Oscar Rehash, and How I Did on My Predictions

Let's talk about the ceremony, which I didn't find nearly as terrible as most people seemed to. It had its ups and downs, but doesn't it every year? You may remember I made a couple of predictions about how things would go down - let's see how I did.

1. THAT co-hosting was so full of awkward moments that I can't actually count all of them. (Anne Hathaway dances "The Dance of the Brown Duck" (in tap shoes!) while James Franco wears a HORRIFYING body stocking! Franco appears in a...hot pink evening gown and Marilyn Monroe wig! That is a thing that happened.) Add in Anne's hillarible angry song directed at Hugh Jackman and I'm calling this 85% win...but for the lack of real dancing, and no Neil Patrick Harris (WHO SHOULD TOTALLY HOST NEXT YEAR, ACADEMY. TAKE NOTES.)

2. Hathaway wore Valentino on the carpet (maybe because 8 trillion other women were in Marchesa), but went for a total of 7 dress changes. Most of them were actually MUCH better than the Valentino, including a gorgeous gold shag column from Oscar de la Renta. So this one gets a 50% win.

3. NO 127 Hours jokes, AT ALL. I didn't think this was fair, although it may have been because Ben Stiller didn't even come to the show. With all the potshots our hosts took at every other film, though, it did seem like Franco's own film was left out of the fun because of his hosting duties. To which I say: dude was STONED, people. He probably would have laughed, too. 0% win.

4. Hailee Steinfeld did look adorable in her custom fitted Marchesa. I could wax rhapsodic about how much I love this girl, but I'll just say for now that it's ok she didn't win Best Supporting Actress as I look forward to her long and varied movie career (get this girl under contract for The Hunger Games, and do it NOW). I was VERY DISAPPOINT she and The Dude didn't have a red carpet moment (that I saw on E!, anyway). But that's ok, I think they've had those before other shows and they're probably sick of each other by now. Not that Steinfeld would show it, though, because she's SO poised and collected during interviews. 33% win.

5. COLIN FIIIIIIRTH. Helena Bonham Carter's dress looked more like it walked off the set of Sweeney Todd than Alice, and the camera didn't pan to Rush but that was because Firth was too busy being adorable and amazing. There was no bromance shout-out, but I'm tempted to call this a win because of when Firth said he needed to go backstage and dance. 100% win for movies and the world, 33% win for me.

6. I think Andrew Garfield was there? Jesse Eisenberg definitely was, because I asked my family if he had an entire security detail when he arrived on the red carpet. TRENT REZNOR FOR THE WINNNN, I don't CARE how y'all feel about Hans Zimmer (who I love, but seriously, the score for The Social Network was haunting and beautiful and a seamless part of the spectacle onscreen. Reznor deserves this.). I wish we'd gotten that red carpet pose, but oh well. The carpet on the whole was pretty boring. 50% win, because Mara wasn't there and I'm free to speculate that it's because of her Dragon Tattoo getup.

7. 100% win, although this is also 100% lose because my heart really is broken. I just want to watch How To Train Your Dragon over and over and over again.

8. I was honestly shocked that The Wolfman won Best Makeup - usually, when a movie like this gets nominated for something it actually deserves, it loses to the more obvious Oscar bait (I was also surprised by Alice in Wonderland's Art Direction win). It was thrilling to me to see the Academy award truly brilliant work (in the Makeup respect; Wolfman was a good movie, but I would hesitate to call it brilliant). Sadly, Benicio del Toro was not there, lupine-looking or not. 0% win, but a pleasant outcome so I'll take it.

9. Where on Earth was the cast of Inception? Nolan was there, the camera panned to him a couple of times, but I was CHEATED out of Marion Cotillard's dress and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a suit. Which is a TRAGEDY. Inception did win some big awards, though: Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. 0% win for me, but much more win for Inception (and genre film).

10. It's hard to categorize my percentage of win in this case because NO ONE CAME TO THE SHOW. Seriously, I felt like E! was showing me the same 12 people on the red carpet because they had no one else to interview. Four of my predictions for worst dressed didn't even show up, and the fifth (Hilary Swank) looked really, really good in her Marchesa feathered ballgown. Of my five best dressed predictions, only two showed; although Helen Mirren DID look fantastic, and I liked Melissa Leo's dress (although I might be the only one).

