Whinging and Baftas
Feb. 9th, 2009 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
r_scribblesUgh. I feel rotten today, with no real reason why - tired, dizzy, nauseas and emotional. Poot. The constant downpour hasn't helped. Neither did the fact that I needed to wrangle with the computer for about an hour this afternoon in order to get the tracks I bought off iTunes onto my non-Apple MP3 player. Stupid fucking 'file protection'. I bought the fucking album, all you're 'protecting' it from is me! Memo to self - never use iTunes again. It's too annoying.
The album in question, BTW, is the Dr Who S4 soundtrack. Just finished watching S4 on LoveFilm and I'm happy to admit I was completely wrong about Donna - she was brilliant, once she's stopped just being Catherine Tate and did some proper actin'. But I really thought that the music made this series - it was so very pretty, especially the Ood's song and that weird backwardsy music in Turn Left. Often helped me ignore that many of the plots were just fucking stupid.
Haven't commented on the Baftas yet - basically, although I really enjoyed Slumdog and thought it was a very good movie, I don't think it was worthy of sweeping the board last night. Frost/Nixon and Milk were better films in my opinion. And I reckon Kate Winslet got the wrong Bafta. She acted circles round Little Leo in Revolutionary Road, whereas I felt that pretty much every aspect of The Reader was just phoning in for a multitude of gongs. As Kate herself said in Extras, 'that's the only way you get an Oscar - play someone who was in the War or a Mental.' She hedges her bets in The Reader and plays both. Glad Noel Clarke won the rising star award, though (I'm still not over Chiwitel Ejiofor losing out in 2006) although I hope that the General Public didn't vote for him just because he's That Bloke Of Dr Who. The bloke's a budding auteur, for the love of Jeff. If only Kidulthood hadn't put the fear of God into me.
Anyhoo, let's see what the Oscars bring! Come on, Frost/Nixon!
The album in question, BTW, is the Dr Who S4 soundtrack. Just finished watching S4 on LoveFilm and I'm happy to admit I was completely wrong about Donna - she was brilliant, once she's stopped just being Catherine Tate and did some proper actin'. But I really thought that the music made this series - it was so very pretty, especially the Ood's song and that weird backwardsy music in Turn Left. Often helped me ignore that many of the plots were just fucking stupid.
Haven't commented on the Baftas yet - basically, although I really enjoyed Slumdog and thought it was a very good movie, I don't think it was worthy of sweeping the board last night. Frost/Nixon and Milk were better films in my opinion. And I reckon Kate Winslet got the wrong Bafta. She acted circles round Little Leo in Revolutionary Road, whereas I felt that pretty much every aspect of The Reader was just phoning in for a multitude of gongs. As Kate herself said in Extras, 'that's the only way you get an Oscar - play someone who was in the War or a Mental.' She hedges her bets in The Reader and plays both. Glad Noel Clarke won the rising star award, though (I'm still not over Chiwitel Ejiofor losing out in 2006) although I hope that the General Public didn't vote for him just because he's That Bloke Of Dr Who. The bloke's a budding auteur, for the love of Jeff. If only Kidulthood hadn't put the fear of God into me.
Anyhoo, let's see what the Oscars bring! Come on, Frost/Nixon!
