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February 24, 2008
Happyfeet’s Snarky Open Oscars Thread [Dan Collins]
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Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/24 @ 7:23 pm #
Most movies — particularly the ones that will win awards — suck.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 7:25 pm #
Because there is almost no chance that any of it will be as entertaining as Gary Busey accosting Ryan Secrest, Laura Linney and Jennifer Garner on the red carpet.
Comment by MayBee on 2/24 @ 7:28 pm #
That was hilarious, Karl.
I love the Oscars. I care. So there.
Comment by Pablo on 2/24 @ 7:29 pm #
I’m not gettin’ shit.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 7:31 pm #
Also, the pre-show segment with the lingerie models was pretty good.
Comment by jdm on 2/24 @ 7:33 pm #
I care.
No, really.
Comment by TmjUtah on 2/24 @ 7:39 pm #
Who is this “Oscar” of which you speak?
What impact does it have on me, open or closed?
Should I pray to the Obamadiety for change… or hope?
What a world we’ve made for ourselves. Feh.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 7:40 pm #
I can’t watch. It’s been years really. Last thing I remember actually they were begging Celine to sing for the second time cause Barbra wouldn’t. Something in me just died that day.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 7:41 pm #
Jon Stewart, on the Iraq war movies bombing:
Comment by Ahab on 2/24 @ 7:47 pm #
I got an ingrown hair, can I get some attentionn? Oscars? Rectal creme will help? Jesuuus, whats more important???
Comment by McGehee on 2/24 @ 7:49 pm #
I never cared much for his bologna, but his hot dogs are okay.
Comment by guinsPen on 2/24 @ 7:51 pm #
Already the guy was sweating because the rain on Hollywood Boulevard meant the block-long red carpet had to be entirely covered in plastic tenting, making it about 90 degrees under there with the lights and fuss
How hot do our troops get, under Kevlar, in the desert?
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:00 pm #
True, but they don’t have to fight Gary Busey.
Brad Bird won for Ratatouille. Deserved.
Comment by Sean M. on 2/24 @ 8:00 pm #
I’d make a comment about how I haven’t seen any of the movies nominated for anything, but that sounds a little too much like the douchebags I used to know who were ever-so-proud of the fact that they didn’t own a teevee.
I really don’t go to the movies very much anymore, though.
Comment by serr8d on 2/24 @ 8:04 pm #
My wife is watching it somewhere. She’ll tell me if there’s anything of use or value coming out of it.
The last time I actually sat and watched, Jack Palance did one-armed pushups. That’s been a couple three years ago.
Since, I haven’t watched. I don’t think I’ve missed much.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:05 pm #
She probably deserves it but I hope Ellen Page doesn’t win. What a horrible thing to do to someone that doesn’t seem at all insane yet.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 2/24 @ 8:10 pm #
The only movie I’ve seen in three or four years was that documentary about the moon landings. I don’t remember what it was called.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:12 pm #
hf,
They’ll probably give it to Julie Christie instead.
all:
Heeeeeere’s Busey!
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:12 pm #
The Make a Wish Foundation must get a lot of bang for the buck in Canada.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:13 pm #
Ohnoes. That was out loud, huh?
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:14 pm #
Though you really don’t get the full effect without the earlier part where Busey is yelling at Secrest.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 8:14 pm #
Yo La Tengo’s “Tom Courtenay,” Karl.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:16 pm #
Oh yeah. Julie’s got it nailed…
Bonus ace-in-the-hole: married to a Guardian journalist.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 8:19 pm #
I am forced to endure so the better half can see their dresses.
There is a formula for winning an Oscar, no? Gay, retarded, inbred, and abused person fighting the system, sticking it to the man.
I hope movies like Golden Compass, Enchanted, Ratatouille win all of the awards and stick it in the eye of those that make political statements,
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:20 pm #
Dan,
What of the YLT? The video is about fandom, for sure.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:21 pm #
Golden Compass put the nail in New Line’s coffin. That’s quite an honor already.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:24 pm #
JD,
Ratatouille won, Enchanted will likely win for best song (multiple nods), Golden Compass (which is sorta anti-religion) was not nominated for anything I know of.
The top two contenders for Best Picture — Juno and No Country For Old Men — are pretty decent from a moral perspective, and largely apolitical (though Juno does not get an abortion).
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:25 pm #
hf,
Golden Compass forced New Line to settle Peter Jackson’s lawsuits to get him to make the Hobbit movies.
