The Oscar™'s

I watched the Academy Awards® with some unfounded trepidation. The Academy Awards® are like some kind of asymptotic curve in which the show gets better and better each year that I have watched it, but even after all this continuous improvement, it still pretty much sucks really really badly.

It was a "clean" show (as in, "a clean fight") with no particularly long speeches and no particularly long, horrific dance numbers or memorial montages. But even in its relatively efficient form, it still runs a lengthy 3,5 hours. Clearly, we can do without the musical numbers. There is no sense in performing the soundtrack items. And the "film noir" sequence was the kind that makes you say, "huh?" Even more "huh?"-able was the inclusion of a clip from The Day After Tomorrow in the "memorable moments of impactful films" sequence. That movie was the absolute worst movie I've ever seen on cable, second only to, say, Independence Day.

Anyway, I got to bed at a decent hour (20:30) and didn't throw anything at the television all night. So I think it was "The Best Awards® Ever", at least until next year.