More Oscars stuff

[apocalypsos]

I think I hate the Cars song like burning. The Melissa Etheridge song, I like, though.

Heh. Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio speaking together about environmental issues ... I could watch this for hours. And I've got to say that I love how much Al's loosened up in the last few years. He's gotten pretty funny, really.

Best Animated Film ... Happy Feet! I'd complain about the plot, but it always just makes me think, "Dancing penguins! WHEE!"

Oh, my God, that writing montage looks like my life, except without the long hours of alternately staring at the computer screen and banging my forehead against the keyboard.

Tom Hanks making that crack about the first step of adapting a screenplay being the same as the one for AA? Yeah, that doesn't seem like THAT much of a stretch. And Best Adapted Screenplay goes to The Departed! I really have to watch that tomorrow.

Heh. Emily Blunt and Anna Hathaway weren't half as funny as the look on Meryl Streep's face when they cut to her.

And Best Costume goes to ... Marie Antoinette! Oh, man, she won for best costume and she wore that?!

Okay, now that I've seen Gwyneth Paltrow at length, WOW, do I not like the cut of that dress.

Best Cinematography ... Pan's Labyrinth! *twirls*

Comments

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

I went to see The Departed without knowing anything about it - there aren't too many undubbed English-language films shown in Italy, so you kinda take what you can get. But I found it hard to watch because of the incredible levels of violence.

The plot was also pretty hard to follow, although I managed better than my friend; she spent most of the movie thinking that the two main characters were played by the same actor!

By the way: hi! I friended you for your fic and recs, and have now read and re-read all your Supernatural fic. It's fantastic stuff - you write so well, and you write so *much*! I'm in awe.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

i still have no clue what Pan's Labyrinth is about.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's about a little girl who goes to live with her heavily pregnant mother and cruel new stepfather in a dilapidated old mill during the Spanish Civil War. While her awful stepfather is off torturing rebels and badgering his new wife as he waits for his son to be born, the little girl discovers this labyrinth on the land and meets a faun who tells her that she is a reborn princess and that she must perform a bunch of tasks to go back to that life. Say what you will about the plot but the visuals themselves are stunning.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

sounds like a creepified fairy tale. i rather like the sounds of it.

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

I get the most kick out of watching the women teeter around in these dresses. I'm sure they're already quite faint after not eating for 3 weeks and now not being able to take deep breaths for the evening. Dance, my puppets, dance.

[kanedax.livejournal.com]

I'll take The Departed for best adapted, even though I walked out of it feeling like I must be stupid, cuz I didn't know what happened there at the end.
Hell, I'll take anything in that category but Borat. Stupid non-scripted movie taking away a spot for The Prestige. Curses.