I am almost certainly not watching, but if you plan to, and you’re looking for a way to make them at all interesting or relevant, you can go to Big Hollywood, where they’ll be liveblogging this radical, avant garde, anti-establishment event.
Unless, of course, Jeff is going to supply commentary, in which case I recommend you stay here, where I can read your comments.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 2:45 pm #
I haven’t watched an awards show in years, and I don’t plan on breaking my streak. To be even mildly interested in the Oscars, I would have had to been mildly interested in seeing the movies nominated. The only one I can foresee myself viewing is “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 2:48 pm #
Yeah, but this way you get to see a whole collection of scumbag millionaires.
Comment by ushie on 2/21 @ 2:51 pm #
So you don’t have to watch: “I love Obama! Everyone applaud Obama! Don’t support H8! Mormons suck! Gay marriage! Obama! Eco-awareness! Global Warming! Al Gore! Obama! I’d like to thank Leo, and um…my husband…”
There you go.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 2:52 pm #
But Dan, we have this really nice tv, and my husband would be PISSED if I threw something at it.
Comment by Techie on 2/21 @ 2:55 pm #
Since I haven’t seen hardly any of the films up this year, I really couldn’t care less.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 2:56 pm #
I kinda wanted to go see Coraline, but then happyfeet reminded me.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 2:57 pm #
You can’t throw anything if you’re wearing a straight-jacket, Carin. But then, that might look too much like torturing was going on, so maybe better not at all.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 2:59 pm #
I’m totally going to like not watch them more than you guys.
Comment by Techie on 2/21 @ 3:02 pm #
Go see Coraline. It’s great, and dammit, I don’t care it’s Universal-NBC. It’s all General Electric in the end. You can offset it by buying Sylvania light bulbs or something.
If we show that good film making gets rewarded, maybe we’ll get more of it, rather than “Saw IX -This Time Jigsaw’s Dying, We Swear!”
Comment by JD on 2/21 @ 3:03 pm #
Just think about how many mortgage payments and gas tanks could be paid/filled for the cost of the ugly ass dresses these clowns will be wearing. The Leftist rich care very little about you.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 3:04 pm #
But . . . Sarah Palin!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/21 @ 3:04 pm #
Go see Coraline. It’s great
Concur, mainly because it’s possible to see it in 3D at the theater. Even if you have a big screen or a projector at home, you won’t get that.
Comment by Techie on 2/21 @ 3:05 pm #
Plus, if it goes the way of Stardust, then the chance of getting an American Gods/Anasazi Boys movie or HBO miniseries goes down again.
Comment by serr8d on 2/21 @ 3:07 pm #
There’s not been an Oscar awarded since 1992 that I’ve sincerely appreciated or agreed with. Don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 3:07 pm #
I’d watch of Gran Torino was up for Best Pic, just to see if Clint would punch out Tim Robbins.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 3:09 pm #
Not even Lord of the Rings, Serr8ed? I’m down with “The Barbarian Invasions” and “The Lives of Others,” too.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:09 pm #
Well, one of us should watch it. I nominate thor.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:11 pm #
“Lives of Others” was really good. But, it was in the foreign film category so that doesn’t really count. There are a few movies that everyone should be forced to watch and that is one of ‘em
Which other movies would you force people to watch?
“Last King of Scotland.” Ok, someone else go next.
Comment by Techie on 2/21 @ 3:11 pm #
I nominate the Armadillo.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 3:13 pm #
I’d nominate another foreign entry, Carin: “Burnt by the Sun.” What gives with this category? Do they herd all the non-commie Academy members into it for some reason?
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 3:14 pm #
I used to love hearing those am radio ads for sunday Sunday SUNDAY! at Aquasco Speedway!! Never went though, just liked the ads.
I liked No Country For Old Men pretty well. Well enough that I’d see it again for instance.
Burnt by the Sun is a great film.
Comment by Bob Reed on 2/21 @ 3:15 pm #
Not worth my time nor attention…
I think I’ll do something exciting, like vector integrals over surfaces instead….
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 3:15 pm #
Probably the Demi Moore Scarlet Letter, but only because I’m a sadist. Someone mentioned this as the worst movie ever, yesterday, at NRO. I had forced it from my mind until that moment.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:17 pm #
I’ll have to netflix that, Jeffersonian. One question, though; Do I have to screw a russian hooker before I’ll be able to understand it?
