Sorry that I haven't updated anything in the last week, but I was in Iowa for business. Trust me, Iowa + Business = Party Time/ocular stabbing boredom.
Well, yesterday was a pretty disappointing day with the Badgers loss and the Oscars. The Badgers had every opportunity to win the game even without the officials calling any fouls against Ohio State and in particular, the monster Greg Oden (Kam Taylor's potentially game icing miss with 26 seconds left was the first free throw of the the half for UW, ridiculous). I have nothing left to say about that.
Anyway, the Oscars apparently changed the award format. Instead of giving out little gold plated Ken dolls, they're famous five words have changed to, "And the soapbox goes to....." I just want everyone to know that if it wasn't for Al Gore, I might not have had the will to shave today. He gave that to me and I will be forever grateful. If it wasn't for him, whatever, I'm done.
Did anyone else notice how the show was run over by the lesbian train. With Ellen hosting and constant shots in the audience of Portia de Rossi, Ellen's current love interest, I felt like this should have been a program someone should download and watch by themselves late at night with the lights dimmed. Its a good thing Melissa Etheridge was there to butch-up the proceedings. Actually, I thought Ellen did a good job overall. She had a few good lines and some of her wacky antics were pretty funny. I was sad that Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller didn't do something, but I guess their torch has been passed to JB and Will Ferrell. I thought their shtick was the highlight of the evening.
Is it just me or do the Oscars feel like the new Democratic National Convention? Every time someone wins an award now, they act like they've been given a mandate to enlighten us all on their politics or what cause they just wrote a check to. Granted, I'm not for burning the Earth or anything, but what do I care what some weird looking dude who filmed An Inconvenient Truth thinks? I thought he was going to take off all his clothes and prostrate himself to Moon Emperor Gore right on stage. There are really three political parties in this country now, Republicans, Democrats and Hollywood. I wonder if that's how Clooney's registered. Apparently when I said earlier in this entry that I was "Done" I lied. Sorry.
On to the actual awards. I'm sure everyone already knows how I feel about the Departed winning awards. It wasn't a surprise, but I'm still unhappy. My biggest disappointment is that Pan's Labyrinth didn't win Best Foreign Language Film. This movie was already dissed by not getting nominated for Best Picture or Best Director, but then it doesn't even win for the best category it was let in on. I've heard The Lives of Others is a good movie, but who cares. Pan's got treated like it was some little movie that the academy was throwing a bone to by allowing them to come to the show. Bullshit. Onward, did anyone else think the chick who won Make-Up for Pan's was hot? She was at least way cute. And she actually deserved the award, how'd she win?
I also like/hate the fact that they seem to think its uproariously funny that they go way over their scheduled time because of boring, self-applauding crap. Every year they make jokes about it and it gets less and less funny the more I realize that they really don't care about the people watching at home. As long as they get one (or eight) more chance to thank Al Gore for being such a stalwart human being, who cares if the people at home are bored to tears and just want to see who wins and who's going to trip going up the steps (I was totally hoping for John C. Reilly when he went bounding up on stage to join Will and JB).
Why do I watch this show?
2 comments:
The Oscars are a waste of time. The only way they could possibly be interesting is if every one who attended the award ceremony was in the nude and covered in peanut butter. Even then, it will still be boring, because that wouldn't prevent actors from spewing their self-righteous liberal bullshit.
In fact, they should't hand out the Oscar, they should make the nominees fight over it. That would kick ass. A fight to the death, thus ridding the world of many worthless celebrities.
I like that idea, it should be battle royale format. with the peanut butter of course.
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