Morning After

Still Up in the Air...the Academy proves once again to be completely out of touch.

I'll get it right to it: my biggest reaction, without question, was the undeserved spanking of Jason Reitman's Up in the Air. I've never really liked the guy, either, but you can't take away the fact that he made what I would say was the second best film of the year. We all knew District 9 was going to get skunked, but Up in the Air? Jesus. Jason Reitman, you got fucking gipped... I feel for you and your team.

Jeff Wells sums up the situation--blogosphere reactions and all--pretty nicely here. Check it out.

My second most prominent reaction? Simple: the show was terrible. Unfunny, disjointed/clunky, with a mediocrity of nominees stinking to high heaven... Just ugly all around. How could you go wrong with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin? You can't, you just can't, but after last night, apparently anything is possible. I walked out around the dance routine.. in fact, I walked out a few times earlier than that. Whatever pressure I felt to watch the show was quickly dissolved.

Other, dime-a-dozen reactions:

--TEH SANDRA! Totally was shamelessly on the Bullocks bandwagon. Okay, maybe there was tinsy-weensy bit of shame, but that's it.
--Harry Potter should've won cinematography, seriously... Bruno Delbonnel raised the series to new heights, seriously.

--Speeches were pretty good/I was impressed, but of course, balance was restored to the force when the already infamous Kanyegate Pt. 2 happened, God, what a mess.

--The 'actors' generally had nice things to say about the 'actresses,' though Whitaker seemed a little out of place.
--The mashups, the dedications, even the little video blurbs... DID SOMEONE NOT HIRE A FUCKING EDITOR? This was embarrassingly bad, I'm sorry. No excuses--with all the YouTube-grade talent out there, they could've found somebody who knew what the bloody hell they were doing. Just embarrassing.
--Ben Stiller = hilarious.

--The Hurt Locker, original writing? WHAT ABOUT THE WHOLE, YOU KNOW, CONTROVERSY GOING ON? Please...at least they could've given it to A Serious Man... In general, it seems that the Academy was over-generous before it truly goes down in history as a BOMB. What a joke.

--Doesn't that really say it all? What a joke? Don't we say that every year?



Get a writer, get a whiff of culture, go back to the editing room.

What a joke.