The 80th Oscars

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Hosted by Jon Stewart? The hell with him! I have to say I was not impressed or pleased at all, but he did entertain somewhat. The winners were somewhat predicatable, the speeches were too long or too short, the commercials were dumb, and there were points where I was sort of bored because nothing seems to change. It doesn't hurtto jazz it up a little.

I loved Ellen last year. Jon was overall, only okay. It was nice to see Miley Cyrus, Tom Hanks, Forrest Whittacker, Patrick Dempsey, Katherine Heigl, and Nicole Kidman. At least Tom Cruise wasn't there. The whole bee animation was stupid. 80th Oscars and we're running out of steam. Maybe this is all due to the writer's strike, so for that, I try not to be too harsh, but it is what it is.

I'd give a hand to showing the previous Best Picture Winners, including Brokeback Mountain and Forrest Gump. I wish someone would have given a speech about Heath Ledger. No Hugh Jackman was a disappointment, but he's busy filming, so I won't complain anymore. I'll give a hand to Enchanted not winning and Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for winning Best Original Song for Falling Slowly. Best song in the world. And a last hand to that 11 year old girl that sang too.

Bottom Line: The Oscars this year were not fantastic as I wished, but at least they got all the awards out. Preformances for the singing were my favorite with the showings of all the Best Pictures winners. Maybe next year will be better. Didn't care much for the Oscars this year.

Hollywood's Not America-By Ferras

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A song with a lot of truth. It has meaning, if you look past that it is the new "Bad Day" for American Idol. Ferras has a lot of potential and this is his big break to make something of himself. If he continues on this path, I see a bright future for him. It's an American Idol song though, and look where Daniel Powter is. Not anywhere right now, except with more money. So the future for Ferras could also be rocky.

The Bottom Line: Ferras's first single shows good potential to be a great artist. Worth your money definitely.

Jumper-The Movie

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I saw Jumper last Sunday actually, with my boyfriend. I'll say the special effects were pretty good, the acting was okay, the story line was real weak, but it entertained me to see Hayden Christensian as David Rice and not a Star Wars jedi.

All I have to say is that people either totally hated it, or excepted it as what it was. That's for you to decide which category you fall into. I happened to fall in the except it as it was.

Bottom Line: I say it's definitely worth seeing. If you don't focus too much on the plot. It does have a little plot, but I definitely suggest reading the book after seeing the movie before you say it sucked because so far, the book which is different, but has a lot of similarities, explains many things in the movie.