I just watched all the Super­bowl com­mer­cials and decided to post my 3 favorite.
I’m not going to review all of them, sorry Aaron.

#3 Aster­oid by Bud Light, for obvi­ous rea­sons if you watch Lost.

#2 Man’s Last Stand by Dodge, for excel­lent cast­ing and good use of typography.

#1 Parisian Love by Google, because less, as always, is more.

It really doesn’t mat­ter how much money James Cameron’s Avatar makes, from a sto­ry­telling stand­point, it’s got noth­ing on Avatar: The Last Air­ben­der. I’m really hop­ing M. Night doesn’t screw this up, because I love the char­ac­ters and the story is incred­i­ble. I highly sug­gest check­ing out the car­toon before movie hits the­aters in July. Just do a rapid­share search or find a nice tor­rent. Also, this web­site has some free streams. or come by my place and we’ll watch the DVD’s!

Guar­an­teed Steamer

When I read that Chris­t­ian Bale, Javier Bar­dem, Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko had been casted in Ter­rence Malick’s lat­est romance, I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. As much as I like the actors, Malick’s last film, The New World, was a steam­ing turd.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOST SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That got me think­ing, what mat­ters more to me: the direc­tor or the cast?
THE ISLAND IS UNDER WATER??@?!!!!!!
In the case of Be Kind Rewind, I was excited about the direc­tor, Michel Gondry. Unfor­tu­nately the movie ended up being a steam­ing turd.
OMG! Smoke mon­ster wants to go home!!
The last time I got excited over a cast was Pub­lic Ene­mies, star­ring Johnny Depp, Chris­t­ian Bale, and Mar­ion Cotil­lard. They should have called it Pub­lic Ene­mas, because it was a steam­ing turd.
Ricar­dus was a slave on the Black Rock!!!
I guess it’s best if the film has a great cast and a great direc­tor, which looks to be the case for Step Up 3-D.
MUMMY SAYID!????!??!??!???!?!?!?!!???!!!

These are just per­sonal picks, not pre­dic­tions. I would be pleas­antly sur­prised if any of these won. Also– FUCK SANDRA BOLLOCKS

BEST PICTURE: Dis­trict 9
DIRECTING: Quentin Taran­tino — Inglou­ri­ous Bas­terds
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Jeff Bridges — Crazy Heart
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Carey Mul­li­gan — An Edu­ca­tion
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Woody Har­rel­son — The Mes­sen­ger
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mo’Nique — Pre­cious
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: In the Loop
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: A Seri­ous Man
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The White Rib­bon
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Up
ART DIRECTION: Avatar
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince
COSTUME DESIGN: The Imag­i­nar­ium of Doc­tor Par­nas­sus
FILM EDITING: Dis­trict 9
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Food, Inc.
MAKEUP: Star Trek
ORIGINAL SCORE: Up
ORIGINAL SONG: “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” — Crazy Heart
SOUND MIXING: Star Trek
SOUND EDITING: Star Trek
VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: China’s Unnat­ural Dis­as­ter: The Tears of Sichuan Province
ANIMATED SHORT FILM: A Mat­ter of Loaf and Death
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: Instead of Abra­cadabra
A lot of these I chose because I like the title…

I decided not to make pre­dic­tions for Sea­son 6. Instead, I made a list of ten things that won’t sur­prise me, should they happen.

4. Claire — A Claire episode early on in the sea­son, explain­ing her long absence with Christian.

8. Richard — Another flash­back to the Black Rock with Richard as cap­tain or first mate with Mag­nus Hanso.

1. Locke — Will the real John Locke please stand up?

5. Smoke Mon­ster — Man in Black is or con­trols the smoke mon­ster. (Jacob is or con­trols the light monster.)

1. Rules — Some­one explain the rules of the game.

6. Egyp­tians — We see them in a flashback.

2. Arrows With Fire — Who shot Frogurt?

3. More 8 Sided Shapes — Don­key Wheel, Other’s Mark, Dharma Logo…

4. The Tem­ple — The safest place on the island? OR NOT.

2. Dude — Hur­ley says it.

I guess every­thing that isn’t on this list will be a huge sur­prise. Yes, I have watched ABC’s pro­mos, so I did see the tem­ple already.