Overall I did not do well. But! I had fun watching the show, and now all I want to do is watch movies forever (can The King's Speech come out on DVD now, please?). And really, that's what the Oscars is all about, isn't it?

10 Oscar Predictions!

Not necessarily movie related.

1. Anne Hathaway and James Franco will have no less than five hilariously awkward co-host moments, probably relating to the fact that they're both tremendously beautiful people who aren't used to sharing the limelight. One of these will be a song-and-dance routine, in which Neil Patrick Harris will have a cameo. (Can we please just have him host next year? God, he would be SO GREAT.)

2. Anne Hathaway's dress will be Marchesa on the red carpet, but she will go through at least three costume changes. Probably more - one for every time she's on stage. (I really, really desire this to be true.)

3. There will be at least one 127 Hours joke made, but probably not by Franco. I'm betting on Ben Stiller, who needs something HUGE to top that Na'vi horror show he put on last year. I'm thinking fake blood and a ruined designer suit.

4. Hailee Steinfeld will look adorable, and will win Best Supporting Actress. It will be a fashion victory for all members of the Dakota Fanning School for Starlets. She and Jeff Bridges will probably have an awesome red carpet moment, where he gets to be fatherly and wise and she gets to be endearingly nervous.

5. Colin Firth will win Best Actor. Helena Bonham Carter will not win, but her dress will look like it walked off the set of Alice in Wonderland (which will then win Best Costuming). After his win the camera will pan to Geoffrey Rush, who will then get a shout-out from Firth for their historical bromance.

6. Rooney Mara will not be attending because of her costuming for Dragon Tattoo. Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield will be there, in tremendously adorable slim-cut suits, and (PLEASE GOD) they will pose on the carpet with Trent Reznor (who will then win for Best Original Score, a comprise a replay of what happened when "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" won Best Song for Hustle & Flow).

7. Toy Story 3 will win Best Animated Film and it will break my heart. (Seriously. Pixar must have an entire room for their statuettes by now. How To Train Your Dragon was better, Academy. They were both good, but Dragon was better. Please, please show me that you can be innovative and recognize artistic achievement that's not just a creature of habit. PLEASE.)

8. Benicio del Toro will be in attendance, but The Wolfman will not win Best Makeup (even though it SHOULD, oh my GOD, it was BRILLIANT). He will probably look strikingly like a werewolf.

9. Inception will not win any awards except technical ones, because the Academy has forgotten how to recognize truly brilliant science fiction. Leonardo DiCaprio may not even show up, but Christopher Nolan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will look dapper and gracious and (hopefully) shame the Academy so that they think harder about their Director nominees next year. Marion Cotillard might get a red carpet moment with Nolan, and I hope she wears a dress like that white mermaid thing she wore when she won for La Vie En Rose.

10. The following women will be fashion disasters and I will love every minute of it: Cameron Diaz, Kristen Stewart (if she gets an invite this year - unless she's presenting, she might not even go), Hilary Swank, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Ellen Page (I want her to look awesome SO BAD, but her history is against her). The following women will look AMAZING: Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anna Kendrick, and Melissa Leo.

A Brief Meditation on Iron Man, also: Sucker Punch

As I'm sitting in a Holiday Inn somewhere in Wisconsin, stranded by the blizzard and unable to go anywhere until the snow lets up, I'm watching Iron Man and it occurs to me that a.) I'm due for a post here and b.) the sequel has a neat symmetry to it that hadn't been clear to me until just this moment.

When Obadiah has Tony paralyzed on his sofa, and detaches the arc reactor from his chest and delivers his mandatory "bad guy" speech about his plans to steal the arc reactor technology to take over the world for profit, he looks rapturously at the gently glowing reactor and says "A new generation of weapons...with this at its heart." This line gets a bit lost in the rest of the speech, which is really quite good, but take note of it: it's the entire center plot for the second film.

I have no idea if this was intentional on the part of Jon Favreau, but watching Mickey Rourke create weapons using the arc reactor technology after such an obvious lead-in makes me want to smack my forehead. OF COURSE that's what the sequel was about. With a line like that, how could it have been anything else?

In other news, I saw another trailer spot for Sucker Punch, which reminded me both that I haven't done a Trailer Talk on it yet and that I'm deeply excited about the movie. You may remember when I wrote about this film single-handedly saving Vanessa Hudgens' career, and you know, I still stand by that. But now I just want to watch cute girls in school uniforms downing zeppelins and battling dragons with samurai swords and tommy guns.

