I’ll stray from the sports media to talk a bit about the Oscars. First, glad to see Hurt Locker win for Best Picture and Best Director. Kathyrn Bigelow made a movie that really hit home for many people. I’m not sure that Sandra Bullock deserved Best Actress. In my opinion, she’s a horrible actress and she deservedly won the Razzie. It’s rare that someone pulls the Razzie/Oscar double in the same year and Sandra pulled it off. To me, her winning Best Actress was as corrupt as when Julia Roberts won for Erin Brockovich.
A big surprise was seeing Fisher Stevens win Best Documentary for “The Cove“. I didn’t know what happened to him, nor did I care, but after seeing him play a horribly stereotypical Indian in “Short Circuit”, I wasn’t a fan. But seeing the descriptions for “The Cove”, it made me want to see the documentary.
As far as the telecast itself, the Oscars needs to cut out the awards for Wardrobe, Make-up, Sound Editing, Fish Baiting, etc. The telecast went three hours and thirty seven minutes long, 37 minutes over its allotted timeslot. And a tribute to horror movies and an extended dance number really didn’t belong in the Oscar telecast as they made the production lag. Twilight’s Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner looked like they didn’t want to be at the Oscars and Stewart looked so stiff, she might as well have been a vampire.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin tried to be funny, but the material failed them. Their taped bit of them sleeping in the same bed and Martin eventually hitting Alec was sort of funny. And their opening monologue went too long.
Neil Patrick Harris’ opening number was fun and got the show off to a rousing start, but it was all downhill for the Oscars.
For me, the best part was the John Hughes tribute, but seeing Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and especially Judd Nelson proved that time has not served them well. At least we’ve seen Jon Cryer thanks to his role on Two and a Half Men.
Finally, the annual montage devoted to those who passed away over the last year had a glaring omission of Farrah Fawcett. While most of her career was on TV, she had made quite a few movies so why she wasn’t included is a mystery.
Overall, the grade for the Oscars is a D minus. It’s a telecast that gets worse every year and becomes excruciating to watch. If the producers decided to just hand out the awards instead of making this an overblown musical, it would be two hours shorter and a more tolerable broadcast. In addition, the speeches should last no more than ten seconds, except in certain cases when the speech should go no longer than 20.
That’s my take on the Oscars. And it may be my last.
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