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 8:26 pm #
Alright, got it split-screened with The Interpreter. But they’re doing music awards? Boring. I thought they gave that type of shit during the day and saved best picture type stuff for the evening.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 8:26 pm #
Oh, I’ve never seen the video, Karl. It’s just that the first two words of the very beautiful lyrics reference Julie Christie, the original It Girl. Love that song.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:27 pm #
I wonder if that nice Katherine Heigl will present or something? I loved Roswell, and she hasn’t irritated me yet at all. Which is not to say I just didn’t hear about it, so don’t tell me. Whoa. She grewed up.
Also is it just me or is the imdb down?
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:28 pm #
Dan,
Ah, yes. That should teach me not to multitask.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:29 pm #
hf,
Heigl already presented for Best Makeup. Nervous, but a vision in red.
all:
Owen Wilson has popped up like a groundhog!
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:29 pm #
Oh. Here’s where I got that New Line thing from K …
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 8:29 pm #
imdb is working for me, happyfeet.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:31 pm #
See? Owen Wilson. Weird kooky story. I walk under the billboard for his new bodyguard movie every day… The first day it was up I saw it and I caught myself praying for him… Who am I??? Yeesh.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:32 pm #
Oh. You’re right Jim… it seems to just be when you click off Google results.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:33 pm #
hf:
Heigl.
Comment by MayBee on 2/24 @ 8:34 pm #
Katherine Heigel looks like Hollywood glamor. I read an article about her in Vanity Fair lately that didn’t once mention Roswell, which is a crime.
Javier Bardem is sexy. My sister had that haircut in 8th grade. She rocked it.
Is Ellen Page a lesbian, happs? Surely she is.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 8:34 pm #
What’s so weird about that, hf?
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:35 pm #
Man. She better not blow this. She could restore my faith a lot.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:36 pm #
hf,
The WSJ stuff is (afaik) true, but Shay & Lynne are trying to save their jobs by settling with Jackson to keep that sweet Tolkien money rolling in.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:38 pm #
I haven’t heard anything about Ellen Page’s sex life. She did go on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, though. She said she dreamed she showed up to the Oscars late, wearing a strapless gown and a sports bra.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:39 pm #
Ellen Page is kind of ambiguous like that I think. I wonder, but I’m not sure. I first met her in this Canadian show called ReGenesis – great show but gratuitously anti-American – and I’ve seen Hard Candy but nothing since – anyway, I still think of her as being too young to pin down like that. But I’m sure TMZ is on the case.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:40 pm #
Tilda Swinton just won. Now there’s an interesting sex life. I heard her say she had never seen the Oscars and I don’t think she was kidding.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 8:41 pm #
Tilda Swinton’s speech was quite fun.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:45 pm #
Jessica Alba and her pregancy bosom had to host the tech awards. The geeks always make some hottie host that thing.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:47 pm #
Oh. The Owen thing is weird just cause it’s weird.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:48 pm #
Josh Brolin is a moonbat. James MacAvoy was almost a missionary.
Coens take it. Fair enough.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 8:52 pm #
Yeah. IMDB is definitely stressed.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:52 pm #
Inasmuch as the subtext is “Why do we care?”, I should link to this HuffPo piece pointing out:
Comment by Sean M. on 2/24 @ 8:53 pm #
That’s news to Clara Bow.
Comment by Sean M. on 2/24 @ 8:54 pm #
Well, I mean, it would be, if she hadn’t died more than forty years ago.
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 8:56 pm #
So we got construction workers and mariachis dancing around on stage now. The new Village People?
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 8:56 pm #
Kristin Chenoweth has a wacky backstory. I would link, but I’ll be tagged as a spammer. Check wikipedia.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 8:57 pm #
So the Owen Wilson thing was awkward. And those swaying feathers on Alba’s tits kept me from hearing what she was saying.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 8:57 pm #
Hmmmm. Well, do you suppose that the term was around back in ‘27?
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:00 pm #
Ms. Chenoweth is kind of hot in a I cannot really explain why kind of way.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:00 pm #
The Village People thing was echoing the scene from Enchanted — which took place in Central Park — fairly closely.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:00 pm #
What Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t need I think is an award. This jumped out at me about Kristen…
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:02 pm #
I think she might be an android, JD.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:03 pm #
oh. link
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:03 pm #
JD–That would be an “in comparison to Kirsten Dunst” way.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:03 pm #
Sound editing. They wisely avoided the segment of playing the scenes without the sound effects.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:04 pm #
Ah, well . . . given that photo, maybe on her own merits.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:06 pm #
Dan,
Turned off by the snaggletooth?
