Slog - Comments on This Weekend at the Oscars http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars Some movies are opening this weekend, but does anyone care? It's time for that exquisitely bizarre end-of-winter exercise in pensioners formerly in the movie business fawning over the bright young things currently in the movie business. Everybody knows the Oscars are a hideous compromise between box office gold and retrograde tastes, which is both explains why United 93 wasn't nominated for best picture and why nobody will ever let Sacha Baron Cohen within ten feet of a podium mic. In Seattle, the Oscars air on KOMO 4 starting at 5:30 pm. Brace yourselves for the following excruciating results: BEST PICTURE:... Copyright 2008 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:03:45 -0800 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:37:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by j but does anyone care?

I care! I care! Regardless of Schmader's attempted buzzkill

]]> j http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647552 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647552 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:21:50 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Girl, I hated writing that as much as you hated reading it. It's a sad state of affairs.

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647574 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647574 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:44:57 -0800 Comment by monkey Meryl doesn't expect to get a gold statue anymore than you want her to. I think nominations just make her giggle. Like winning $5 on a scratch ticket, "ooh look, I got nominated for something. Now where was I.. oh yes... five letter word for female dog *giggles again* b-i-t..."

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647591 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647591 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:59:01 -0800 Comment by ugh If Little Miss Sunshine is Best Picture the American film industry deserves to be razed.

]]> ugh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647618 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647618 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:26:59 -0800 Comment by Fnarf The American film industry HAS been razed. This is what it looks like afterwards.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647632 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647632 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:06:57 -0800 Comment by Gitai Children of Men deserves to win everything. Hell, Children of Men was so fucking good that it should win Best Animated Feature and Best Foreign Language Film. They should just give every fucking Oscar to Children of Men and tell everyone else that they need to work harder next year and try to put out something that comes within a hundred light years of being as brilliant as Children of Men.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647652 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647652 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:14:15 -0800 Comment by Biggie J Still have to see Children Of Men but Little Miss Sunshine pretty much ruled! Should it win best picture? Yes.
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]]> Biggie J http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647684 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647684 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:35:25 -0800 Comment by Fnarf "Little Miss Sunshine" ruled? Ruled the pits of hell, maybe. That movie made me hate humanity with a flaming passion. I hate being manipulated, especially by morons who think everyone's forgotten "National Lampoon's Vacation".

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647702 Arts Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:24:39 -0800 Comment by genevieve I just watched United 93 - god I'm glad I didn't see that in the theater. Fucking great film, but I was bawling at the end.

I also rented Little Miss Sunshine - was hoping to get The Departed, The Prestige or Babel, but they were all out. Damn everyone for thinking the same thing I was!

I love the Oscars.

]]> genevieve http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647740 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647740 Arts Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:19:48 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Who gives a fuck about a goddamn Oscar? Yes I am drunk. Babel was the most tolerable and fascinating of all that hoo-hah, and it still is hoo-hah. Yes, Gitai, 'Children of Men' is the shizznatch. Everyone I run into says it is one of the best films they have ever, EVER seen, but you'd think from the media response it was in more minor a key than the charming 'Pan's Labyrinth'. I haven't seen anything that kicked that much ass since 'The New World' and that was a completely different type of film.

Pattern? The three most interesting films of the year (except for 'United 93') are by Mexican directors. I didn't just randomly pick that country to move to on a globe (like the guy in 'The Last King of Scotland' - which ruled, don't get me wrong). It is the rising center of the consciousness of what it means to be a citizen of the New World. Always has been, really.

Hollywood is done. Done.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647777 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647777 Arts Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:28:30 -0800 Comment by Biggie J Hey number 8 are we thinking of the same movie. Did you just watch Garden State and get it confused with Little Miss Sunshine.

]]> Biggie J http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647825 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647825 Arts Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:07:14 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I liked The Lives of Others - still haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647994 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647994 Arts Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:22:33 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I would eat a chili dog covered with flies out of Dick Cheney's ass if I could get the space in my brain that remembers "Little Miss Sunshine" back. Just horrible, horrible. Like a bad sitcom.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647999 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c647999 Arts Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:26:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle But I have heard Children of Men was good.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c648024 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/this_weekend_at_the_oscars#c648024 Arts Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:37:55 -0800