Stream of Consciousness

There's not much on my mind. I saw the title "Stream of Consciousness" and immediately thought of the song "Stream of Consciousness" by my favorite band of all time, Dream Theater. It's a very good song, even if it is an instrumental. But other than that, there's not much else making residence in my head. Just the usual stuff, like school and whatnot.

Actually, I do have movies on my mind. This Sunday is the Oscars. In and of itself, there's not much to be ecstatic about, but this year is different than all of the others because this year: 10 movies are battling it out for Best Picture. That's about 6 more movies than any other year that have been nominated for the prestigious award. It's also the first time that an animated movie has been nominated for Best Picture (Pixar's UP, of course) since Beauty and the Beast back in 1991. Even though I really want UP to win, it might be difficult seeing as how so many other great movies were nominated as well. I'm not going to worry about Avatar, The Blind Side, Inglorious Basterds, and Precious, but The Hurt Locker, An Education, Up in the Air, A Serious Man, and District 9 are all serious contenders. UP will of course win Best Animated Picture (it is Pixar after all), but to me that's not enough.

While this year's Oscars will be certainly be entertaining, there are some nominations that leave me wondering: why? Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen already became the secong highest grossing film of the year (right after Avatar), but from what I've heard, it is also one the worst. And yet, it has been nominated for an Academy Award. Even though it is just Sound Mixing, it still pisses me off that such a horrible movie is even getting a nomination. Also, the recent Harry Potter film, The Half-Blood Prince, received a nomination for Best Cinematography, which I think is going a little overboard. While I do enjoy the movies (the books on the other hand, I absolutely love), I don't think this year's iteration was deserving of any awards. But I bet the MTV Movie Awards will say differently. I don't know how I feel about the 4 nominations for Star Trek though. I haven't seen the movie, but from what I've heard, it's actually pretty damn good. But I have to see it to believe it.

From what I've seen, this year's Oscars look to be a fight between Up in the Air, UP, Inglorious Basterds, Avatar, Precious, and The Hurt Locker for most nominations. I can't wait until this Sunday.

Movies are the thing mostly on my mind. With that said, I guess my opening sentence is a lie. There are many a things on my mind, and most of that involve that long American fixation on cinema.