i fear for today’s youth

A little boy just ran up to a poster for the movie “Ted” and said “Whoa! Look at this! The teddy bear has a beer bottle in his hand! I’m totally going to go see this movie!!”

Really child? That’s all you need to see a movie (that’s rated R and you won’t be able to get into by yourself anyway)?

Granted, that’s probably about 20% of the reason why I want to see it. So I don’t know what that says about me. But I’m not an 11 year old boy.

chevy commercials

These 3 commercials took up a month of my life…and it was so much fun.  We got to stay in a haunted hotel in the town where we filmed the parade scene.  But totally didn’t know that it was haunted until after we checked out.  Otherwise I would have gone all Ghost Hunters on that hotel.

i realize that they film glee in los angeles…

…but I am beyond annoyed that for their Senior Ditch Day in tonight’s episode, the majority of their group decided to go to Six Flags.  Yes, there is a Six Flags super close to Los Angeles.  But guess what.  Here’s a picture from the Six Flags website for where their parks are:

I don’t see a Six Flags anywhere in the state of Ohio…where Glee takes place.  I guess they could have driven 5 hours to Six Flags Great America in Chicago.  But that’s not the point.  Also, it looked like they rode on a local bus to the theme park.  Which wouldn’t make sense.

Did the writers do any research?  Did they not realize that the greatest amusement park of all time, the Mecca of amusement parks, resides in the state of Ohio?  Cedar Point is just about 2 hours away from Lima!

I understand that they probably had to say they were going to Six Flags in order for them to shoot there and give them some credit…but this was the perfect show to name check Cedar Point on, and I’m upset that opportunity wasn’t taken.  

6 degrees of separation marathon

Here’s a fun game to play when you have to do busy work on the weekend:

Every movie or TV show you put on to have something playing in the background has to have an actor in it that was in the movie you were watching right before it…a 6 degrees of separation marathon!  The only other rule is, like the normal game, you have to have a movie/TV show to end the marathon.  I came up with this after the second movie I watched today on Netflix, but everything else I watched are movies I own on DVD.  So here’s how my marathon went this weekend:

The Sci-Fi mini-series Tin Man to series 4 of Doctor Who     

Tin Man (2007) - Starring Zooey Deschanel

The New Guy (2002 - Netflix) - Zooey Deschanel & Eliza Dushku

Bring It On (2000) - Eliza Dushku & Kirsten Dunst

Spider-Man (2002) - Kirsten Dunst & J.K. Simmons (side note: totally just realized that Joe “Alcide” Manganiello is Flash Thompson…he is definitely not a believable high school student…even 10 years ago)

Juno (2007) - J.K. Simmons & Michael Cera

Superbad (2007) - Michael Cera & Christopher Mintz-Plasse

How To Train Your Dragon (2010) Christopher Mintz-Plasse & David Tennant  

Doctor Who series 4 (2008) - David Tennant

Now if I had thought about this game before I watched The New Guy so that I could really win the game, it would have gone like this:

Tin Man (2007) - Zooey Deschanel

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) - Zooey Deschanel & Alan Rickman

Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (2005) - Alan Rickman & David Tennant

Doctor Who series 4 (2008) - David Tennant

Either way, this definitely made my busy work go a lot faster, and I got to watch some of my movies and TV shows that I haven’t watched in a while.  And it’s always a good day when all things lead to Doctor Who.

Speaking of which, I just realized I’m 3 degrees from David Tennant.  I met Simon Pegg at a book signing, who was in series 1 of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston, who turned into the 10th Doctor who is David Tennant.  I love playing this game!

well, this is going to be a weird Oscars

First, I have to start with my biggest question: How on earth did Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots get nominated and Steven Spielberg directed, Speilberg and Peter Jackson produced, Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright written, and Golden Globe winner The Adventures of Tintin not get nominated for Best Animated Feature????  What world do we live in?!?!?!

The Best Animated Feature category doesn’t ever get me riled up.  I have no idea what A Cat in Paris or Chico & Rita are so I can’t say anything about them, but The Adventures of Tintin more than deserved to be nominated instead of Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, and Rango.  Especially since it won the Golden Globe for the exact same category.

Now that that’s out of the way, there were only a few huge surprises to me on the nomination list.

For one, why are there only 9 Best Picture nominees?  They couldn’t nominate say Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 to fill that 10th spot?  Speaking of, I am extremely beyond disappointed that Deathly Hallows Part 2 was only nominated for Art Direction, Makeup, and Visual Effects.  It had better win all 3 or I will punch someone in the face.

As for the actual nominees, I’m not going to lie…I’m not really excited about any of the movies.  But that might be because I’ve only seen 2 of them: The Descendants and Midnight in Paris.  Right now, I want Midnight in Paris to win.  I still want to see The Artist and Hugo, but I really don’t want to see any of the other ones.  Yes, I’m sure The Help is amazing.  It just does not appeal to me.  Or Moneyball…or The Tree of Life…or Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.  Does it make me a terrible person?  Not really, but I might be cynical.

I’m actually really surprised that The Tree of Life was nominated for both Best Picture and Best Director.  Only because I haven’t read anything about it since it came out and people were complaining about it and asking for their money back.

The best surprises on the nominees list were that Melissa McCarthy got nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig got nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Bridesmaids.  When does a comedy like that get nominated for an Oscar??  NEVER.  I’m so happy for these women.  They really did something special with this movie and I’m so glad they’re getting the recognition they deserve for it.  Also, Jonah Hill nominated for Best Supporting Actor?  I think that’s great for him.  I haven’t seen the movie, but I’m excited for him.

The biggest snubs I noticed were, besides Harry Potter, Ryan Gosling and Michael Fassbender.  What Ryan Gosling did in Drive should have earned him a nomination, if not the win.  AND he was awesome in Crazy, Stupid, Love and I hear he was great in The Ides of March.  How does he not get a nomination??  And then Michael Fassbender is just amazing.  If George Clooney thanks you in his Golden Globes Best Actor acceptance speech, albeit in a humorous way, you deserve to be nominated.  I’m so mad I didn’t get to see Shame or A Dangerous Method when they were showing right around the corner from me, but just by going off what he did in X-Men First Class this year and in Inglourious Basterds 2-3 years ago, I know he should have been nominated.

Oh, and Steven freaking Spielberg.  How does the king of Hollywood not get a nomination for directing with 2 movies out there?  Again, I thought Tintin was great and War Horse got a Best Picture nod, so you would think he would get a nomination for that at least.  Oh well.

I’m super happy for John Williams getting 2 nominations.  I think he should always win.  I’m also happy that a song from The Muppets got nominated for Best Original Song, even if it wasn’t written by Jason Segel.  Also, I’m happy that Madonna didn’t get nominated for anything because I hated her conceited acceptance speech at the Golden Globes.

I’ll post my predictions at a later time, but right now, the only thing I’m looking forward to about these Oscars is Billy Crystal hosting.