was romance in my writing, then I realise that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sweet enough just writing about evil chickens who alternately love and hate each other.<\/p>\n

Take that stage, Helen Mirren! Take it! Why have you got to share it with Tom Hanks? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking around shiftily as if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feeling guilty for being in one of the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worst<\/i> adapted screen plays. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny to hear Helen Mirren narrating Borat<\/i>.
\nInteresting: Cuaron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work on Children of Men<\/i> was separate from the team of three who started it.
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really strange that they read stage directions to illustrate the quality of the script. This part is really at the discretion of the directors, I would have thought, because it translates onto the screen, but not in a way you could tell from the script.
\nWow, the repressed homosexuality of Notes on a Scandal<\/i> was way more obvious in the script, even moreso than in the super obvious movie.<\/p>\n

THEY JUST CALLED INFERNAL AFFAIRS<\/i> A JAPANESE FILM. Hopefully he will correct them.
\nI know I should be listening to the speech, but I find it difficult to focus on anything but Jack Nicholson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lack of hair. He had to speed it up, sadly enough.<\/p>\n

At this point I would like to illustrate that those weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t predictions but personal choices.<\/p>\n

Whoo, Emily Blunt. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as pretty as I recalled, because I had her confused with Amanda from Ugly Betty<\/i>. Look how contrived these acts are \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Emily Blunt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s line \u00e2\u20ac\u0153she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a good actress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was quite ironic \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but Meryl Streep reacted really well
\nOh, can I just point out that if Meryl Streep gets best actress I have to kill someone? I know that she won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, but \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 for serious, if she does for that admittedly great but still unworthy role \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Damned Oscars, why got to remind me I loved Dreamgirls<\/I> despite your lame posing? Ah, Marie Antoinette<\/I>. I know that they hate you, but I will always have a place in my heart for your detached vapidity.<\/p>\n

Hey! Check it out, Marie Antoinette<\/I> won! Now I want to see it again.<\/p>\n

Yarr, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some Tom Cruise. I should probably find out who Jean Hersholt is. I wonder if Sherry Lansing will win this award, for which she is the only nominee? Okay, time to quit some snark and find out what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on.
\nOh, hey, she actually made some really good stuff. Or things that I would have to assume were good, had I actually seen them. It seems that after the nineties came around this woman failed to age.
\nWait a second, why does the Academy give away Humanitarian awards? That seems really weird. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 they make movies. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got admit it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ingenious to have all of these people do lefty things on such a big night. No wonder the right stereotypically hates Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Ah, Ellen, you just trawl that room until you get some laughs! Exploit that Spielberg! Right on!<\/p>\n

Now every time I see someone come on stage, I expect them to come on with the intro to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One Night Only\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I really suck at this here \u00e2\u20ac\u0153score guessing game\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen a lot of recent movies, but my watching movies that I know the history of really needs working on.<\/p>\n

Why do the cinematographers get to comment on their work but no one else does? Interesting choice for the cinematography on Children of Men<\/I> – less than obvious.<\/p>\n

You go, Pan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labyrinth<\/I>! Watch me hum your lullaby theme, if I can remember it!<\/p>\n

This silhouettes thing is really lame.<\/p>\n

I knew Robert Downey Jr. would turn the special effects thing into a drug joke! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure that I knew what Naomi Watts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 real voice sounds like. I just heard it,and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still not sure. Wow, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting to see Bill Nighy in his octosuit. May I take this opportunity to say that Bill Nighy rocks? For he does: early, and often.
\nNow I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take this opportunity to say that John Williams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work is samey a lot of the time and his Superman<\/I> theme is mightily uninspired.<\/p>\n

Yeah! Pirates<\/I> wins for visual effects. No real surprise there: it was the only truly fun nominee in the awards. Then the camera cut to Beyonce smiling, as if the Academy were saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you are technical! We hate you!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nDear Academy, if you have three people on stage, please let the third one say at least a little bit before he gets kicked out.<\/p>\n

