Comments on: Oscars Open Thread http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/ ...because there's no crying in baseball Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:03:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ozgreeder http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-767 ozgreeder Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:10:01 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-767 Fuckin meat parade.... UZI Fuckin meat parade….

UZI

]]> By: theprognosticator http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-750 theprognosticator Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:02:33 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-750 SMWOJOZ! Welcome sir. SMWOJOZ!

Welcome sir.

]]> By: theprognosticator http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-748 theprognosticator Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:52:01 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-748 Ha, Little Miss Sunshine...best picture....SHUT. OUT. And the little girl too. How you like dem apples? Says Jennifer Hudson. Got to love it when small children are exposed to crushing disappointment so early in life. Though, to be fair, she has already reached a height I never shall. But that is fine. I shall ply my trade elsewheres, in the depths, where I belong. For the record, Alan Arkin's award will be seen as a lifetime achievement sort of thing and will not be held against him. Michael Arndt's award for penning that awful piece of cinematic sewage will be his going away present as he will graciously decide NEVER TO WRITE ANOTHER SCREENPLAY AGAIN. Nice to see Scorsese finally won. But if I were him I'd see it as something of a hollow victory as his main competition consisted of the following: A flick that takes every single dysfunctional family movie cliche and marries it with National Lampoon's Vacation and somehow fails miserably at making it funny and/or compelling (no wait...I got it! I got it! A grandpa...who snorts H! And looks at porn! Genius! No no, hold on there's more...a jilted brother! A gay brother! Yeah! Who's smart! A scholar! A Joyce scholar! No, that's not obscure and hip enough...Proust! Make him a Proust scholar! That's it! Brilliant! And then we'll take a homely little girl and put her in a beauty pageant! Do you not see the contrast? She's not attractive and they'll all be beautiful! Hilarious AND moving! And then a teenaged boy who reads Nietzsche and takes a vow of silence! And hates his family! And a self-help guru who doesn't help anyone! And hates himself! And a whiny mother! Who smokes cigarettes! And they go to the pageant in a VW bus!)... A musical with Eddie Murphy AND Beyonce... A Clint Eastwood movie entirely in Japanese... An incomprehensible movie about a gun, a beaver-flashing Japanese girl, a Cate Blanchett who pees her pants and then threatens to do it again, and Brad Pitt with little in dialogue other than to shout "fuck you" and it's not at Kevin Spacey for putting Gwyneth's head in a box... And the Queen...the kind of sacrificial lamb the English typically enter into the Academy, the kind of movie that never wins anything but acting nods and is usually just "happy to be there." Other disappointments for Scorsese could be explained away in prior years, but I think the Academy finally decided to create a field where it was impossible for him not to win, and they succeeded admirably. Though, in a rather disconcerting note, what is with Scorsese's ongoing use of Leo? Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and now the Departed? Oh wait, and next he's supposed to do a pic about Theodore Roosevelt. Take a wild guess who is playing Teddy (a rather comical casting choice imo). Yeah, getting creepy there Marty. Kind of like Hitchock with Grace Kelly. Leo might have to go and marry the Princess of Wales in order to get away from him. Anyhow. All I got. Oh, and Ellen DeGeneres is horrible. Ha, Little Miss Sunshine…best picture….SHUT. OUT.

And the little girl too. How you like dem apples? Says Jennifer Hudson.

Got to love it when small children are exposed to crushing disappointment so early in life. Though, to be fair, she has already reached a height I never shall.

But that is fine. I shall ply my trade elsewheres, in the depths, where I belong.

For the record, Alan Arkin’s award will be seen as a lifetime achievement sort of thing and will not be held against him.

Michael Arndt’s award for penning that awful piece of cinematic sewage will be his going away present as he will graciously decide NEVER TO WRITE ANOTHER SCREENPLAY AGAIN.