I just watched the first 5 sea­sons of Lost again, so I feel I’m in a pretty good posi­tion to sum­ma­rize every­thing that’s hap­pened so far:
Let’s see if I can do this bet­ter than Hur­ley.
Oceanic 815 is a plane fly­ing from Syd­ney to LA that crashes on an uncharted island some­where in the pacific. The sur­vivors of the crash soon real­ize that there are oth­ers on the island. The ‘oth­ers’ are led by Ben­jamin Linus, a for­mer mem­ber of the Dharma Ini­tia­tive.

The Dharma Ini­tia­tive is founded in 1970 by sci­en­tists inter­ested in the islands super­nat­ural energy. Some­time in the 1980’s, Ben joins the ‘oth­ers’ and ini­ti­ates a purge against the Dharma Ini­tia­tive (he kills all of them).

Shortly after the crash, the sur­vivors of 815 begin to wit­ness the islands power. A smoke mon­ster flies around scan­ning and killing peo­ple, and sev­eral sur­vivors recover from severe ill­ness: Rose beats can­cer, Jin becomes fer­tile, and Locke walks. Then they find a hatch built by the Dharma Ini­tia­tive and inside it they meet Desmond, who tells them they need to press a but­ton every 108 min­utes to con­tain a leak­ing pocket of super­nat­ural energy caused by an inci­dent back in 1975.

They push the but­ton for a while but then Locke decides to stop. The energy builds up and Desmond has to ini­ti­ate a fail safe mech­a­nism which destroys the hatch and (seem­ingly) buries the problem.

At the same time, Jack, Kate, and Sawyer get kid­napped by the oth­ers and find out that Ben is dying. Jack saves Ben, and they are let free. At some point they find out that the oth­ers are actu­ally being led by a god­like fig­ure named Jacob…
Ok Hur­ley, you win…
Screw it, there’s no way I can explain the rest of the show.

this guy seri­ously needs his own spin-off series.
#1 Hur­ley is arguably the most impor­tant char­ac­ter on the show. He serves as a con­flict medi­a­tor and gives voice to the fans.

• Best Episode: Num­bers (S01E18)
• Best Line: Okay. See, we did crash, but it was on this crazy island. And we waited for res­cue, and there wasn’t any res­cue. And there was a smoke mon­ster, and then there were other peo­ple on the island. We called them the Oth­ers, and they started attack­ing us. And we found some hatches, and there was a but­ton you had to push every 108 min­utes or… well, I was never really clear on that. But… the Oth­ers didn’t have any­thing to do with the hatches. That was the DHARMA Ini­tia­tive. The Oth­ers killed them, and now they’re try­ing to kill us. And then we teamed up with the Oth­ers because some worse peo­ple were com­ing on a freighter. Desmond’s girlfriend’s father sent them to kill us. So we stole their heli­copter and we flew it to their freighter, but it blew up. And we couldn’t go back to the island because it dis­ap­peared, so then we crashed into the ocean, and we floated there for a while until a boat came and picked us up. And by then, there were six of us. That part was true. But the re… But the rest of the peo­ple… who were on the plane? They’re still on that island. (S05E02)

He’s got t0o many good scenes, Alex dying, got milk, don­key wheel…
#2 There’s not much to say about Ben. Basi­cally, if you piss him off, he’ll kill you.

• Best Episode: The Shape of Things to Come (S04E09)
• Best Line: No, John, unfor­tu­nately we don’t have a code for “There’s a man in my closet with a gun to my daughter’s head.” Although we obvi­ously should. (S03E13)

Who is your favorite?

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