There was some back-channel talk about the Academy Awards this past week, in which another ScienceBlogger opined that the Oscars were stupid and that we, as Serious Intellectuals, ought to have better things to talk about than a pop-culture award show. I think that’s well over on the “pompous ass” side of things, so here’s an Oscar post, just for spite.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’m somewhat hampered here by, um, not actually having seen many movies this year. In fact, I’ve only seen one of the Best Picture nominees, No Country for Old Men<\/cite>. Which you might think argued for the irrelevance of the award, but in fact, I don’t think I saw five movies in the theater last year. In fact, I can’t think of a third, after No Country for Old Men<\/cite> and The Golden Compass<\/cite>. Was Hot Fuzz<\/cite> last year? I don’t remember…<\/p>\n That said, No Country for Old Men<\/cite> was a fine piece of movie-making, and I wouldn’t object to it winning awards. I’ve liked the Coen Brothers for years, and would be happy enough to see them get some Oscars. And Javier Bardem was really creepy, so I’d be fine with him getting an acting award, too.<\/p>\n Beyond that, though, I have no real opinions. The only predictions I can make with any confidence are: 1) the show will run long, and 2) Jon Stewart will be more amusing than the show deserves. Other than that, I know nothing.<\/p>\n So, consider this an open thread. Who will win? Who should<\/strong> win? What was [insert starlet name<\/i>] thinking when she got dressed? Will there be anything more entertaining than the Go Fug Yourself live-blog of the red carpet shows<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was some back-channel talk about the Academy Awards this past week, in which another ScienceBlogger opined that the Oscars were stupid and that we, as Serious Intellectuals, ought to have better things to talk about than a pop-culture award show. I think that’s well over on the “pompous ass” side of things, so here’s… Continue reading Random Oscar Thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}