Go forth, fellow Oscar-watchers, and read them! Read all of them!
Edit: Complete List of Winners and my Tweets, reposted for prosperity and for the benefit of anyone watching the Oscars on DVR (please excuse the wonky spelling):
* - My fearless prediction is that the Dictator thing will be the only spontaneous/interesting moment on the red carpet.
* - My other fearless prediction: "The Artist" wins all the things. Even though it was much better when it was animated and titled "The Illusionist"...
* - Methinks Nick Nolte's crows would consider him their pet human.
* - Also "Warrior" is excellent and you should see it. #BlatantOscarSnubs
* - God, there's another 1/2 hour of this? Get to the part about movies winning things!
* - (Plays with her Audubon Guide to New England app. LOL random animal sounds.)
* - When are they going to stop talking about clothes already???
* - Not that I am in any position to talk, but Brian Grazer is an odd-looking man.
* - OTOH, I am digging Chris Rock's 'fro.
* - OMG almost time!
* - I still can't choose between Morgan Freeman or Sir David Attenborough for who should narrate my inner running monologues.
* - Random Bieber!!!
* - Should note that's the only part of "The Help" I've seen...
* - Glad to see "Hugo" get cinematography
* - And for best art direction! Hmmm...
* - Hell of a montage going right from "Titanic" to "Twilight". #WhyThisGenerationFails
* - Oscar-nominated Madonna movie. #Things80sComediansWouldPointOut
* - And a million Harry Potter fans cried out...
* - D'aww at Brad Pitt waxing nostalgic about a monster movie.
* - Welp. Good jarb offending all of China, Sandra Bullock.
* - The Oscar goes to the woman involved in the SECOND-best moment of scatological humor in the bunch!
* - OK, the Christopher Guest Gang focus group bit was hilarious.
* - And a win for Team Fincher!
* - The Oscar-nominated Transformers 3. #ThingsModernComediansWouldPointOut
* - Yay Hugo!!!
* - Cirque Du Soleil is all like, f--- you, we got your 3-D right here!
* - Meanwhile George Clooney 's date is all like "I'm not familiar with the kind of thing I'm seeing...?"
* - For reals, Cirque Du Soleil are amazing and anyone who disagrees can go right to hell.
* - Brace yourselves, here comes the intro to the Best Animated Film award...
* - No, animation is hard if you're the person who is ACTUALLY DOING THE ANIMATION!!!
* - YEAAAH!!! The only award I was in any way emotionally invested in and my fab film won!
* - Emma Stone , WTF?
* - 0.0 #ActuallySurprisingOscarWins
* - Incidentally, this is where I should note that I was hating Michael Bay before it was cool.
* - D'awww Christopher Plummer
* - Yo, fellow Leo DiCaprio fans: let's school them little Twilight fans when Titanic 3D comes out.
* - And that's how you keep all the Muppet fans in suspense.
* - Though I have to say, with all the dancing birds, my 12-year old self would have gone nuts over Rio
* - And now I live on a planet where both The Muppets and Flight Of The Concords (on a technicality) have Oscars.
* - And now I live on a planet where Dean Shelton has an Oscar #EarthIsTheBestPlanet
* - And special effects legend Doug Trumble won an Oscar !!! But not during this broadcast. #SpecialistFilmmakerGhetto
* - Best. Callback. Ever. #ScorseseDrinkingGame
* - Yaaaaaay!!!
* - The only other award I was emotionally invested in and my favorite won again!!!
* - Best Director already?
* - I like the traditional Polish Christmas ornaments Merryl Streep is accessorizing with
* - James Earle Jones ALSO won an Oscar! Also not during this ceremony.
* - Here comes the sad part so get out your hankies...
* - This must be how adults felt towards us kids born in the late 70s with our Ataris and pocket calculators. #SamsungSmartTVAd
* - Uggie was robbed!!! #BlatantOscarSnubs
* - This is as good a time to note that we are going to hear a LOT of interesting comments on Pharrell's house band.
* - This is also as good time to note that times like these, I regret my sensitivity to high frequencies... #WTFTechnicalGlitches
* - Seriously, those are some nice Christmas ornaments.
