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I love watching the Globes because it's not just movies but also television, so you definitely get the best of both worlds. I did not make specific predictions, but if you've read my previous posts, you know who I want to win. Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, etc. I bet that Boardwalk Empire also wins, because it's amazing. I really hope Aaron Sorkin wins for The Social Network , but don't care if that film wins anything else. You Don't Know Jack should win, but I don't know because it's the only mini-series/made for tv movie I saw. Annette Bening should win for The Kids Are All Right , and definitely Toy Story 3 . If Burlesque wins for something, I'll be very happy. I hope Glee doesn't win anything because I don't like it, but whatever. I know better than that and I'm sure it will win. Alec Baldwin should win, but he's won a bunch already, so I wouldn't be surprised if he loses this year. Best Picture Musical/Comedy will probably ...

I didn't watch the Critic's Choice Awards, because it's usually really boring. Instead, I decided to just look at the winners for a sneak peek at who the Globes winners might be. The Social Network won best picture, which is fine, I guess. It was good or whatever, but I think Black Swan was better. Although, for mass appeal, I think The Social Network was the right one - more people have seen it and it's about something relavent and happening. Whatever. Natalie Portman and Christian Bale won, which makes me extremely happy. The King's Speech won a bunch, and I haven't seen that one yet, but I'm not surprised. Colin Firth is awesome. Toy Story 3 won best animated, and if that goes any differently at the Globes, I will be surprised. The other nominated animated films were good and all, but I don't think any of them kept my attention like that one did. Although, The Princess and the Frog was really good too - but come on, Pixar is the best. Inception ...

I have talked a lot about the pathetic and disappointing movies that have been out this year so far... This is not one of them. Black Swan , starring the amazing Natalie Portman, is amazing. It's creepy and disturbing and visually very interesting and complicated and amazing. I suppose it fits into the category of psychological thriller or something. It's one of those movies you don't even want to say anything about because it's so weird but great. Anyway, I can say that the casting was great - Natalie Portman, that creepy French guy as the choreographer/head of the ballet, Mila Kunis (who you would think would be awful but was great), and whoever played Natalie Portman's mother, she was like mommy dearest it was great. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, so you should just watch it and let it unfold. The hallucinations are the best/worst because they are so shocking (for me, anyway) but really are the best part. Anyway, see this movie. R...

I really like Mark Wahlberg as an actor. Add in Batman (Christian Bale), and it seems like you'd have a pretty good movie on your hands. In general, boxing/wrestling movies seem to do really well ( Million Dollar Baby , Rocky , Cinderella Man , The Wrestler ), but I feel like there have been a lot of those lately. Kind of played out a bit, you know? This film is about Mark Wahlberg (Micky) being trained by his brother, Batman, who used to be a pretty well-known fighter (he fought Sugar Ray) - someone is shooting a documentary about him, and it's assumed at first that it's about him training his brother, but you find out later that it's about crack addiction. First of all, Christian Bale (Dickie) is a creepy looking guy when he's thin - remember The Machinist ? Yikes. But it definitely works for him in this movie, because he plays a guy who was famous and now is, you know, not. I'm just saying though, Batman loses forty pounds and looks like a meth addict. I mean...

Queen Latifah shouldn't sing. Seriously. It doesn't sound good. And she didn't even change that stupid song with funny lyrics - it was just a crappy version of that stupid "light it up like it's dynomite" song. Ugh. Usually I am not interested in watching the People's Choice Awards, but usually they get good performances, so I will be fast-forwarding to that. Wow, Queen Latifah is a really awful emcee too, yikes. And by the way, isn't it crazy how good Jennifer Aniston still looks? And I'm very happy she didn't get scary plastic surgery like Courtney Cox - yikes. Her face is seriously terrifying. Right? Have you seen her lately?

Aaron Sorkin is a genius. I have known that forever, as he wrote amazing things like A Few Good Men and The West Wing . This film was similar to that, especially with the fast talking awesomeness, but the problem was that the story itself was kind of a snooze, not to mention that Jesse Eisenberg is pretty obnoxious and not at all attractive. The story is pretty well-known already because Facebook is wicked popular, so there were no real surprises in the plotline. Overall, it was an okay movie. That's about all. What's interesting is my favorite part about the film was Justin Timberlake. I can't believe I'm saying it, but he's not a terrible actor, and he's really funny. Shocking, I know. The movie was good, but it wasn't as good as everyone said it was - and that's not to say my hopes were too high because they weren't. I like Aaron Sorkin but I thought the cast was dumb before I even saw the movie. It kept my attention, but just barely. The Social N...

This movie was hyped like crazy as one of the best movies this past year and how everyone in it was going to be nominated. I should have known that it would be pretty boring, but of course, I didn't. The story is about lesbian couple Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) raising two kids, the girl from Alice in Wonderland and the boy from Journey to the Center of the Earth . They find their sperm donor, Mark Ruffalo, and chaos ensues. Nic is super threatened and Jules ends up sleeping with him. The movie ends when their daughter leaves for college. First of all, I thought Annette Bening was great, but then again, I always think she's great, so that's nothing new. The story definitely dragged a bit, but there were parts that were funny and interesting, like when Jules told her to watch her drinking because it's day time and Nic said same thing with the micromanaging. Funny. I didn't really like the whole "we live in California and are super hip and lo...