The 82nd Annual Academy Awards

Started by Gold Trumpet, June 24, 2009, 01:32:11 PM

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Pubrick

boring and predictable as ever, a few surprises - one very big disappointment.. eh, i watched it, i can't complain:

kiss ass much?
christoph waltz - his schtick was cute but it fell flat. it was so scripted that it just brought attention to the total predictability of his win.. this pretty much established the tone for the whole nite's events.

EVERY OTHER FILM WAS BETTER
The Secret of your Eyes or whatever the fuck it was called. foreign film category is officially something the academy has absolutely NO idea about. did they SEE A Prophet? this shit that won looked so boring i couldn't even finish watching the trailer. everything else that i didn't see at least looked REALLY good.. i mean, this was really the biggest upset of the nite - not that anyone watching even gave a shit or had any idea who pedro almodovar was.

OH FUCK PLEASE CUT AWAY FROM THAT RIGHT NOW
eli roth. haha how scary and disgusting did he look when they cut to him giving someone a lone standing ovation. very scary.\\\

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can't even think of any other highlights. just general boredom with the official results, when it must be obvious to everyone in the room that almost none of the winners will ever be seen again.. i mean Sandra Bullock even acknowledged this when she said something like "this is a once in a life time experience -- and we all know it is.. "  i was thinking, yeah you got that right. sheesh.

Winner
alec and steve, easy.
under the paving stones.

Gold Trumpet

I actually watched a majority of this. A couple of quick comments....

If they can ever get Robert Downey Jr. and Tina Fey to host the Oscars, that would be amazing.

Didn't like when all the best actors/actresses stood on stage together at the beginning.

Did like when past actors came out to each introduce each best actor/actress. Usually brought up good stories and reactions, but some of the gushing was too much. It caught my attention because I was wanting to click off the broadcast and see who won later, but I really liked some of the comments.

Too much attention paid to John Hughes. I don't remember Ingmar Bergman or Michelangelo Antonioni getting that kind of attention when they died, but a living monument was paid to Hughes onstage and in montage when I don't think he ever got any consideration from the Academy ever.

Liked Tom Hanks super quick Best Picture announcement.

Only surprise was Precious winning best adaptated script so not much for surprises.

Pubrick

Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 07, 2010, 11:46:32 PM
Only surprise was Precious winning best adaptated script so not much for surprises.

oh yeah the only surprise
giacchino for UP! excellent, shame the idiots presenting mispronounced his name. spit out the gum Sam Worthington, you are NOT the king of the world, what a jerk.

also loved the dancing they did for the score nominations. that was really amazing dance..
under the paving stones.

MacGuffin

What was up with that lady who bum-rushed the show when Best Doc Short won? Was like a Jewish mom who stole her son's spotlight.


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Kal

P, u invalidate some of the things you say with retarded remarks. Did you see 'The Secret in her Eyes'? It's an incredible film so before you bash something acting like you know what you're talking about, you should watch it.

The awards are boring and long for the most part. Everyone is so polite and kissing each others ass. I hate all the compliments because when you actually get to know some of these people you know the majority of them hate each others guts.

Anyhow, its always the same thing. Either we accept it or stop caring/watching.

picolas

this was not good. i'm okay with the insanely predictable wins mostly because i've known they would be predictable for a while. what i think is most disgraceful about this ceremony is the editing of clips.

the best way to present the acting categories is the simplest: you show an uninterrupted clip from the performances, giving a glimpse of why they deserved the recognition. seeing a somewhat contextualized, good acting moment--something you can't see in trailers/normal marketing--is part of why i used to love watching. why do they feel the need to add music and then cut to out-of-context dramatic moments?? it's embarrassing! it makes the performances look stupid! and the particular way these were edited was RETARDED. woody harrelson's look away after being told he'd gotten someone pregnant seemed unintentionally comical. and nearly all those montages involved major spoilers. it's a good thing i'd already seen most of them.

the same "logic" has been applied to the best picture intros. make a random montage instead of showing an extended clip. granted, this is more valid for representing an entire movie, but again, whoever edited those was a Fucking Idiot. they tried to sell A Serious Man like it was a straight-up drama. it's a total misrepresentation of the spirit of that movie. and then they include a random part from the dream sequence!!! like it actually happens in the movie!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!?! cut to Ethan Coen, one of the best editors alive. he gives a look of 'that was bullshit.'

then for lead performances they repeat the horrible idea of having other actors describe how great the actors are. granted the speeches this year were much better than last year and they got rid of the music, but it's still a terrible, terrible concept. especially now when the oscars need to draw in a new audience. the main reason so many people are turned off by the oscars seems to be because it makes a 'really big deal out of something that is not the most important thing in the world'. basically, they're an overblown ass-kissing/pat on the back. having long speeches about how awesome these actors are does nothing but contribute to that idea.

finally, sandra bullock winning. i knew this was coming but it still hurts. if sandra bullock had not made three high-grossing movies this year, and by that i mean just the blind side, and it had only made a modest amount of money, i guarantee she would not have won. this is an award for money. the only reason she's the actress of the moment is because she made a lot of money three times in the same year. it's the closest i've seen to an oscar being bought.

i just want winning an oscar to seem important again. oscar shows of the past have had a real sense of prestige because they weren't so freaking dumbed-down. they trusted the audience to have an attention span. the quickest way to become less important is to go 'look at me! i'm important!' and that's exactly what's happening to the ceremony.

