RogueScribner wrote:Up had a brilliant first act. Everything else, meh. It did absolutely nothing interesting with its villain.
Fried Gold wrote:Did that seem like a botched ending to anyone else?
It was:
"Please welcome Tom Hanks....Hurt Locker....yhay.....good night everybody...." in the space of two minutes.
Leckomaniac wrote:RogueScribner wrote:Up had a brilliant first act. Everything else, meh. It did absolutely nothing interesting with its villain.
Damn it, Rogue, why must you be such a villain!
You are my Oscars Lex Luthor.
Fried Gold wrote:I think every rational person is in agreement that Moon should've won Best Picture.
Fried Gold wrote:Did that seem like a botched ending to anyone else?
It was:
"Please welcome Tom Hanks....Hurt Locker....yhay.....good night everybody...." in the space of two minutes.
DaleTremont wrote:Fried Gold wrote:Did that seem like a botched ending to anyone else?
It was:
"Please welcome Tom Hanks....Hurt Locker....yhay.....good night everybody...." in the space of two minutes.
For reals that sucked. I know they're trying to keep a schedule but honestly they couldn't have even named the nominees? Even for something as uselessly self-gratifying as the Oscars, I thought that was a little disrespectful. If you don't keep the people sweating in their seats you've taken away the best part of the show!
Also, I'm sad I.B. wasn't recognized, except for Waltz, but I'm happy for Bigelow.
so sorry wrote:DaleTremont wrote:Fried Gold wrote:Did that seem like a botched ending to anyone else?
It was:
"Please welcome Tom Hanks....Hurt Locker....yhay.....good night everybody...." in the space of two minutes.
For reals that sucked. I know they're trying to keep a schedule but honestly they couldn't have even named the nominees? Even for something as uselessly self-gratifying as the Oscars, I thought that was a little disrespectful. If you don't keep the people sweating in their seats you've taken away the best part of the show!
Also, I'm sad I.B. wasn't recognized, except for Waltz, but I'm happy for Bigelow.
They rushed thru what the Academy has deemed the most important award!
Here's a thought, cut out one of the non-essential numbers from earlier on. For example, the rediculous dance number. Waste.Of.Time.
Also, I'm sure it was mentioned earlier, but that tribute to "Horror movies" was terrible. Fucking Beetlejuice and Twilight in the montage???? C'mon. That's just...C'MON!!!
Fried Gold wrote:The mistake they made was announcing the nominees for it throughout the show. That should've been the final 10-15 minutes. Instead, they went big on this character reference thing for each Best Actor nominee. Then just kinda chucked the last couple of awards out there on stage.
Vegeta wrote:The most predictable Academy Awards I can remember.
Did anyone else find the cameras desperately seeking a reaction shot of every black person in the theatre when Jeffrey Fletcher won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for for PRECIOUS to be vaguely racist? Seriously, it was kind of weird... here's a shot of Lenny Kravitz, here's a shot of Morgan Freeman (what did they have to do with Precious beyond having the same skin color of the writer?). I also found the loud speaker announcement that "Could this be the first year for an African American to win an Best Director?" to be cringe worthy. It was more like the Academy pointing out how inclusionary they are rather then just honoring the guy for his achievement. Instead it's "oh and he's black too, look how we included him, aren't we so very progressive".
The God awful ego stroking speeches by co-stars (or former co-stars) of the Best Actor/Actress nominees... then coming out and announcing all their names again before presenting the actual award was incredibly redundant and stomach churningly unnecessary.
What in God's name was with the interpretive dance presentation for Original Score... EGADS!
Vegeta wrote:Did anyone else find the cameras desperately seeking a reaction shot of every black person in the theatre when Jeffrey Fletcher won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for for PRECIOUS to be vaguely racist?
so sorry wrote:You guys complaining about the predictability of the awards is so predictable.
Let me close this thread by saying this: Catherine Bigelow is a serious MILF.
Al Shut wrote:Wow, former President James Taylor
Pacino86845 wrote:I don't know if it was mentioned here, but definitely that was the WTF Moment of the night.
Marksman230591 wrote: you gotta admit, Tarantino's movie had a FAR better script and dialogue than the generic documentary-style Iraq War screenplay.
Bloo wrote:what awards do we have left?
Tony's and MTV?
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:The Cock Hurter won.
Well that just shows doesn't it? And now is the final nail in the coffin of my view on Oscars now. Damn you Katherine Bigelow. All you did was weaken a universe today.
I am retiring from this stupid biased ceremony and never bothering with Oscar anymore.
You guys who say you watch it out of Tradition need to grow up. All traditions can suck so much that they need to be bucked and abandoned. People do it to Christmas, you surely can do it to this insult to integrity and deservation farce.
The Vicar wrote:"-Alec Baldwin and Martin Short:"
minstrel wrote:The Tonys may be legit, but most of us don't have the opportunity to see the shows, at least without extraordinary expense of time and money. I wish I could see more live theater, but if you're not close to Broadway or London's West End or a few other hotbeds of theater, it's pretty tough to do. So it's hard to maintain interest in them.
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