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The Oscars are so close you can smell them, coming up next weekend, Sun. March 7 th . The night is going to be very predictable, except for the Original Screenplay race and the prestigious Best Picture. There's been so much controversy about the two front runners it's unbelievable. The first of the leading films, Avatar has been bringing in comparisons to one scene that resembles the 9/11 attacks and the Best Picture winning film Dances with Wolves , but instead of cowboys and Indians you have humans and aliens. People also believe that just because it's groundbreaking effects doesn't mean it should deserve to take it home. Not to be bias, but THOSE people haven't seen Avatar. Controversy surrounding The Hurt Locker is that war veterans who were in that field are saying it's nothing but movie dramatization, that it's nothing like what's out there in the real bomb-disposal fields. In Hurt Locker's defense, that's all that it is....a movie. It...

It's no shocker to anyone that Hollywood is churning out less and less original ideas to us, the audience . These sequels are popping out quicker than Octomom's kids, what with a new Nanny McPhee movie coming out, 2 Avatar sequels being planned by Cameron himself, and if anybody saw G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, it was literally setting itself up for a sequel. This year, the movies that I am definitely going to see that are sequels (and probably you guys too) are Shrek Forever After, Iron Man 2, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Toy Story 3. That is a LOT of movies. Yet sequels seem to be the ones that produce the most $$$. Take for instance the top 10 movies of 2009; 6 out of 10 of them were sequels, New Moon, Battle of the Smithsonian, Angels & Demons, Revenge of the Fallen, Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Half-Blood Prince. (I only saw 1.) If Hollywood is going to be unoriginal, they need to making ADAPTIONS of other media instead of more of the same mo...

DVD REVIEW: 9: (PG-13) You'd be surprised how big of a cast this movie has even though it seemed like such a small little movie back in 2009. I have all the Oscar connections at the bottom of the page. 9 starts out as you see a little ( steampunk , is what the director Shane Acker calls it) being made, and the number on his back reads 9. Fast forward a few years, and you see this little guy come to life. He has no voice yet, so he settles out in the post-apocalyptic world that Earth has become. The viewer gets a glimpse at the awful world, full of rubble, filth, and unwanted disgust that everybody had tossed before starting something that the posters on the tattered walls call "The Revolution." Man had fought against Machines, but both had lost, due to the deadly gas the Machines let off. But, apparently, steampunks were not affected. Little 9 finds a fellow steampunk , 2, an older gentleman who is (shortly after their encounter) carried off by a large machine, k...

Everyone knew it was coming. No one's ever happy enough with the results of the Best Picture nominees. If people had it their way, this would probably be what the list would look like last year for Best Picture: The Dark Knight Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E Milk The Curious Case of Benjamin Button NOBODY is ever happy, even with this satisfying mega-list. They never are. People say Avatar is overrated, Blind Side is too sappy, and no one's heard of An Education. But one thing I have to say....SUCK IT UP! People were mad that Crash beat Brokeback Mountain ....get over IT! What's happened as happened, no re-writing history. For all you guys who want to see Best Picture like me, you're going to have to deal with what's dealt. There's a thin line between "oh man well that really should have won" to "WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE FOOLS, THAT DESERVED TO WIN, GOD I HATE THE OSCARS, THESE IDIOTS SHOULDN'T BE VOTING," like I'll see on some blogs or...

So out of the thousand crappy movies that were released this year, we get narrowed down to 10. Movies about aliens (yeah there are actually TWO, go figure) about war, ( Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds) black teenagers ( Precious, The Blind Side) ....I know what you're thinking......how often do these topics come up? There are some old faces coming up, the Coens, now with A Serious Man following their dark and seriously creepy Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men. Also Jason Reitman's Up in the Air , who's previous nominee quirky comedy Juno LOST to No Country for Old Men. Doesn't that sting? I was extremely glad Up got recognized as the animated masterpiece it is, it will definitely not win, but now people will come to see Pixar as a truly masterful studio instead of quick kid's entertainment. And the one nobody's talking about? The British drama An Education. I'm reading more about that as we speak. I'm out, peace!

I am seriously so psyched right now I can hardly type. Here are the nominees (watched them live) * means I've seen it: Avatar* The Blind Side* (NOBODY saw this coming) District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker (OOH, shocker) Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up* Up in the Air I'm kinda mad Invictus didn't get a nomination, but as long as Nine gets nothing I'm happy. I'm out, peace!

Certainly 1,000 times less exciting than the Oscars they mock, it's still interesting to see, and gives me something to think about being snowed in. My previous blog showed my worst movies of the year, and one of this year's nominees was one of them. How accurate am I? Anyway, here are the nominees for Worst Picture: All About Steve G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra ( 2 hours of blowing stuff up...come on......) Land of the Lost Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (as much as I liked the 1st movie, the reviews repelled me away from seeing this. I know, I missed robots transforming AND Megan Fox.) Old Dogs It's a crime that Channing Tatum didn't get nominated for Worst Actor for G.I. Joe , he was most definitely the worst of them all.