Oscar Wrap-Up

The ceremony lacked much suspense last night, as it became apparantly rather quickly the The Hurt Locker was the favorite movie in the room.  Its win probalay doesn't mean as much as some of the speculation today would have you believe.  Certainly important is Bigelow becoming the first woman to win Best Director, but the film's small box office isn't much of a story in my eyes.  The movie will find an audience on DVD as it plays like any other action flick.  The night also lacked many surprises as Precious's screenplay win was the biggest shocker of the night, given it was the heaviest of the screenplays, we should've seen that coming.  I couldn't care much less about whether Bullock deserved to win or not, Tilda Swinton not being in the field was enough of a travesty.  Jeff Bridges was great as always and you have to feel for the director of Music by Prudence.  


I liked NPH's opening, but Martin and Baldwin just fell flat.  I also felt bad for the guys of Hurt Locker as it didn't seem like they got any love from their movie's filmmakers.  Glad to see Up have a good night too.  Overall though the show lacked spirit and seemed to be just going through the motions.  Oscar night just seems to be less of an event than it used to be.

Now it's time to wait til next year's ceremony, I havn't even thought about what might win yet, but I'll try to create a preview soon.