The 80th annual Academy Awards will be presented Sunday, February 24th at 8PM EST (5PM PST). That’s a good enough excuse for me to bring out another post on movies. I haven’t seen any of the nominees (exept Ratatouille), but I have recently seen Ma and Pa Kettle.

You see, I couldn’t get my kids to sit still for any black-and-white movies til a couple of weeks ago. I was jumping on them for not getting their homework done. I reached over and turned the TV off. Then I said, no, a better idea would be to put it on something I want to watch! So I flipped it to Turner Movie Classics and continued my tirade. There was a Jimmy Cagney movie on, and he was auditioning dancers for a show where they had to dress as cats. The kids were fascinated! It was a breakthrough, just not in their homework habits. So the next time we went to the video store, I looked for old movies and found... nothing but the Ma and Pa Kettle series. I rented the first one (they didn’t have The Egg and I) and they loved it. The ending hinted at a sequel, since Pa won a trip to New York. They were looking forward to seeing that, especially since my two little hillbillies want to move to New York. That happened to be the one the rental store didn’t have. But that’s what eBay is for!



Psycho Potato

The Academy Award nominees, each with a link to more information. This is the time of year I always decide to watch more movies. Than never do.

Oscarology: a system of astrology based on what movie won the Best Picture Oscar for the year you were born. No, I'm not telling which one I am, but I've been told it's pretty accurate.

Old Hoss explains the Oscar nominees.

6 Odd Moments in Oscar History.

Ozoux has links to all the Academy Award nominees for Best Animated Short.

Why 2008 Will Be An Awesome Year For Movies, featuring previews for dozens of them. For me, it comes down to two words: Indiana Jones.

The b3ta Image Challenge was to take a movie and change one letter of the title. Then create the poster. The results: goofy. See them all ranked by vote.

How would you like a batcave in your basement, complete with a bat-theater? A retired naturalist has just that, a complete home theater in her cellar.

Ten (more) Stunning Ultra-Geeky Home Cinemas, each designed around one favorite movie or movie series. Star Trek outnumbers Star Wars 3 to 1 here.

How to rip someone's heart out and rip off their head. For a cinematic special effect, of course. What did you think I meant?

The Ultimate Movie Montage. An impressive homemade compilation.

How many times have you looked for a movie and found “Temporarily Unavailable” instead? Temporarily seems to be quite a popular title, and it’s gotten some good (and bad) reviews. My favorite is “I found this film to be literally unwatchable.” (via b3ta)

Jerry Seinfeld on Movie Theaters

What’s with the age gap hiring policy at most movie theaters? Did you ever notice, they never hire anyone between the ages of fifteen…and eighty, you know what I mean? Like, the girl that sells you the ticket, she’s ten. Then there’s the guy who rips the ticket, he’s a hundred and two. So, what happened in the middle, there? You couldn’t find anybody? It’s like they want to show you how life comes full circle. You’re fifteen, you sell the tickets. Then you leave, you go out, you have a family, kids, marriage, career, grandchildren, eighty years later, you’re back in the same theater three feet away. Ripping tickets. Took you eighty years to move three feet.

Mike’s Madcap Movie Mergers

by Mike Ashley

-1) Gone With The Wind in the Willows
-2) Lilies of the Valley of the Gwangi
-3) Around the World in Eighty Days of Wine and Roses
-4) The Picture of Dorian Gray Lady Down
-5) The Longest Day of the Triffids
-6) Three Coins in the Fountain Head
-7) Ocean's Thirteen Ghosts
-8) Meet Joe Black Hawk Down
-9) I Am Legend of Bagger Vance
10) Map of the World According to Garp
Read the rest of them at It Occured to Me.

Previously at Miss Cellania: Old Movies, Movie Lists, Making Movies, Mars and Venus: Movies, Cinema, and Hollywood.

Thought for today: This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I'd wanted all that computer game bullshit, I'd have stuck my dick in a Nintendo. -Quentin Tarantino

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