Predict the Best Picture Oscar noms.

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

So, do you think A Matter of Loaf and Death will take best animated short?

 

[Kegg]

I don't think I'm going to bother to see Precious, based on its appearances of being a trite melodrama.

It isn't remotely trite; it's an extremely gritty film. I'd recommend it.

It's both. Trite and gritty, or rather trite grittiness. It would be a better film without the beautiful people, and if it was less saccahrine, but it still could be a helluva lot worse. As I bloviated elsewhere, the strong point is the daughter and the mother and all of their bitterness; the weak link is the frowningly concerned and improbably gorgeous-looking teacher.

The lead performance is pretty solid, though I do tend to wonder if she'll ever be in other movies, and if her performances will be dependent on her being the fat black girl or not (Hollywood being the demense of the thin and pretty.) She's fairly droll in places, which makes one hopeful.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

She's got a different kind of role already in the can.