... but Blood was a major misstep. The movie was pretentious, tedious, interminable, bad acting, bad direction ... the only thing that kept me from walking out was DDL.

I'd give Julian Schnabel best director almost any other year, but it's got to go to the Coens this year. There was nothing about No Country I didn't like.

But the Oscars ... meh! After Crash won over Brokeback, I've never been able to take them seriously.