Academy Awards

I'm very pleased with the results this year. I had seen most of the nominated movies beforehand, so I kind of knew who was going to win what.

Here's how it goes. There was a huge load of quality movies this time, and when they all got nominated, this kinda thing happens. Out of sheer propability, almost every one of those movies won something, except for A History of Violence and Good Night, and Good Luck. Someone has to lose by a hair when the competition's this tough.

Best film score (for Brokeback Mountain) and best animated feature film were disastrous. Brokeback Mountain, while being an excellent movie, had annoying music with overly repeated themes. The Wallace & Gromit full-length movie doesn't even hold a candle towards the mediocre Corpse Bride, even less towards the magnificent Howl's Moving Castle.

A year of consent, love for intellectual movies that have something to say. Is this the seventies. :( And a strong expressing of opinions: Unarguably the best foreign language film, a Palestinian movie called Paradise Now didn't win. Think about that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.