ok, so I just realized that I write very badly, and I have no desire to continue reading these terrible posts.
I have half a mind to shut down this blog, but then I tell myself that I'll be thankful for not doing so later, for the sake of memory.
Maybe I'll start a new one sometime, or just continue on with this one, provided that no one reads my previous posts.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Friday, February 6, 2009
LAMB Devours the Oscars - Best Adapted Screenplay
Note: This is part of a series of Oscar pieces hosted by the LAMB. Check it out!
I think usually the Best Adapted Screenplay goes to the movie that goes on to win Best Picture. Which is predictable and boring, but there you go. The Academy is not exactly known for its dramatic surprises. It’s known to pull a shocker out of its sleeve from time to time, but usually not in the Adapted Screenplay category.
But what, exactly, does Best Adapted Screenplay mean? According to Wikipedia it’s awarded to the writer who made the transition from book/play/short story to film look the easiest. Basically, who took a crappy novel and made it palatable enough for the silver screen?
This year the nominees matched the Best Picture nominees almost name for name, with the exception of Doubt. Well, I like to read, and even though I’ve only read one of the nominees beginning to end, I have watched all of them and that puts me pretty much on par with the rest of the Academy. This year we have two plays (Doubt and Frost/Nixon), two novels (The Reader and Q&A aka Slumdog Millionaire) and one short story (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”).
The Reader, a novel by Bernard Schlink, addresses generational guilt issues and personal and moral issues coming into conflict. A young German boy begins a secret love affair with a woman old enough to be his mother and against his better judgment falls in love with her. One day she suddenly disappears and he goes on with his life. Then he sees her in court as a defendant. It turns out she served as a Nazi prison guard at Auschwitz during WWII and was responsible for the extermination of many, many Jews. The novel itself was on Oprah’s Book Club list, so I’m guessing it wasn’t a bad book to begin with. And the movie that was made with wasn’t bad per se, particularly not as bad as most Dark Knight fanatics make it out to be, but it sure is Oscar-baity. Illicit love, dramatic atonement scenes, illiteracy, the horrors of the NAZIS. But it’s not a book solely about the Holocaust and I think in general this was a solid reinterpretation from page to screen. It reminded me of Minghella’s work (RIP!) in so many ways, but I think that was more the direction than anything else. So, not a bad job.
Q&A, a novel by Vikas Swarup, adapted into Slumdog Millionaire. If what the critics say is true, the original book was not that good. And I believe it. Half the time I was watching the movie I was thinking how this movie shouldn’t be working, but it somehow was. An uneducated “slumdog” called Jamal (I think he’s called Ram in the novel) wins 20 million rupees on the gameshow Who Wants to be a Millionaire? because d) it is written. Plus, he’s in love with a chick named Latika and he gets her too. With every question we flashback to a time in Jamal’s life, a memorable moment that caused him to just know the answer. You see how this can get tiresome? But somehow the adaptors add just enough variation to the story and in the end you’re surprised by much you enjoyed it. At least I was.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Now
this one I have actually read, and the story is kinda boring. Sue me, but I don’t like Fitzgerald. Essentially the story is about how Benjamin Button grows younger. He has a wife, and a kid, and he progresses from taking care of them to them taking care of him. Then he dies when he’s a baby. Factually the details are not the same at all, but I think the movie managed to grasp upon the story’s fundamental theme – whether we go from womb to tomb or the other way around life is still short and filled with complications – quite well. And they added a love story, which was cute but not cloying, and a visual feast for the eyes. Many compare it to Forrest Gump, but I see no such similarities other than the whole progress-through-history-thing.
Doubt: A Parable, a play by John Patrick Shanley. A play about moral ambiguity and yes, doubt. Set in a rigid Catholic school trying to adapt to the changing racial environment, the ultra-conservative Sister Aloysius wages a verbal battle against the more liberal Father Flynn about whether he sexually abused a black student. Whether the allegations are true or not, Sister Aloysius has no proof whatsoever and the vendetta seems to be more personal if anything else. It’s a meaty, literary type of play, and one much better suited on the stage than on celluloid. Here the themes play awkwardly and Shanley doesn’t take advantage of film’s spacious medium to connect with the audience on a personal level. It’s a weighty story, to be sure, but not a particularly good one.
