Oscars!!!!

So I don't know about you, but I love awards season! I love watching the awards shows and seeing who will win and what everyone is wearing! I thought the Oscars this year were different then they have been in other years but I found it refreshing.  I thought Hugh Jackman did a great job as host and I loved how the whole thing played out like pre-production, set design, costumes, then on set and post production showing the timeline of the awards given out.  I thought that was very clever and all the sets on the stage were very good as well.  I loved how they introduced the nominees for best supporting actor/actress and best actor/actress with past winners of these awards saying something about each nominee.  I am however glad they did not present every award in this way or the show would have been 10 hours long! 

So overall I enjoyed the Oscars this year. Slumdog Millionaire (predictably) swept the board.  I was so glad Kate Winslet won best actress! Sean Penn won best actor for his role as Harvey Milk in Milk.    Of course Heath Ledger won for best supporting actor for the joker, well deserved and a shame he was not there to bask in his accomplishments.  

So overall I thought it was a good show...but I still can't figure out how Miley Cyrus got invited haha

Genres

So this weeks assignment got me thinking about Genre and how it isn't so classified as we all might think or actually maybe we did know this.  I was thinking about many movies and searching on imdb.com and not one film had just one genre.  They were all classified in many different genres like comdedy, drama, fantasy etc.  

I was watching the film notting hill last night so I decided I would guess what genre it would fall into then look on imdb.com and see if i was right.  I guessed it fell under the romance genre and found that it is also classified as comedy.  So then i spent some time looking up different movies just to see the genres.  I looked up Spiderman (action, crime, sci-fi, thriller) I basically went through my dvd list,  Atonement (drama, mystery, romance, war) Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (drama, romance) stand by me (adventure drama)...just to name a few!

I thought it was interesting that everyone has trouble classifying a film into one genre...it is an impossible task!

The Perfect date Movie

I went to see "He's Just Not That Into You" the other day and I think it is funny first of all how in advertisements for the movie they are saying its the perfect date movie.  A movie called he's just not that into you is the perfect date movie?  Go and see it on Valentines Day! 

But really after watching it I think it is a good date movie, I mean a definite chick flick for sure but I think it gives some real insightful notions of how men and women view dating, exagerated of course but humorous and overall I enjoyed it.  

Anyone who is anyone is in this film: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Scarlett Johansson etc.  But the one person who I thought really stood out was Gennifer Goodwin.  I think this film is really going to help launch her career.  She has been in other things before but is not as famous as the other people in the film but I feel like she was the main character and really carried the film and I thought she was really good.  

If anyone has seen this movie and has any thoughts please share, if you haven't seen it, hey it's the perfect Valentines Day Date Movie! haha

Can't Live Without My Cell Phone

So I was at work yesterday and my manager was complaining about the kids with their cell phones that come into the store and have loud conversations with their friends so everyone can hear.  It is a real pet peeve of hers when someone even comes into the store talking on their cell phone.  You want to stare way clear of her if anyone dares to come up to the counter to check out and is still on their cell phone!  I think it is definitely a generational thing with us younger generations not thinking it is that rude to be on our cell phones in a store, but her ranting and raving yesterday got me thinking how rude is it?

It is a debatable topic to say the least.  She was giving me the old line of "you know ten years ago we didn't even have cell phones and we survived!"  I was thinking "ya how did you survive??!?!??"  My cell phone is sort of a sense of comfort for me and if I leave the house without it I get nervous...what if i break down or run out of gas and I can't call anyone, what do i do?  You are telling me I have to walk to a pay phone?  Do pay phones even exist anymore?? haha

So I was just wondering how rude do you think it is to be on your cell phone in a store?  Or to even be texting in a store while the sales person is trying to ask you if you need help or while you are checking out?  

Keeping Up With the Joneses

So getting away from the Octo-Mom...reading through some other blogs got me thinking about technology and how it is always changing! I was thinking about how much technology has changed and how far it has come in my lifetime...first there was the vhs then the dvd now we have blueray and who knows what else.  Then computers are suddenly small enough that they can fit on a desk and households can have them!  Then the internet gets going and it has just exploded into so many different aspects, wireless, cell phones (internet, gps etc)  Cars can parallel park themselves, going green! we are always evolving and changing!

