Oscars recap : the weird moments,the lame jokes,and a twist of politics?

Hugh Jackman wins the 1st Oscar for the opening number and then it was a nose dive for him, I didn't expect much from him anyway,but he wasn't as bad as i thought he'd be . The only joke i can remember of his very few jokes is the one about not having a joke to tell about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Still no one entertained me better than Chris Rock ,Jon Stewart was close but Chris Rock rox .

Heath Ledger : Won the Oscar for best supporting actor ,his mom ,dad and daughter spoke . But two things grabbed my attention about him, 1st one that the announcer read "and the Oscar goes to Heath Ledger" as if he knew and was disappointed ! that's how it sounded to me ,and then in Queen Latifa's tribute song to the deceased he wasn't mentioned !!! or i didn't see it ?

Penelope Cruz : won the supporting actress Oscar for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona but one wouldn't imagine that being touched and emotional would come out this way from such an amazing actress !! she should've acted touched and emotional ,it was just weird !! oh and she wants us all "to protect art" ! who is stealing art from the world ??

Milk : Won the original screenplay Oscar and Sean Penn won the best actor in a leading role
the writer was about to break in tears both times ,he sent a message to "all the gay and lesbian kids out there" telling them they're beautiful .

Rober Deniro's introduction on Sean Penn was hilarious " how did he do it ? how did he play all those roles of straight men before" .

Wall-E : Won Best animated feature film , in the "movie book" they made on animation movies it was all Wall-E,it was brilliant i loved that movie so much ,was good to see wall-e back .

Kate Winslet : didn't forget Angelina's name this time (she did at the Golden Globe awards), she tapped her shoulder and didn't mention any of her fellow nominees at all .

Zac Efron : needs to learn when to stop clapping !

The lame jokes awards

Goes to : Kunio Kato ,he won the short animated movie category and gave the best speech ever " Oh its heavy!" aren't people bored with this lame lame old old joke alreay ?!?! they have all the time to think of what they're gonna say,and these are creative people for hell's sake !

Lame joke award ,second place goes to the cinematographer of Slum Dog Millionir : "Kids go to sleep" !!!

Another thing to notice this year is the absence of the big Oscar statues ,they're gone ,and presenters presenting 2,3 or in Will Smith's case 12,000 Oscars on a raw .

Slumdog Millionaire beat Benjamin Button's Butt,it won picture of the year (that means the best movie) ,Best adapted screenplay (that means the story,the script,the dialog,which was adapted from an original book or play script),sound mixing ,film editing ,and original score (that means song) ,while The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button won the art of direction (that means the decor ,the sets,the buildings etc...),of course the make up,and visual effects .

NOW the important thing, what pissed me off :

If in the movie Waltz With Bashir (which lost for a Japanese film) ,the movie called what happened in Sabra and Shatella a MASSACRE,why did the academy take the liberty to describe it as " a soldier looks back at his role in a controversial military action"?!?!??!?!?! i have one thing to say about this ,what the fuck !?

Here is a full list of the winners :

Best supporting actress: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best original screenplay: Milk
Best adapted screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Best animated feature film: Wall-E
Best animated short film: La Maison en Petits Cubes
Art direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Costume design: The Duchess
Make-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Best live action short film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Best documentary feature: Man on Wire
Best documentary short subject: Smile Pinki
Visual effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Sound editing: The Dark Knight
Sound mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Film editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Best original score: Slumdog Millionaire
Best original song: Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

So Waltz With Bashir , Israeli Movie about a massacare

Heard of it ? It wont a golden globe the other day ,Its an Israeli movie about an Israeli soldier who lost memories from the Sabra and Shatella massacre and Beirut invasion and tries to revive what happened along the movie , animation movie,really finely done ,the story was fine ,nothing to complain about ,the movie's title (Waltz with Bashir) came from a scene where an Israeli soldier during Beirut invasion after Bashir Jmayel was killed goes into hestiric shooting rampage and appears to be dancing the waltz with Bashir Jmayyel's big poster on a building behind him at that junction . Its a shame that Israelis had made a movie of this quality and credibility about Sabra n Shatella and Arabs didn't ! ... but that's not what this is about exactly .

So i have a new hobby ! making Arabic subtitles for TV series and movies, (The Big Bang Theory,The Office, Movies : Che Part One and Waltz With Bashir) and after the two movies, the biggest Arab translators on-line community (DVD4ARAB) invited me to their website n stuff and turned out the subs are fine and my Public school English teacher should be proud of me.

Here is what I'd like to pick your brains about, some of the comments i received there ,some of the opinions that says we shouldn't watch the movie ,because its an Israeli one ,Qathara (dirt,crap) and a waste of time !! and "Do you really believe the Israelis will make a movie that condemns them?" and such...

The problem is that those people didn't even watch the movie ! I don't understand the idea, I mean we've always seen and heard it,where some kind of boycott to some kind of art took place without even knowing what is it about,but i never understood it .Do you ??

And then here is another question , do you deal with art as art and thats it ? or where it came from matters ? don't think movies only, lets say music,poetry ,would you not listen to something made by an Israeli ? or whoever "the bad guys" to you are ? wouldn't you at least check it out to see what the hell are they talking about ?