Nice to see Scorsese finally won. But if I were him I’d see it as something of a hollow victory as his main competition consisted of the following:

A flick that takes every single dysfunctional family movie cliche and marries it with National Lampoon’s Vacation and somehow fails miserably at making it funny and/or compelling (no wait…I got it! I got it! A grandpa…who snorts H! And looks at porn! Genius! No no, hold on there’s more…a jilted brother! A gay brother! Yeah! Who’s smart! A scholar! A Joyce scholar! No, that’s not obscure and hip enough…Proust! Make him a Proust scholar! That’s it! Brilliant! And then we’ll take a homely little girl and put her in a beauty pageant! Do you not see the contrast? She’s not attractive and they’ll all be beautiful! Hilarious AND moving! And then a teenaged boy who reads Nietzsche and takes a vow of silence! And hates his family! And a self-help guru who doesn’t help anyone! And hates himself! And a whiny mother! Who smokes cigarettes! And they go to the pageant in a VW bus!)…

A musical with Eddie Murphy AND Beyonce…

A Clint Eastwood movie entirely in Japanese…

An incomprehensible movie about a gun, a beaver-flashing Japanese girl, a Cate Blanchett who pees her pants and then threatens to do it again, and Brad Pitt with little in dialogue other than to shout “fuck you” and it’s not at Kevin Spacey for putting Gwyneth’s head in a box…

And the Queen…the kind of sacrificial lamb the English typically enter into the Academy, the kind of movie that never wins anything but acting nods and is usually just “happy to be there.”

Other disappointments for Scorsese could be explained away in prior years, but I think the Academy finally decided to create a field where it was impossible for him not to win, and they succeeded admirably.

Though, in a rather disconcerting note, what is with Scorsese’s ongoing use of Leo? Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and now the Departed? Oh wait, and next he’s supposed to do a pic about Theodore Roosevelt. Take a wild guess who is playing Teddy (a rather comical casting choice imo). Yeah, getting creepy there Marty. Kind of like Hitchock with Grace Kelly. Leo might have to go and marry the Princess of Wales in order to get away from him.

Anyhow. All I got. Oh, and Ellen DeGeneres is horrible.

]]> By: cubbiejulie http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-740 cubbiejulie Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:29:34 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-740 I think we're all going to bed. The Oscars wiped us out. I think we’re all going to bed. The Oscars wiped us out.

]]> By: cubbieboy http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-739 cubbieboy Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:17:43 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-739 What's up you pot-stirring, degenerate motha fucka's!!?? What’s up you pot-stirring, degenerate motha fucka’s!!??

]]> By: theprognosticator http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-738 theprognosticator Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:52:38 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-738 heh, you suck on Al Gore songs, ksu... To hell with Little Miss Sunshine... heh, you suck on Al Gore songs, ksu…

To hell with Little Miss Sunshine…

]]> By: cubbiejulie http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-737 cubbiejulie Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:47:03 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-737 Me too. I agree. I loved him in Gilbert Grape. It's the only portrayal of someone mentally challenged by a "normal" person that hasn't offended the hell out of me. Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribesi were especially offensive. Me too. I agree. I loved him in Gilbert Grape. It’s the only portrayal of someone mentally challenged by a “normal” person that hasn’t offended the hell out of me. Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribesi were especially offensive.

]]> By: cubbiejulie http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-736 cubbiejulie Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:43:29 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-736 Ahhhh. I forgot about that. Ahhhh. I forgot about that.

]]> By: smwojoz http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-735 smwojoz Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:39:30 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-735 AAh, multitasking. I see. Well, that's it for my initial foray into LOHO. Gotta kiss the chilluns and snuggle the wife. Night all, and congrats on the new digs cj, I only wish I had brought a gift. AAh, multitasking. I see.
Well, that’s it for my initial foray into LOHO.
Gotta kiss the chilluns and snuggle the wife.
Night all, and congrats on the new digs cj, I only wish I had brought a gift.

]]> By: gravedigger http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/comment-page-3/#comment-734 gravedigger Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:38:09 +0000 http://jbjoint.com/ialoho/2007/02/25/ocars-open-thread/#comment-734 I used to think he was attractive, but not anymore. Still, I've always liked him as an actor. I used to think he was attractive, but not anymore.

Still, I’ve always liked him as an actor.

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