K was right...

OK...

After assessing There Will Be Blood following my 9th viewing of the film (mind you, the last two were on a screener DVD and not in the theatres... I'm not THAT obsessed) (<-- actually, I am), I think that it's safe to state that H.W. is NOT Daniel Plainview's biological child.

Speak to me to learn the criterion I used to come to this realization.

I thought that it was a testament to DDL's performance that I initially thought that H.W. could be his real son... he's ruthless, but he clearly has good in him and wants to care about his boy.

Also, I saw a deleted camp fire scene featuring Eli, Father Sunday, D.P. and H.W., as well as a stellar interview with DDL on "youtube".  Ahh.... the magic of the internet (says the man typing a stupid, pointless blog)!!!

How eloquent is Daniel Day Lewis?!?!?!

Seriously!!!

The guy gets up to the stage and spits out a paragraph that's so fluid and intellectual that it makes me feel stupid, then proceeds to bring the house down with his heartfelt ode to his wife and family!  He must me one of those individuals who walks into a conversation and you soon find yourself trying to keep up and impress them so that you don't come off a daft, banal simpleton.  

Also note, the last Oscar win for DDL was 19 years ago (1989- My Left Foot), which is damn impressive!!!

George Clooney's Sad Ego

Anyone else catch George Clooney compare himself to Hillary Clinton in a day-before-oscars clever quip?  "I'm the Hillary Clinton of the Oscars," he said, later implying that if D.D.-L. (Obama) wasn't in the running it would be a sure-fire Clooney win for best actor.

What a sad, disillusioned man.

Really, George Clooney is correct in comparing the Best Actor field to the Democratic candidate race, however, he compared himself to the wrong person...

George Clooney is the Christopher Dodd of the Oscars.  

Think about it: If anyone is eminently qualified to be the '2nd-place-Hillary to Obama's (DDL's) certain win, it's Viggo Mortensen (copping a perfect Russian accent and fighting in the nude) or Johnny Depp (singing like a pro and radiating gloom).  Hell!... has anyone seen "In The Valley of Elah"?  Probably T.L.J.'s best role since The Fugitive!  

Chris Dodd, like Clooney, is good in most of the stuff that he does, but his work only occasionally rises to the level of brilliance.  Also, one will often see him in the running for an "award" that he probably doesn't even deserve and in a race where he doesn't belong.

George Clooney needs to check his ego and realize that playing a stressed-out fix-it man that has a lot on his plate (and also happens to look and act a lot like the actor George Clooney) isn't as much of a best actor qualifier as it is a vindication that Academy voters looooove George Clooney (insert kissy/smooching noises here).

really?... a Blog?

Really?.... A Blog? You've started a Blog? That's like a 'web-log', right? So.... now you're one of those people who offers their thoughts and feelings to the world via an online "wall-post"? Really....?
Wow... I'm so cool and hip.  Now everyone can "sign-on"-line and look at what I've been doing lately... my existence feels so vindicated.

Yes... a Blog.

I will quietly judge others from the comfort of my home. I will review movies, plays, concerts, dance, general artistic performances and television programs. Or, as my grandmother says it, "Proggrmms".

PJJC