Why is Scott Patterson in Saw V?

For the last few days, I've been seeing commericals for Saw V and only yesterday, realized that Scott Patterson was in the movie. I then looked it up on line and found out that he was also in Saw IV. Why is he in this crap? Scott Patterson will always be Luke Danes, the gruff diner owner and love interest of Lorelei Gilmore, on the series Gilmore Girls - Oh, how I miss that show. I loved Patterson on that show, and I liked him on his follow up series Aliens in America, which, unfortunately, was cancelled after only one season. Now he's doing Saw movies? I guess he needed the paycheck. Let's hope better work comes through for him. Speaking of the Saw movies, I don't get them. I saw the first one, and I didn't find it scary at all. It was just gross. A horror movie should scare me. It shouldn't just make me look away in disgust from the gross-out factor. Where are the good horror films! So anyway, here's a list of my top 10 horror films

1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

2. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

3. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)

4. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)

5. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)

6. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)

7. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)

8. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)

9. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)

10. The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)

Apparently the 70s were a good decade for horror.

I Have to Admit...

I think David Arquette is kind of adorable. He was on Pushing Daisies last night playing a creepy character who spent all his free time doing taxidermy, stuffing dead animals and putting them in anthropomorphic poses, but still, the entire time I thought, "Yeah I'd totally do him."

Oscar Predictions

I just thought I'd put in my two cents about where I think the Oscars noms could be going. Buzz rises and falls and things can change quickly, so I'll do new predictions every few weeks until the actual noms come out on January 22nd.

Picture:
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Director:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road
Chris Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus van Sant - Milk

Actor:
Leonardo Dicaprio - Revolutionary Road
Clint Eastwood - Gran Turino
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Actress:
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road

Supporting Actor:
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
James Franco - Milk
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Phillip Seymore Hoffman - Doubt
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Supporting Actress:
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Christina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Debra Winger - Rachel Getting Married
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Adapted Screenplay:
The Curious Case of benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Original Screenplay:
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Vicky Christina Barcelona
WALL-E

Cinematography:
Appaloosa
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Revolutionary Road

Film Editing:
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Milk

Art Direction:
Australia
The Dark Knight
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Costume:
Australia
Changeling
The Duchess
The Other Boleyn Girl
Revolutionary Road

Make Up:
The Dark Knight
The CUrious Case of Benjamin Button
Synechdoche New York

Original Score:
Defiance
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Milk
Revolutionary Road
WALL-E

Sound Mixing:
Australia
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Iron Man
WALL-E

Sound Editing:
The Dark Knight
Defaince
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
WALL-E

Visual Effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Iron Man

Animated Film:
Kung Fu Panda
The Tale of Despereaux
WALL-E

Sunday Night Mad Men

Oh Mad Men, just when I think I know where you're going you completely surprise me. I didn't see the widow of the actual Don Draper coming into play, or the friendship that had develop between Don/Dick and the widow Draper. Also Christina Hendricks - Jane the office manager/secretary - continues to shine with the material she's given, whether she's center stage, as in last night's episode, or just a background character. Give this woman an Emmy!

Sarah Palin on SNL

Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live - Not so good. She seemed kind of uncomfortable, although I guess you would be after having been skewered so badly on the show. Amy Poehler's rap about her was hilarious though. The rest of the show kind of sucked, even with the ever watchable Josh Brolin and Adelle, whose album I must buy now.

Sunday Blessings - Daniel Craig

For this edition of Sunday Blessings, I decided to devote a post to Daniel Craig in honor of the upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace, which opens in the US on November 14th - everyone seems to hate the title, but I actually like it. I enjoyed Casino Royale, so I'm looking forward to the new film, even though it appears the franchise is currently ripping off the Bourne films. If you're going to be steal from other action films, at least you're stealing from good ones. Craig was a welcome edition to the Bond series, providing the character with a fierocity and an overall jolt of life. I was never really a fan of the franchise; althought to be fair, I've never actually seen any of the older films, such as Dr. No, Goldfinger, of From Russia with Love, in their entirety, so it might be that I'd actually enjoy the earlier films of the franchise. The newer films from the eighties up through Die Another Day, however, provided me no incentive for exploring those earlier films. That and the fact that I'm not really a big fan of Sean Connery, who I usually find kind of dull. Daniel Craig is by far the sexiest Bond ever, in my opinion - yes sexier than Connery, hell Timothy Dalton was sexier than Connery, but Craig is also a great actor, which is a welcome improvement to the role, after the bland stylings of Pierce Brosnan. His performance in Casino Royale was actually worthy of an Oscar nomination, and hpefully in the new film he will find greater depth in his character, since it's an actual sequal to Casino Royale, where there are repercusions to the events of the first film. It's actually the first sequal of the franchise, since usually the events occuring in the previous film have no effect on the next film. Getting back to Daniel Craig - he's hot - I mean did you see his body in Casino? The scene where he emerges out of the water in the skimpy bathing suit, just plays over and over again in my head. So on this Sunday let's all think back to that scene, and hope there are sequences in Quantum where Craig is wearing just as little, if not less. Actually Daniel Craig should be shirtless in every scene - that should be a law. Praise Jesus!

Congratulations Leanne

The season finale of Project Runway was last night, and designer Leanne was crowned the winner, which was deserving. A win by Korto would have also made me happy. Leanne's detail work was impecable, with all the waves and the petals, and her wedding dress was to die for. I do understand the judges concerns about her, in regards to her colors and constant use of pleating. She limited her color range to just white, tan and a teal blue, since her inspiration for the collection was water and waves, but I think she could have expanded her color palette by using various shades of blue and gray, maybe incorporate silver and yellow, representing sunlight reflecting off the water. But still, I think her collection provided a specific viewpoint. Kenley's, on the other hand was just a big HUH? I liked some of the pieces she had, but I don't think it was cohesive. The white dress with the painted-on flower sash was too cutesy, and the 40s/80s imspired green uber-bitch dress was just ugly. Plus, I just found her reallyannoying, so I'm glad she didn't win, and I'm still upset over the fact that Terri didn't get to show at Bryant Park. She was probably my favorite designer from the beginning, and the fact that she got thrown out for making one bad outfit, while others (Suede) kept making bad outfits but stayed to the top 5, and got to show at Fashion week is just really annoying.