Oscar Reactions

(Photo found here)

I have to say that I'm truly surprised. I'd thought Avatar would be the night's winner, it was so strange watching it win only the tecnical awards. Sorry, James Cameron. Even so, I'm very pleased that Kathryn Bigelow got the award since she's the first woman to ever receive Best Director. That's pretty good, isn't it, girls?

I was so upset that Inglourious Basterds only got one Oscar... I would have love to watch it win Best Original Screenplay and, possibly, Best Director. It was just an incredible movie and I think it's become one of my favorite movies.

I was extremely pleased with Up! I was so happy when it won not one, but two Oscars, including Best Animated Picture. I was very happy to watch Precious go home with two Oscars as well. I was so mad with the fact that An Education didn't win anything!

I predicted that Up In The Air, A Serious Man and Invictus would go home with nothing and I was right. They just didn't cut it (especially the Coens, ahh, I hated it so much). And Sandra Bullock as Best Actress, really?

Now, about the actual show. Well... last year's was one hundred times better. All the excitment with Slumdog Millionaire and the "Jai Ho" performance and Hugh Jackman (<3) as the host... this year didn't beat that at all. Don't get me wrong, I loved watching Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin up there, and they were funny (I cracked out laughing when they started talking about James Cameron and pulled out 3D glasses, epic!) and all, but... they weren't Hugh Jackmans.

Thank you so much for bearing with me with all these movie posts lately! I hope you enjoyed them, because I sure did. Who knows, maybe I'll get into the movie business one way or another (and the Oscar goes to...).

Sexy: Meryl Streep, Rachel McAdams and Miley Cyrus on the red carpet -- stunning!

Unsexy: The Oscars being seven hours away, thus ending at 5AM, thus making me look like a zombie this entire day.

John Mayer: 74 days; Miley Cyrus: 82 days; U2: 208 days.

Bisou, bisou *

Oscar Week: Avatar

(Photo found here)

Yes, I finally watched Avatar! And I was extremely pleased with it, I was definitely expecting it to be boring and with a stupid plot, but James Cameron sure surprised me! I should have known that the director of Titanic was going to surprise, I thought I was a bit unconscious after thinking that.

The plot was wonderful! I'm definitely watching Avatar 2 once it comes out, hopefully sooner than later. I'm positively sure that humans would be able to do that to creatures like the Na'vi if they actually existed. That's our race, right? Destroying beautiful habitats and creatures and only caring about things like oil. Sigh.

It was the first movie in 3D that I watched, and the experience is so amazing! I'm probably going to watch Alice in Wonderland next week just so I can go through it again (even though I don't really like Tim Burton... maybe one day I'll watch one Tim Burton movie every day and do a "Tim Burton week"? Yeah, maybe I will, but in a distant future). It definitely made the movie much better, everthing was so clear in front of me, I felt like I was there (even though sometimes it kind of went blurry, but I didn't let that get to me).

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (James Cameron), Best Art Direction (Rick Carter/Robert Stromberg/Kim Sinclair), Best Achievement in Cinematography (Mauro Fiore), Best Film Editing (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua/James Cameron), Best Original Score (James Horner), Best Sound Editing (Christopher Boyes/Gwendolyn Yates Whittle), Best Sound (Christopher Boyes/Gary Summers/Andy Nelson/Tony Johnson), Best Visual Effects.

Predictions: Do I really have to say it? It's obviously going to Avatar with it, I don't know, being the fourth most seen movie of all time. Even so, it was a brilliant movie and the 3D experience was amazing. It's definitely going to win Best Visual Effects and Best Achievement in Cinematography as well. But Best Director... that's something to look forward to. James Cameron sure does direct perfectly and beautifully, but maybe Best Director isn't in it for him for Avatar. Or maybe it is.

Next up: An Education

Bisou, bisou *