I saw on the news today that Sigourney Weaver said something to the fact that Kathryn Bigelow only won the oscar because she was a woman and because the academy likes to award small films that no one sees. Fact: Hurt Locker is amazing. I don’t care who directed it, if you forget for a minute who did direct it you can see it’s masterfully put together and well controlled. I don’t care if a kid directed it. Bigelow did a better job creating a cohesive, strong, moving human drama than any of the other directors nominated. Fact: the academy tends not to give the big awards to animated films, or even comedies for that matter. That doesn’t mean Avatar should have won. I’ll say this once – Avatar is crap filmmaking at it’s best. The best of the worst crap out there. Poor dialogue, no story, no real “acting”, it’s basically a cartoon. Way to go Cameron, you have yet again produced another piece of self-indulgent tripe. Fact: Sigourney Weaver doesn’t know good filmmaking, she is after all, an actor – in a James Cameron “film”. Even Jason Reitman knows Bigelow’s win was well-deserved and I usually don’t have good things to say about him but at least he knows a masterful piece of art when he sees it and acknowledges it as such.

I’m glad the Hurt Locker beat out Avatar. Who cares if it’s a small film? Just because a film cost millions of dollars to make and made billions at the box office doesn’t mean it’s a landmark in cinema? It just means people are transfixed by the hype surrounding it and are too stupid to know a genuine film from a genuine piece of crap.

I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.

Happy viewing, and don’t forget to sleep with the light on, and a little garlic by your bedside.