Catherine Deneuve! Demake Dancer in the Dark<\/I> and I will accept you on my stage! Ken Watanabe! How can I be mad at you? I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Keep shining, you crazy diamond!
\nThe language of film speaks to us more than the language of love! Hooray for meaningless empty clich\u00c3\u00a9s, Catherine Deneuve! No, for real, we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had a lot of them tonight. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to make that not sound sarcastic, but I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean it in a sarcastic fashion.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bothering with best foreign film, when they can so easily just throw it at Guillermo Del Toro \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what the Hell? The Lives of Others<\/i>? I wonder if this movie came out here? I do not recall it.<\/p>\n

Snakes on a Plane<\/I> does not work in silhouette. Actually, the poster does really well. Curse you, Academy!<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at this point I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wondering how much longer this has to go.<\/p>\n

Ooh, Best Supporting Actress! Al Gore is not the Vice President. Oh, I get it, vice<\/i>. You are clever, Mister Clooney. You can really tell what the Academy thinks of the actor or actress based on the clip they show. You knew Nicole Kidman was doomed because they showed a clip from the embarrassing part of Moulin Rouge<\/I> a couple of years ago. Jennifer Hudson is seeing this as all very shocking
\nOh, check that out, no surprise! Jennifer Hudson is an Academy Award winner! I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite understand the whole thing, but Dreamgirls is<\/i> one of my favourite movies of the last couple of months so I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complain.
\nIf the Academy cuts Hudson off from her speech, I will \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, stab something. I should stop being so violent, but \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 you know.
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re your Dreamgirls, boys \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make you happy \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/i>
\nSee, God, is into the night.
\nHey! You kicked her off the stage!<\/p>\n

I think you should give actors a chance to have a good time, Academy. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying this as someone who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember the years of interminable speeches, though.<\/p>\n

This Babel<\/i> montage is pretty good. Although it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strange to think that Inarittu ended up with a movie the opposite of his expectation. It was always going to be as it was, though.<\/p>\n

I love Eva Green and, to a lesser extent Gael Garcia Bernal. WHY DO THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO MAKE PENIS SIZE JOKES AT THESE DAMNED CEREMONIES (actually, they only ever make the same joke)<\/p>\n

Why did Jim Carrey come out to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Prerogative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Why did I call Jerry Seinfeld \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jim Carrey\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Why did I know \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Prerogative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?
\nI missed most of the speech because my parents came home and chose to brood at exactly that moment. They gave him time because he looked funny! I missed out on funny, damnit!<\/p>\n

It seems foreign to me, but I love the idea of Clint Eastwood as a nice guy.<\/p>\n

Ooh look, Celine Dion is on. This is getting really tedious. I suppose that what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying, Hollywood, is that I like watching your products and \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel the need to stick around for a spot of Celine Dion.<\/p>\n

If they cut off Morricone, angry I will be! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a freaking lifetime achievement award, you sods!<\/p>\n

You know, theme Oscars are a bad idea. Remember how a few years ago it was the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Oscars\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, with Halle Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s win landing a blow for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153women of colour everywhere\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? This year it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153International Oscars\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which is like saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we are kind of accepting on a very small scale that other nations make films\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

I had forgotten Babel<\/I>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s score, but my friends said it pushed them over the edge into depression. Lucky stiffs, with their ideas of depression.
\nRinko Kikuchi really looks very pretty at awards nights.<\/p>\n

I really got the impression that was racing to beat the music.<\/p>\n

You know, I miss Judi Dench.<\/p>\n

I love that they always send Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst out together, despite the fact that they allegedly can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand each other. Kirsten Dunst could beat down Tobey Maguire any day of the week, even if Maguire can synthesise an unbreakable web to swing across the nation.<\/p>\n

On The Queen<\/i>: I hate the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153presently\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I like that the script refers to her as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Queen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Oddly enough, only in the directions. For dialogue, she is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Elizabeth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nNot \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cabbage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, though.
\nHey, Little Miss Sunshine<\/I>! You did have a good script, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll grant you that.<\/p>\n

I love that you still are allowed on stage after Gigli<\/I>, J-Lo. But \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 if Kevin Smith is allowed on stage ever, I give up on the world.<\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope these performances are good! \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love You I Do\u00e2\u20ac\u009d! Yeah! They edited \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Listen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pretty poorly. It looked like Jennifer Hudson was trying to outsing the rest, then Anika Noni Rose took over a bit, and then Keith Robinson was just trying to keep the song going. Oh look, silhouette. Much as I love the soundtrack, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t translate that well to the Oscars stage.<\/p>\n

