Oscar Round-up

Congrats to Marty! It was finally his time to get one of those statuettes. I thoroughly enjoyed The Departed so it’s pretty cool that an Oscar finally went to a movie I actually liked. I don’t think it was the best movie of 2006, but it was the most fun I’ve had at the movie theater in a long time. And that’s because Scorsese is the Man.

Babel was a good, but seriously flawed movie. At the end, I felt like we were left with nothing. The nanny got deported, the mom lived, that Morrocan family was totally f-ed, and that deaf-mute girl finally cried. I think it was ultimately too depressing and that’s why it lost. Hey, at least it got a Golden Globe, right? It definitely had something to say.

I wish instead of cutting to that goddamn, awful hack Chris Connelly, they had a real person with just a mini dv camera do the segues to commercial. That would be truly groundbreaking and I totally bet Ellen would had gone for it. They could do a brand tie-in by using a jvc camcorder or something. It’s a win-win situation.

That shadow puppet thing kind of freaked me out at first, but when they did the snakes…comedy genius! And what was with all the comedians showing up this year like Seinfeld and even Larry David? I guess it’s the place to be. I had fun watching the ceremony with a few friends. My crew couldn’t believe Pan’s Labyrinth lost to The Lives of Others. Robbed, but maybe that german movie was better. I guess I’ll have to finally see the movie to tell. It just got released this month in the US. Then, I can decide whether Del Toro was truly snubbed.

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