Random, Not at All Collected, Thoughts on the 82nd Academy Awards

* Way to go, Christoph Waltz. To get yourself noticed in a film THAT LOUD, you pretty much rule.

* I'd like to thank the Academy for skipping the terrible medley of nominated songs.

* My friend Drew and I decided yesterday that any film that makes more than $500M (let's say domestic, just to be nice) should immediately be struck from the running. At that point, just stay home and roll around in your piles and piles of money.

* Colin Farrell is in Crazy Heart? As a Country-Western singer? Now I'm TOTALLY not going to see it.

* It's kind of gross that they sat Cameron behind Bigelow. (Though at least they didn't seat him in front of her.)

* Catherine Keener is the new voice of Hyundai?

* BTW, if you have not seen In the Loop, fix that. Now. It is fucking hilarious.

* I kind of wish that they had televised the Governor's Awards rather than this dreck - Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall, together at last.

* Precious was completely overwrought, but featured incredibly strong acting. And now Mo'Nique has an Oscar. This is Eminem all over again - deserving, but if you'd told me a year ago, I would have laughed in your face.

* I'm sad that Colin Firth (the good Colin!) is going to be overlooked this year. He was amazing in A Single Man (which should have been nominated for Production Design and Costume).

* The Academy has cemented its reputation for being stodgy by not realizing that the kids aren't going to watch the Oscars for Taylor Lautner and Zac Efron. That's why the internet was invented.

* Wow, they made a way to make the death montage even worse.

* Why are there lamps? Why is Sam Worthington so attractive? What will finally make Gerard Butler go away?

* UP totally deserved Best Score. That tune is an earworm, but in a good way.

* "Will the first woman win? The first black guy? Or one of these white dudes?"

* Keanu! Why!

* El Secreto de sus Ojos must be REALLY good if it beat out both A Prophet (review tomorrow) and The White Ribbon. (Fun fact - the director of El Secreto has directed SIXTEEN episodes of Law & Order: SVU.)

* I'm not at all a fan of this style of nominee introduction. I believe it is meant to humanize the nominees, but it just feels like a big circle jerk. (Thanks, Lauren!) Also, it goes on FOREVER.

* "He comes from a show business family . . . " DOES ANYONE NOT KNOW WHO JEFF BRIDGES IS?!?! Also, The Dude now has an Oscar. (As well as the award for most uses of the word "man" in an acceptance speech.)

* Meryl Streep always oversells her audience reactions. Borderline Tom Cruise, really.

* Congrats to Sandra Bullock on her Oscar and her Razzie in the same day.

* Eat it Cameron. Go home and roll around on your piles of money.