I'm sorry...what?

I didn't watch the VMAs last night but this morning I hear that Britney won like three awards. Did she even have videos out this year? That's just wacky.

Instead of hours of MTV shameless self-promotion I watched an incredible movie called The Orphanage. It's a scary movie that has the title of the first and only to make me cry at the end. I highly recommend it. It was kind of a combination of a lot of movies but it really worked. This is what Roger Ebert said about it:

Now here is an excellent example of why it is more frightening to await something than to experience it. "The Orphanage" has every opportunity to descend into routine shock and horror, or even into the pits with the slasher pictures, but it only pulls the trigger a couple of times. The rest is all waiting, anticipating, dreading. We need the genuine jolt that comes about midway, to let us see what the movie is capable of. The rest is fear.

...deliberately aimed at viewers with developed attention spans. It lingers to create atmosphere, a sense of place, a sympathy with the characters, instead of rushing into cheap thrills.