Actually, nearly all the movies mentioned in that song are worth seeing and some are true classics: The Day The Earth Stood Still, King Kong, Day of the Triffids, The Invisible Man and Forbidden Planet certainly have merit.  Flash Gordon is also noteworthy, though of course it looks pretty campy nowadays.

It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, Night of the Demon and Dr. X I've never seen.  Maybe I should, just to complete the set. 

Hulk calls The World's End "thematically complex", Mike called it "confused".  Which are the same thing, depending on whether or not you like the movie.

Aaaand McConaughey wins Best Actor at the SAG Awards... the train keeps on a'rollin...

Deadline says if anyone's going to steal the Oscar from Mac, it's diCaprio.  I guess it's possible but I'm not betting that way.

Yeah, it's pretty much a two-horse race for Best Actor between McConaughey and Ejiofor (and there's a sentence that needs more spellcheck than most).   

Dern's there for being in something decent and not being dead yet, Bale and diCaprio are there because if it wasn't them it'd be Hanks or one of the other stalwarts.  So it comes down to the Battle of The Important Topic movies between Slave and Dallas.

Haven't seen Slave yet but I'm sure Ejiofor is great, I have seen Dallas and I know Mac is great.   Personally I give the edge to Matthew for doing the weight-loss thing and playing something outside his normal range: two things that so often work.  Plus the overall "Mac is back!" wave he's riding.   In Academy thinking Ejiofor is comparatively the "new guy", honor just to be nominated etc.   If he's that good, he'll be back, is the conventional wisdom.

So my money's on Mac, but it won't shock me if Ejiofor wins.  It will shock me if it goes to one of the other three.

That does sound familiar, now that you mention it.

I do know that until recently the Oscars were always held on Monday nights, as a "gentleman's agreement" by all the studios.  Because in any given year, any studio might find themselves unhappy that the Oscars overlapped the opening weekend of their release of _____.  But they've let that go and now the Oscars are on Sunday, maybe because of the decline of Oscar ratings in general.

So if there is or was a moratorium on buying trailer ad time during the Oscars, that'd make some sense. The Oscars is the one night a year when Hollywood dresses up and pretends everybody loves each other and is all classy and stuff, I can see them not wanting to let the telecast turn into a pissing match where everyone's trying to get their trailers on the air.

Well, if the "movie that made the most money wins the FX Oscar" rule holds true this year, then congrats in advance to the Iron Man team...     However, Gravity made a pile of cash as well, and has all the buzz, I still think they're in.

Pretty decent year for nominations.  Would have liked All Is Lost to have gotten more love.  And count me among those who doesn't see what's so great about American Hustle (just like I didn't "get" Silver Linings Playbook last year).

It's like the cops always say: there's never a theater employee around when you need one.