Oscars

[lynxreign]

So, I heard Jon Stewart sucked. I heard the whole thing was bland and boring and all the wrong movies won. Is this true? I couldn't be bothered to watch it myself, only tuning in for Charleeze Theron's extra-dress-on-her-shoulder and lots of plush penguins. Honestly, that and Dustin Hoffman's stoned performance are all I saw. That and Mr. Stewart looking like he was thinking "Is it over yet?" with his Desperate Housewives crack.

A sports commentator made the suggestion, and I like it, that instead of traditional oscars we change the selection process to a playoff format. I like the idea. They can be seeded by nominating vote strength. You can do an award show every few days that only takes an hour and drag it out for 3 or 4 weeks! And it'd still be more interesting!

Comments

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

I avoided the whole thing....the only nominated thing I had even seen was "Good Night and Good Luck", which frankly should have swept it's categories because it was amazing. It won nothing. The Oscars are getting as useless as the Grammys.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

I thought Clooney got Best supporting actor or something.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Yes, but for Syriana.

[head58.livejournal.com]

We watched Stewart's opening bit and it was okay. Not terrible and some bits were really really funny, but not consistently funny. like the Daily Show

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

The funniest thing I saw was the one other bit that I saw that I didn't mention above. When a woman who won something (I missed what the award was) thanked the Oscar Lunch committee for seating her next to George Clooney at the lunch. His reaction shot was very amusing.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious. Clooney should host the Oscars, he's already pretty much the king of the room wether he wins anything or not. Oh! I switched to E! for a minute after the show, and they had Clooney in the press room, and someone asked him if he could do a gay story, what would it be? And his answer was something along the lines of "another Batman? That would be my gay thing." Beautiful.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

I thought Jon did a pretty good job, but I'm a little biased when it comes to him. Other than that, eh, there were some good moments. I left the room to go call Zach when one of the nominated song performances, the song from Crash, started the interpretive dance bit.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

There was interpretive dance and I missed it!?

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they kind of always do stuff like that for the song performances, but the stuff going on during that song was just. . .I'm sure it was all a statement of how isolated we are, and how we should all reach out and blah blah, but I saw people in white drapey things sort of birthing other people in white drapey things, and left the room.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

I watched it for the first time ever only because of Jon Stewart. And he was pretty much the only thing worth watching. That was 3 hours of my life I will never get back.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

It always is. Of course, usually it is 4 hours 'cause it runs over. I don't watch 'cause I usually don't care who gets the award. I saw the year Letterman hosted and he was great. I was going to watch for Stewart, but forgot.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I pretty much always watch them, and I tend to kind of like them. Yeah, there's a lot of unnecassary crap and boring parts, but I like the pageantry of it all, and I liked laughing at the weird shoulder bit on Chralize Theron's dress. My roommate and I were wanting to reach out and yank it off every time they showed her.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure it did go 4 hrs- I just went to bed at 11 before it was over.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Fool! That's what DVRs are for. Watch the Stewart the next night and skip the rest!

[wizardru.livejournal.com]

Or watch it the same night, but skip the commercials and really bad music numbers, like I did. :)

Stewart did well, in my opinion. The audience, however, didn't warm to him until later in the show. He had some great one-liners and was clearly trying to behave. Part of the issue is that Stewart works best reacting off of an audience, and the nominees were being very sedate. There were no really awkward moments though, short of the Lauren Bacall thing. Ben Stiller's moment was pretty funny, I thought. George Clooney's acceptance speech was a good one. Some of the show felt very rote, though, and they were very inconsistent, IMHO, in speech length modulation. Nick Park's acceptance speech with the bowties was funny, too.

I thought the french filmmakers accepting for "March of the Penguins" were hard to understand...until the rap group accepting for best song got on stage. Yikes.

[head58.livejournal.com]

You know what will be funny? When someone clicks on this thread thinking there are 200 comments about MOVIES!!!!!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Well, a great many are about movies. Or about actresses and actors.
Did it really hit 200? I'm still replying through the email client.

[crack-city.livejournal.com]

Not yet. 187 before I post this one....

[crack-city.livejournal.com]

At least there isn't an umm-pepper... >.>

[head58.livejournal.com]

200!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

That's simply insane. I don't know that I've ever had a thread go this far before. Are we all really this bored?
And vampyrusgirl and allegedly never even showed up. And I think we chased emilytheslayer away.

Shame I'm not coming up this weekend. I'd love to hear what gailee had to say about the Oscars.

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

damn you!!! I wanted it. :( Got called away to do that silly work thing.

[classicbri.livejournal.com]

I'm putting the 200th comment on this sucka!

Anyway, I thought Jon Stewart was great. People don't realize that he was hosting an awards show whereas on Daily Show, he's the main event.

Robert Altman wins at life!

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Whooo!

I really am looking forward to seeing if he says anything about it on the Daily Show tonight.

He does? Why?

[head58.livejournal.com]

I'm putting the 200th comment on this sucka!

PWNZ0R3D!!!