Frost/Nixon, a play by Peter Morgan. The story was fundamentally unchanged. Basically the tv
show host David Frost hosts a series of interviews with the recent-resigned Richard Nixon and tries to coax a confession out of him. At its root the play is an intense character study drawing parallels between two superficially different men. I know I’m in the minority when I say this, but I thought it was one of the best movies of the year. I think play adaptations are the hardest to pull off, because usually the original playwrights do it. I don’t think they exactly have a good scope of how expansive movies can really be since they’re so used to the constricts of the stage. Now I haven’t seen the play itself, but I can imagine this film version to be better. We got some actual scenery, some seamless scene transitions, and the dialogue wasn’t as stilted as plays can get to be. And, you know, the characters got to move around a little too.
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire, and I’m willing to bet a sizeable amount of money on this one. At this point the momentum of Slumdog is too huge to be ignored, and it’s quite a good adaptation to boot.
If I had a vote: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Here is a case where the story was almost entirely created by the authors. Basically Swicord and Roth took the fundamental premise of Fitzgerald’s story – that living is hard no matter which way you’re going – and stretched it into an unconventional love story also relevant to today’s current events. It did have a humongous running time, however - but I wouldn’t say it was ever boring.
I think usually the Best Adapted Screenplay goes to the movie that goes on to win Best Picture. Which is predictable and boring, but there you go. The Academy is not exactly known for its dramatic surprises. It’s known to pull a shocker out of its sleeve from time to time, but usually not in the Adapted Screenplay category.
But what, exactly, does Best Adapted Screenplay mean? According to Wikipedia it’s awarded to the writer who made the transition from book/play/short story to film look the easiest. Basically, who took a crappy novel and made it palatable enough for the silver screen?
This year the nominees matched the Best Picture nominees almost name for name, with the exception of Doubt. Well, I like to read, and even though I’ve only read one of the nominees beginning to end, I have watched all of them and that puts me pretty much on par with the rest of the Academy. This year we have two plays (Doubt and Frost/Nixon), two novels (The Reader and Q&A aka Slumdog Millionaire) and one short story (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”).
The Reader, a novel by Bernard Schlink, addresses generational guilt issues and personal and moral issues coming into conflict. A young German boy begins a secret love affair with a woman old enough to be his mother and against his better judgment falls in love with her. One day she suddenly disappears and he goes on with his life. Then he sees her in court as a defendant. It turns out she served as a Nazi prison guard at Auschwitz during WWII and was responsible for the extermination of many, many Jews. The novel itself was on Oprah’s Book Club list, so I’m guessing it wasn’t a bad book to begin with. And the movie that was made with wasn’t bad per se, particularly not as bad as most Dark Knight fanatics make it out to be, but it sure is Oscar-baity. Illicit love, dramatic atonement scenes, illiteracy, the horrors of the NAZIS. But it’s not a book solely about the Holocaust and I think in general this was a solid reinterpretation from page to screen. It reminded me of Minghella’s work (RIP!) in so many ways, but I think that was more the direction than anything else. So, not a bad job.
Q&A, a novel by Vikas Swarup, adapted into Slumdog Millionaire. If what the critics say is true, the original book was not that good. And I believe it. Half the time I was watching the movie I was thinking how this movie shouldn’t be working, but it somehow was. An uneducated “slumdog” called Jamal (I think he’s called Ram in the novel) wins 20 million rupees on the gameshow Who Wants to be a Millionaire? because d) it is written. Plus, he’s in love with a chick named Latika and he gets her too. With every question we flashback to a time in Jamal’s life, a memorable moment that caused him to just know the answer. You see how this can get tiresome? But somehow the adaptors add just enough variation to the story and in the end you’re surprised by much you enjoyed it. At least I was."The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Now
this one I have actually read, and the story is kinda boring. Sue me, but I don’t like Fitzgerald. Essentially the story is about how Benjamin Button grows younger. He has a wife, and a kid, and he progresses from taking care of them to them taking care of him. Then he dies when he’s a baby. Factually the details are not the same at all, but I think the movie managed to grasp upon the story’s fundamental theme – whether we go from womb to tomb or the other way around life is still short and filled with complications – quite well. And they added a love story, which was cute but not cloying, and a visual feast for the eyes. Many compare it to Forrest Gump, but I see no such similarities other than the whole progress-through-history-thing.