Crap, they don’t have it. I’ve never run into that.
Comment by JD on 2/21 @ 3:17 pm #
Carin – I would nominate Tombstone. And, Debbie Does Dallas.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 3:18 pm #
I liked In the Bathroom.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:20 pm #
Ok, Sdferr – I HATED “No Country for old men.” Watched at my bil’s recommendation, and we had a full-out revolt upon the conclusion of the flick.
Wanna tell me what you found redeeming about it? The Cinematography was beautiful, and it was well acted. My bones are with the story itself.
Comment by JD on 2/21 @ 3:21 pm #
I would also nominate Fun With Ocelots, and Adventures in Gerbilcaving.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 3:23 pm #
I found it at Netflix, Carin, HERE. No, no hooker-screwing required. Just a great flick that menaces like a dark cloud.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 3:25 pm #
I guess it was the nexus of the suddenness and finality of unexpected but ever-present violence harmonizing with my post 9/11 sensibilities, Carin. Or something like that. And that it was incredibly well made did hurt.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:26 pm #
Oh, they list it. It’s just not available. It has no DVD release date.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 3:26 pm #
Oh, I see what you mean…hmmmm, it’s not like it’s a new release. Interesting. Still, it’s worth going to Blockbuster to get it.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:28 pm #
That it was so well made and the story told so well made it even worse. Like I was suckered in.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:29 pm #
Dang, Amazon has used copies of “Burnt by the sun” …for $85.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 3:30 pm #
I don’t understand what your initial objection is though Carin, what was the basic fail?
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:31 pm #
Oh, look … thor reviewed it on Amazon:
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 3:32 pm #
it left me rooting for stalin, September 5, 2006
Bullshit. Thor’s been rooting for Stalin for a lot longer than that.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 3:33 pm #
Oy, I just saw I wrote “did hurt” when I intended to write didn’t hurt. Apologies.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:34 pm #
The fail was the story itself. The Ubermensch character. The ending.
There was even the tiniest bit of … hope in that movie. Not a fleck.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:35 pm #
I figured that out, Sdferr.
And, in 39 I meant “wasn’t”.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:38 pm #
I also hated:
“There will be blood” and “310 to Yuma.” Perhaps you can see a pattern here.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 3:38 pm #
What is it they say though, hope isn’t a strategy. When the evil thing is upon you, I think they mean. Be prepared, the Boy Scouts say. And Tom Lehrer too.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:39 pm #
Cripes, I’m talking to myself.
But it snowing like Global Warning is just a myth outside, and my kids are killing zombies on the tv.
Already worked out.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 3:40 pm #
My sister had me watch There Will Be Blood two nights ago. Jesus what a hatefest that is. gaack. Thoroughly disliked it, I did. Haven’t seen 310 to Yuma yet.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:40 pm #
Being prepared didn’t help anyone in the movie. No, everyone was simply FUCKED. Even the innocents. I’m surprised he didn’t put a cap in the boy at the end of the movie who he exchanged shirts with.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:42 pm #
We watched 310 to Yuma at last year’s ski outing (which we’re doing this week.) I fell asleep, and everyone else start screaming how horrible it was at the end and woke me up. The joke was we kept trying to sneak it into each other’s luggage so they’d be stuck with it.
Comment by serr8d on 2/21 @ 3:42 pm #
“3:10 to Yuma” was a nearly a decent remake, but Hollywood of course performed an overwraught.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:43 pm #
Is it too early to start drinking?
Comment by Sdferr on 2/21 @ 3:43 pm #
You’re right, it didn’t help them. The larger lesson to us though, I think, can be — don’t assume that the enemy doesn’t mean what they say or that they think like you do– rather, get busy and kill them dead, deader than dead.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 3:44 pm #
3:10 was, ultimately, unbelievable, though I thought it was a well-made flick.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:45 pm #
But, I don’t see the point in the movie that opened up that as an option. To me, the theme was that evil is simply a stronger force.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:45 pm #
Well all three of these movies were both well made AND well acted. That isn’t in dispute.
Comment by Carin on 2/21 @ 3:46 pm #
You know who should be here in this thread? Jeff.