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:07 pm #
The mouth in general. It’s like Cameron Diaz crossed with a lamprey.
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 9:08 pm #
If they didn’t blow up a lot of shit Enchanted, then I didn’t see it.
In fact, the only thing that’s nominated in any major category that I actually saw is No Country for Old Men
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:09 pm #
Chenoweth.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:09 pm #
Jim in KC,
Susan Sarandon gets killed in Enchanted. Worked for me.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:10 pm #
I can’t wait for “No Country for Grumpy Old Men.”
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:11 pm #
I forgot! The French chick could beat Christie!
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:12 pm #
I enjoyed Ms. Chenoweth’s small role on West Wing.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:12 pm #
Which is the french one?
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:13 pm #
Coutillard really does justice to that gown.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:13 pm #
Sounds like they could split the vote and Ellen will be forever cursed.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:14 pm #
Yeah, the mermaid dress is working. Ellen Page did the “loser face” she showed off after winning the Independent Spirit Award Saturday night.
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 9:14 pm #
Karl,
Certainly not a complete waste, then.
Wow. Cute French chick won for La Vie en Rose. Makes me want to listen to some Edith Piaf.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:17 pm #
Marion Cotillard.>
Comment by jdm on 2/24 @ 9:18 pm #
I still care.
It’d be hard for me to care more than I do.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:20 pm #
Colin Farrell took a homeless Toronto man on a $2,100 shopping spree.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:21 pm #
This song by the Irish lad and the czech lass I like. Makes me feel hopey.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:22 pm #
Is Reese there? I’ve been chalking all her moonbat flirtations up to a difficult divorce or whatever… she has some Christina Ricci movie out next week.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:23 pm #
I like Jack.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:24 pm #
Christina Ricci and Reese both kind of get passes on the moonbattery.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:24 pm #
Jack Nicholson cannot read his line about movies uniting humanity without cackling.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:25 pm #
Reese is watching at home with the kids, iirc.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:26 pm #
Oh. That’s sweet, really.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:26 pm #
The musicians from Once are part of The Frames, iirc.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:27 pm #
Reese’s ex has a moonbat flick coming out.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:28 pm #
What’s sweet also is that neither Hanks or Roberts got nominated.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:28 pm #
Doesn’t Gigi and Titanic having won Oscars diminish all of the other winners?
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:29 pm #
I’ve heard a lot of bad things about Christian Hayden in his Jumper movie this weekend. Him and Reese’s ex I get mixed up a lot.
Comment by Sean M. on 2/24 @ 9:30 pm #
It sure was.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:32 pm #
Here’s the full Busey video.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:32 pm #
Titanic was a definite nadir. I could understand for director kind of, cause it was so challenging technically, but … it really should have just been given a special one-off Big Doomed Boat award and that would have been plenty.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:32 pm #
Has Anna Farin ever won anything? My kids made me buy them the Scary Movie DVDs, and she’s just excellent. She looks just like an anthropomorphized Sweet Polly Purebred.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:33 pm #
Anakin should not be allowwed near Rachel Bilson, for work or appearances.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:34 pm #
Anna Farris hasn’t won anything, but she just got divorced.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:34 pm #
Kidman looks … odd. Botox, surgery, disproportionately large forehead. Not sure. Maybe it is just this shitty hotel TV.
I did not know that the Thomas Crown Affair was a remake.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:35 pm #
Thanks, Sean. Very interesting, indeed.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:35 pm #
Oh. I think they’re for real dating. Really though you can’t say that out loud here with out people snickering.
People can be so mean.
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 9:37 pm #
Has anyone seen Untraceable? Diane Lane, toting a gun?
Damn. Just damn. Sets my heart aflutter.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:39 pm #
blech
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:39 pm #
She was hot in Rumblefish, I thought.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:40 pm #
re: Thomas Crown
Faye Dunaway was much hotter in the first one. But not as topless as Rene Russo in the “reimagining.”
Diane Lane is with moonbat Josh Brolin, but the first two-thirds of Unfaithful almost make up for it.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:41 pm #
When you turn you car on, does it return the favor?