Doubt: A Parable, a play by John Patrick Shanley. A play about moral ambiguity and yes, doubt. Set in a rigid Catholic school trying to adapt to the changing racial environment, the ultra-conservative Sister Aloysius wages a verbal battle against the more liberal Father Flynn about whether he sexually abused a black student. Whether the allegations are true or not, Sister Aloysius has no proof whatsoever and the vendetta seems to be more personal if anything else. It’s a meaty, literary type of play, and one much better suited on the stage than on celluloid. Here the themes play awkwardly and Shanley doesn’t take advantage of film’s spacious medium to connect with the audience on a personal level. It’s a weighty story, to be sure, but not a particularly good one.Frost/Nixon, a play by Peter Morgan. The story was fundamentally unchanged. Basically the tv
show host David Frost hosts a series of interviews with the recent-resigned Richard Nixon and tries to coax a confession out of him. At its root the play is an intense character study drawing parallels between two superficially different men. I know I’m in the minority when I say this, but I thought it was one of the best movies of the year. I think play adaptations are the hardest to pull off, because usually the original playwrights do it. I don’t think they exactly have a good scope of how expansive movies can really be since they’re so used to the constricts of the stage. Now I haven’t seen the play itself, but I can imagine this film version to be better. We got some actual scenery, some seamless scene transitions, and the dialogue wasn’t as stilted as plays can get to be. And, you know, the characters got to move around a little too.Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire, and I’m willing to bet a sizeable amount of money on this one. At this point the momentum of Slumdog is too huge to be ignored, and it’s quite a good adaptation to boot.
If I had a vote: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Here is a case where the story was almost entirely created by the authors. Basically Swicord and Roth took the fundamental premise of Fitzgerald’s story – that living is hard no matter which way you’re going – and stretched it into an unconventional love story also relevant to today’s current events. It did have a humongous running time, however - but I wouldn’t say it was ever boring.
Monday, February 2, 2009
I am not good with promises
...BUT. Since I have finished my Oscar movie-watching obscenely early (I've seen all the nominees excluding Australia, which I will be saving for a lazy-night off, and Hellboy, which I will never, ever watch.), I thought it might be fun to look at all the nominated directors' best work. Or, just work in general.
So, there is:
Danny Boyle
David Fincher
Ron Howard
Gus van Sant
Stephen Daldry
Such an indie combination of directors, don't you think? And yes, I know that's been said a thousand times over, but everything about this race has been said a bunch bunch bunch of times over. Excuse me for not possessing one speck of originality.
For Boyle, I will be watching Millions. So far out of his work I have only seen Trainspotting. Enjoyed it very much.
For Fincher, I have seen all of his movies so I'm retrospecting on one I really hated, Fight Club, and see if it does anything for me the second time. Fincher always tends to run hot and cold for me anyway. Although I loved Benjamin Button.
For Howard, I will be watching Apollo 13 and praying I won't get too bored.
For van Sant, I will be watching Elephant. Previously I have seen My Own Private Idaho. Loved the Phoenix, movie - not so much. Oh, and Good Will Hunting, which was awesome, but probably more of Ben and Matt's doing if anything.
For Daldry, I will be watching Billy Elliott. I hope to god the style is more toward The Reader and less toward that sinking cesspool of a movie The Hours.
Out of the five, Boyle is probably the most consistent but Fincher makes the movies I love most, Se7en and Benjamin Button. And also the movies I hate most. Howard is a pretty stock director to tell you the truth and a pretty emotionally manipulative one at that, but Frost/Nixon was probably my favorite out of the bunch this year. Daldry hasn't made enough movies for me to pass judgment but he's good at the Oscar game, I'll say that for him. van Sant is a weirdo with consistently interesting ideas but sometimes too abstract of an execution.
