FRANCO!

So blah blah Colin Firth prestige pick blah blah haven't seen it who cares. Because something much bigger is happening.

James Franco's whole deal is that he's both part of the system and outside of it. He's an intellectual, after all. And the go-to reaction of most young, hip intellectuals to the Academy Awards is one big disaffected sneer. WHICH IS WHAT JAMES FRANCO, A CALCULATEDLY HIP INTELELLECTUAL, HAS BEEN DOING THIS ENTIRE NIGHT AS THE HOST OF THE ACADEMY AWARDS. Do you not realize how huge this is? He made a mockery of the whole self-serious enterprise! DID YOU SEE THAT EXAGGERATED SHRUG? THAT SMUG MUGGING (SMUGGING?). He just does not seem to care. At all. I don't know whether that's cool and punk rock or disrespectful and childish.