Puttin’ On The Glitz
Posted on | February 24, 2008 at 3:10 pm | 1 Comment
Tune in tonight for an unprecedented second-post-in-a-day entry where I’ll blog live about the Academy Awards presentation. I’ll let you know what I think of the fashions, the writing, Jon Stewart’s jokes, the speeches, the production numbers, the tributes, the commercials, the mistakes… everything. All here, all live!
Just kidding. The gf and I have Denver Restaurant Week reservations and so will miss the beginning of the festivities. But we’ll watch it DVRed and hopefully catch up to it live at some point by FFing through the commercials, the acceptance speeches, the lame production numbers, and all that. No FFing through Jon though! I’m not into the Oscars as much as I used to be, but it’s still pretty much the only awards show worth watching, especially if you’re a fan of the movies. I’m just not going to plan my life around it.
I feel really bad because I think this is the first year in a long long time where I haven’t seen at least one of the Best Picture nominees. If I had seen them all, I suspect I’d be rooting for No Country For Old Men (which appears to have a lock on the win) or Juno. I really want to see There Will Be Blood and will probably like it, but I suspect it’s a bit flawed (and long). Atonement doesn’t look that exciting, though I wouldn’t mind seeing eventually. Michael Clayton looks good, but there’s something about the aura of it that just doesn’t scream “Best Picture Oscar”. Again, I’ll rent it before too long.
I’d probably be more interested in watching the show if I had seen a majority of the nominees. As it is, I’ll still enjoy it. I just won’t be quite sure who to pull for.
Latre.
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February 24th, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Does N call it “The Frock Show” too, or is that just a Fahey thing…?