01.16.07

I wrote a review for Children of Men on Jae Phlec's site.

*****

Here are a few of my thoughts regarding last night's Emmy Awards (I love how I threw that out there like you've been waiting for it or, "Now I'm writing this, so you just have to sit back and take it Clockwork Orange style"). Anyway, I can't believe that Martin Scorsese won for The Departed and now he's considered the frontrunner for the Oscar. Anyone who's reading this probably knows how I feel about the movie and I'm not saying he did a bad job and he's obviously a great director, but come on. For him to win and Oscar or an Emmy for this movie seems like a shame to me, just like when everyone on E! was trying to get him the Oscar for Gangs. Departed is no where close to his best movie, in fact it isn't even in his top 5 probably(in no particular order, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Casino, Raging Bull, Aviator, Color of Money, King of Comedy, Michael Jackson's "Bad" video) Personally I think all of those were better than The Departed. I know what he's done in the past shouldn't matter towards how they vote and maybe this is just a sign of how bad movies were this year, but it just seems like everyone is just so ready to give him an Oscar that they don't care about what movie its for. Its a good movie, but that's it. Good movies don't win awards. I say, just wait a couple of years and give him two lifetime achievement awards. He deserves those, but not one this year.

I usually don't look at many of the red carpet pictures, but I did this time and its official, Kate Winslet, Sienna Miller and Evangeline Lilly are hot. Maggie Gyllenhaal is still a dog though. I would rather do her brother, at least I know he's the catcher.