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:41 pm #
re: Kidman — it isn’t your TV.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:42 pm #
Shannon Elizabeth alert.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:44 pm #
Penelope Cruz wisely choosing not to look like a duck tonight, but not as good as the Cruz-Hayek tandem here a couple of years back.
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 9:44 pm #
She’s aged well, Dan.
I realize those were only seconds-long snippets, but the foreign language film nominees appear to be uniformly grim.
Comment by Education Guy on 2/24 @ 9:45 pm #
I saw Jumper and Diary of the Dead this weekend. Liked em both.
Of course I have very low standards.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:46 pm #
Shannon Elizabeth is already practicing for Dancing with the Stars.
Comment by Education Guy on 2/24 @ 9:46 pm #
oops, a runaway close italics tag.
Comment by Jim in KC on 2/24 @ 9:46 pm #
I heard that, too, Dan. Not sure it’ll get me to watch that awful show, though.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:48 pm #
This John Mayer wanna-be is not very good. He is making my ears bleed. Better half says he is cute.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:48 pm #
I was tempted to see Diary of the Dead, but heard the found footage stuff (intentionally) distanced the viewer from the gore.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:49 pm #
Travolta nearly took a header on the hazard Colin Farrell flagged earlier in the evening.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:50 pm #
Oh. EG – I did hear the movie was good. Really pretty good really. Just that Christian sort of was sleepwalking.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:50 pm #
Once takes Best Song. Enchanted’s multiple noms split the Disney vote.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 9:53 pm #
I don’t like the way the music comes on when they figure this one’s had enough time for this award. I wish they’d just tase them.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 9:53 pm #
The Irish dude that sang about suffering and hope, I like. And I will watch Dancing With the Stars for Shannon Elizabeth.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:54 pm #
words, they fail
Comment by Education Guy on 2/24 @ 9:54 pm #
Diary was far less about the zombies then any of the others have been. For my money, it’s his best since the original, which is a classic. YMMV.
Comment by MayBee on 2/24 @ 9:56 pm #
I just want that Diane VonFurstenberg dress they keep showing in the ads.
They are taunting me, I think.
Comment by Education Guy on 2/24 @ 9:57 pm #
hf – I’d have to agree about the sleepwalking part.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:57 pm #
hf,
I could point you to pics of Heigl smoking, but you wouldn’t like them. Really.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:57 pm #
Heigl wore Escada. I have no clue what that means.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 9:58 pm #
It’s all about the HOPE!!!
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 9:58 pm #
It was more her in that dress on a loading dock.
Comment by maggie katzen on 2/24 @ 10:00 pm #
is it the surviving Florence Birdwell’s studio at OCU? cause I didn’t. I just remember my mom always raving about Chenoweth in H.S. (my mom taught math one year at Broken Arrow, while KC was there. obviously.)
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:00 pm #
Oh. That Vanity Fair MayBee talked about I picked up waiting for Thai carryout and I’m pretty sure she’s married and if I remember right he sounded very non-business and down-to-earth.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 10:00 pm #
Deakins should have taken cinematography for Jesse james, but had to compete against himself. The cinematography in TWBB was also excellent, so no complaint.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:01 pm #
Don’t taze me bro! wish they had tazed Kanye West.
Cameron Diaz has some of the most painfully beautiful eyes in history. And despite being a raving moonbat, I suspect she is pretty cool.
Comment by Education Guy on 2/24 @ 10:01 pm #
Once was one of my favorites from last year. I tend to get a lot of free tickets to the indie type flicks and that and The Namesake were the ones that really left a good impression. Both just movies about people really. The Waitress was also a cute little movie, but that may be because of captain Mel and the divine Ms. Russel.
I watch a lot of movies, as it turns out.
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 10:02 pm #
maggie,
No I’m generally talking about the southern Christian girl who gets awards from gay goups and dated Aaron Sorkin.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:05 pm #
Oh. He’s way business. Hugely multi-hyphenate. And now he’s Mr. Heigl too. Going on three months now.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:05 pm #
Is that Chad Lowe as Hilary Swank, Hilary Swank as Chad Lowe, or Hilary Swank as herslef?
Comment by maggie katzen on 2/24 @ 10:06 pm #
ja, I figured as much, Karl. I’m just feelin’ annoyed. I’m all about me for now. ;D
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 10:09 pm #
I’ll bet Gleen(s) have a wacky backstory.
Comment by maggie katzen on 2/24 @ 10:10 pm #
cause sock puppets and cabana boys aren’t enough?