SUCKER PUNCH
Dark, gloomy beginning. I like that the eerie, trans-reality moments get introduced early; the eye in the key hole, Emily Browning raking her fingers over the face of her assailant. They're not WEIRD, but the composition is almost ethereal and fairy tale-like.

MAN, the cinematography has Zack Snyder all over it. Not that I mind, it's a good look - but the scene with Babydoll being driven to the sanitarium looks SO MUCH like the funeral scene in Watchmen.

Nice "Alice In Wonderland" look on Babydoll while she scrubs the hallway. Also, I love how waifish this actress is; it makes her stand out so starkly against the institution background and the harshness of her conditions there.

OK, here's where I get lost: Carla Gugino says "What you're imagining right now, you control this world" and then BAM, we're into school uniforms, samurai swords, and a dystopian backdrop. Does everything here on out happen only in the minds of Babydoll and Co.? Is the whole movie actually a LARP that's narrated by these girls?

It doesn't REALLY matter at this point, and frankly I don't want to know. The biggest problem I can foresee with this dilemma, though, is that it paves the way for Ultimate Tragedy in the end: if this all does, actually, only happen in their minds, then at the end they will all still be trapped in this horrible prison with no hope and no future. And that's the kind of ending that would ruin the film for me (I am an endless optimist and I like happy endings).

But! Spacescapes, dramatic jumping, grand temples in the snow. Steampunky military action, combined (awesomely) with medieval trebuchets and flaming catapult ammunition. The girls look like badasses, there are zeppelins, and a wise Zen old guy (everyone needs a wise Zen old guy in their lives).

Ooh, I had not noticed this before, but there's a quick snatch of a scene of the girls pouring over the map they find in the hallways of the institution. So there's at least SOME mix up of reality and sur-reality going on.

The visuals are amazing and will look fantastic on a big screen. I also heard that all the girls do as many of their own stunts as possible, which I think is AWESOME. (Jenna Malone can bench press 300lbs now! Hot damn.) Vanessa Hudgens executes a pretty great vertical downward kick, and I am 100% ready to be blown away by Snyder's first totally original project.

X-Men: First Class, Arthur, Prom

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
Good use of music, nice foreshadowing with the chair. Using footage from the first movies is a good call. Also re-using the mansion, it looks like. Really nice, subtle scenes with the different powers; the woman with insect wings, Mystique, a SUPER young looking Hank McCoy. I missed this the first time around, but I think we get to see Hank's transformation from Big Dude to Big Blue Hairy Guy, which is an interesting side story for them to pursue. James McAvoy has the grace and gentleman-quality to pull of Charles. I did feel like I was supposed to recognize some of the faces, but when they didn't show my powers I couldn't take a guess.

The visuals are great - shiny as befits a science fiction film, but with the retro feel they need since, you know, it takes place in the 60's. There's some great military bits, which feel a little weird, since the first X-Men film treats the political side of the mutant issue as rather new (as I recall). They are flubbing the timeline a little, since Emma Frost gets a moment where she goes all glittery and she doesn't actually get that power until much later in the X-Men timeline, but that's already been cross-wired so many times you won't hear me complain.

Also missed the first time around - NIGHTCRAWLER'S DAD, HOLY SHIT. Are they doing THAT? We see Mystique, and Azazel BAMF-ing around...that would be a little weird, if this movie is supposed to inhabit the same world as the first three films (which has been my assumption, based on my thoughts below).

What I really like about this trailer is that they seem to be constructing it as an honest-to-God prequel, rather than this "reboot" shit people keep tossing around. Charles' mansion looks almost identical to the set in the Trilogy, likewise the chair design and Magneto's helmet (unpainted, which I love) use the same designs. What this also does is gives the story a chance to explore the dynamic between Charles and Eric as the notion was introduced in X3 - that once upon a time, these two great and powerful men were friends, the remnants of which remain in the earlier films.

That relationship between the Professor and Magneto has always deeply intrigued me, and it's part of what makes them both fascinating characters - they're not just good guy/bad guy, they're idealists in their own way and both of their philosophies retain parts of what was originally a communal idea. I'm excited for this film.

