Alright, here’s the thing.

I’m watching the Academy Awards tonight, and so far to be quite honest it’s probably the worst awards show I’ve seen in years. Take Chris Rock, for example. I know Chris Rock can be funny. However, the jokes he has written for him tonight are just not that good. Many of them seem just a bit TOO easy, you know? Sure, you can bash Bush and Hollywood together. Still, haven’t both themes been done to death?

Which kind of leads to my main thought about tonight’s show- it just seems, well… really lazily put together. From the “let’s have awards speeches given in the crowd” motif to the “Beyonce singing three- THREE- songs this year” theme, it seems like the awards show itself was put together to be as effortless as possible, which in this case just does. Not. Work.

Then, they made a mistake by doing the thing where they get all of the nominees up on stage and announce the winner. It seems to reality showlike- or worse, like a beauty pageant. The rest of the nominees just look damned foolish.

Then, there are this year’s winners. Other than “The Incredibles” winning Best Animated Feature (I swear, I thought “Shrek 2″ was going to win it even though “Incredibles” was the better movie), it’s been pretty by the numbers. Take Hilary Swank, right now as I’m typing this. Other than whether or not she was going to thank her husband this year, nothing was mysterious for it. As an aside note, however, if you looked at Annette Bening when Swank’s name was announced, she just had a big “you can ALL go screw yourselves” look on her face when she lost- AGAIN- to Hilary Swank. Hilary Swank has become the Khan to her Captain Kirk. I can picture Anette going home tonight, looking into the air and screaming “SWAAAAAAAANNK!!!”

(On a side note… please, please let women in Hollywood know that they can EAT. It’s disturbing to see backbone on a woman because her SKELETON IS SHOWING THROUGH HER SKIN.)

Many of the awards given tonight seemed to be “Uhm, our bad” awards- meaning that they were given as makeups for previous mistakes. Take Morgan Freeman. He got the award tonight that he really, REALLY should have gotten for “Shawshank Redemption.” Thus, Thomas Haden Church got screwed for “Sideways.”

Oh, and tonight proves once more that Martin Scorcese will never, EVER win. ‘Nuff said.

Many of tonight’s speeches were unmemorable- well, save for Jamie Foxx’s speech for Best Actor. Damned if I didn’t smile at him winning, and his emotional speech was easily the best of the night.

Thus, we come to the personal beef with tonight’s awards. My favorite movie of the past year that is nominated was “Sideways.” So, naturally, it’s been screwed out of winning nearly of the awards it’s been nominated for tonight. Thus, the Academy managed to pull another bad show out of its ass once more.

“Sideways” got fuckin’ robbed, man.

Out.

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