* - Hurry up Tom I'm running out of wine!
* - D'aaaaaw, Uggie!!!
* - BTW, if The Artist win surprises you at all, welcome to being disillusioned with the Academy.
* - Seriously, am I the only one kinda bothered by the fact that it's THE SAME THING as Chomet's "The Illusionist"? #AnimationAgeGhetto
* - Ah well. A fine night to celebrate the Art of Film.
* - I'll be back for the Jimmy Kimmel show. Until then, go watch "The Illusionist".
* - Not gonna lie. I'd watch the hell out of "Movie The Movie".
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Princess Mia meets Carlos the Dwarf - the 2011 Oscars Live Blog!
Oh, why not. Oscar night comes but once a year and I live-blogged the male-equivalent television event after all.
So here's how this is (hopefully) going to work. I will try to start after 6:15 PM EST, which is about the time the award coverage begins locally. I will make no predictions. I am not even that emotionally invested as my favorite movies have no chance whatsoever of winning anything big (for example, Best Picture is essentially a race between "Social Network" and "King's Speech"). I will merely take the awards as they come and make comments that you will hopefully find hilarious.
6:33 - Our local ABC affiliate is airing a fluff piece about a local Oscar party that I can't really badmouth because it is run by the Ellie Fund. Aww.
There are also a few reports from the red carpet and, my God, it's been ten years, please LET BJORK'S SWAN DRESS GO ALREADY!!! (Or, more to the point, unless you can name one Bjork song, stop picking on Bjork for being Bjork.)
6:52 - Yeah, NMH. More H. R. Fluffinstuff about movies set in Boston. Woo.
7:07 - OK, here we go. Aw, I'm rooting for Hailee Steinfeld since she's genuinely appreciative and excited to be there.
7:20 - D'aww, the story of the children's chorus.
7:24 - Ah, we have ads for upcoming movies to discuss. "Limitless" looks kinda nifty... and then it pulled the "we only use blah percent of our brain" cliche. Dammit.
7:29 - OK, between the "mom-inees", the children's chorus, and some other things, this is going to be a very "Aww"-some Oscar night.
7:47 - "Red Riding Hood" = wut
7:57 - "Source Code" looks a little dull and confusing in it's ad, but it's got Jake G. in it and it's by Duncan Jones. "Moon" was my favorite surprise last year, and critics loved it. So... why isn't the commercial mentioning this at all?
8:20 - Somebody tell me how "The Adjustment Bureau" is different from "Dark City".
8:23 - And here's your first notable instance (that I saw) of Mood Whiplash tonight! (Tom Hanks' "Philadelphia" acceptance speech vs. Roberto Begnini's... whatever you want to call that.)
8:30 - It's time it's time!
8:33 - Huh... this is Mtv-ish. I like it though.
8:38 - That was fun! I kinda wanted to see what they'd do with "Toy Story 3" though.
8:41 - Mark's strained smile = priceless.
8:42 - So the much-hyped virtual set is... nice.
8:43 - LEO WAS ROBBED! XD
8:45 - Alright, I'll watch "Alice in Wonderland" already. The art directors were very sweet.
8:47 - Woo Wally Pfister! Also Christopher Nolan's strained smile = saddening.
8:57 - LEO WON!!! (Thank you, I'm here all night.)
Also, essays will be written about Michael Douglas' presentation. Long, long, long ones.
9:02 - Oh, Justin, you so crazy.
Also, you don't know the definition of animation do you?
And we have our first potential running gag, care of Michael Douglas.
9:04 - "The Lost Thing" won! I'm so happy!!! (Seriously watch it. It will make a rainbow in your heart.)
9:05 - And as happy as I am that "Toy Story 3" was nominated, imagine if there were five nominees. Stupid weird Academy rules.
9:14 - I feel we're going to be hearing this over-orchestrated version of the spare, eerie "Social Network" score a lot tonight.
9:18 - And we are going to hear the "King's Speech" music a lot too. The question is, WHICH MUSIC WILL WE HEAR MORE!?!
9:28 - Yay Denmark!
9:32 - Yay! My other website's mascot won! (Honestly, I'm happy. It's been a long, long, long road.)
