My Oscar Special

So I'm in the middle of watching Changeling and Angelina Jolie somehow garnered an Academy Award nomination. This is the type of performance where the actress is wearing a sign around her neck begging for an academy award nomination all the while not providing a single solitary authentic emotion (also see Charlize Theron in pretty much every movie she's in). The movie itself is also so bad it's baffling.

The situation on which the movie is based is so bizarre, so I'll grant that Clint Eastwood must have had a difficult time coming up with a plausible conspiracy, but I have spent the whole time wondering if it takes place in a different universe in which everyone is completely devoid of logic. The cinematography is good, music is overraught and draws way too much attention to itself. Anyhow, I didn't intend to write a full review but this one deserves a solid:

Anyhow, that's my long way of saying that Angelina Jolie SHOULD NOT be nominated for her academy award. There is no way she deserved it more that Sally Hawkins, it's a tragedy, quite frankly. For that matter, neither did her husband/boyfriend/whatever Brad Pitt. He was the weakest part of Ben Button. There are a few dozen actors that deserved the nomination more and not the least of which is Leo.

The Reader, really? Kate Winslett WAS good, but she is by far the strongest aspect of a moderately weak film. Maybe it's hollywood law that a movie about the holocaust must be nominated no matter how terrible it is. The Boy in the Striped PJs is a much better option should that be the case!

Other problems:
-No Dark Knight nomination for Best Picture? Original Score? Director? Really?
-The Wrestler for Best Song...
-Wall*E for Best Picture...
-Gran Torino for worst acting (that's a category, right?)

Anyhow, enjoy the awards and all of their inevitable mistakes. And so I can finally warrant the warning you must go through to read this, Fuck, shit, damn.