Can Someone Provide Me the Address's to the Members of the Film Academy So I Can Send Them All an IQ Test?

Yes, a complete departure from my usual topics but I love movies so, why not?

Best Picture: True Grit, Black Swan, Inception, The Social Network, The Fighter, Toy Story 3, The King's Speech, The Kids Are All Right, 127 Hours & Winter's Bone (who??).

My prediction for the winner is The King's Speech.  It's Switzerland. Of course anyone with an ounce of deductive reasoning would know full well that Inception should be packing up each and every award and shipping it home to Mom, but the Academy rarely operates off of sheer logic and the responsibility of recognizing great films.  They'll avoid the obvious showdown between The Social Network and Inception (politics vs. creativity) and we all remember what happened last year with Avatar and The Hurt Locker...eccckkkh.   But let's talk about some of the other nominees, shall we? Ahem-let me try to say this calmly...

The Kids Are All Right --???????  Are you KIDDING ME??  Are you kidding me.  Sure, it's an unconventional story; a married lesbian couple raising two kids in some beautiful state (California I'm thinking...wasn't really paying attention) dealing with the normal issues of their kids becoming adults, enduring a marriage relationship that's gone stale and navigating through the awkwardness of reuniting with an estranged father aka sperm donor.  So, help me understand.  Just because it was shot with one of those cameras that makes the picture look grainy & "independent film-ish", made regular references to gay porn and did like many low-budget, indy films tend to do and leave the audience with a list of unresolved issues, it deserves an Oscar nomination??!  And let's not forget, Annette Bening AND Mark Ruffalo both picked up Best Supporting nods!!

Now, if you can sit here, look me dead in the eye, keep a straight face and tell me Annette or Mark's performances were as breathtaking as Amy Adams' or Christian Bale's in The Fighter, Jeremy Renner's in The Town or even Geoffrey Rush's in The King's Speech (and I haven't even seen The King's Speech yet, but Rush delivers standout performances in just about everything he does, so he gets a S/O from me.  Yeah, yeah that's not fair.  Well, life's not fair.) then you just might get the first four words out before I throw a three-legged bar stool in your face.  Legs first.

Let there be no misunderstanding--I LOVE Annette Bening; The American President & American Beauty?!  And I like Mark too; sort of. Um, The Brothers Bloom or Shutter Island...I guess.   But this year wasn't their year.  Without a doubt, Annette had more than one moment of hilarity & heartbreak, but mesmerizing?  Like an Oscar-worthy performance should be?  Sorry, but no.  And concerning Mark...what are your feelings on him replacing Edward Norton as the Hulk??  That'd be a more interesting conversation.

Well, as anyone can see, this subject hits quite a few nerves with me; I couldn't even get to the Best Actor category!  Until tomorrow everyone...