Pubrick

Quote from: kal on March 08, 2010, 12:58:51 AM
P, u invalidate some of the things you say with retarded remarks. Did you see 'The Secret in her Eyes'? It's an incredible film so before you bash something acting like you know what you're talking about, you should watch it.

fair enough, i'll watch it. (only cos i HAVE to)

and yeah pic, the ass kissing was out of control this year. that new way of introducing main acting awards even LOOKS like a group jerk-off: a group of ppl stand on stage and gush praise at a particular person down below, while everyone is forced to guzzle it down their throats, it's so forced it feels pornographic.. Meryl Streep must have had a shower as soon as she got home to get that stench off..

and oh yeah, i guess Nicholas Shmerkin is a real person (he accepted the award for Logorama as producer).. i'd rather hav seen the directors come up wearing balaclavas or something. that woulda been cool.
under the paving stones.

picolas

it is TOTALLY acting prestige porn. and i forgot to mention, the inclusion of such speeches make acting seem disproportionately like THE most important category. why isn't it also being done for directors/screenwriters? there are tons of other directors who'd be able to talk about how great the nominated directors are. it's just so wrong in so many ways.

modage

I won $210 in an Oscar pool at a friends house so it helped remove me somewhat from the horror of things like the interpretive dance numbers, what was in Molly Ringwald's cheeks and Sandra Bullock getting an Oscar for The Blind Side.  The only real surprises were Precious for Screenplay and Hurt Locker for a few of the technical awards.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Fernando

shitty moment of the night
giving the cove ppl only 20 secs. these guys should have had way more time to talk about something that really matters.


wtf james cameron
i didn't know james cameron married a walking corpse.

otoh...

most beautiful woman
Kathryn Bigelow, damn she looked stunning. and women (and men) in the 'biz' should take note from her and see you don't need to butcher your face to 'look younger', please grow old gracefully.

polanski's illegitimate baby

Christoph Waltz is a fucking poet. :)
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IchLiebeTisch

Quote from: Fernando on March 08, 2010, 10:17:28 AM
wtf james cameron
i didn't know james cameron married a walking corpse.

She's in Titanic, right? Man, she's fucking old.

MacGuffin

Quote from: MacGuffin on March 08, 2010, 12:09:26 AM
What was up with that lady who bum-rushed the show when Best Doc Short won?

The Story Behind The Oscars' 'Kanye Moment'
Source: Cinematical

The appeal of the Oscars telecast is the giddy hope that follows any live show or broadcast -- we want a train wreck (figuratively, not literally, unless you're a sicko) to happen. In the 21st century, the Academy Awards have passed by in relatively boring splendor, the days of streakers and Cher gowns forgotten. But this year, shock came in the most unexpected of places: Best Documentary Short. Music by Prudence won, director Roger Ross Williams began to thank everyone, and then a loud lady in a purple dressed jumped on stage. Chaos reigned for 30 seconds and was hastily shooed off for the next category.

The woman in purple was revealed to be Elinor Burkett, producer of Prudence, and Salon immediately investigated. Burkett was more than happy to reveal why she crashed the stage, and declared it was all Williams' fault. "The director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn't invited to any of them. And he's not speaking to me. So we weren't even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I'm sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn't get up there very fast."

Burkett claims the documentary was supposed to center on all the members of Liyana, not just the band's front woman, Prudence Mabhena. It was her idea (she claims the director "had never even heard of Zimbabwe"), and when the documentary took a different direction, she sued, though she remained credited as producer. According to Burkett, Williams had refused to speak to her or pass on any of the pre-Oscar party and event invitations. "I felt my role in this has been denigrated again and again, and it wasn't going to happen this time."

Williams' story is a bit different. He insists only one person is allowed to accept the award, and that the decision was handled by the Academy's publicist. He claims Burkett had removed herself from the project though she still qualified to receive a producer's credit and an official nomination. "I own the film. She has no claim whatsoever. She has nothing to do with the movie. She just ambushed me. I was sort of in shock." He also denies that his mother tried to block Burkett with her cane.

But to Williams' credit, the scuffle over the microphone doesn't diminish the award. "Absolutely not. It's such a career achievement, to win an Academy Award. This is what the business is. There are times when there's disagreement and dispute and you always hope that people will rise up to the occasion. It doesn't diminish it. She disowns it and doesn't want any part of the film. I'm so proud of the movie."

Only those in the know can say whether Burkett was a spoilsport, or someone muscled out of her moment. But Williams certainly acted with a lot of grace, and kept up a smile despite being in shock. Frankly, the real winner is Music By Prudence who is getting a lot more digital ink than most documentary shorts can claim, and the members of Liyana will benefit by extension. Isn't that what winning the gold statuette is really all about?


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I wish for Nic Cage to strangle her windpipe until she shits her pants and dies from excreting her innards. Act your old fucking age please.
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