John’s Movie Musings

I missed most of the Oscars this year, but from what I did see, things seemed pretty classy. Hugh Jackman looked like he made a great host and I kind of enjoyed the “Let’s Bring Out Famous People to Say Nice Things About the Nominees” sections.

However, I thought mixing in old movie clips into the Best Picture nominees was terribly lame. If these are the best pictures of the year, why do they need the help of past winners? Maybe they were hoping for conversations like: “Milk? What the f- ooh! Braveheart. That was a great movie.”

Anyway, here are the winners:

Heath Ledger, Wall-E, and Man on Wire all won, so all three of my expectations were met. Now I just gotta go see Slumdog Millionaire.