Can you even imagine a time without the internet? I can remember in 6th grade when i first became aware that i could have a screenname and talk with my friends online! Each night i would wait for my turn on the family desktop haha and then wait another hour for the stupid aol dial up to actually connect me to the internet (ahhh i can still hear those sounds of the dial up) and I thought it was the coolest thing!  I look back on that now having wireless and my very own laptop and think how did i survive without my own computer!  And it really hasn't been that long since I got my own just freshman year of college! 

Also our parents! We have to teach them about all the new technologies! We being the younger generation have a responsibility to keep up with changing technology.   My dad recently got a brand new 16 gb ipod nano for christmas and he had no idea how to use it! So i taught him! They taught me how to tie my shoes and ride a bike.....I teach them how to surf the web, use their ipods, text message on their cell phones, tivo! 

Technology has changed so much in just the last 4 years (facebook is only like 4 years old!) I cannot wait to see what comes out next...flying cars maybe!!??

Octo Mom Does Dateline

So I was watching tv last night and Nadia Suleman the women who just gave birth to octuplets (and already has six other children all under the age of 8) was on dateline.  There was more of her interview with ann curry plus and extra interview done just that day where she was addressing the fact that she lied about how she provides for her children and about the plastic surgery she might of had.  She still seems to me to be living in a fantasy world, she is like obsessed with having children.  She now admits that her family gets food stamps but still no welfare...how can she not be on welfare....she soon will be if she isn't already with 14 children being a single unemployed mom.....what a pickle she has landed herself in.  The only thing she says she is living off right now is food stamps and student loans! I really feel bad for her children.  They interviews some of the children she already has and one of the said she is not excited for these babies because it will make her mom stressed out all the time!  Now I thought the reason she gave for always wanting more and more children was because her children deserved siblings, but the kids never had  say!  

The media has just latched onto this story and won't let it go quite yet.  Other news people like Bill O'Reilly and other have had their say calling this women nuts for bringing 14 lives into this world without being able to support them.  She will end up on welfare and all the citizens of California will be supporting her childen.  NBC was flooded with angry emails from people wanting to know why they were interviewing her and how they better not be paying her for the interview...which they said they did not pay Nadia for the interview which I found surprising.  All these news networks have been flooded with angry emails about how this women is crazy and very irresponsible and she is trying to be Angelina Jolie and she has had plastic surgery etc. Nadia denied she ever had her lips done which is clearly a lie since in the interview we see pictures of her when she was younger having much thinner lips...  my point is I do not know what to make of this woman...and neither does the media!

Media Coverage of the Octuplet Mom

So I find the news medias fascination with that lady who had those eight babies all at one time and already has six kids sort of fascinating myself.  Nadya Suleman is getting a lot of media attention and criticism for her decision to have implanted embryos when she already had six children.  She is unemployed and lives with her mother.  I was watching the interview she did with Ann Curry on the Today show and I find her to be a little (crazy isn't the word) but ya just a little... living in her own world!  They were saying she has a striking resemblance to Angelina Jolie and her lips do look like they have had a few injections (not judging) maybe she wants to be like Angelina Jolie? I don't know! Of course the media is going to make these sorts of accusations about her like she only wants to be famous and is enjoying her 15 minutes of fame.  Her excuse for having so many kids was that all she ever wanted in life was to be a mom and to live for her children, well I think just having once baby makes you a mom?  I understand people have the right to have as many children as they want it is a free country, but I can't help but feel like she is being irresponsible for having so many kids when she clearly cannot afford.  I am sure she got paid a lot to do the interview and she will get money for various other things because lucky for her the media is fascinated by her at the moment.  Who could blame her, she has all those kids to support so smart of her to milk it.  I just don't know about it really, did she just want to be a mom that by accident got all this attention for accidently having to many kids or does she want fame, probably a little bit of both.  Sorry for my little rant but the media fascinates me in this way.