I was wrong

My only serious posts have been about movies. And I was dead wrong.

1. The Oscars

In July, I expected a three movie race between the Lovely Bones, Nine, and Invictus. None of the three were nominated. Nine was 2009's Australia. Invictus proved that people didn't fall for the idea that Matt Damon really ended Apartheid. Nobody knows what the Lovely Bones is (the divine pleasure of watching Mark Wahlberg play sensitive). Of the eventual nominees Avatar, An Education, and Inglorious Basterds were mentioned as possiblities, and A Serious Man, Precious, Up In the Air, the Blind Side, and District 9 weren't even mentioned. The eventual winner, the Hurt Locker, didn't get mentioned either. The merit in film blogs is none.

2. Alice in Wonderland

I haven't been more excited about a movie that far in advance in a very long time. I haven't been more disappointed in a movie in a very long time. Possibly one of the most abrasively idiotic screenplays written in years and Johnny Depp gave a bad caricature of a Johnny Depp performance. Even the visuals didn't completely live up to their billing. Burton shot the movie in 2-D yet presented the film in 3-D, and, for the most part, the film is dominated by standard, boring CGI fantasy setpieces.

Predictive film blogging will be gone from The World As We Know It. Be thankful