Oscars Results - 1 Tub

I slept during most of the Oscar presentations last night. Of the movies nominated, I'm pleased that No Country For Old Men won for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem). And while There Will Be Blood is one of the most pointless movies Hollywood has wasted three hours of film on, Daniel Day Lewis did a pretty good job of getting people to hate him. But what's up with the hair and dress of the Best Supporting Actress, Tilda Swinton? Didn't someone care enough about her to stop her from going out in public like that? I didn't see the French film La Vie En Rose, but the Best Actress Award went to a much more attractive Marion Cotillard.

For those of you who don't understand how Hollywood chooses the pictures it nominates for awards, it's simple. Hollywood is nominating the most disturbing films. There Will Be Blood is about an evil, greedy oil man who not only turns against the boy he called his son, but beats a preacher to death with a bowling pin. Sweeney Todd is about a vengeful barber who sings while he slices people's throats with a straight razor. No Country For Old Men is extremely violent, but is tempered with humor and an acknowledgement that evil is present everywhere. Atonement was about a homely teen's accusation that sent a boy to prison and to war. The most disturbing thing about this film wasn't the violence of battle, but the letters containing the word "Cunt" prominently displayed throughout the movie. Juno, while witty, treated teen pregnacy as a joke and infants as something you can trade or sell if you don't feel like raising one yourself. Of the five nominations, the right one won, but the best movies weren't nominated.

3:10 to Yuma, August Rush, The Bucket List, American Gangster, and The Great Debaters, were all good movies and each had a realistic, if not always positive message and the story was well told. But as long as the Academy is as out of touch with America as politicians inside the Washington beltway are, we're going to continue to be force fed the previous crap.

By the way, I think I won the Oscars poll at work. Even some of the picks I guessed on won. Whoopee - $15 gift certificate to Applebees! With another hour's pay I can afford to eat there.