ARTHUR
I hate Russell Brand, but I love Helen Mirren. Arthur dresses like a douche. Helen Mirren is a badass. Horrendously predictable, I think. The only wild card is Jennifer Garner as the arranged marriage proposition that Brand desperately hates - I can't tell if he's supposed to meet someone else, or if romance is just not A Thing in this movie. My money is on the latter, since Brand is such a show-horse it's hard for him to share the spotlight. This kind of man-baby comedy drives me CRAZY, I think I will probably miss this one.

It does have one great line: "What was that?" "French kiss." "Really? Because the French always surrender. That was decidedly German."

I don't have a whole lot more to say...it has the potential to surprise, I guess, but honestly? Helen Mirren is the only touch of class in a film that will probably end up being awkward and vulgar.

PROM
The number of cliches in this actually, physically hurt me. You know I would NEVER speak ill of Disney, but...the Rebel and the Class President Who Defy Convention and Fall In Love, the Nerd Who Can't Talk to Girls, The Prom King and Queen (who probably have Secret Problems)...the list goes on. Rebel has to help put prom together or he won't graduate, which infuriates Class President until she realizes he's got a heart of gold. But she wants to go with Oblivious Hottie! Who asked Cheerleader! And then there will be a dress montage. Maybe more than one.

Seriously, it looks like High School Musical crossbred with Lizzie McGuire, which then stole all the boring parts from that Brittany Snow movie about the stalker teacher. I'll probably see it (I do, after all, consider the two Princess Diaries movies to be AWESOME, although the second one might now count because it has Chris Pine in it and I'll literally see anything he's in), but seriously? Can we get some new cliches up in here? Some new high school archetypes? Or, even better, make them people rather than cut-outs?

Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

I know, I promised you guys more Trailer Talk, and I fully intend to deliver. The problem is that I have a day job and night school, and neither are very conducive to watching trailers. So! Movie news that I can report to you whilst in my downtime at the office.

(In a perfect world, I would get paid scads of money to do nothing except watch trailers and gab about them. Alas, that doesn't currently come with health care, and I don't even have dental as it is.)

I read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on the recommendation of a friend, because I had so thoroughly enjoyed Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. (Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters, not so much.) Seth Grahame-Smith did what I didn't think was possible: he made this seemingly ludicrous and hilarious concept a serious, emotionally impacting story. I loved the way it was set up through a mix of historical facts and the fabricated diaries of Lincoln; it was satirical in subject matter but not in tone.

When I heard that it was getting made into a movie, I was excited - I'm usually excited when books I like get made into films (weird, right?) because I love visuals, and honestly, this story was made to be a film (or maybe a mini-series). As one does, I gossiped with the friend that had lent me the book originally about who we wanted to see in the two starring roles: Abe and his vampire mentor, Henry.

I'm convinced that Adrien Brody has spent his film career preparing for this role. We've seen him tackle roles with gravitas successfully, such as in The Pianist, not to mention this and this as well, so we know he'd be able to bring all the weightiness and stature that Lincoln would need to be convincing and effective. But, as anyone who paid good money to see Predators knows, dude can BRING it in the physical arena.

But for me the roles that most convinced me Brody would be perfect here are his turns in The Brothers Bloom and Darjeeling Limited. Both movies are kind of silly, but Brody dead-pans his way through in total seriousness, making them poignant as well as weirdly funny. I don't think Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter can succeed if it doesn't give us a LITTLE tongue-in-cheek, and I think Brody could have balanced that with deadly believability.

In the roll of Henry, the vampire that takes over Abe's education and mentors him through slayer-dom, well, who better than Johnny Depp? However tiresome I may find his current cash cow, the way he handles even his sillier roles, like in Benny & Joon and Sleepy Hollow, with deftness and sympathy that would have made Henry believable as a sympathetic monster-type. And his flamboyancy in said cash cow just demonstrates that Depp's Henry would still retain that vampire nobility and libertine attitude that many ascribe to them.

As movie news has revealed, both my choices were denied. Instead of Brody and Depp we're getting this guy and this guy, who do not exactly fill me with joy. You know what does, though? The fact that Timur Bekmambetov is directing.

No, I don't care how you felt about Wanted, or its infamous in-production sequel. This dude directed Night Watch, one of the best gritty supernatural noir pieces to be made in the last ten years. There are vampires, and great fight scenes, and the whole thing is darkly, eerily, beautiful. If you watch it (AND YOU SHOULD), please please PLEASE watch the subtitled version; Bekmambetov plays with the actual subtitles to reflect how a certain person talks is incorporated into the world. It's inspired.