9:38 - Ugh, the president of the Academy. Here we go...
9:40 - And that was surprisingly painless.
9:41 - Nice, subtle "Fantasia" tribute here.
9:44 - I live in a world where Trent Reznor has an Oscar. This is awesome.
9:47 - Methinks "Inception" will sweep the technical awards.
9:49 - I'm right so far!
Yeah, so why the hell isn't Christopher Nolan nominated for best director again? Or does the Academy just not like him?
9:56 - Don't eff with Rick Baker. He is a legend. The nominees were a little offbeat, but it really wasn't a contest.
9:59 - I only wish there was an award for creature design. *sigh*
10:02 - Thank you for reminding me how I am so Emo for movie songs.
10:13 - Very nice, Jake. That'll show everyone who treats the shorts categories as a bathroom break.
10:17 - Ah jeez, Autotune? Really?
Also, I am a fan of the guy who directed "God of Love".
10:20 - Personal surreal experience of the night: explaining who Banksy is to mom.
10:21 - A-n-d potentially awesome Oscar moment averted. Also, I wanted "Exit Through the Gift Shop" to win. Wah.
10:31 - The Bob Hope tribute was cute, but I kinda wish they'd picked a movie to represent special effects... somehow...
And "Inception" wins! Practical effects for the waffles!
Also, Jude and Robert are so much fun together that I wondered why they'd never done a movie together. Then I remembered they did...
10:35 - Aww, Dave Fincher's editors.
10:41 - KITTY!!! OMG, IT'S SO FLUFFY! WANT!
Ahem.
10:44 - "If I Rise" = Awesome. Every other nominated song = Meh.
But, OK, Randy Newman's fine too.
10:50 - I didn't write anything about the Best Buy ad with Ozzy Osborn and Justin Bieber during the Superbowl because it's just... sad.
Speaking of, here comes the In Memorium part...
10:57 - And thank you cheerful JC Penny and People Magazine ad for the mood whiplash. (But then, what could you air after that?)
11:01 - Home stretch everyone!
11:03 - (Pouts in sympathy for David Fincher...)
Err, I mean congrats to the man who helped my hometown's tourism a lot!
11:15 - I was just saying that I will be astonished if "Black Swan" went home with nothing. Congrats, Natalie!
11:25 - Next movie idea for Colin Firth: "The King's Gallstones". Seriously, aww.
11:32 - "And 'Crash'!"
11:36 - OMG "King's Speech" or "Social Network"?!?
And Steven answered a second after I hit "Publish". Congrats "King's Speech". Nice montage too.
Good night all, may you all get to your homes or other destinations safely, may your speeches never be cut off, and may your dreams be sweet.
D'aww, the little kids are singin'.
So here's how this is (hopefully) going to work. I will try to start after 6:15 PM EST, which is about the time the award coverage begins locally. I will make no predictions. I am not even that emotionally invested as my favorite movies have no chance whatsoever of winning anything big (for example, Best Picture is essentially a race between "Social Network" and "King's Speech"). I will merely take the awards as they come and make comments that you will hopefully find hilarious.
6:33 - Our local ABC affiliate is airing a fluff piece about a local Oscar party that I can't really badmouth because it is run by the Ellie Fund. Aww.
There are also a few reports from the red carpet and, my God, it's been ten years, please LET BJORK'S SWAN DRESS GO ALREADY!!! (Or, more to the point, unless you can name one Bjork song, stop picking on Bjork for being Bjork.)
6:52 - Yeah, NMH. More H. R. Fluffinstuff about movies set in Boston. Woo.
7:07 - OK, here we go. Aw, I'm rooting for Hailee Steinfeld since she's genuinely appreciative and excited to be there.
7:20 - D'aww, the story of the children's chorus.
7:24 - Ah, we have ads for upcoming movies to discuss. "Limitless" looks kinda nifty... and then it pulled the "we only use blah percent of our brain" cliche. Dammit.
7:29 - OK, between the "mom-inees", the children's chorus, and some other things, this is going to be a very "Aww"-some Oscar night.
