I think it's time you got Twitter

*sigh* I suppose.

Me either, but I suppose that's not at all unusual for me.

I was waiting for Kathryn Bigelow's arms to fall off from the weight of those statues.

Did anyone understand wtf Sean Penn was talking about?

Does anyone ever?

Before the Oscars, Reelz was showing the awards ceremony from a visual effects society. Between Up and Avatar, no one else stood a chance. It actually seemed like they were inventing categories that those 2 films weren't eligible for (Best Visual Effects in a Film that Was Animated But Didn't Have Balloons Or Blue People) just so someone else could win something.

As if to prove how geeky a gathering it was, the award for best single effects sequence was given to Avatar for the 5 second shot where Neytiri drank some water out of a leaf.

Oh, and I'll say it...hooray, Avatar didn't win Best Picture!!

Mind you, I really liked Avatar, I'd even go so far as to call it outstanding. However, while it was an outstanding visual experience, the actual story and characters were just not best picture quality. They were good enough for what that movie needed, a story marginally interesting enough to keep you looking at the pretty for 2.5 hours, but bland and unobtrusive enough to not get in the way of the real star of the show, the effects.

But if Avatar had won Best Picture simply because it's the top grossing film, well, it'd be time to start calling Thomas Kinkade the best painter of all time. I mean, look how much money his paintings bring in!

That's just not a definition of "best" I'm ready to accept.

I guessed 15 winners, and got 9 wrong. I got all the main was right, and all the shorts wrong. Of course had I seen the shorts, I might have done better than just guessing....

I felt that Steve and Alec seemed like they were trying too hard.

I didn't watch last year's Oscars (I was in Micronesia) and I didn't watch this year's Oscars (I was onstage for "Hair"). I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot, tho. I guess it just doesn't have the draw for me as it used to. I could have had someone Tivo it for me, but I was like... meh!