I haven’t actually decided if I’ll live blog this year’s Oscars. It’s kind of a tradition on this blog, but this year, I just don’t know.
Every year, I make a point of seeing all the movies nominated and as many of the nominated performances as possible. Actually, this just happens organically throughout the year leading up to the show, but once the nominees are announced, if there’s still something I haven’t seen, I’ll make a point of seeing it. This year, though, I’m completely disconnected from the show.
Here’s why: I saw precisely 2 movies last year. I’m serious. Two movies. And I’m a movie lover, movie goer, but not last year. It just got away from me. I saw Inception, hated it, and I saw Faster, with Dwayne Johnson “The Rock” which I actually really enjoyed. That movie had no fat. None. There’s my review.
But I have no horse in this race. I root for no one. I can’t, legitimately, having seen essentially nothing. Well, okay, I can illegitimately root for Colin Firth because I’ve always loved him, and it feels like it’s just his “time.” Still, I feel like a phony even saying that because I haven’t even seen The King’s Speech. I’m not exaggerating when I say I saw two movies last year. That includes rentals or Netflix. I just wasn’t in that head space.
So if I blog it, I’m blogging from a complete blank. I come to the show with nothing. I have no idea who deserves or doesn’t deserve what. Cue Whitney Houston singing “I Have Nothing” and that’s what’s going on here, pippa.
Bupkis.
Well, actually, not nothing. I still gots me opinions. Never a shortage of those.
If I blog, it will be an evening of willy-nilly, slapdash, baseless opinions.
Which is pretty much standard operation procedure around here, isn’t it?
And now I don’t know why I wrote this post.
Proceed apace, pippa.
And I just picked up my computer to check if you were going to be blogging tonight! I look forward to your comments, even if they are willy-nilly, slapdash, and baseless opinions. Face it, you’re just funny! I’ll check back later to see what you decide.
Right now Twitter is live-blogging the Oscars. SarahK and Lisa (It Binds the Tuna) are blowing it up. I’m also getting celebrity tweeting from Bill Simmons, with bon mots such as: “This Oscars telecast is going to explode the internet. Janet Jackson’s boob should present the next award.”
General consensus so far is that the writing has been awful. That might be something worth blogging!