7:47 - "Red Riding Hood" = wut
7:57 - "Source Code" looks a little dull and confusing in it's ad, but it's got Jake G. in it and it's by Duncan Jones. "Moon" was my favorite surprise last year, and critics loved it. So... why isn't the commercial mentioning this at all?
8:20 - Somebody tell me how "The Adjustment Bureau" is different from "Dark City".
8:23 - And here's your first notable instance (that I saw) of Mood Whiplash tonight! (Tom Hanks' "Philadelphia" acceptance speech vs. Roberto Begnini's... whatever you want to call that.)
8:30 - It's time it's time!
8:33 - Huh... this is Mtv-ish. I like it though.
8:38 - That was fun! I kinda wanted to see what they'd do with "Toy Story 3" though.
8:41 - Mark's strained smile = priceless.
8:42 - So the much-hyped virtual set is... nice.
8:43 - LEO WAS ROBBED! XD
8:45 - Alright, I'll watch "Alice in Wonderland" already. The art directors were very sweet.
8:47 - Woo Wally Pfister! Also Christopher Nolan's strained smile = saddening.
8:57 - LEO WON!!! (Thank you, I'm here all night.)
Also, essays will be written about Michael Douglas' presentation. Long, long, long ones.
9:02 - Oh, Justin, you so crazy.
Also, you don't know the definition of animation do you?
And we have our first potential running gag, care of Michael Douglas.
9:04 - "The Lost Thing" won! I'm so happy!!! (Seriously watch it. It will make a rainbow in your heart.)
9:05 - And as happy as I am that "Toy Story 3" was nominated, imagine if there were five nominees. Stupid weird Academy rules.
9:14 - I feel we're going to be hearing this over-orchestrated version of the spare, eerie "Social Network" score a lot tonight.
9:18 - And we are going to hear the "King's Speech" music a lot too. The question is, WHICH MUSIC WILL WE HEAR MORE!?!
9:28 - Yay Denmark!
9:32 - Yay! My other website's mascot won! (Honestly, I'm happy. It's been a long, long, long road.)
9:38 - Ugh, the president of the Academy. Here we go...
9:40 - And that was surprisingly painless.
9:41 - Nice, subtle "Fantasia" tribute here.
9:44 - I live in a world where Trent Reznor has an Oscar. This is awesome.
9:47 - Methinks "Inception" will sweep the technical awards.
9:49 - I'm right so far!
Yeah, so why the hell isn't Christopher Nolan nominated for best director again? Or does the Academy just not like him?
9:56 - Don't eff with Rick Baker. He is a legend. The nominees were a little offbeat, but it really wasn't a contest.
9:59 - I only wish there was an award for creature design. *sigh*
10:02 - Thank you for reminding me how I am so Emo for movie songs.
10:13 - Very nice, Jake. That'll show everyone who treats the shorts categories as a bathroom break.
10:17 - Ah jeez, Autotune? Really?
Also, I am a fan of the guy who directed "God of Love".
10:20 - Personal surreal experience of the night: explaining who Banksy is to mom.
10:21 - A-n-d potentially awesome Oscar moment averted. Also, I wanted "Exit Through the Gift Shop" to win. Wah.
10:31 - The Bob Hope tribute was cute, but I kinda wish they'd picked a movie to represent special effects... somehow...
And "Inception" wins! Practical effects for the waffles!
Also, Jude and Robert are so much fun together that I wondered why they'd never done a movie together. Then I remembered they did...
10:35 - Aww, Dave Fincher's editors.
10:41 - KITTY!!! OMG, IT'S SO FLUFFY! WANT!
Ahem.
10:44 - "If I Rise" = Awesome. Every other nominated song = Meh.
But, OK, Randy Newman's fine too.
10:50 - I didn't write anything about the Best Buy ad with Ozzy Osborn and Justin Bieber during the Superbowl because it's just... sad.
Speaking of, here comes the In Memorium part...
10:57 - And thank you cheerful JC Penny and People Magazine ad for the mood whiplash. (But then, what could you air after that?)
11:01 - Home stretch everyone!
11:03 - (Pouts in sympathy for David Fincher...)
Err, I mean congrats to the man who helped my hometown's tourism a lot!
