And the winner is.....
in my opinion not the viewers. Jon Stewart was an ok host, but I'm not a fan of his, so I can give him much more than an ok. He seemed to be straddling the line between sarcasm about the whole self-congratulatory affair and being into it. I guess he may want to host again.
I have to admit I didn't really care about any of the awards. For the first year in a very long time I had only seen one movie (Crash) and I didn't much care for it. On the other hand, since I really had nothing to base an opinion on, I was kind of glad to see Crash win. Not because I didn't want Brokeback Mountain to win, I'd be willing to bet it's a better movie than Crash, but because it's always fun to see an upset.
They seemed so suprised Ang Lee wasn't up there accepting the Best Picture oscar they cut off the Crash producers before they had time to finish. I mean they cut off the best picture acceptance speech!!! It seems a little out of line to me, considering Best Picture is supposed to be the culmination of the entire show, and they can't even give time to the people they are supposed to be honoring.
The operative word in Acamedy Awards is award, but they give no time to the people who actually win. This year they actually played music throughout the entire acceptance speeches, making the recipients talk as fast as possible, thinking they would be cut off any second.
Instead of focusing on the winners we get endless montages showing how great and revolutionary Hollywood is. They can pat themselves on the back for being the beacon for social change in the country, or so they would like us to think. Never mind all the drug, alocohol and marriage problems we get from "entertainment" news everyday, we are supposed to think Hollywood as a whole are a free thinking, open-minded spearhead for change in the country.
Well, they can think again about that. What really made me take them even less seriously than I already did is that in their "we change the world" montage, they paired the truly great In the Heat of the Night, with The Day After Tomorrow. In the Heat of the Night, quite possibly did raise awareness of equal rights and did reflect social change that was already occuring in the country. Notice I said it is a "reflection," no one has ever tried to say that movie, or any like it, led the civil rights movement. The Day After Tomorrow is just a bad movie, and who is not aware of the need to try to preserve the environment. The Day After Tomorrow did not shed any new light on the subject or try to move people in a meaningful way.
Overall I do like Hollywood's self-egrandising attitudes that come out at Oscar time. They need to try to have a little fun for a change. It is ultimately supposed to be entertainment after all.
I have to admit I didn't really care about any of the awards. For the first year in a very long time I had only seen one movie (Crash) and I didn't much care for it. On the other hand, since I really had nothing to base an opinion on, I was kind of glad to see Crash win. Not because I didn't want Brokeback Mountain to win, I'd be willing to bet it's a better movie than Crash, but because it's always fun to see an upset.
They seemed so suprised Ang Lee wasn't up there accepting the Best Picture oscar they cut off the Crash producers before they had time to finish. I mean they cut off the best picture acceptance speech!!! It seems a little out of line to me, considering Best Picture is supposed to be the culmination of the entire show, and they can't even give time to the people they are supposed to be honoring.
The operative word in Acamedy Awards is award, but they give no time to the people who actually win. This year they actually played music throughout the entire acceptance speeches, making the recipients talk as fast as possible, thinking they would be cut off any second.
Instead of focusing on the winners we get endless montages showing how great and revolutionary Hollywood is. They can pat themselves on the back for being the beacon for social change in the country, or so they would like us to think. Never mind all the drug, alocohol and marriage problems we get from "entertainment" news everyday, we are supposed to think Hollywood as a whole are a free thinking, open-minded spearhead for change in the country.
Well, they can think again about that. What really made me take them even less seriously than I already did is that in their "we change the world" montage, they paired the truly great In the Heat of the Night, with The Day After Tomorrow. In the Heat of the Night, quite possibly did raise awareness of equal rights and did reflect social change that was already occuring in the country. Notice I said it is a "reflection," no one has ever tried to say that movie, or any like it, led the civil rights movement. The Day After Tomorrow is just a bad movie, and who is not aware of the need to try to preserve the environment. The Day After Tomorrow did not shed any new light on the subject or try to move people in a meaningful way.
Overall I do like Hollywood's self-egrandising attitudes that come out at Oscar time. They need to try to have a little fun for a change. It is ultimately supposed to be entertainment after all.
posted by Sherry L at 11:18 AM
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