Everybody Gets a Trophy Day
It's Oscars time!! I would like to share my opinions about Best Picture in an efficient chart-based form. (Click for larger.)
That's about the extent of my feelings about the Oscars, although I'm hoping as much as the next guy (and even without buying into the whole "Batman" phenomemon) that the Academy comes through with the appropriate posthumous recognition for an undeniably gripping portrayal of the Joker.
I'm not so broken up about not being able to watch the awards. I'm a little broken up about not being able to watch the university Percussion Group's traditional same-night-as-the-Oscars concert (I don't know if they plan it this way or what, but that's three years in a row, at least) but the girlfriend's mother is in from out of town and so it's Pepe's for pizza dinner, which is of course great.
I was wondering about the unusually John Adams-like soundtrack (where one would expect a straight shot of Philip Glass, in a film like this) and it turns out it was composed by official classical phenom Nico Muhly. So that makes sense, being that Muhly draws from both Glass and Adams. On the other hand it's not a particularly good soundtrack.
That's about the extent of my feelings about the Oscars, although I'm hoping as much as the next guy (and even without buying into the whole "Batman" phenomemon) that the Academy comes through with the appropriate posthumous recognition for an undeniably gripping portrayal of the Joker.
I'm not so broken up about not being able to watch the awards. I'm a little broken up about not being able to watch the university Percussion Group's traditional same-night-as-the-Oscars concert (I don't know if they plan it this way or what, but that's three years in a row, at least) but the girlfriend's mother is in from out of town and so it's Pepe's for pizza dinner, which is of course great.
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LATE UPDATE 10:11 PM OK, we went out to see "The Reader." Deciding to view "The Reader" will result in an entertainment experience that meets baseline requirements for satisfaction.I was wondering about the unusually John Adams-like soundtrack (where one would expect a straight shot of Philip Glass, in a film like this) and it turns out it was composed by official classical phenom Nico Muhly. So that makes sense, being that Muhly draws from both Glass and Adams. On the other hand it's not a particularly good soundtrack.
9 Comments:
Pepe's and Sally's are the two most compelling arguments for continued coal production in the United States that I can think of.
No disrespect to Heath Ledger but I don't think his surfing competition scene in The Dark Knight measures up to Cesar Romero's.
The popularity of Nico Muhly obviates the necessity for a greater prevalence given to critics as cultural gatekeepers.
Copyeditor sense . . . tingling . . .
Nate and I heard Nico Muhly do a show in Portland last summer, and it was excellent. I'm a little wary of the degree of buzz he gets (I think more of his visibility stems from him being plugged into Philip Glass and Björk than might be healthy) but he's writing interesting music.
But doesn't "obviate" sound like "make obvious"?
And he isn't writing interesting music. Seriously.
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