11:15 - I was just saying that I will be astonished if "Black Swan" went home with nothing. Congrats, Natalie!
11:25 - Next movie idea for Colin Firth: "The King's Gallstones". Seriously, aww.
11:32 - "And 'Crash'!"
11:36 - OMG "King's Speech" or "Social Network"?!?
And Steven answered a second after I hit "Publish". Congrats "King's Speech". Nice montage too.
Good night all, may you all get to your homes or other destinations safely, may your speeches never be cut off, and may your dreams be sweet.
D'aww, the little kids are singin'.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Oscar Nominated Shorts!
A couple of shorts nominated for Best Animated Feature have thankfully popped up online. I'm going to link to them (rather than embed, because of formatting issues) and share my thoughts. Watch them while you can!
"Madagascar: Carnet De Voyage" - I can't tell what kind of animation is used here and that's a very refreshing thing to be able to say! What I love about this short is the way it captures what it feels like to re-read my old Sketchbooks. Also, Lemurs!!!
"The Gruffalo" - Based off a children's book and aired for an all-too-brief-and-I-am-cursing-myself-out-for-not-alerting-you-dear-readers period on ABC Family during their 25 Days of Christmas. Absolutely delightful with unique character designs and atmospheric animation.
"Let's Pollute!" - The full short isn't available online, but the link goes to a clip and apparently you can download the full short on iTunes. The style is a lot of fun and seems to be a parody of the educational animation produced for "The Wonderful World of Disney" and EPCOT center. (In fact, do I detect a direct dig on the current Universe of Energy?)
"Day and Night" - Needless to say, Disney's lawyers aren't allowing this online. Wah. Then again, since we've pretty much all seen "Toy Story 3", we know how good this is.
"The Lost Thing" - And here is my favorite short of the lot. It made a rainbow in my heart.
I MAY, this is obviously a big "MAY", attempt a live-blog this awards show. In any case, get your drinks ready.
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Great Backyard Bird Count Results!
I did my counting while on what was originally going to be a ski trip this past long weekend. I say "originally" because the weekend was plagued be extreme winds. We did get out and walk around a little but there were very few birds to be observed. The tally below covers Friday afternoon and the entire three-day weekend.
Habitat(s): coniferous woods, agricultural, rural, freshwater
Checklist: Canada Goose, Mallard, Hawk (unknown species), Gull (unknown species), American Crow, Common Raven, White-breasted Nuthatch
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"Madagascar: Carnet De Voyage" - I can't tell what kind of animation is used here and that's a very refreshing thing to be able to say! What I love about this short is the way it captures what it feels like to re-read my old Sketchbooks. Also, Lemurs!!!
"The Gruffalo" - Based off a children's book and aired for an all-too-brief-and-I-am-cursing-myself-out-for-not-alerting-you-dear-readers period on ABC Family during their 25 Days of Christmas. Absolutely delightful with unique character designs and atmospheric animation.
"Let's Pollute!" - The full short isn't available online, but the link goes to a clip and apparently you can download the full short on iTunes. The style is a lot of fun and seems to be a parody of the educational animation produced for "The Wonderful World of Disney" and EPCOT center. (In fact, do I detect a direct dig on the current Universe of Energy?)
"Day and Night" - Needless to say, Disney's lawyers aren't allowing this online. Wah. Then again, since we've pretty much all seen "Toy Story 3", we know how good this is.
"The Lost Thing" - And here is my favorite short of the lot. It made a rainbow in my heart.
I MAY, this is obviously a big "MAY", attempt a live-blog this awards show. In any case, get your drinks ready.
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Great Backyard Bird Count Results!
I did my counting while on what was originally going to be a ski trip this past long weekend. I say "originally" because the weekend was plagued be extreme winds. We did get out and walk around a little but there were very few birds to be observed. The tally below covers Friday afternoon and the entire three-day weekend.
Habitat(s): coniferous woods, agricultural, rural, freshwater
Checklist: Canada Goose, Mallard, Hawk (unknown species), Gull (unknown species), American Crow, Common Raven, White-breasted Nuthatch
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Art of the Day!
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