Comment by JD on 2/21 @ 3:47 pm #
Unless they are zombies, in which case, you are just fucked.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 3:49 pm #
That is no old cunt for tree men.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/21 @ 3:53 pm #
That is no old cunt for tree men.
Yes, the Ents lost the Entwives somewhere.
Comment by JD on 2/21 @ 3:56 pm #
#55 – Is that the movie about Rosie O’Lard and Michael Moore’s arbor day party?
Comment by Ella on 2/21 @ 4:06 pm #
See the original 3:10 to Yuma, if you haven’t. Glenn Ford is a stellar bad guy – charming, soft-spoken, ruthless, sympathetic almost, but not for being bad. More that it was so obvious that he could have been good, and it’s sad that, you know he needs to be hanged. Even he understands it at the end; he goes off to be hanged, partially because of his affection for Van Heflin and his life. And Van Heflin is awesome too! He looks so beaten down at the beginning, so weak and little, and he and the guy who plays the drunk just pull so much out of themselves to do the Right Thing.
That is a fabulous movie. And there is hope in it. It ends very well.
I couldn’t see the remake. I despise Russell Crowe, and the trailers had the stink of abomination about them.
Comment by Jim Treacher on 2/21 @ 4:08 pm #
I was thinking about liveblogging it, but that would mean watching it.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/21 @ 4:12 pm #
That’s true, Jim. Or you could just make it up, like ushie, above. That way you’d get a jump on the competition.
Comment by thor on 2/21 @ 4:13 pm #
Sometimes I think sittin’ on trains, every stop I get to I’m crackin’ that game. Everyone’s a winner, were making our fame, bondafide hustler, just makin’ my name.
Runnin’ when we get uuuum, little poison for the systuuum.
All I wanna do is.
So, ah, no funny business.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 2/21 @ 4:15 pm #
Thor’s into the popskull early today
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/21 @ 4:15 pm #
“The Dark Knight” isn’t up for best picture.
That says it all, right there.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 2/21 @ 4:16 pm #
FOAD, whore.
Comment by maggie katzen on 2/21 @ 4:26 pm #
oh, just watched him in The Big Heat last night.
Comment by thor on 2/21 @ 4:52 pm #
C’mon slut boy, Semper.
Comment by Ella on 2/21 @ 5:13 pm #
I love “The Big Heat”! That scream Gloria Graham does off camera when the gangster (Lee Marvin?) throws coffee in her face – brilliant. It makes me shudder every time. And her dying scene is stupendous. She’s so gentle in it, breathing softly, smiling, so sad when Glenn Ford stops looking at her as he starts reminiscing about his wife…. I think she only got an Oscar for “The Bold and the Beautiful” or whatever that awful Kirk Douglas movie was, only because the Academy gypped her on “The Big Heat.”
Comment by Ella on 2/21 @ 5:14 pm #
And that’s a shame, because Jean Hagen really deserved to win that year for “Singing in the Rain.”
Comment by happyfeet on 2/21 @ 5:27 pm #
I’m boycotting the Oscars until they rename them the Obamas I think. Cause of the racisms. If you have to ask what racisms then that is a sadness I think. It’s time to let go of the failed policies of the past. Simple as that.
Comment by alppuccino on 2/21 @ 5:38 pm #
A bunch of standing ovations during a show where an entire group is congratulating itself? Long disjointed speeches forming a huge failed trajicomedy?
When is Obama’s speech to Congress on?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/21 @ 7:30 pm #
Glenn Ford wasn’t nearly as appreciated as an actor as he should have been.
Holy cow! He just died a couple of years ago. 90 years old.
Comment by McGehee on 2/22 @ 3:42 pm #
The Oscars? Are they still giving those out? Next you’ll tell me they still give out the Nobel Peace Prize. Pull the other one — it’s got bells on.
Comment by Rusty on 2/22 @ 4:23 pm #
#63
Without Heath Ledger there wasn’t a movie. He made that film………………………and the wicked awesome car.
Carin. Try “Enemy at the Gates” A rather good adaptation of a true story.
Comment by Kevin on 2/22 @ 4:34 pm #
Hey Breitbart TV is doing a live Oscar show.
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Comment by maggie katzen on 2/22 @ 11:22 pm #
I must be on some secret Glenn Ford kick, cause he showed up again last night in Interrupted Melody. I had just recorded it because of the opera bits.