Zeroes, Zeroes, None Of My Salesmen Has Ever Sold A Car.
I honestly, truly believe it’s entirely possible that critics basically wrote their reviews before they even saw this under the assumption that this Katherine Heigl film would be like, well, every other Katherine Heigl film. Still, as I said when this happened to Jack and Jill, getting zero percent is as rare and impressive as getting 100%.
Some Quick Oscar Observations
Oscar nominations are just weird this year. Off the top of my head, I can think of a half dozen movies that deserved Best Picture nominations and didn’t get them and can think of three that wouldn’t deserve to be on that list even if you expanded it to 20 movies. I would, quite seriously, nominate Fast and Furious 5 over The Help, War Horse and Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close.
There are few people in the last ten years who’ve deserved a Best Supporting Actor nomination more than Albert Brooks did in Drive so, naturally, he didn’t get one. On the other hand, Glenn Close got nominated for Albert Nobbs, a situation that caused the world to simultaneously cry out, “What the hell is Albert Nobbs?” My main hobby is seeing and reading about movies and I had never heard of Albert Nobbs.
I’m happy the voters recognized that Cars 2 sucked and didn’t give Pixar a Best Animated Feature even though that category was pretty much invented so they could stop being embarrassed for failing to nominate Pixar films.
And wow, only two original songs rated being nominated in the Best Original Song category. Given that there’s only one song from last year that I can even remember, I predict Man or Muppet from The Muppets will win. It’s kind of nice knowing my chances of being wrong are only 50%. I feel like a weather man.
So, Number 5
I’m sure they’ve learned from past mistakes and that this one won’t be rock stupid. At the very least, I hope Milla Jovovich’s personal trainer gets the recognition he or she she deserves come Oscar time.
BLOCKED
So yeah, MichaelClear.com is blocked for the day. Well, not really. I wasn’t going to post anything today anyway. I’m not sure why I’m doing this. Something about censorship being bad or some shit like that. Have a nice day.
I Almost Forgot I Had A Tumblr
Anyone want to cyber?
Young Adult review
Here’s a link to my latest Examiner.com article, a review of Young Adult.
Whine Whine Whine
I was live tweeting the moment on Saturday when Herman Cain figuratively grabbed the head of the media and forced it into his crotch. For the sake of future historians, I have collected those tweets here.
I will now and always present as the ultimate evidence that Herman Cain is a horrible politician is that he quoted Pokemon in a situation that clearly called for a quote from Dragonball Z. Pokemon. Jesus H. Christ, Pokemon. And this asshole was once taken seriously as a candidate for President.
Questions Imaginary People Have Asked Me — Part 6
How did the show The X-Files end?
Mulder and Scully made it all the way to the final four before Simon Cowell strongly criticized them for being boring and sounding like a lounge act. They got voted off after that.
The Review Amazon Was Afraid to Publish
Amazon refused to publish my five star review of the new novel written by the Kardashian sisters. I notice they had no problem posting all the one star reviews which means Amazon serves the all powerful anti-Kardashian forces that keep the sisters down and prevent them from spreading their message of peace and fashion to the world. However, they do not yet control Tumblr so I can post it here instead. Hopefully, you will read this and discover, as I have, that the greatest novel of all time has now been written and all the other writers may as well fuck off and die.
I laughed at first when I saw that the book was written by the Kardashian sisters but that was before I read it and found myself shedding tears of joy over the beauty of their prose. Every one of their incredible words is like an angel ejaculated on the page. I’m happy now that I never took drugs. If I had, I may have died of an overdose before getting to read the unparalleled literary stylings of the Kardashian sisters. This book is like the Holocaust only completely different. My only problem is that Amazon limits you to just a five star rating. Then again, no number of stars would be enough so I give it infinity+1 stars. This book should forever serve as an inspiration to anyone who ever got videotaped taking it up the ass and being urinated on by a rapper.
Tweeting Dawn
I did an inadvertent live tweet of Breaking Dawn when I saw it this afternoon so I thought I’d collect them all and put them on this page. There are a few general spoilers and one or two very specific spoilers although you should trust me when I say I’m doing you a favor by spoiling it.
I’m off to see that movie about meth dealing vampires called BREAKING BAD DAWN.
And that’s that. I think we call admire the courage of filmmakers willing to take the pro side on the issues of wife beating and baby fucking so I’m sure you’ll all rush out right now to see Breaking Dawn.
I am the mayor of a small, Midwestern town. I've been a mercenary, porn star and lion tamer. I have a wife, Kathy and two kids, Anna and Jeremy. My dad was Steve McQueen and Taylor Lautner is my nephew. None of this is true.