Oscars

This was one of the few years where I haven’t gotten completely hammered by the end of the Oscar show, which is too bad, because it probably would have seemed more entertaining if I had been. I thought Billy Crystal did a decent job as host; he’s a pro at this. Watching the Oscars is better when you’ve seen more nominated movies than I did, I think. I didn’t really have any vested interest in any of the movies. I watched a ton of red carpet coverage, though; thanks to my DVR, I was able to fast forward through the less entertaining parts, which there were actually a lot of. It just wasn’t a very memorable year for me. Next year, I hope to try harder to see all the nominated movies. Hopefully there will be better movies...

This Means War

Last night I saw a screening of This Means War on the Fox lot last night. This is easily one of my favorite movies so far this year! I loved the friendship between Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, and how they competed to win Reece Witherspoon’s affections. Obviously, some of the things that happened like wiretapping her phone and installing bugs in her apartment would, in real life, be problematic, but within with the context of this movie, it was hilarious! I just found the whole movie really enjoyable and fun!

Plus, I (well, my boyfriend) won a goody bag in the raffle before the movie! It was a reusable American Idol bag filled with 4 DVDs, plus a pair of Simpsons pajama pants!

February Birchbox

My new Birchbox came in the mail!! I got:
Benta Berry G-1 Moisturizing Face Cream
Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant
Jouer Luminizing Moisture Tint
Violent Lips Temporary Lip Tattoos
Supersmile Powdered Mouthrinse

The 25 Douchiest Bars in LA

I’ve been to like half of these, even went to one of them last night. I would have to disagree about a lot of this...

Ghost Rider 2

So I definitely liked this movie more than I liked War Horse... what does that say about me?! It wasn’t a perfect movie, either, but at least it was fun! Nicolas Cage got to bring out his crazy to the max, and it worked.

War Horse

I saw another Best Picture contender, War Horse. I was completely underwhelmed. I don’t often say that I didn’t like a movie, but... I didn’t really like this one. I guess it wasn’t a bad movie, exactly, it just wasn’t for me. I couldn’t get into it, and I just didn’t care about what happened to that horse, at all. It felt like I was watching a BBC miniseries or something, not a Best Picture film by Steven Spielberg.

A Stolen Life

I finished reading Jaycee Dugard’s autobiography, A Stolen Life. It was very simply told, and had periodically had breaks in the story where she explained things from her current point of view, post-therapy. It’s both heartbreaking and perplexing that such thing could happen, that a girl could be kidnapped and held hostage for 18 years. The book really justifies why she didn’t try to escape; after all, she was just a little girl when she was taken and her kidnappers filled her young head with fear of leaving and fear of what the outside world was really like.

Valentine's Cake

A cookie cake trumps flowers any day of the week, but especially on Valentine’s Day!

Armageddon

I just finished watching the commentary on my Armageddon Criterion Collection DVD. Ben Affleck is hilarious!! He’s completely irreverent, yet somehow also intellectual. Michael Bay, meanwhile, spends 20 minutes talking about how “unsexy” NASA was. I love the other commentary too, the one with the technical guys. There’s a guy talking about all the things that are inaccurate, like fire in space and stuff.

Someone beat me to it and wrote a list of ‘61 Things We Learned From The Armageddon Commentary’. It’s long but it’s fantastic and worth a read, if you like Armageddon as much as I do.

Man on a Ledge

I saw Man on a Ledge last night. It was a fun movie if you don’t have a fear of heights. If you do, I bet this movie would be kind of hard to watch, like the way I can’t watch The Perfect Storm because I’m afraid of drowning. I like heist-y, action-y kind of movies, so I found this one pretty enjoyable. And I totally loved the ending, which I don’t want to spoil here, but it was kind of cheesy and that’s why I liked it.