Random Movie news

So, there has been lots of movie news the past few days, and I feel it is my duty to compile it into one place.

1) Most awesome news ever? That Jake Gyllenhaal is going to be in a musical. Wearing baseball pants.

I'm not sure he can sing, but I'm not sure I care.

2) Horrible and appalling news? This. Drr, WHAT?

3) Nonsensical news which is separated by two degrees to number 1? A sequel to a movie that shouldn't have a sequel.

Those were the three things that made me take notice. If I find more I'll share them.

While I don't care much about the message...

it's hard to argue with the imagery.

Well, I care about bears, but in sort of a passive way. I don't see why they couldn't use fake fur for the hats, but whatever.

Oscar Picks!

So I love the Oscars a lot, cause it's a huge deal. Above and beyond fashion, I enjoy seeing all the stars. So below are my picks for the big categories:

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

This is the first year I've actually seen all 5 of the nominees before the show starts. I think Milk and the Reader were really good, but Slumdog was a more enjoyable watching experience. Frost/Nixon was very interesting but not as good as Milk. I would be content if Milk won, but if Benjamin Button wins I will freak the hell out. That movie was pretentious Shite.

Best Actor, Leading: Sean Penn

I thought Frank Langella did a good job as Nixon, but Sean Penn was absolutely fantastic as Harvey Milk. Lots of people think Mickey Rourke is going to win, but I can't stand Mickey Rourke, and I don't think he deserves credit for a comeback because I keep telling myself it's not happening.

Best Actor, Supporting: Heath Ledger

Note that I don't think Ledger should win, but I think he will win. Not that I didn't very much enjoy his performance, but I'm kind of done with all the "oh noes he died" shit. I didn't enjoy Brokeback Mountain enough, I guess. Robert Downey, Jr. definitely shouldn't win (and I have no clue why he was even nominated. Was it seriously the black face?). I haven't seen Revolutionary Road, so I can't really judge that. Josh Brolin was good, but not amazing. Same with Hoffman. I guess by default I'd vote for Ledger. Nevermind then.

Best Actress, Leading: Kate Winslet

Winslet made the Reader fantastic, and frankly she is at her peak right now. If she can't get the Oscar now, when can she get it? Meryl Streep was excellent in Doubt, but I'd like to see it go to someone new. Not that I'd be upset if Meryl won at all. I haven't seen the other three, but from what I've heard this makes the most sense. I've heard Angelina is so-so in the Changeling, and I've heard Anne is good but I'm still expecting/hoping Winslet will win.

Best Actress, Supporting: Viola Davis

In this category, I chose who I want to win, although I don't think she will. I thought her performance in Doubt was absolutely fantastic and moving. I haven't seen Vicky Cristina Barcelona because I don't like Woody Allen, but I wouldn't be surprised if Penelope Cruz won. I don't care for her really, and I don't know why. Amy Adams is a terrific actress but I wouldn't give it to her for Doubt, because she is better than that role (which was very good, nonetheless). I'm not voting for Marisa Tomei because she was in Mickey Rourke's comeback movie and I've already stated how I feel about that. I think it's exciting that this category is so up in the air.

The other categories just aren't so important, I think. Hollywood people care about Best Director, but I just don't. I think Slumdog will get that, though. Best Animated has to go to Wall-E. As far as I'm concerned that movie should have gotten a best pic nom instead of Frost/Nixon. Best song I want to be one of the songs from Slumdog, and all the art and art direction shit I can't be bothered with.

I'm so excited! I'll post my final score off the official Oscar Ballot, to see how well I do. Brian always does better than me, but maybe this year. Maybe!

PS - What the hell is wrong with Lisa Rinna's upper lip? Botox gone wrong!

10 Things I learned about X-men from watching "Wolverine and the X-Men"

1. Storm's whirlwind powers can deflect bullets.

2. The only way Kitty can phase a helicopter is to drop through the bottom of it.

3. Rogue can apparently control any power she absorbs. And these powers include skills. Like buSHEEdo.

4. Magneto can control the inherent properties of metal, even dissolving it to form new shit.

5. When Wolverine smells things, he creates holographic images of it in his mind.

6. Nightcrawler can teleport water.

7. Charles Xavier is Zordon. You'll get it if you get it.

I only got to 7 because there really just isn't that much to learn from it. I'm not sure why I watch it, except it's a dose of X-Men in an otherwise X-men-less life.

Fidelity

"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

Videos like this make me want to get militant. Not at the people that made the video, because the video is great. At the people for who Proposition 8 makes sense.

I have a crush...

I don't know what it is about this picture. Muscles? His expression? The fact that he's dripping? All of the above, most likely. He's so nice to look at.

And if you want even more to look at... Pages 4 and 5 are especially nice, I think.

You can also read this if you want to know a bit more about him as a person rather than an object.

I'm really not going to make a habit out of posting pretty boys, but I just liked this picture too much not to share it.

The guy that got sucked out of the plane was the lucky one

It's official. I'm done with Heroes. Last night's episode was just ridiculous, and I can't even motivate myself to write a full rant out. Claire and Peter both completely suck on the show. There was no drama with the main characters getting kidnapped. Peter's power doesn't make sense. We just glazed over how Sylar is alive again. They didn't even pretend like it was a secret, he's just walking about on his non-sensical daddy quest. Hiro could have been cool as Oracle, and then wasn't. And the plane crash was so ridiculous I don't even want to talk about it.

Now if I was a show-runner on this show, I would bring in some fresh blood that didn't suck and demote Peter and Claire to the back-row. Send Claire off to train so that she's not so completely fucking useless all the time, and just kill Peter. Give Hiro a geek job like being Oracle, cause that's cool. Get rid of Daphne and Parkman. Sylar is a good baddie, but he needs a better purpose than "are you my daddy?" I liked when he was collecting powers. Also, we need to NEVER use the future-drawing power again. Ever. I'm so done with that shit. The genosha idea could be cool, if they set it up properly, but we need to remove such heavy-handed imagery like "I'm Iranian, I know what they're doing". Ugh.

But the fact of the matter is I'll never know if they fix these things because I'm officially done with the show. I couldn't even bring myself to be interested by the preview next week. I'm finished. And it makes me angry that this show could have so much potential and it just didn't live up to it. And it makes me angry that from now on every superpower show they want to make will be compared to this garbage.

In other news Kyle XY got cancelled. Which would have made me sad about three weeks ago, but now I'm very "meh" about the whole thing. And part of me is relieved that I will have less shit to watch every week.

Good thing I didn't waste my 100th post on this crap.