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Thank god Syriana didnt win. The guy put an IKEA in Rockville, MD, my hometown. There is no IKEA in Rockville. Friggin idiot.

But then Crash won. Which is a crappy movie. These two guys are racist, I just know it. You know how? Because according to them, we're all a little bit racist. But I learned that from Avenue Q, the musical that mocked Sesame Street. I don't need it from a hackneyed farce of a movie.

Really, it is a crying shame that the Academy decided to go with a movie that got a lot of buzz as opposed to a movie that was actually well-written, like, say, The Squid and the Whale. I'm kinda wondering if Squid/Whale or Match Point took place in LA if they would have stood a better shot of taking this Oscar down. Paul Haggis is an unsubtle writer who hides behind Important Social Issues and is a great symbol for everything that went wrong with the Oscar nominations this year.

Squid and the Whale was a brilliant movie...I hope Noah Baumbach gets recognized for his future offerings, he'll deserve it.