Oscars
The Oscars apparently changed the award format. Instead of giving out little gold plated Ken dolls, they’re famous five words have changed to, “And the soapbox goes to…..” I just want everyone to know that if it wasn’t for Al Gore, I might not have had the will to shave today. He gave that to me and I will be forever grateful. If it wasn’t for him, whatever, I’m done.
Did anyone else notice how the show was run over by the lesbian train. With Ellen hosting and constant shots in the audience of Portia de Rossi, Ellen’s current love interest, I felt like this should have been a program someone should download and watch by themselves late at night with the lights dimmed. Its a good thing Melissa Etheridge was there to butch-up the proceedings. Actually, I thought Ellen did a good job overall. She had a few good lines and some of her wacky antics were pretty funny. I was sad that Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller didn’t do something, but I guess their torch has been passed to JB and Will Ferrell. I thought their shtick was the highlight of the evening.
Is it just me or do the Oscars feel like the new Democratic National Convention? Every time someone wins an award now, they act like they’ve been given a mandate to enlighten us all on their politics or what cause they just wrote a check to. Granted, I’m not for burning the Earth or anything, but what do I care what some weird looking dude who filmed An Inconvenient Truth thinks? I thought he was going to take off all his clothes and prostrate himself to Moon Emperor Gore right on stage. There are really three political parties in this country now, Republicans, Democrats and Hollywood. I wonder if that’s how Clooney’s registered. Apparently when I said earlier in this entry that I was “Done” I lied. Sorry.
On to the actual awards. I’m sure everyone already knows how I feel about the Departed winning awards. It wasn’t a surprise, but I’m still unhappy. My biggest disappointment is that Pan’s Labyrinth didn’t win Best Foreign Language Film. This movie was already dissed by not getting nominated for Best Picture or Best Director, but then it doesn’t even win for the best category it was let in on. I’ve heard The Lives of Others is a good movie, but who cares. Pan’s got treated like it was some little movie that the academy was throwing a bone to by allowing them to come to the show. Bullshit. Onward, did anyone else think the chick who won Make-Up for Pan’s was hot? She was at least way cute. And she actually deserved the award, how’d she win?
I also like/hate the fact that they seem to think its uproariously funny that they go way over their scheduled time because of boring, self-applauding crap. Every year they make jokes about it and it gets less and less funny the more I realize that they really don’t care about the people watching at home. As long as they get one (or eight) more chance to thank Al Gore for being such a stalwart human being, who cares if the people at home are bored to tears and just want to see who wins and who’s going to trip going up the steps (I was totally hoping for John C. Reilly when he went bounding up on stage to join Will and JB).
Why do I watch this show?
Because what else are you going to do on a Sunday night?
I’ve come to the conclusion that the awards are held on Sunday nights because it’s Sunday night and there’s nothing better to watch, unless you’re into that whole The Amazing Race all-star thing. If so, get a life.
Anyway, I didn’t watch them because I was tediously working away on a programing project, but I was keeping tabs online. However, my roommate was flipping through channels and would end up on ABC every 10 minutes or so and I recall him mentioning how fat Al Gore is getting. It made me laugh. After hearing how everyone thinks Al Gore is a god, I’m glad I didn’t watch the awards. Remember people, he did in fact invent the Internet…
And what’s the deal with airline peanuts?
I blame this new fangled “holier than thou” Hollywood attitude on Michael Moore. Speaking of which, is he still alive or did he die from getting a cheeseburger lodged in his throat while ranting about how globalization is ruining people’s lives?
I actually didn’t mind the show all that much this year and I’ve managed to learn to ignore the politics as the years have progressed.
As for the Pan’s loss in the foreign film category, I’m not angry with it at all. I loved both films and they both have their merits but I still stand behind “The Lives of Others” as the better picture. Not only that but it’s much more fitting to the Academy’s sensibilities (though I sincerely believe it won on it’s own merits).
I agree. Lets blame everything on Michael Moore.
I feel like Pan’s Labyrinth actually did really well, winning most of the significant visual awards.
Yeah, it did well, but that’s not the point. It should of done much better. I honestly can’t believe Pan’s didn’t even get a nod for directing or best picture. It really did deserve to at least get nominated.
I haven’t seen The Lives of Others yet, but since it did win, I’ll definitely have to check it out.