And the Oscar goes to...

[Mr Galt]

 

[The Ü™]

The show was quite short this year; it usually runs well into midnight.

 

[Mr Galt]

The show was quite short this year; it usually runs well into midnight.

Writers' strike.

 

[Mr Galt]

"Stage Managers:
Ron Paul"

 

[The Ü™]

Writers' strike.

I'm thinking it's more because of the tactic of playing music to let the winners know when to speed up their acceptance speech.

"Stage Managers:
Ron Paul"

I knew politicians were in on it!

 

[Mr Galt]

My Summary of the Oscars:

Diablo Cody is actually just a stripper name.
John Travolta should probably jump off of a building.
The Academy should join John for not nominating Sweeney for music.
The Coen brothers only won because they're Jewish (my grandfather would have killed me for that one)
There Will Be Blood was robbed.
Ellen page > no name hack
My head a splode.

 

[The Ü™]

And The Golden Compass won because it was the only film in that category without ILM involvement. But really, we've seen Coca-Cola bears before, they're getting old.

 

[Mr Galt]

And The Golden Compass won because it was the only film in that category without ILM involvement. But really, we've seen Coca-Cola bears before, they're getting old.

It's the goddamn lobbyists always affecting the voting....

 

[The Ü™]

But at least Transformers will probably win at the Saturn Awards. I should probably make a poll for those nominations, too. I could possibly get more results.

 

[The Ü™]

Well, here are the Saturn Award nominations for Best Special Effects:

TIM BURKE, JOHN RICHARDSON, PAUL FRANKLIN, GREG BUTLER
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

SCOTT FARRAR, SCOTT BENZA, RUSSELL EARL, JOHN FRAZIER,
Transformers

MICHAEL FINK, BILL WESTENHOFER, BEN MORRIS, TREVOR WOOD
The Golden Compass

JOHN KNOLL, HAL HICKEL, CHARLES GIBSON, JOHN FRAZIER
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

SCOTT STOKDYK, PETER NOFZ, SPENCER COOK, JOHN R. FRAZIER
Spider-Man 3

CHRIS WATTS, GRANT FRECKELTON, DEREK WENTWORTH, DANIEL LEDUC
300

Ceremony will take place on June 24th.

 

[Mr Galt]

An Afterthought: SiCKO should have gotten best special effects. Only Michael Moore could use crazy visual tricks to make half a country believe his crap.

 

[The Ü™]

An Afterthought: SiCKO should have gotten best special effects. Only Michael Moore could use crazy visual tricks to make half a country believe his crap.

No, it should have won in the sound categories. It's the only way people could ever believe Michael Moore's obnoxiously loud mouth.

 

[Mr Galt]

No, it should have won in the sound categories. It's the only way people could ever believe Michael Moore's obnoxiously loud mouth.

i c wat uv dun here

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

This performance is LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even though I don't know which specific one you're talking about, I'm pretty sure I agree

Once was horrible!!!!!

Though this song was the film's only redeeming quality.

Hanging guitars?!?!?!?!?!?!?

*lameness*

Ahh, say it ain't so! Once was one of my three favorites this year, along with Juno and Michael Clayton. And I think the hanging guitars are there because they were sort of abstractly recreating the scene in the movie where they play that song together in the music shop.

I dunno. I was loling at the Gaydolf Titler joke for awhile.

Ditto.

Steve Martin was probably my favorite Oscar host.

Ditto.

HA! SHE CAME BACK ON!

Suddenly the Oscars aren't so bad.

That was my favorite part of the show. That little Czech girl coming out and getting her moment. You just know the director of the show could see the postmortem tomorrow being all about how he cut off a sweet little girl. I wonder if Stewart had anything to do with it as well...he seemed to have a personal affection for them.

YES! Michael Moore didn't win! YES!

Suck on that you socialist weasel!

Werd.

I never understood why anyone thinks Al Pacino is a good actor.

Well, he was one...30 years ago He annoys me lately too, although I liked him in Donnie Brasco.

Overall I thought the major categories had deserving winners even if they weren't my personal preference. Mostly I'm just happy Paul Thomas Anderson didn't win. And even though No Country For Old Men isn't my favorite Coens movie, I will never begrudge them an award for pretty much anything.

Plus I won my betting pool

 

[Mr Galt]

What do you have against Paul Thomas Anderson? I haven't seen any other movies directed by him, but I though There Will Be Blood was easily one of the best movies to come out in the last 10-15 years.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

What do you have against Paul Thomas Anderson? I haven't seen any other movies directed by him, but I though There Will Be Blood was easily one of the best movies to come out in the last 10-15 years.

Though it wasn't my favorite of the year, I actually enjoyed There Will Be Blood. But that's the first Paul Thomas Anderson movie I have liked. Normally I find his films to be overlong, maudlin and indulgent. And while he definitely has a strong cult following, I personally find bloated and indulgent films to be aesthetically displeasing. I'm not sure if I liked this one because Anderson has grown or because Daniel Day-Lewis was simply a force of nature.

 

[Mr Galt]

Daniel Day-Lewis was simply a force of nature.

There's your reason. I'm going to remember his baptism scene for years to come.

 

[MacGuffin]

Loved seeing Marion Cotillard win, I really like it when people are overwhelmed by winning. I haven't seen that movie, but I heard she was amazing. Ellen Page was great too, but held back by the material. Diablo Cody shouldn't have won for writing Juno.

At least the Coens finally won an Oscar. They've deserved one for quite some time.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

There's your reason. I'm going to remember his baptism scene for years to come.

That was a great scene. I think based on just his acting though, I think my favorite scene was the one in the restaurant when his kid has just come back from boarding school and the oil executives from the other company are there. So many emotions in that one scene.

 

[Mr Galt]

That was a great scene. I think based on just his acting though, I think my favorite scene was the one in the restaurant when his kid has just come back from boarding school and the oil executives from the other company are there. So many emotions in that one scene.

Plainview: I want you to look over there.
H.M. Tilford: Hello, Daniel...
Plainview: Look over there. That's my son. You see? See?
H.M. Tilford: Daniel...
Plainview: You see him? You don't tell me how to raise my family. I told you not to tell me how to raise my family. So, what do you see?
H.M. Tilford: I'm happy for you that everything...
Plainview: I've made a deal with Union and my son is happy and safe and I'm taking care of him now. So you look like a fool, Tilford, don't you?
H.M. Tilford: Yes.
Plainview: I told you what I was gonna do.

Great dialogue.