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:14 pm #
And I like Amy Adams. This will all be a tolerable and rather enjoyable show should Clooney win nothing. Stymied, moonbat. Feel the power of Chimpy.
I do not like crying, weepy people.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:16 pm #
These documentaries are moonbat territory.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:18 pm #
Alex Gibney, I do not like, at all.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 10:19 pm #
I’d like to thank the taxi driver, for dying.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:20 pm #
This is for JD. It demystified Cameron a lot I thought really.
Comment by Lee on 2/24 @ 10:21 pm #
I gotta say, Jon Stewart is doing a great job.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 10:24 pm #
Better is this Wuzzadem classic:
http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2005/12/trippin.html
Comment by Alcyoneus on 2/24 @ 10:24 pm #
Since “Braveheart” beat out “Rob Roy,” I never watch. They can build Mammon, but I don’t have to watch.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 10:25 pm #
You said that, and he made that horrible Harrison Ford joke.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:26 pm #
I forgot about that – Thanks Dan
Comment by Karl on 2/24 @ 10:27 pm #
Diablo Cody — former exotic dancer — in leopard print. Love it.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:31 pm #
What’s with the lull? Are they doing one of those codger tribute things?
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:33 pm #
We still have the not-Clooney award, near as I can tell.
Comment by Lee on 2/24 @ 10:34 pm #
Yeah, I guess timing isn’t my strength…
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:34 pm #
Drudge isn’t getting at all excited about none of it, looks like.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:35 pm #
happyfeet – That was hysterical. It does not make her eyes any less stunning and breath-taking.
“Let’s move away from the darkness, and toward the light”.
Make the world a better place,
Punch Alex Gibney in the face.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:37 pm #
The Counterfeiters doesn’t seem like an allegory of Abu Ghraib or a metaphor for imperialism or nothing. Just good old Nazis. That’s gotta be some kind of upset.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:38 pm #
ChimpyMcHitlerBurton reaches out and denies that which Clooney and MM so richly deserve. Rove, you magnificent evil bastage.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:40 pm #
Oh. But the documentaries were bang on. Goddam Bush.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:41 pm #
Oh. Daniel Day-Lewis takes his statue. See you in ten years or so.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:44 pm #
I had to buy a new washer and dryer today, so I am kind of sideways with the world.
I do not find the Coen’s as interesting as they believe themselves to be.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 10:45 pm #
I like the Coens’ movies a lot, JD.
Sorry about the appliances thing, though.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:46 pm #
I still think Fargo might be the most quintessentially American film ever made, but yeah.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:48 pm #
I thought Jon Stewart was pretty good tonight, so long as you set aside that horrible Harrison Ford joke.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 10:49 pm #
There. That wasn’t so bad. For the Oscars.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/24 @ 10:49 pm #
Yeah, I thought he did a good job.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 10:50 pm #
Thanks y’alls what actually watched it. Troopers all.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 10:52 pm #
Note, I made no comment on their movies, which I generally enjoy. They just rub me the wrong way when they open their pie holes. my demeanor went way downhill after the Most Objectively UnAmerican Documentary category.
Comment by MayBee on 2/24 @ 10:59 pm #
My husband and I just had a big fight about having the troops present the best documentary and then having the next documentary category be all anti-war.
Then we were reunited again over how happy Frances McDormand is for whichever Coen she’s married to. So sweet.
Comment by Lee on 2/24 @ 11:02 pm #
Did any one else notice how many awards went to foreigners?
Comment by Mike C. on 2/24 @ 11:05 pm #
It also seemed as though almost all of the short-feature awards nominees were foreigners. And they say Americans have short attention spans.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 11:08 pm #
Really? Troops were there? Actually both the documentary ones blew – looked like one was a sobby gay marriagey one and the other was some hard look at the ravages of interrogation or something. Troops should know better than to get involved with any of that you’d think. I just don’t see the upside.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/24 @ 11:12 pm #
For the foreign one, it says 63 countries submitted films.
That doesn’t really mean a lot without context I don’t think.
Comment by JD on 2/24 @ 11:16 pm #
MayBee – That was Oscar’s attempt to hold off criticism that they knew would follow the shirtlifting poofter making “documentaries” about dead cab drivers.
Comment by MayBee on 2/24 @ 11:30 pm #
I told my husband I didn’t remember a lot of documentaries about shooting German soldiers in the head during WWII, and how ridiculous it was that the guy said our country has gone to the dark side. It especially bothered me because they’d just had the live feed from Baghdad.