So, there is:
Danny Boyle
David Fincher
Ron Howard
Gus van Sant
Stephen Daldry
Such an indie combination of directors, don't you think? And yes, I know that's been said a thousand times over, but everything about this race has been said a bunch bunch bunch of times over. Excuse me for not possessing one speck of originality.
For Boyle, I will be watching Millions. So far out of his work I have only seen Trainspotting. Enjoyed it very much.
For Fincher, I have seen all of his movies so I'm retrospecting on one I really hated, Fight Club, and see if it does anything for me the second time. Fincher always tends to run hot and cold for me anyway. Although I loved Benjamin Button.
For Howard, I will be watching Apollo 13 and praying I won't get too bored.
For van Sant, I will be watching Elephant. Previously I have seen My Own Private Idaho. Loved the Phoenix, movie - not so much. Oh, and Good Will Hunting, which was awesome, but probably more of Ben and Matt's doing if anything.
For Daldry, I will be watching Billy Elliott. I hope to god the style is more toward The Reader and less toward that sinking cesspool of a movie The Hours.
Out of the five, Boyle is probably the most consistent but Fincher makes the movies I love most, Se7en and Benjamin Button. And also the movies I hate most. Howard is a pretty stock director to tell you the truth and a pretty emotionally manipulative one at that, but Frost/Nixon was probably my favorite out of the bunch this year. Daldry hasn't made enough movies for me to pass judgment but he's good at the Oscar game, I'll say that for him. van Sant is a weirdo with consistently interesting ideas but sometimes too abstract of an execution.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Geena Davis is Underrated
I just saw Thelma and Louise and I think it's magnificent.
"I know it's crazy, but I just feel like I got a knack for this shit. "
This movie made me feel so femininely empowered. There's nothing like a dramatic transformation to make you feel renewed.
And she was such a sweetheart in Beetlejuice.
"Oh, Adam! We're trapped in this house with those people!"
Although didn't it jar you when Michael Keaton said "Nice FUCKING model!" in this otherwise tame kid's movie?
"I know it's crazy, but I just feel like I got a knack for this shit. "
This movie made me feel so femininely empowered. There's nothing like a dramatic transformation to make you feel renewed.
And she was such a sweetheart in Beetlejuice.
"Oh, Adam! We're trapped in this house with those people!"Although didn't it jar you when Michael Keaton said "Nice FUCKING model!" in this otherwise tame kid's movie?
Monday, January 26, 2009
Inspirational Before Sunrise/set Quote of the Week
This is my favorite part of Before Sunrise. I think I'm going to retire this installment for something new next week.
Really Belated Oscar Nominations remarks
Blah blah blah SAGs, blah blah blah Sean Penn - Slumdog Millionaire is obviously winning now. I think my favorite thing about last night was Meryl giving that awesome, and I mean awesome speech. All hail the Queen.
Anyway, I just realized I never posted my Oscar nominations reactions, not that they are unique in any way, but just...something to mull over.
Surprises: Chris Nolan got overlooked for his unique auteur stamp in his rendition of The Dark Knight, and in the major categories only Heath Ledger was posthumously nominated. With all the buzz surrounding Ledger's tragic death and Director's Guild, Writers' Guild, and Producers' Guild nods everybody thought TDK was a shoo-in. Guess not.
In a minor category Bruce Springsteen's fantastic song "The Wrestler" for the movie of the same title was overlooked for Best Song in favor of not one, but two songs from Slumdog Millionaire. I swear, once a movie has momentum, you can't stop what's coming.
Kate Winslet gets overlooked for her star turn in the uneven film Revolutionary Road and instead gets nominated for The Reader in not the Supporting Actress category but Actress! Who would've thought? And The Reader getting nominated for Best Picture. Huge surprise, but not wholly undeserved.
Predictable: Slumdog gets nominated for a bunch. Blah blah portrayal-of-true-India, love-conquers-all, Danny-Boyle-is-god blah. Forget Benjamin Button, this one is the true Forrest Gump, emphasizing optimism, true love, and the attainment of a happy ending. It's not a super complicated movie but it is a heartwarming one.
