Best part of the Oscars, bar none.
Fuck Heath Ledger's crying family. Hugh Jackman screaming "I'M WOLVERINE!" downstage centre at the Kodak Theatre last night proved that the best shot the Academy's got is joining the quirky, self-aware status of so many other celebrities and performances these days.
It's that sort of "Adaptation-made-this-cool" self-consciousness of a medium in its own time and place--e.g. the Academy Awards during the recession; virtually any film with George Clooney post-Ocean's 11--that makes Hollywood not only bearable, but also a bit enjoyable. If Hollywood takes itself seriously enough to regard Oscar-winners as the best films of that year on a global, universal scale, then they're not just idiots, but also have their heads up their asses, and that shit makes people angry. It's alienating. But if they take the self-referential route of self-mockery and put Hugh Jackman's face on a baby--well, fuck, I'll watch that. Hollywood knows its place, and I appreciate that.
But Mickey Rourke was still totally robbed. WTF.
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kurt vonnegut once said that semicolons are the worst piece of punctuation, all they show is that you've been to college.
DOES YOUR MOM FIND THAT FUNNY?!?!?!?!?!?
p.s. so did robert downey jr
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and recession is totally the buzzword of 2009.
Slumdog Millionare wasn't that good. It is, however, one of the few Oscar nominated movies that I've actually seen. Not only had I never heard of The Reader, but of all the nominees in all the categories, I've only seen six: Slumdog, Iron Man (sucked), Dark Knight, Wall-E, and Hellboy II. What can I say, I'm an intellectual.
Rourke wasn't dressed ridiculously enough - a little more grease in the hair would have clinched it for him.
when robert downey jr went from black guy to kirk lazarus in under 30 seconds, i almost cried.
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