On DVD/Blu-Ray/Why Don't We Have VHS Anymore Today

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I never posted a preliminary review of this when it was in theaters but to say that this movie was fantastic is an understatement. It won the Academy Award for editing and I think it was very well-deserved. Stellar performance given by both Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, who completely transformed herself for the film. It was beautifully made and the kind of movie that I would love to watch over and over again.

The movie gives off an air of not only mystery and suspense, but also a sheer sense of terror. It is, by no means, a horror movie, but by the time that the viewer really figures out what's really going on, (provided they haven't read the book), the subject matter of the film can chill people to the bone. The mystery unravels itself throughout the course of the film and keeps viewers on the edge until the very end. For both the informed viewer and the first-introduction viewer, the movie is a dead ringer of what a thriller should be. Dark, dangerous, frightening, and engaging to the very last scene.

Unfortunately I watched this in a dark room in the dead of night and needless to say I was a wee bit scared to go to bed that night. Lisbeth Salander (Mara) is brilliant in every sense of the word and not the kind of person that you want going after you. Daniel Craig, on the other hand, is a beautiful soul and deserves all the awards for that face of his and can come after me any day that he wants. (Rooney Mara is beautiful too, obviously, but I still wouldn't want her coming after me while she's playing Lisbeth.)

You can buy Dragon Tattoo on DVD and Blu-Ray and probably some amount of stupid digital copy today.

OSCARS. OSCARS. OSCARS.

You know, last night I had seriously considered going here and liveblogging my thoughts on the Oscars, but here's pretty much what my train of thought ended up being:

HUGO!
HUGO!
HUGO!
lol "you go. NO, HUGO!"
Aw, shit, Danny Elfman! Hans Zimmer!
The Artist isn't winning shit.
Oh wait, The Artist won best picture.
Still, it lost in every other category.
OCTAVIA. HELLS TO THE YES.
CHRIS ROCK! "They tell me to say "it's getting dark outside." "IT'S GETTING DARK OUTSIDE. AND THEN THEY GIVE ME A MILLION DOLLARS".
ROBERT. DOWNEY. JR. IS. A. BEAUTIFUL. HUMAN. BEING. ON THE REAL.

Yeah, that's pretty much what my reactions were like. So, if you follow me on Twitter, that's what you got. A lot of caps lock and a lot of me freaking out about Pepper Potts and Tony Stark being on stage and presenting an Oscar together. IT'S LIKE AVENGERS SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE PROMOTIONS. Some things are just too perfect for this world to contain.

On a side note, I don't think I've ever told you guys that my dream is to become an Oscar-winning cinematographer (I was very pleased with Hugo taking the win for that one). I also want to have a Michael Bay-esque budget for a movie and blow a ton of stuff up, just for shits and giggles.

In the way of presenters, I was happy to see Christian Bale, Chris ROCK, Emma Stone (her bit was priceless, she's so cute), and, of course, Robert Downey Jr. and Gwenyth Paltrow. Now, I love me some Bradley Cooper, but what the hell was on his face? I don't understand. I didn't understand. I wish it would go away. ): Also: JLo and Cameron Diaz were TOO cute.

Meryl Streep's acceptance speech was too great. ("Whatever.")

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo won for editing (which I appreciated, that movie was phe-nom-e-nal), and Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects all went to Hugo, which I appreciated. As big a Harry Potter fan as I am, I was happy to see that Hugo won because that movie was great.

You can check out the full list of winners here at Oscars.com. In other news, there's a new Avengers trailer coming out this week and frankly, that's all that matters.