Join the Misfits for an evening at the Oscars — or anyway in front of a big screen TV, watching the Oscars. All the predictability and tedium of the original three and a half hour show in less than a third of the time. It’s a show Lou enthusiastically describes as “nice.”
Entries Tagged as ‘Industry stuff’
08/25/2009
Why, Oh Why?
Every now and then, the mad geniuses at the Motion Picture Academy drop a little bombshell of an announcement: The 82nd Academy Awards to feature TEN nominees! Ten nominees? Heck. I can barely remember what the top five are every year. Plus, can you imagine how bloated the already over-bloated Oscar ceremony will be with, not five, but ten Best Picture nominees? Oh, good lord, kill me now.
08/19/2009
Bazooka Joe: The Movie? (plus audio rant)
With the announcement of Bazooka Joe: The Movie, it’s become horrifyingly clear that the problem with Hollywood isn’t that it’s run out of ideas. It ran out of ideas a long time ago. The problem is, Hollywood doesn’t even know what an idea is anymore.
Brace youself for a look behind the scenes at what passes for the thought process in Hollywood these days.