First of all, I just watched SuperSize Me and WOW! The movie is mind-blowing. I absolutely loved it and I now want to be healthier in what I eat! Me! Of course I just had Burger King, so go figure. Anyway, you must rent this movie, it is so good, so interesting, so crazy. McDonalds is crazy, people! The cool thing about the movie is that the guy is totally not a whack-job vegetarian nut, and he's really funny. Yes his girlfriend is a vegan chef, but the guy loves meat. And he even liked some of the stuff at McDonalds. So it's a pretty balanced viewpoint. Obesity is a problem in our country, and what we eat is a big deal. The stuff about school lunches was also an eye-opener. But just rent it ok? And don't forget to hit the deleted scenes and check out "the smoking fry". It will rock your world.
Now to the Oscars. Ugh. It was actually fine for the most part. Normal, I guess. A little boring in parts. A little shmaltzy. Beyonce was horrific. But I'm glad about the winners, for the most part. Jamie Foxx and Cate Blanchett deserved theirs more than anyone. And Charlie Kaufman won for the best movie of the year (in my opinion). Plus Clint is the man, and million dollar baby was worthy I suppose. The only HUGE letdowns were that Martin Scorcese was shut out...again (see Josh Gibbs' blog), and the afore-mentioned SuperSize Me didn't win. Oh well. Time for an abrupt ending to this entry.
Posted by jmmelton at February 28, 2005 02:58 PMCate Blanchett was nominated for her role in The Life Aquatic right?
Posted by: Josh McInnis at March 3, 2005 09:11 PMyou know, i'm ashamed to admit that i didn't even see the life aquatic, so no it wasn't for that. she was katherine hepburn in the aviator and was fantastic.
Posted by: UJ at March 5, 2005 10:23 AMMeltdown-
Sorry I took down that Scorcese post. I'm generally in the habit of cleaning my blog once a month, taking off all the short posts.
You know, the biggest Wes Anderson fans I know of didn't really like The Life Aquatic that much. I went to see it with the Dalbeys and the Stevensons over Christmas, and we all had a very decelerated feeling as we walked out of the theater. Guido is about the only person I know of who really liked it, but even he admitted it had great deficiencies. I think the biggest problem it had was that it didn't "have a lot of heart" like his other movies do. The more I think about Anderson's work, the more I like Tenenbaums and the more I dislike Rushmore. I thought that Anderson might be getting somewhere with Tenenbaums- his characters actually learn a lot of selflessness and humility by the end of the film. The Life Aquatic is pretty cynical all the way through- inundated with characters that don't care about anyone other than themselves. Stylistically I think it's his strongest film, though. The look of it is top notch, and there's more Wes Andersony looking things in it than all his other movies. However, it's pretty stanking low on substance.
Word,
Gibbs
Posted by: Joshua Gibbs at March 5, 2005 11:55 PM