"let's go rescue the orphaned gears, dude!"

note: the title of today's blog is to be said in the style of woody harrelson from a scanner darkly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HP25bKztE)! :)

overall, pretty happy with the oscar noms this year. i really hope sean penn wins best actor for milk, he was fantastic, but he was the only nominee i saw. heard brad pitt was pretty awesome, though.

i wish the best supporting actor race wasn't so...predictable? i don't know. i mean, i want heath to win, but i think it'd be great if robert won, too. quite the scene-stealer, he is. philip seymour hoffman, and michael shannon i haven't seen, and i really didn't think josh brolin was as amazing as everyone thinks in milk. if anyone should have gotten it, i would've loved emile hirsch. so i guess it's between heath and rdj. i have to watch tropic thunder and the dark knight again.

it's also nice to see iron man get some props for sound editing and visual effects. they really were flawless, at least 99% of the time.

in bruges for best original screenplay is pretty interesting, i guess because i thought it was a pretty low-key movie. a really, really dark comedy, but still wicked clever, so it works.

things that really bother me about the noms:
1. young@heart isn't nominated for best documentary. i loved that movie. again, i haven't seen any of the actual nominees, but some credit for young@heart would have been nice.
2. no best makeup nomination for tropic thunder?! please.
3. two best song nominations for slumdog millionaire. i mean, it looks like a great movie, but two nominations? out of three? i dunno, i feel like bruce's song for the wrestler should've taken a spot, as well.

EDIT: if rdj does in fact win, i would love love love to see this happen:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/board/thread/128415493?d=128415493&p=1#128415493