Hello Rocky,

The Academy Awards are coming up.  Which film should win for Best Picture?

Lally Weymouth
Summit, NJ


Rocky Responds:

I'll rank the five nominees for you, Lally:

Fifth Place:  Atonement.   Like Titanic without the iceberg.  Nothing to break up the dreary, star-crossed lovers battles with betrayal, accusations and villains in tuxedos. 

Fourth Place:  Juno.  A perfectly decent comedy that deserves to be ranked among the best movies of the year (although some members of the HelloRocky Team don't even rank it as the best ever Ellen Page movie, remaining somewhat cultish in their admiration for Hard Candy).

Third Place:  Michael Clayton.  Maybe not the champ, but this film is twice as good as last year's winner The Departed.  The more we think about that Scorsese turd the less we like it.  Besides our already mentioned beef with all the cellphones and with everybody acting stupid when it came to figuring out who the moles were, we would like to add how preposterous it was that the same weepy broad was sleeping with both men.  There are enough handsome women in Boston that Leo and Matt don't need to tag team some lonely shrink.  And they could at least have made her lack of morals believable by explaining that she was from Niagara Falls (where the ladies spend more time on their backs than CPR dummies).

Second Place:  No Country for Old Men.  Great movie. 

First Place:  There Will Be Blood.  Great movie.  It's been a couple of months since we've seen these top two pics.  Originally, we would have given the nod to No Country, but images from the powerful Blood continue to flit about our mind's cluttered attic.  Daniel Day-Lewis is limping around up there drinking our milkshake.  For its emotional staying power, we give the nod to There Will Be Blood.