Oscar Fever

Wow, yesterday was pretty gnarly. I woke up feverish and wasn't sure if I could get out of bed. Then I had to get out of bed as quickly became crazy nauseous. After a while I started to feel a little better, so I tried to get myself together to go to work. I'm a workaholic, so I can't really just take a day off. But by the time I got to the "office" I couldn't feel my hands. What was wrong with me? I'm glad that you asked. I was suffering from 'Oscar Fever'.

So like I said, I was sick as a dog and stuck at the "office". But what was I going to do? I either needed to lay down or to watch me some Oscars. So instead of just working really hard like I usually do, I just stayed over by the computer, I'd watch the Yahoo live results. And then I would yell at my "colleagues" and "clients" the results.

I usually don't see a lot of movies while they're out in theatres. But this year I tried to make an effort to see some and I ended up seeing some stuff that actually got nominated for awards. But, I still didn't really care who won or lost. Which makes the fact that I got a terrible case of Oscar Fever well, rather silly. Anyway, here's a list off the top of my head of the 2009 films I saw:

Inglorious Basterds
Up
Star Trek
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Crazy Heart
Broken Embraces
The Hangover

That's all that I can think of right now. I liked'em all. Here I'll review them all really quickly.

Inglorious Basterds: It's totally an American snuff film about killing Nazis. There's basically two stories of revenge playing at the same time. I wish that the movie was longer so you got to see more of both stories or that there was only one of those two stories going on. I definitely would have been into watching nothing but the basterds gone on crazy nazi killing adventures for 3 hours. And the same goes for the movie theatre proprietor. My two favorite things about Inglorious Basterds: the history lesson on what happens to nitrate film and Chistoph Waltz, being a nutty fucking Nazi.

Wait, these are supposed to be real short reviews.

Up: It's cute and it's fucking depressing. Here I am in a movie theatre, a 30 year old man, at the movies by himself, surrounded by kids and I'm sobbing. I'm sobbing a bunch of times

Star Trek: Pretty bad ass and way fun. And the ladies love Spock. They really do.

Crazy Heart: Is movies about alcoholic country singers a film genre? If it is, then Crazy Heart is about as perfect as you can get for what it is.

Avatar: Totally stupid. And totally fun. My favorite thing was the big tough Marine guy, who is just so happy to be blowing up giant shit.

Fantastic Mr. Fox: Super great. You have to be impressed with stop motion animation, it's fucking insane. And it's also a really good heist movie.

Broken Embraces: Probably my favorite 2009 movie. I was so into the melodrama. And I love that movie within a movie thing. I think that if I were to make a movie today I would do one of those movies within a movie. things. Oh and I'd also try to get Penelope Cruz get naked in it. That never hurts.

The Hangover: No Oscar nod for Zach Galifianakis? Criminal.

OK, so I didn't see last night's big winner, 'The Hurt Locker'. I think that a lot of people haven't seen it. I heard that no film has ever made as little as the box office and won the Best Picture Award. Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director which makes her the first woman to win the award. Which is kind of...about time, right? I think it was more of an apology Oscar. Like "sorry, we should have given Kathryn the award for directing 'Point Break' so we'll just go ahead and make up for that blunder by giving you one for this Hurt Locker thing. Sorry. Our bad."

Also, Sandra Bullock won an apology Oscar. She should have one for Speed 2: Cruise Control.

I'm just kidding about Sandra. I haven't seen 'The Blind Side' but I am convinced that it's awful. Cause it stars Sandra Bullock and she's pretty not very good in every movie that she's appeared in. WTF!

More similar WTF? moments: Avatar won best cinematography. Really? There was probably 15 minutes of the movie that was actually "filmed".

Christoph Watlz winning is probably my favorite award for the night. That was probably the one I was rooting for the most. I guess I'm glad that Jeff Bridges won, but I mean I think that a lot of people could have played that role. I think Robert Duvall should've gotten a best supporting nod for Crazy Heart. I think Robert Duvall and Zack Galifianakis should make a cop buddy movie. Or a remake of 'Colors'.

Ok, so that's all that I got for Oscar thoughts right now. If I think of more, I'll let you know.