Benjamin Button dominates the technical categories. That movie is nothing short of masterful in that aspect. The camerawork, the score, the sets, the makeup - all fantastic. A sweep is entirely possible.
Langella, Rourke, and Penn have been shoo-ins for Best Actor since the very beginning in this biopic trifecta. Nixon, The Ram, Harvey Milk. One of them will inevitably win it.
Best Picture/Director:
Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard
The Reader - Stephen Daldry
Milk - Sean Penn
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire, for Best Picture and Director. It's gained so much momentum as "the little movie that could" there is no stopping it. It's definitely not a bad movie and I think it's an honor well-deserved. Not my personal pick so much but we can't have everything.
Best Actor:
Sean Penn in Milk
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Prediction: I'm betting on a dark horse here and predicting Jenkins, mainly because I was blown away by his performance as a sad, apathetic professor gradually opening up to the cultures of America and its cruel underbelly of bureaucratic nonsense in The Visitor. This is a movie you should check out ASAP, and my personal favorite of 2008. The more reasonable prediction would probably be Sean Penn or Mickey Rourke, but these guys have enough buzz already and voters' votes could be split between them just enough for Jenkins to (hopefully) sneak in.
Best Actress:
Kate Winslet in The Reader
Angelina Jolie in Changeling
Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Prediction: Winslet. If her performance impressed the Academy to the point of overturning her marketed Supporting Actress bid to Actress, this means there are more than enough votes to go around. Alternatively, Hathaway could take it for her searing rendition of a rehab sister but I don't think the Academy warmed to Rachel Getting Married quite that much, which is a shame.
Best Supporting Actor:
Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road
Josh Brolin in Milk
Prediction: Heath Ledger. This is probably the easiest category to predict. Can you imagine anybody else coming to the podium to accept that award? It just wouldn't be the same if he didn't win the thing. Plus his performance as the Joker was unbelievable.
Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams in Doubt
Viola Davis in Doubt
Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Prediction: Penelope Cruz. Her fiery Spanish psycho brings a breath of fresh air to Woody Allen's uneven Vicky Cristina Barcelona at the moment when it starts to get boring. She is funny, sexy, and beautiful at the same time. Don't overlook Tomei though, because she totally humanizes her stripper role in The Wrestler. She's the lynchpin between reality and the showmanship of wrestling for The Ram.
Anyway, I just realized I never posted my Oscar nominations reactions, not that they are unique in any way, but just...something to mull over.
Surprises: Chris Nolan got overlooked for his unique auteur stamp in his rendition of The Dark Knight, and in the major categories only Heath Ledger was posthumously nominated. With all the buzz surrounding Ledger's tragic death and Director's Guild, Writers' Guild, and Producers' Guild nods everybody thought TDK was a shoo-in. Guess not.
In a minor category Bruce Springsteen's fantastic song "The Wrestler" for the movie of the same title was overlooked for Best Song in favor of not one, but two songs from Slumdog Millionaire. I swear, once a movie has momentum, you can't stop what's coming.
Kate Winslet gets overlooked for her star turn in the uneven film Revolutionary Road and instead gets nominated for The Reader in not the Supporting Actress category but Actress! Who would've thought? And The Reader getting nominated for Best Picture. Huge surprise, but not wholly undeserved.
Predictable: Slumdog gets nominated for a bunch. Blah blah portrayal-of-true-India, love-conquers-all, Danny-Boyle-is-god blah. Forget Benjamin Button, this one is the true Forrest Gump, emphasizing optimism, true love, and the attainment of a happy ending. It's not a super complicated movie but it is a heartwarming one.
Benjamin Button dominates the technical categories. That movie is nothing short of masterful in that aspect. The camerawork, the score, the sets, the makeup - all fantastic. A sweep is entirely possible.
Langella, Rourke, and Penn have been shoo-ins for Best Actor since the very beginning in this biopic trifecta. Nixon, The Ram, Harvey Milk. One of them will inevitably win it.
