Because You Asked For It: Oscar Nomination Pre-Coffee Commentary

Without the aid of caffiene or deep REM sleep, here's my shakedown on what did (or didn't) get nominated for the Little Naked Shiny Guy Awards:

*The cuts to the "Man on Street" interviews for the general public's favorite movies of the year is giving some great credence to the idea of mass firebombing.

*I like Franco and Hathaway, but man, I wish they'd bring back Steve Martin or Jon Stewart.

*It is way too fucking early to have to suffer Mo'Nique.

*All in all, a pretty damn great set of nominations, all for pretty damn great films. Nolan not getting a director's nod for Inception pretty much dashes my hopes that it would win Best Picture, but it's hard to argue with who got in there instead. King's Speech got the most nominations, but Social Network's got the early heat. It's going to be one of those two, with True Grit hanging out in the middle, abiding.

Full list and comments after the jump.

On Compulsive Fandom Buying

“Whatever, you know you're going to buy it anyway."

I've heard this phrase reverberate through dozens of articles and discussions about the Star Wars Blu Ray announcement, where to no one's surprise, it was revealed that only the Special Editions of the Original Trilogy would be included on the set, despite pretty much everyone in that fandom spending the last ten years bleating about how badly Lucas seemed to have missed the boat when it came to "upgrading" his films with new (at the time) technology.