Half in the Bag: The 2016 Oscars

Anyone else get the Guys and Dolls theme stuck in your head?

Gotta say I completely disagree with you guys on The Martian. I thought you were spot on with your complaints about Gravity, with the characters not acting or sounding like astronauts. In contrast, one of my favorite things about The Martian was how Damon's character remained calm and optimistic, and just worked every problem as it came up. It felt authentic to me, and it's how I would hope and expect real astronauts would act. I guess you could say it's more dramatically inert to tell a story that way, but I found it fascinating and frankly kind of uplifting.

One other thing - I rewatched Space Cop last night - seems that Rich Evans has lost a lot of weight since then. Well done, Rich! That's not an easy thing to do!

I can't remember who said it, but they said that it's easier to think of the awards not as being for "the Best" acting (or Sound Design), but "the Most". So, yeah, probably JJL won't win because of *not* saying "Oh, f**********ck!!", because that's less, not more. I also tend to think that Best Picture tends to go to the film that most represents the American Dream (hence Rocky over Taxi Driver / All the President's Men / etc), which puts Steve Jobs right up there in the running, even though it's a dull film about a dull person having dull arguments in dull rooms...

Thanks, guys!

I hope the next outtakes video includes a sing-a-long!