Best Picture/Director:
Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher
Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard
The Reader - Stephen Daldry
Milk - Sean Penn
Prediction: Slumdog Millionaire, for Best Picture and Director. It's gained so much momentum as "the little movie that could" there is no stopping it. It's definitely not a bad movie and I think it's an honor well-deserved. Not my personal pick so much but we can't have everything.
Best Actor:
Sean Penn in Milk
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Prediction: I'm betting on a dark horse here and predicting Jenkins, mainly because I was blown away by his performance as a sad, apathetic professor gradually opening up to the cultures of America and its cruel underbelly of bureaucratic nonsense in The Visitor. This is a movie you should check out ASAP, and my personal favorite of 2008. The more reasonable prediction would probably be Sean Penn or Mickey Rourke, but these guys have enough buzz already and voters' votes could be split between them just enough for Jenkins to (hopefully) sneak in.
Best Actress:
Kate Winslet in The Reader
Angelina Jolie in Changeling
Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Prediction: Winslet. If her performance impressed the Academy to the point of overturning her marketed Supporting Actress bid to Actress, this means there are more than enough votes to go around. Alternatively, Hathaway could take it for her searing rendition of a rehab sister but I don't think the Academy warmed to Rachel Getting Married quite that much, which is a shame.
Best Supporting Actor:
Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road
Josh Brolin in Milk
Prediction: Heath Ledger. This is probably the easiest category to predict. Can you imagine anybody else coming to the podium to accept that award? It just wouldn't be the same if he didn't win the thing. Plus his performance as the Joker was unbelievable.
Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams in Doubt
Viola Davis in Doubt
Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Prediction: Penelope Cruz. Her fiery Spanish psycho brings a breath of fresh air to Woody Allen's uneven Vicky Cristina Barcelona at the moment when it starts to get boring. She is funny, sexy, and beautiful at the same time. Don't overlook Tomei though, because she totally humanizes her stripper role in The Wrestler. She's the lynchpin between reality and the showmanship of wrestling for The Ram.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Things I Hope Will Happen at This Year's Oscars, But Won't
Richard Jenkins wins for Actor
or Langella even
Pollack and Minghella come back from the dead to accept The Reader's award, whatever that may be
Jackman dresses in super gaudy Broadway costumes and SINGS!
Frost/Nixon wins BP
or come to think of it any film but Slumdog (not saying I hate the movie or anything but the momentum is too much for me to handle)
Springsteen, mad about his snub, crashes the party with drunken Mickey Rourke
Hilary Swank does not show up and spontaneously combusts
In Bruges wins Screenplay!
producers realize how silly they were to omit The Fall from amazing stuff like Cinematography and Set Direction not to mention Supporting Actress for the freaking a-dorable Catinca Utaru and reevaluate accordingly
Wall-E comes to life, like real life, not stupid computer imagery
The Joker descends upon us all and wreaks havoc for not having his film be nomianted
Amy Adams wins for Doubt, I seriously loved her performance in this film the best out of all the nominees, I don't think it's riding on the momentum of Doubt at all
Milk's personality-infused costumes take the award, despite frequent period piece domination
or Langella even
Pollack and Minghella come back from the dead to accept The Reader's award, whatever that may be
Jackman dresses in super gaudy Broadway costumes and SINGS!
Frost/Nixon wins BP
or come to think of it any film but Slumdog (not saying I hate the movie or anything but the momentum is too much for me to handle)
Springsteen, mad about his snub, crashes the party with drunken Mickey Rourke
Hilary Swank does not show up and spontaneously combusts
In Bruges wins Screenplay!
producers realize how silly they were to omit The Fall from amazing stuff like Cinematography and Set Direction not to mention Supporting Actress for the freaking a-dorable Catinca Utaru and reevaluate accordingly
Wall-E comes to life, like real life, not stupid computer imagery
The Joker descends upon us all and wreaks havoc for not having his film be nomianted
Amy Adams wins for Doubt, I seriously loved her performance in this film the best out of all the nominees, I don't think it's riding on the momentum of Doubt at all
Milk's personality-infused costumes take the award, despite frequent period piece domination
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