mostly oscars, though some Affleck-fucking too
Thanks killerweasel for pointing me in the direction of Jimmy Kimmel's I'm Fucking Ben Affleck, a revenge against the previously mentioned Sarah Silverman video. So brilliant. *g* Great opportunity for star-spotting, too.
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I watched the Oscars, which always makes me feel like I've accomplished something. (What? So would you if it aired between 2AM and 6AM where you live.) I'd only seen very few of the movies, so I went with prejudice:
Yay to Sweeney Todd because it's a Burton movie.
Yay to No Country for Old Men because it combines two of my old fandoms (in that Josh Brolin is in it, and Javier Bardem was in The Dancer Upstairs with Juan Diego Botto).
Nay to There Will Be Blood because Daniel Day Lewis's earrings look ridiculous.
Yay to Juno because I've actually seen it, and it's good. :-)
Yay to Tilda Swinton because she was a kick-ass White Witch.
Nay to The Bourne Ultimatum because the first one was no good, except yay in sound editing because a Swede did that.
Yay to Ratatouille because it's not bad, and the penguin movie looks annoying (though Persepolis looked like it could have been a yay too).
Yay to the documentary prize going to an anti-torture movie.
Nay to Marion Cotillard because Julie Christie was wearing an anti-Guantanamo pin and was in a movie by Sarah Polley, so clearly she should have won. Or Ellen Page. But yay that Cate Blanchett didn't win, because one Elizabeth movie is quite enough.
Nay the song, because Amy Adams is adorable and Enchanted should have won something, and the song that won was boring anyway. (And an extreme nay to the Swedish commentators that slammed the Enchanted songs every chance they got - though admittedly less so with Happy Working Song, which is the one I really like.)
Yay to the really old guy winning the honorary Oscar, because if you're 98 years old and still vivacious enough to enjoy a good movie, you freaking deserve it.
Yay to Jon Stewart because his sense of humour is more European than is usually the case with Oscar hosts. (I so totally need to make that post about different senses of humour some day.) Favourite line in the monologue is a tie between these two:
"Perhaps worst of all the canceling of the legendary Vanity Fair Oscar party. They said they did it out of quote respect for the writers and oh, you know another way they could show respect for the writers? Maybe one day invite some of them to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. They would enjoy it. Don’t worry, they won’t mingle, don’t worry."
"Democrats do have an historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty. How will we know it’s the future? Silver unitards, that can’t be all?"
The whole monologue can be found on this page.
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Next topic will be children's literature again, this time international. I'm thinking of skipping the giants. Surely you don't need me to tell you LM Montgomery and Mark Twain are good, right?
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I watched the Oscars, which always makes me feel like I've accomplished something. (What? So would you if it aired between 2AM and 6AM where you live.) I'd only seen very few of the movies, so I went with prejudice:
Yay to Sweeney Todd because it's a Burton movie.
Yay to No Country for Old Men because it combines two of my old fandoms (in that Josh Brolin is in it, and Javier Bardem was in The Dancer Upstairs with Juan Diego Botto).
Nay to There Will Be Blood because Daniel Day Lewis's earrings look ridiculous.
Yay to Juno because I've actually seen it, and it's good. :-)
Yay to Tilda Swinton because she was a kick-ass White Witch.
Nay to The Bourne Ultimatum because the first one was no good, except yay in sound editing because a Swede did that.
Yay to Ratatouille because it's not bad, and the penguin movie looks annoying (though Persepolis looked like it could have been a yay too).
Yay to the documentary prize going to an anti-torture movie.
Nay to Marion Cotillard because Julie Christie was wearing an anti-Guantanamo pin and was in a movie by Sarah Polley, so clearly she should have won. Or Ellen Page. But yay that Cate Blanchett didn't win, because one Elizabeth movie is quite enough.
Nay the song, because Amy Adams is adorable and Enchanted should have won something, and the song that won was boring anyway. (And an extreme nay to the Swedish commentators that slammed the Enchanted songs every chance they got - though admittedly less so with Happy Working Song, which is the one I really like.)
Yay to the really old guy winning the honorary Oscar, because if you're 98 years old and still vivacious enough to enjoy a good movie, you freaking deserve it.
Yay to Jon Stewart because his sense of humour is more European than is usually the case with Oscar hosts. (I so totally need to make that post about different senses of humour some day.) Favourite line in the monologue is a tie between these two:
"Perhaps worst of all the canceling of the legendary Vanity Fair Oscar party. They said they did it out of quote respect for the writers and oh, you know another way they could show respect for the writers? Maybe one day invite some of them to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. They would enjoy it. Don’t worry, they won’t mingle, don’t worry."
"Democrats do have an historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty. How will we know it’s the future? Silver unitards, that can’t be all?"
The whole monologue can be found on this page.
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Next topic will be children's literature again, this time international. I'm thinking of skipping the giants. Surely you don't need me to tell you LM Montgomery and Mark Twain are good, right?