I've spent a good deal of this blog discussing movie in a general sort of way, and I've spent the rest of the blog discussing health. Today is a post written damn near at the speed of light. I'm not even taking my fingers off of the typewriter (or keyboard) wichiever term you pref3er. There's bound to be plenty of mistakes as I'm not using my backspace key. Anyway, the point is I'm trying to be as coherent as possible without actually doing much in the way of thinking or effort. I'm pumping this post out like a machine, seeing if I can do it on autopilot, using as little brain power as possible. The first four posts I wrote today were really good, I'm talking absolutely brilliant, some great critiques and thoughts, very clever I even used some puns, not that puns are terribly intellectual, but they do actually require some thought process. This post on the other hand requires no thought process whatsover. I'm not spell checking, editing, or really using many commas except maybe in this very sentence. The one thing I am doing is mentioning health links. Why? Because its my job, yeah I know. Pretty cool. So here they are: Life extension and Master Formula

After blogging about the non-Golden Globes last month, it's only fitting that I blog about The Academy Awards this month. It's funny, I always spend about a month preparing for the awards, trying to watch every nominated movie, brushing up on trivia, fashion, etc. for the big night. Then I usually go to a party and covet my inward superiority for being the most Oscar-literate while we all cheer on our favorites.

However, this year I was involved in other capers. I did end up at a wild party on Oscar night, and the Oscars were showing, but nobody was watching. The party was filled with musicians, and plebeites, and dancers, and epicureans, theater sorts all of them, and no one had a passing interest in the year's best movies save me. And of course, if it isn't live, it's dead, and me and everyone else could care less, so the charm of the Oscar was lost on me this year.

Anyway, about the actual awards, apparently they were predictable as ever this year. The only mild upset was Mary Cotillard beating Julie Christie for best actress, but other than that it was pretty much all preordained by the blogosphere weeks ahead of time.

John Stuart was amusing, by I continue to hold my opinion that he doesn't come close to Billy Crystal. John had a slew of political jokes and mildly irreverant-but-funny favoritism in his citation of the year's picks. But, the funniest moments were when he mocked the Oscars themselves, like his "approval" of the "This-is-how-we-vote-for-the-Oscars" montage, and his tribute to binoculars and periscopes.

All in all, I'm glad the films that won won (with the exception of Juno, boo!), but I hope next year is a bit more exciting of a ceremony.

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The Golden Globes aired last night. Well, not exactly. The big gala didn't happen because of the writer's strike, but I don't think too many people were upset because nobody really takes the Golden Globes Seriously.

As for the actual winners, there were a few surprises and a few shoe-ins, but nothing really mind blowing. No movie swept the awards, and only a few got whitewashed. Juno didn't win anything, which I'm glad for. I thought the movie was funny, but not the funniest movie of the year, and as for plot, it didn't have one.

The thing I noticed about the awards was how so many films and actors deserved to be nominated. The best supporting actor category alone had five stellar performers who all might have grabbed the award on any other year. Same for the supporting actress and leading actor.

But the thing that overjoyed me, was realizing how many of the best picture nominees were truly awe inspiring films. Out of the seven (yeah, seven, ridiculous) nominees for Best Drama, four of the films truly were Best Picture worthy. In any given year there's always a star vehicle that gets nominated and a period piece that is nominated pretty much because that's the norm. But the star vehicles and period pieces this year, are also timeless wonderful films.

So, I am dubbing 2007 an amazing year for movies. The summer blockbusters could have been better, but some of the most emotional and touching films I've seen in years--both feel-good and dreary-as-hell-- came out during the fall and winter season. Below are five of my favorites.

No Country For Old Men: The Coen Brothers best film, and that's saying alot since these guys usually make top quality stuff. Every performance is solid, the tone is spot on dreadful, and the film as a whole is a masterpiece.

There Will Be Blood: Daniel Day Lewis just keeps getting better and better. A wonderful score and a brilliant performance by newcomer Paul Dano make this a beautiful hard and strong character study.

Atonement: Classic. This is what love stories should be. Unrequieted love has never been better, and subtle elegant directing, I cried.

Eastern Promises: I've always enjoyed David Cronenberg for his goretastic twisty films, but the gore takes a back seat to a true, slow suspense in this thriller/romance/gangster/drama.

1408: On the surface, just another ghost movie. But Stephen King's story antics combined with John Cusack's charasma turn a simple horror plot into a surrealistic trip down a horrific rabbit hole. A laughed as much as I scared and I connected with Cusack more than the typical frightened teen in other similar movies. A real sleeper.