Super Bowl Trailer Spots

This was actually a lot more work than I thought it was going to be - I wanted it to be my straight-up first impressions, so I haven't re-watched any of these. In the future when I'm watching them off the Apple site, my analysis will probably end up being more in-depth (not to mention more accurate) than these, because I wrote these up quick while I could still remember everything I'd just seen. And these were definitely teaser spots, nothing more than about 30 seconds of footage. But they were super fun, so this will definitely become a regular feature.

Trailers!

COWBOYS & ALIENS
Initial impressions: GUN TWIRLING, flashy lights, explosions. Naked Olivia WIlde (in some kind of ritual? Whut), dusty deserts, golden text. Teal and orange color palate (as per usual now, it seems), torches, FIRE EVERYWHERE. Peeks of the tech, nothing overwhelming, but a good taste.

Let me tell you why I'm excited about this movie: the wild west is the perfect backdrop for science fiction. It's stark, alien, Mars-like in its scenery; the technological bits and pieces we get to see in this trailer (Craig's wrist cuff, that weird centipede craft, the hovering blue lights) seem to fit right into the orange and reds and scruffy landscape. It's a great opportunity to combine futuristic elements with a gun-slinging story. And almost no one gets it right. Jonah Hex was a TERRIBLE movie, that Will Smith thing (link insert here) was only ok. Firefly is wonderful, or course, but its visual Western aspects aren't consistently present. But this film? This film has promise (italics). Great cast, great effects (from what we've seen), and a director that knows his way around explosions. Sign me up.

CAPTAIN AMERICA
Fucking amazing. The perfect opening teaser - we see Steve Rogers start as a skinny little shit and get pumped full of drugs, he comes out of this weird pod all ripped up and disoriented. One or two WWII boot camp shots, and then BAM! The Captain in full uniform in front of a column of American soldiers. We get his shield as unpainted and shining plate, full color and perfect, and then bullet-pocked and worn. One shot of stealth jet, which tells me they're not staying in WWII time - I THINK Red Skull is the main villain, so maybe they'll take us to the present at the very end? I heard a rumor that they're doing the "frozen in ice" thing to take Rogers to the present.

I was never a Captain fan as a comic reading kid, but this trailer has me PUMPED. Chris Evans definitely looks the part, and it looks like they've captured the spirit and costuming without getting kitschy. I can't wait.

TRANSFORMERS 3: Dark of the Moon
EPIC. Slow mo action, Wacker Drive, NO MEGAN FOX. I LOVE that Michael Bay has slowed the Transformer fights so that I can actually see what's happening - fights are so much better when they're being staged by giant robots. Lots of slow motion leaping on the part of the robots, no transforming sequences which was kinda sad, but it was only about 20 seconds of film.

Honestly? I'm obviously excited about this, since I can't put into words how much loved the first one, but the second disappointed me. It had all the glitz and none of the elegance of composition of the first one. If Bay can reign it in a little, restrain his natural inclination for explosions enough to let the charm of the robots shine through (and you're lying to me if you tell me you don't think Optimus and Bumblebee are charming), then it could really be a hit.

SUPER 8
Train crash, dirty boys running, flamethrowers, Karl Urban? Panicking, some sort of narration that I couldn't hear because the volume was too low. I honestly had NO IDEA what film this was until the very end credits, which I guess is a good thing?

People who liked Cloverfield are probably excited about this one, I'm really not. I didn't like Cloverfield, I never watched LOST; I loved Star Trek, but it wasn't an Abrams story, so I don't think it counts. Super 8, though, looks like something I'd enjoy (explosions, allusions to aliens, etc.) and I can't really tell why I'm not excited. I don't have any patience for Abrams' SUPREME MYSTERY approach when it comes to trailers, but this actually showed me something, so I don't understand my ambivalence towards the film - maybe it's just how disappointed I was with Cloverfield. We'll see how I feel if they release trailers with more to them.

FAST AND THE FURIOUS 5
More of the same. Fast cars, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel. Apparently in Rio de Janeiro now? Sure, why not. The most noteworthy part of this was that the producers seem to have stolen the footage of the huge Jesus statue in Rio from 2012.

