Past couple of days I've been feeling that I should say something else about the Oscars, since I made some predictions...I didn't do as well as last year on the Outguess Ebert contest and didn't win anything then, so I doubt I'll win anything this year, especially being wrong in 2 major categories. As to the show itself, it strikes me as interesting that each year the stories say that that year's host was the worst, the ratings are low, no one sees the films nominated... I dunno, I thought Juno at least was close to mainstream, and it seems that Oscar has taken a more highbrow route since 1980 or so... What are they going to do, nominate Meet The Spartans for all the major categories? Given the revolving door of what's number one at the box office each week, I suspect there's a lot of people that are hungry for something really good and enjoyable at the movies. I usually wait for something to hit DVD, as before Juno the last film we saw was Cloverfield, but a lot of it was because I've talked about it before here, and I expected there were some curious as to what I thought. Oh, that reminds me, when we were watching New Frontier last night, Kathy asked me who Hourman was, and I told her, and even mentioned there was a blog named after the pill he took for his powers.
I liked that they brought back out one of the winners that the orchestra played off before she spoke, and watched the Oscars all the way through, but I did follow along with Peter David's live blogging of the event after the first hour or so. Hey, we were in the wasteland between supporting performer nominations.