No Country For Old Men took home a few Oscars last night, namely "Best Picture". I watched the Oscars at a Oscar party last night, if not for that I wouldn't have watched it. Jon Stewart was very funny as the host and did something that I've never seen on any other Oscar show.
The female half of the Indie couple of love, who won best song for the film "Once," was shut down by the "get off the stage music" as she was making her thank you speech, then on to a commercial break. When the show returned, Stewart announced that she had been cut off and asked her to come out and speak, she returned and gave a very eloquent thank you. It was a very classy move.
For the most part, the show was boring as hell. B-O-R-E-I-N-G!!! And as usual, the films I wanted did not win. In this case the film I thought was better "American Gangster" wasn't even nominated. So out of the two extremely violent films picked to win a Oscar, the most violent by far won. Don't get me wrong, No Country is a good flick, but it's also violence for the sake of violence. Just about everyone dies from gunshot wounds that take their heads off. And that's what the film is about.
Like "Departed", a good film that baffled me when it took the big prize, Hollywood seems to feel good about awarding flicks that the main premise is predicated on heads being blown off by a$$hole lead characters.
I don't even know anyone who *saw* the movie, let alone think it was the "best picture" of the year.
Posted by: GoodThings2Life | February 25, 2008 at 09:53 AM