Movies.

In my opinion, the only award show ever worth watching is The Oscars. In fact, I think it's the only award worth winning in entertainment. I really enjoy movies, and over this past summer, I happened to go to a lot of them (Unfortunately, not enough of the nominated ones). So here are just some of my opinions about The Acadamy Awards and the films that are nominated.

First off, I think the Oscar for Best Actor is going to be the most anticipated award of the night. Just look at the nominees: George Clooney, Daniel Day Lewis, Johnny Depp, Tommy Lee Jones, and Viggo Mortensen. Those are 5 mega-star actors right there. These 5 guys have been the biggest and best names in film over the past ten years and to have all these guys nominated on the same night is incredible. Usually there are one or two no name's to come out of no where to scrounge up a nomination, but not this year, the big guns are coming out.

I'm sorry to say that I actually haven't seen any of the movies these guys are nominated for. I will see There Will Be Blood very soon, and I hear that Daniel Day Lewis is the odds on favorite at this point.

As far as Best Picture goes, the nominees are Juno, No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Atonement, and There Will Be Blood. I will definitely see Juno and ....Blood very soon, definitely before the Oscars, but the only movie that I have seen out of these 5 is No Country. I absolutely loved No Country for Old Men, and I feel that, although There Will Be Blood is going to win, this movie has the best shot of beating the favorite and would be my choice. It has by far, the best ensemble cast, and is just so sharp and well crafted, translated to film almost perfectly from Cormac McCarthey's novel of the same name (which is also spectacular by the way). I also have a thing for Coen Brother's movies.

So it should come to no surprise to anyone that I want Javier Bardem to win Best Supporting Actor for No Country. In fact, if he doesn't win, I might actually take back what I said about the Oscars being the only award show worth watching.

Best Actress.... don't really care. Best Supporting Actress... I guess I'll be rooting for Ruby Dee, in American Gangster.

In directing, I will concede to the fact that I haven't seen most of these movies, and even if I did I would still be rooting for the Coen brothers.


So yeah, there's my in depth look at The Oscars..... maybe I'll update it once I get my act together and actually see these movies...

The Giants would still lose to Tiger Woods

Well, I'm out of excuses.

The Giants won the Superbowl and I am forced to tip my hat to them, as much as it pains me to do it. Yes, there is something seriously fucked up about that, but what are you gonna do.

I hated on The Giants, particularly Eli Manning, for years but last night they played an outstanding game against a completely better team. Eli was good, very close to great, but not quite. He was bailed out a few times thanks to some amazing catches from his recievers, and that touchdown pass to Plaxico was all Plax, let's face it.

Also, Asante Samuel probably should be no where near a TV or computer today or for the next 3 months for that matter. That replay of him missing a game clinching interception has got to be rough to watch. Right through his fingertips, eyes downfield - not on the ball, wow, Eli dodged a bullet there.

But all that being said, the Giants were the better team, last night at least, and for that they deserve to be Super Bowl Champions.

As for me, the Giants winning has completely reinvigorated my Eagles fandom. In some wierd way, I almost feel that the struggle of being an Eagles fan (or Philadephia fan for that matter) is defined so much more by our losing then by anything we can hope to win. Having the Giants win has hit close to home, and seeing Giants fans revel in a Championship only further illustrates to me that being an Eagles/Phillies fan is not easy, and I take pride in that.

If that doesn't make sense to you, I don't blame you.

As for the Supe Bowl itself, that is to say, the product you see on TV, it was for once completly outshined by the game on the field. The real entertainment this year was the actual game of football, which is to say, not always the case. The comericals were good for the most part, and Tom Petty was Tom Petty, but the real winner here is football (the NFL to be exact). It was the most watched Super Bowl in history and it was a great game on top of that. As if the NFL needs any more help in remaining the most popular sport in America.

It's too bad that baseball doesn't have a Superbowl. For myself, it doesn't get much better then the World Series, but I'm a purist and an old school fan at heart. Some how 7 games during weeknights in October for the oldest profesional championship doesn't even come close to comparing to 3 and a half hours on a Sunday night in February. I think that's sad. Baseball has always been my favorite sport, but it seems that the MLB is getting so much negative attention, on top of lame duck playoff games, that it just can't compete with the product that the NFL puts out on the field.

So the NFL season is done, no more fantasy fooball, and for at least the next 2 months, nothing to watch on TV.

Unless you want to watch Tiger Woods win every PGA tournament this year. I'm sorry Patriots, even if you had won the Superbowl and went undefeated, the most dominant team/athlete in the history of sports is Tiger Woods, hands down, end of discussion. He's got an undefeated streak going himself this year.

So here's to The Giants, Tiger Woods, and pitchers and catchers....