Back From the Dead Well, not really dead. Just distracted.
I was shooting to stay gone a good 6 months straight. That would put me on target for a mid-April return, but a funny thing happened. ...I started getting hits. How, I'll never know, but I got more hits in the past month than I did when I was throwing crap up here twice weekly. And in the upset of the century, somebody clicked on one of the ads. Amazing. The blog's been open three sporadic years, and I've earned exactly 17 cents which Google refuses to pay me.
With results like that it would be unfair to you my public to stay gone the whole 6 months. So without sorting through everything on the shelf that was...hey look, in drafts something from December..
O.K. I'm back. How about something topical? That's right an Oscar preview. There's probably about as many blogs as there are Oscar previews thus I get one too. I'll only do Best Picture because I'm too lazy.

The Departed
Didn't see it. But you know what? If I come across Goodfellas or Casino, I'm tuning in. Same for Taxi Driver depending on where I catch it, and what I've got to do. So Scorcese's got two and a half movies in my heavy replay rotation. That counts for something. Definitely a contender.

Little Miss Sunshine
Didn't see it. I like movies about dysfunctional families. Dysfunctional families are like car wrecks. Glad you're not in it, can't help but look. I tried to go witness protection to get away from my dysfunctional family. So you know, you can't buy your way into witness protection. They reserve it for state's witnesses. ...So there's hope

Letters from Iwo Jima
Didn't see it. You know what else is big on the replays with me? War movies. Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Stalag 17, Apocalypse Now, Platoon and about 10 others I can't think of right now are all big productivity suckers if I find them on. My only hesitation would be , geez Clint could the boxing movie be more depressing?

Babel
Didn't see it. A connect the dots starting with something that happens in the Middle East, right? Didn't this movie come out last year when it was called Syriana ? Speaking of Syriana, I just saw it on HBO. What was the big deal? Why did Clooney get an Oscar for it? It sucked, and he was boring. The guy's amusing when he's acting cool and cracking wise, see Ocean's Whatever. Why'd the Academy go screw things up by sucking up to him, and giving him an Oscar?

The Queen
Didn't see it. How did this movie get made, and who did they think was going to see it? A movie about one of the most boring public figures of the last 100 years? If you cut it down to 15 minutes, and stuck it on the History Channel I'm still not tuning in. You know where there's a movie? A movie about the guy who sold this movie to the people who paid for it to be made. Here's some possible titles for that movie, He Was Full of Crap or I Can't Believe We Bought That or Now We're Broke.

And the Oscar goes to ...The Departed
because I'll probably watch it about 50 times when it comes to the movie channels.
Little Miss Sunshine ? maybe 4 or 5 times on replay, maybe. Truth is on the dysfunctional families, you watch it too much, you start to see your own dysfunction, then it's time to turn away. You're not there for self-help.
Letters, could be. Just not the sure fire replay lock of the Scorcese flick.
Babel, might fall asleep by the end like I did with Syriana.
The Queen, depending on where they place it on the dial, will race by it to get to SportsCenter or Cinemax's NightCap.

So there you go. I'm back.
Now click on my ads.  ¶ 3:23 PM