My sources (the internet, my boyfriend) tell me that The Rock will feature in this, but from this trailer you wouldn't know it. A waste, since seeing Diesel and The Rock in the same film is pretty much the biggest draw for me. (I LOVED the first three of these. The fourth was kinda lame.)

THOR
The opening narration by Anthony Hopkins is a nice touch. Hurling hammers, thunder storms, pretty predictable stuff. I think at this point we've all seen the Thor trailer, and there's not much new here. Seeing a quiet interlude between Portman and Helmsworth is nice, because I'm a little surprised every time I remember she's in this movie. Mainly I'm glad for that because it means she won't be Lois Lane in the next Superman flick. I like the roaring monster near the end, although it looks a little too much like a J.J. Abrams creation, and every monster he makes looks the same.

I have no emotional attachment to Thor as a super hero, so all this movie has to do for me to be on board is not be boring. So far it looks like it won't disappoint.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
It's The Johnny Depp Show, obviously. Boats, tropics, Penelope Cruz. Some guy playing Blackbeard, but all I can think of it Geoffrey Rush. More natives, probably cannibals, and one REALLY cool shot of Blackbeard's ship.

I'm tired of this franchise, guys. The first one was SO GOOD, the second two were SO BAD, and I'm not enamored enough with Jack Sparrow to bring myself to care. And this one does not look like it's offering anything new.

RANGO
Man, that baby opossum is ugly. Johnny Depp is somehow more interesting as a gecko than a pirate, they're in a desert, HOLY SHIT MARIACHI OWLS.

The best part of this trailer was the mariachi owl band. And how freaking ugly Depp's gecko's shirt is. I don't have a lot to say about this, I'm much more excited about Rio.

RIO
Speak of the devil! BIRDS EVERYWHERE, candy animation, fun cha cha music. I think Jesse Eisenberg is the voice of the main parrot? I gotta find out what species the animators think he is, because not even hyacinth macaws are THAT blue.

The animation looks gorgeous. It's candy colored, kinda hazy so it looks really dream like. I think it's about a bird escaping from captivity into the rain forest? So there will be lots of colors and a lush landscape for the story to play out in front of. It looks like it could be a really winner for DreamWorks, which is good as it's following How To Train Your Dragon and we all know how I feel about THAT one. HOLY DICKS, this is FOX MOVIES? Shows how much attention I was paying - is it weird that this just makes me MORE excited about it? The idea that Fox Movies might actually have made a good animated film?

(I can't BELIEVE I thought that was DreamWorks. I could have edited this for you to save my pride, but I didn't. SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.)

LIMITLESS
Bradley Cooper is a mess and then he's not, lots of glitzy images, numbers holy shit, I love Robert DeNiro. The signature line seems to be "It puts me 50 moves ahead of you," and I'm really trying to get over how much I don't like Bradley Cooper but it just isn't happening.

It looks shiny with a tremendously predictable plot line. Here's my prediction: Cooper takes the drug, is wildly successful, has a run in with DeNiro, violence happens, Cooper is left in the end without his drug powers but deciding he can lead a better life without them. Or he dies. Actually, if he dies, the film might actually retain an interesting element. Knowing what I do I'm not interested.

Trailer Talk!

Tomorrow I'm going to start a New Thing for this blog: Trailer Talk! I haven't decided yet how frequently I want to do this; the idea is that I'll watch new trailers and talk about how I think the movie will go, how impressed I was with the trailer, anything that strikes me, really. Ideally, I'd like to talk about the newest ones possible, which is why I'm leading off with the premier of the Captain America trailer spot during the Super Bowl.

That's right, I'ma watch football for you guys. Because I love you.

Honestly, if I could do three trailers three times a week, I totally would, because I LOVE trailers. I get to movie theaters super early just so I can watch the trailers. I spend hours at a time on apple.com/trailers. But unfortunately, I have a day job and I'm a student again, so that's too extensive for me right now. Maybe one trailer per entry three times a week? I might be able to do that. I can DEFINITELY commit to at least one every Sunday, in addition to my erratic updates during the week. So yeah, something to look forward to for the future.

Also-also, my sister is currently en route to Australia for study abroad and she's starting a travel blog as soon as she gets there! It's called Lizzie's Adventures in UnderLand (for which I take full naming credit, BTW), and the more readers she gets the more I'll feel validated for pressuring her to put a link to my blog on her page.

Happy Super Bowl Sunday, everyone!