FUX IT.... best OSCARS yet?
Mr. Casual
953 Posts
Not the same old .. bull ish?(not talking about the nom's.. just the way it is produced..)
Mr. Casual
953 Posts
Comments
i liked slumdog so i am happy the bigmoney movie(benjamibutton) did not win
hating on slumdog is pointless
Will Smith saying, 'boom goes the dynamite.'
I don't hate on Slumdog. It's a perfectly decent little flick that if I caught on TV as a made for tv movie I would thoroughly enjoy. It's just not remotely an 8[/b] oscar movie. Though that probably says as much about the shit it was up against as anything else.
the film is too good for the Oscars.
Whatever. Penn was great. If either man won, it would have been right.
Please. How much you think was spent on pushing "Slumdog" to the awards voters? I wasn't rooting for "Benjamin Button" either let's not be naive as to the idea that any Oscar winner doesn't have some level of "big money" behind it. Blame the Weinsteins (or credit them).
I know Man on Wire is a great film, but I am really bummed Trouble the Water didn't win. It is the one place that an Oscar would have really meant something.
I really want to know how at the Oscars really thinks montages are a good idea?
I think the show opened well - and Jackman was handling himself with aplomb. But they kind of negated that good will with a wholly unnecessary and derivative musical number midway through the night. You could tell Baz put that shit together because it was really ADD, all sound and fury, and just a general hot mess. (And seriously, how the F*ck did Beyonce manage to work in "At Last" again? Etta James really should kick her ass.
And bringing out the past winners to honor the nominees was good when it worked (i.e. the accolades felt heartfelt) but when it felt canned, it was rather awkward.
Also - what's up with the Ledger family snubbing Michelle Williams?
Still haven't seen The Wrestler but plan to, despite pledging to never watch anything Aronovsky related. Did finally see the 1999 Beyond the Mat documentary, which my girlfriend, who is neither a fan of wrestling nor movies really, commented: "Is this what they made The Wrestler about?
[/threadjack]
I have felt the least excited about going to the movies this past year in as long as I can remember, and I saw only a small handful (if that) of the films up for contention.
Still want to see Benjamin Button but it still seems like they were heaping the praise of Fincher after completely ignoring his smaller but fantastic film Zodiac.
The Oscars will always be largely tone-deaf, missing stuff when it comes out and later championing lesser work by those same filmmakers and then missing quality work again -- they will never catch up.
1)sitting Aniston like 5 seats away from Brad and Angelina. why? did she even have a movie this year?
2)i forgot who it was explaining Phillip Seymour Hoffman's role in "Doubt" but he called him "Seymour Phillip Hoffman" and Phillip just shook his head...
3)the first award of the night they presented they couldnt get the curtain open and you hear someone go "OPEN IT STEVE". I wonder if Steve got fired?
The camera constantly throwing to Jolie and Pitt during Aniston and Jack Black presenting was tacky and annoying. What do they expect to see?
lol
LA Times' theory was that her singing was meant to distract people from noting the usual "applause-o'-death-meter" that normally happens. That might have been the case but the camera panning was atrocious.
DeNiro on Penn was great.
But I was thinking, maybe it's political. India must be a huge developing market for Hollywood Inc. what better way to ingratiate themselves with 'it' than give a film like Slumdog the nod.
Aniston had Marley & Me
Baz looked almost embarrassed when they showed him and gave him credit for that abomination.
I was doing other stuff while watching, so maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a word about Paul Newman, was the mini-tribute sufficient?