Most Oscar Nominees Aren't Very Good

Recently, the Academy Awards have been pretty accurate. However, this year, they are once again brain-dead. Here are my comments on the nominees:

Benjamin Button: I thought that this movie sucked. It was one of the most BORING movies I have ever seen. It is also probably the worst waste of Brad Pitt's talent that I have ever seen.

The best display of Brad Pitt's talent was in Twelve Monkeys. Benjamin Button is a stupid bore.

Dark Knight: I thought that this movie sucked. As happens so often, it was mostly a display of special effects. The chase scenes were IDIOTIC.

If you want to se a chase scene, see Bullitt. Chase scenes nowadays, as in Terminator III, or Matrix II/III, or Dark Knight, or others, have become totally STUPID. That is because they are not the slightest bit REAL. They are just a pile of bits & bytes collected from a computer. D.U.M.B.

Doubt: Meryl Streep's performance was excellent, as usual. She was immortal in The Devil Wears Prada.

Gran Torino: This was another incredible Clint Eastwood masterpiece. How did this guy go from acting in spaghetti westerns to churning out one masterpiece after another?

Eastwood has balls. His movies deal directly with controversial issues. Million Dollar Baby dealt with female boxing and euthanasia, the Changling dealt with the abuse of the rights of the mentally ill (or those accused of being mentally ill), and Gran Torino deals with the legitimate complaints of red-blooded, hard-working Americans who have been displaced by massive foreign immigration along with lawless gangs.

Nobody else in Hollywood has the balls to touch any of these issues. Most Hollywood movies are brainless crap. "Doubt" was
about the only other movie dealing with any controversy.

Another thing that pisses me off is that Hollywood charges movie theatres too much for movies. In Fort Lauderdale, there are very few theatres that show the best movies. They seen to just about all show the same crap.

There are several important movies on the Oscar Nominee list that have either not viewed in Fort Lauderdale theatres, or else only viewed in one or two out-of-the-way venues. This is because they are too expensive for movie theatres to afford.

A Shockingly UN-GREEN Inauguration

When you think about it, this inauguration is shockingly un-green. Millions of people have transported themselves to D.C., which has required the waste of tens of millions of gallons of gasoline.

What would a GREEN inauguration be? Simple. Obama and the other dignitaries rent a simple auditorium and BROADCAST the whole thing to 3,000,000,000 people. That requires near ZERO gasoline.

How is it worth $150,000,000 and 100,000,000 gallons of gasoline just to get 2,000,000 people to Washington DC, when you can reach 3,000,000,000 people on TV FOR FREE?

Obama can reach 3,000,000,000 people on TV and it costs ZERO gasoline and ZERO taxpayer dollars. That is GREEN.

Additionally, there is a cost savings of perhaps as much as $150,000,000. That is the cost for security, facilities, garbage collection and God knows what else, for this gaudy imitation of Woodstock.

Idiotically, we are supposed to believe that this is a time reflecting that of Abe Lincoln. Gimme a break. This is just an Obama "Illinois" theme. The last time Illinois had a president, and the last time the Cubbies won the World Series, was 1861.

But where is the comparision to Lincoln? An inauguration made sense in the days of Lincoln: There was no TV, no radio, no Internet. Today, with electronic communications, there is no need for some big, stupid, smelly, frost-bitten, collection of losers to be jumping up & down and screaming about how "historic" they are.

What's so historic about Obama? So he's the first half-white, half-black President. Big whoopie. He hasn't done squat yet. It's a bit premature to label Him as the Savior of mankind.

In fact, I am really finding all of this MONSTROUS HYPE to be rather tedious. There are BIG PROBLEMS that Obama should be working on. Instead, precious time is being wasted on this stupid circus of an inauguration.

Like, we get it: Obama is very popular with the great unwashed. Like the Pied Piper, he can command millions of lost souls to come to him at his bidding, even if they have nowhere to stay in freezing D.C., and have to use outdoor port-a-potties.

What idiots. Why not stay home and watch it on TV? I guess I don't understand because I am not an ObaManiac.

But what is the real political significance of all of these crowds of filthy, freezing, ObaManiacs? Will they really have any power? Do we really WANT these sorts of people to have any power?

Personnally, I don't really LIKE people who are willing to stand out in the cold for hours just to be a part of a big CROWD that is cheering for Obama. To me, that is faintly HITLERIAN. Recall the mass rallies of adoring Germans listening to every word of their savior Adolph Hitler.

Hopefully, Obama is not a Hitler, but I personally am leery of crowd-people.