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I don't mind that The Hurt Locker won for best picture. I liked the movie, even though I would rather have seen Inglourious Basterds or Avatar as winners in that category.

The only thing that pissed me of and sorta ruined the gala for me was that The Hurt Locker won for best screenplay in front of Basterds... Tarantino should have easily won that one.

Oh god yes, the Basterds script was BRILLIANT! I wish I was there so I could jump in during the acceptance speech and pull a Kanye West ("Yo Mark Boal, I'm proud of you and I'ma let you finish but Tarantino won Best Original Screenplay Of All Time, OF ALL TIME!!").

At least Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor. If he didn't, I would've rioted... privately... in my head...

Funny, you've never exactly been the private type when it comes to such things. Why start now?

I am not so thrilled about Bridges, I think he should have won the Oscar for "Big Lebowski". I really wanted the kid from Hurt Locker to win but the academy is all about politics and they don't like young unknown actors.

I won't deny Cameron's achievement in visual effects is impressive, but what matters after all is the contents, and avatar is lacking in that area, it's a fun film but it doesn't have much to offer other than entrainment, which is what Cameron does.

Inglorious Bastards screenplay was genius, but Tarantino always writes the best scripts.

Here.Here! I'll drink a White Russian ta that, Big Lebowski's, one of my favorites I've gotta see Hurt Locker, all my buds keep telling me how bad-ass it is.

Oh, and in more movie news. Corey Haims, gone out in typical fashion of his Hollywood generation, Overdose. You may remember him in such classics as, License to Drive, and, The Lost Boys (one of my favorite movies)

RIP

I've met him. Poor bastard. Cheers.

The Cove
9/10

I can see why this won Best Documentary. It's like no other documentary I've seen since it actually has an adventure story built in. Japanese officials show some animal rights activists a map with X's on it and tell them to not go near the X's. The activist are like, "say, can we keep that map for reference? You know... so we know where not to go?" Japanese officials are like, "sure!" Yeeeahh...

The hero of the documentary is the guy who caught and trained the dolphins for the show Flipper. After one of these dolphins committed suicide in his arms, he realized that dolphins aren't meant for captivity. Since dolphins in aquariums and etc became popular in large part due to the show Flipper, he blamed himself for what the industry has become, and wanted to do something about it.

This is a funny, disturbing, and very good film.

It is funny because there's a lot of little things in it that amuse me. Such as some of the Japanese fishermen or, rather, one guy in particular. The crew lovingly call him Private Space since those are the only 2 English words he knows and likes to shout them as loud as possible. Sadly, Private Space was fired after the documentary came out, but I'm sure he can get a job yelling at people elsewhere and use the movie as his resume.

It is disturbing for obvious reasons: blood and slaughter. There's nothing quite like watching a little school of fish underwater minding their own business freak out, do a 180 and dart away from a cloud of blood in real time. The ending climax almost feels like some horror flick in its gore and brutality, but it is very real, and something everybody needs to know about. This is the world you live in.

The White Band (not sure if it's the English title or not)

It's a new German film that got a lot of good feedback. It's about a small town of farmers in Germany just before WWI, and from what I heard it's supposed to have some relation to the world wars. It's in black and white, has no music soundtrack and is of course in German. Watched it as a school assignment.

The intro has an old voice saying that the film is about a series of strange events in a German village and that it's supposed to explain why the "terrible things" happened in the country afterwards.

The town is pretty poor, and mostly consists of farmers working for a baron who owns (most of?) the area. The storyteller is an school teacher, and a doctor, some farmers, the baron a "manager" for the baron and a priest and all their families are the main focus of the film. Everyone there is very strict, very Christian and the women are strongly suppressed.

Mysterious events take place, like someone setting up a wire trap so that the doctor falls of his horse and gets grievous wounds, a lot of shit happens to a farmer's family (suicide, accidental deaths), the baron's kid gets kidnapped and beat-up, a retarded kid is beat up until he almost looses his sight etc. Pretty much everyone is portrayed negatively; the priest ties one of his sons to his bed at night so he can't masturbate, the doctor molests his daughter, the baron's wife is a adulterous hypochondriac, and the "manager" (provoked) almost beats his son to death.

No suspect is found for all the incidents that happen, but near the end it is implied that the various suppressed and abused children of the village are to blame for all the shit. The mother of the retard goes to get the police in a city, but before there's any conclusion the film ends because the main person suddenly moves away. That whole thing with it ending due to relocation is incongruous with the rest since we see intimate family relations etc outside of the main person's view/knowledge.

The film seemingly implies that because the children were treated like shit they later became the Nazis and started their own shit. This is of course a load of bullshit.
Firstly, how the hell does a bunch of 10-16 year olds somehow unite and keep secret some united plot of harassing the village with murder/torture? Is this supposed to be realistic or is it Children of the Corn?
If the retards mother got the police, how did they get away with it and later presumably became important Nazis?
Is the film implying that every German village around 1912-14 was some hellish place of child abuse? Yeah, blame WWII on some realistically isolated case of half a dozen children instead of ideological, social and economic issues.
If these children were so angry at the whole town and what it represented, how come they presumably became Nazis which has a very similar ideology (women being mothers second to men, idolizing farmers and so forth)?

The film made me wanna stick a hot poker in my gut. The black/white was there for no reason but to be special, the prolonged scenes of abuse with cameras fixing on closed doors was cheap and unoriginal, and the overall thing seemed very garish. Even if it's actually based on truth, the film was very unrealistic, and fails in anyway to explain WWII. The conclusion could be "and that's why a few individuals became fucked up", but "and that's why we have Nazism, because a small number of children from a small village were abused" doesn't fit.

She's also not the type to quote Kanye West. >.>

Well I guess I proved both of you wrong, huh!