Anyway, we fought and then my younger son pointed out that no body ever makes documentaries about positive things. He was just happy Michael Moore didn’t win.
the shirtlifting poofter
My only complaint about him is that I count on gay men to be really buff and gorgeous and well dressed. Otherwise thinking about it is just like a Kathy Bates topless scene. You know?
Comment by J. Peden on 2/24 @ 11:37 pm #
I’d watch only if they promised me ‘good commercials’ – yeah, right – but the whole thing is just one inherently revolting commercial to begin with.
Comment by mac on 2/24 @ 11:38 pm #
because people like robert redford produce movies that glorify people who put librarians in jail for having thoughts that are ‘counter revolutionary’ and then gets all pissy when the US locks up people who blow up women and children going to the market. F-ing hypocrites.
Comment by J. Peden on 2/24 @ 11:49 pm #
At her friends’s request, my sister went with her to see Atonement. But soon my sister noticed the smell of vodka emenating from her friend’s “tea” breath, or whatever. Even this was not enough to make up for her friend’s negative assessment of the film.
So if it didn’t work for her, why would it work for me?
Comment by The Lost God on 2/25 @ 12:16 am #
Yes. I did that in purpose (The Lost Whatever).
Anyway. Oscars?
Oscar is what I used to call my dick (when I could still find it).
I don’t know. You may not agree with me, but now “Oscar” seems very appropriate for these pat-yourself-on-the-back awards.
Do I have a bad attitude?
Yeah. Probably.
Being a Connecticut Yankee is soooo passe…and infuriating.
Tough beans, Loco Tomas.
Comment by The Ouroboros on 2/25 @ 12:26 am #
Is it Oscar time again already?
Comment by Karl on 2/25 @ 12:32 am #
Nah, they are about a year away.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/25 @ 1:06 am #
I’m going to tell the joke my most favorite gay man told me at the Oscar party (incidentally, I got 9 categories right having only seen, Juno)
What did the lesbian frog say to the other frog?
They’re RIGHT! We do taste like chicken!
Comment by malaclypse the tertiary on 2/25 @ 1:08 am #
I left a comment in another thread yesterday and the damn thing never showed up. I tried to post it a second time and got the wordpress “you’ve already posted that” message. Still, the comment is no there. I figured since this is an open thread of sorts, it would be a somewhat appropriate place for me to test whether I’m able to post. Of course it could have been the proliferation of certain colorful language that contributed to the comment not showing up, but hell if I know.
Oh, and I so dislike celebrity as to render their ceremonies of self-congratualtion utterly unwatchable.
Comment by malaclypse the tertiary on 2/25 @ 1:11 am #
Yay! I can still post comments! You like me! You really like me!
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 2/25 @ 1:15 am #
malaclypse
I’ve been paranoid too.
Comment by MC on 2/25 @ 2:57 am #
This is all so Cream of Wheat.
Comment by Sean M. on 2/25 @ 3:44 am #
Shhhhhh…the oatmeal might hear you.
Comment by sashal on 2/25 @ 5:38 am #
Hey,Dan.
I thought Stewart was boring most of the time.
I don’t get it:why french actress from french movie was competing in the best actress category. Isn’t Oscar supposed to be for movies in English ? They do have a category for foreign movies, that’s enough.
The awards in any other country(besides BAFTA, I think) do not include movies made in foreign languages in competition.
I am happy for Coen’s, always liked their work.
Check that short animation from the Russian guy.
Awesome.
Comment by Joel on 2/25 @ 1:23 pm #
When I was in middle school 25+ years ago I would listen to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 countdown religiously. It boosted my self esteem when the songs I liked were in turn liked by others–made me feel normal. I’ve grown up a lot since then and figured out I don’t need anyone else to help me like me.
However, Hollywood needs this circle jerk to further inflate it’s already gargantuan self-esteem and sense of self-importance. I will not be a part of that. I prefer my entertainment to be thought-provoking, not voyeuristic ego-stroking.
Comment by Dan Collins on 2/25 @ 1:28 pm #
You just can’t get over the disgust factor to appreciate the absurdity, can you?
Comment by Joel on 2/25 @ 10:02 pm #
If I wanted absurdity, I’d watch either Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz or anything by Monty Python. The Brits have the best absurdity around.
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