An eventful Sunday...
I was beyond ecstatic about the Oscars, and the fact that Slumdog Millionaire won everything I wanted it to: Best Picture, Best Director, Soundtrack & Song. (Jai Ho!) And the kids were beyond cute, MOAR KIDS!!!
Overall, I think I like the changes they instituted to the Oscars. I thought the speeches by the actors and actresses to their fellow actors and actresses were truly touching. I just don't see them doing it year and after year because after awhile the speechin' 'll get cheesy. I also missed seeing *why* they were being awarded-- I didn't see any of the movies, except Milk. And The Dark Knight. (But who didn't?)
I'm a sucker for musical stuff so I was down with that. Hugh Jackman can really hold his own with Beyonce, that was awesome. I didn't care too much for Zefron, Vanessa, Pattinson, & Miley showing up though: as my cousin explained it, it's like the class level of the Oscars just dropped. They were so blatantly there just for the ratings.
And yeah, the Oscars is kind of irrelevant to popular taste, and they highlighted that. At the same time, I don't want the Oscars to be all about popular taste, despite it picking some serious stinkers.
I also didn't really like how they overdid the song medleys. They destroyed Jai Ho, O... Saya, and that the Wall-E song.
I did, however, absolutely love the diverse places the awardees came from, and the different accents we were treated to. The Japanese seemed to come off the worse for it though: the combination of shock and having to speak in a second language really "sthanked yoo"-ed everything up. (Also, slight lol, wut? for AR Rahman wandering off stage in sudden bursts without his handlers. I am looking forward to him working more in Hollywood, and giving us awesome movies with awesome soundtracks.)
Overall, I'm glad that the rest of the world is breaking Hollywood open little by little. I ended up really depressed over the Avatar thing; more depressed than even I thought I could be over a worthless little movie. Like, I lost taste for reading books with white protagonists (it gets a bit much when it's white person, white person, white person, one after the other), watching movies with white casts (still iffy on the Watchmen... white people going to save the world one more time!), etc. etc. Which is unbelievably ridiculous, and I don't hate white people.
So, anyway, I felt good about a movie with an unknown cast of colored people making it big. It gave me a little hope that even if Avatar can't be saved by the new protests coming out of more official channels (:DDD), we will see progress.
After the Oscars, I got into my first car accident. Nothing major; nobody's hurt, and both cars involved didn't seem even scratched last night (in the dark). No police report, no name and number exchange. It was just shocking. I was trying to do a U-turn, but I guess I was in the wrong lane. There were two lanes turning left, and I was in the outer one (because I've never done a U-turn before, so I wanted to give myself as much room as I could. And there wasn't that many people around so...) A car came into the inner lane while I was trying to do the U-turn, and so he hit me. :( It sucks.
A little morbid part of me wishes I got put in traction just so I wouldn't have to do this paper, but well, let's just thank God for a miraculous car accident, really.
Overall, I think I like the changes they instituted to the Oscars. I thought the speeches by the actors and actresses to their fellow actors and actresses were truly touching. I just don't see them doing it year and after year because after awhile the speechin' 'll get cheesy. I also missed seeing *why* they were being awarded-- I didn't see any of the movies, except Milk. And The Dark Knight. (But who didn't?)
I'm a sucker for musical stuff so I was down with that. Hugh Jackman can really hold his own with Beyonce, that was awesome. I didn't care too much for Zefron, Vanessa, Pattinson, & Miley showing up though: as my cousin explained it, it's like the class level of the Oscars just dropped. They were so blatantly there just for the ratings.
And yeah, the Oscars is kind of irrelevant to popular taste, and they highlighted that. At the same time, I don't want the Oscars to be all about popular taste, despite it picking some serious stinkers.
I also didn't really like how they overdid the song medleys. They destroyed Jai Ho, O... Saya, and that the Wall-E song.
I did, however, absolutely love the diverse places the awardees came from, and the different accents we were treated to. The Japanese seemed to come off the worse for it though: the combination of shock and having to speak in a second language really "sthanked yoo"-ed everything up. (Also, slight lol, wut? for AR Rahman wandering off stage in sudden bursts without his handlers. I am looking forward to him working more in Hollywood, and giving us awesome movies with awesome soundtracks.)
Overall, I'm glad that the rest of the world is breaking Hollywood open little by little. I ended up really depressed over the Avatar thing; more depressed than even I thought I could be over a worthless little movie. Like, I lost taste for reading books with white protagonists (it gets a bit much when it's white person, white person, white person, one after the other), watching movies with white casts (still iffy on the Watchmen... white people going to save the world one more time!), etc. etc. Which is unbelievably ridiculous, and I don't hate white people.
So, anyway, I felt good about a movie with an unknown cast of colored people making it big. It gave me a little hope that even if Avatar can't be saved by the new protests coming out of more official channels (:DDD), we will see progress.
After the Oscars, I got into my first car accident. Nothing major; nobody's hurt, and both cars involved didn't seem even scratched last night (in the dark). No police report, no name and number exchange. It was just shocking. I was trying to do a U-turn, but I guess I was in the wrong lane. There were two lanes turning left, and I was in the outer one (because I've never done a U-turn before, so I wanted to give myself as much room as I could. And there wasn't that many people around so...) A car came into the inner lane while I was trying to do the U-turn, and so he hit me. :( It sucks.
A little morbid part of me wishes I got put in traction just so I wouldn't have to do this paper, but well, let's just thank God for a miraculous car accident, really.