One for One

Because of our distaste for the whole modern movie-going experience, it would appear we chose to see the right picture in our lone foray to the multiplex. While most people qualified best picture winner “No Country for Old Men” with “that movie directed by the Coen Brothers”, our own tag was “that movie based on the book by Cormac McCarthy”. Though we have not read that specific book, we read his “All the Pretty Horses” and “The Crossing” which is one of the 5 best books we have ever read.

Nice touch having Tom Hanks throw it over to some service men and women in Baghdad introduce the nominees for best short documentary. For a town and industry that is seen as anti-military (thank g#d, they didn't have them introduce the feature length docs where "Taxi to the Dark Side" was the winner), this is a no-brainer - they should do it every year. Hanks has the credibility to not make it appear as pandering.

And what’s the Oscars without the Razzies? Eddie Murphy and Lindsay Lohan were big winners this time around.