What was Queen Latifah nominated for? I hope it was Chicago<\/i> rather than Bringing Down the House<\/I>. <\/p>\n

Let us sing the praises of global warming! I just hope that Tammy Lee doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go home to drink champagne with Isaiah Washington. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that Etheridge suggested that climate change isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t political, and I dearly wish it were true.<\/p>\n

I think that Steve Carell is the best man in Hollywood. I particularly loved his character in Little Miss Sunshine<\/I>.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t particularly like watching dancing Klansmen. Then I realised I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really like O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/i> anyway. It looks like this here montage is just about racism or some crap, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. It basically shows some really ugly sentiments, then \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 hey! Roy Batty!
\nOr is this about religion? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bored of these Awards already. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just like \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all like anymore. Except that \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 this is the tackiest Oscars montage I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen ever. Do you suppose they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll play Linkin Park over this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reel of the departed?<\/p>\n

Why did this montage give screen time to American Dreamz<\/I>? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure that we should acknowledge its existence.<\/p>\n

Kate Winslet, I like you, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like your ironic speech about editing.
\nIn Australia we pronounce it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Babel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Babble\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

The Departed<\/I> was pretty well edited, yeah.<\/p>\n

Everyone knows that Jodie Foster is wicked mad awesome. So she gets to introduce the departed. Look! They can pay respect to dead people!<\/p>\n

So many awards left, damnit!<\/p>\n

HEY BEST ACTRESS FREAKING HELL JUST PRESENT IT<\/p>\n

Yeah! Helen Mirren! You surprise no one! But you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll forgive you!<\/p>\n

So 3,000 words down and nothing has actually happened at these awards! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just seen a lot of ads for Jessica Simpson slagging around.<\/p>\n

It occurs that Ellen has not actually done anything tonight beyond the monologue. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s given a couple of lines here and there.<\/p>\n

Half Nelson<\/i>, from the clip, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like it will be easy to watch.<\/p>\n

Forest Whitaker! We knew it would be this way all along! But he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good man, and he follows the way of the samurai, albeit in a really boring way (that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jim Jarmusch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fault, though).<\/p>\n

God hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been trotted out a lot tonight, but this is the second major one. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good that he was allowed to speak out, though. <\/p>\n

Does this leave us with best director and picture, or do I need a million more? Do we get best producers nowadays?<\/p>\n

George Lucas is looking like a lollipop or something? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. Just give it to Scorsese, even if it is a pity Oscar. He probably deserves it or something. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a bad man.<\/p>\n

Oh, check that out! You directed good, man!<\/p>\n

Yeah, standing ovation! I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been trying for about 37 years to get an Oscar, getting so close and failing. I think that Scorsese missed his calling: with those eyebrows, he could be a great actor!<\/p>\n

I like Diane Keaton. How do they choose the presenters? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obvious in the case of the actors, but the rest not so much.<\/p>\n

Oh, look at that: The Departed<\/i> wins. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the most mainstream of movies in the lineup, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a bad thing. I think that the Oscars have been drifting away from the lowest common denominator in recent years, which I certainly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind, but it sure as heckfire doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help the elitist \u00e2\u20ac\u0153snobbywood\u00e2\u20ac\u009d view of the world.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another year down. You know, last year I missed the Oscars because I was at the movies. Eventually a tribute to the movies becomes a long parade of boredom because they simply can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t maintain the momentum to keep the show interesting.<\/p>\n

Final thought: why are we sitting and talking and watching the hawk(ing) making lazy circles in the sky? And Taking Our Breath Away? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to my Australianity, I have chosen to avoid the internet so that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spoil the Oscars for myself. My computer is going King Slow, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly update this anyway. So here we go: faking the Oscars in a stream of consciousness, as inspired by Mark! I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have predictions for reals, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll say who I think should win and whatnot at first. Best Picture: I get the notion that Babel might win, but part of me says that The Departed could. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that Little Miss Sunshine is a real contender, and The Queen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-oscars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-1L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}