Oscars 2015

the bridman afterparty seems like it will be really fun

Even Birdman speech goes big picture political.

I've got no problem with that.

back to Broadway with you, Hedwig

this was one of the top 10 Oscar broadcasts of the decade.

thanks for a great night ILX Oscar-watchers *swigs last of the wine*.

hey, did anyone else catch that bit where Lady Gaga sang a bunch of songs from The Sound of Music?

how come we never see Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Oscars?

Or bruce Willis?

(paraphrasing Lisa Simpson)

This is the my favorite part of the year. It's the longest possible time before more Awards Season.

I'm hoping Glenn Greenwald gets tragically seduced and corrupted by celebrity at some after-party.

You'll never guess who the next Daily Show host is going to be.

This is the my favorite part of the year. It's the longest possible time before more Awards Season.

OTM

So far as Hollywood being up its own ass, tho ...

Birdman > Argo & The Artist

well, a low standard. (and not by much -- that fucking critic-in-the-bar scene)

hehe, would've loved to see some Kathryn Bigelow fans reacting to Glenn greenwald on the stage tonight.

Unlike the other two, Birdman is nothing if not one big piss take, which made it easy to forgive it that scene.

well, a low standard. (and not by much -- that fucking critic-in-the-bar scene)

hehe, would've loved to see some Kathryn Bigelow fans reacting to Glenn greenwald on the stage tonight.
--touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius)

bc it's impossible that anyone would ever be able to appreciate both of those things

Plus, um, a lot of critics are unrepentant bastards, so.

Most puketastic moment of the night was the self-absolving standing O given the "Glory" performance. IF YOU LOVE THE MOVIE THAT DAMN MUCH, HOW ABOUT NOMINATING IT FOR A FEW MORE AWARDS, JERKWADS?!

the motives behind the critic scene are potentially petty (albeit effective, given the amount of critics who are projecting and thinking inarritu is YELLING RIGHT AT THEM IF THEY DIDNT LIKE BABEL) but of all the things to dislike about birdman, a clearly exaggerated portrait of a critic seems slight, it's like being mad at anton ego in ratatouille

*albeit it's effective

plenty other things that are almost inarguably pretentious/hollywood jerkfest/half-baked about it aside from that

I do not welcome being robbed of Imitation Game going 0 for 8, but Graham's speech was one of the truly genuine moments of the night ... and given the only script that could've conceivably won over it was even more obnoxious, well ...

Is it me or there was more focus on singing than the film themselves? We hardly saw any clips or long homage montage or anything.

Eric, maybe the Academy needs to expand the other major categories to 8-9 nominees for the major awards in heavy years?

(regarding Selma)

I'm not arguing against them not liking the movies they don't nomination. Fine, whatever. Just don't effing pretend to love movies you clearly didn't like, AMPAS, just because you're embarrassed when everyone pointed out your incurable insularity.

nomination nominate

Arquette promptly took some shine off her onstage comments backstage by stringing together some thoughts in a clumsy way. A shame. We still have this gif tho.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/5b5d50376ec092f6d318aea3c85535dd/tumblr_nk7eysuwpJ1qiavcao1_400.gif

The moment J.Lo notices she's on camera.

I've quite enjoyed this awards season, in which I include the surprisingly good SNL thing, though not as much as I would have if something I cared about won something anyone noticed

I didn't watch this in the previous 2 years, and now I remember why. Long and boring. If I were in charge, I'd cut out the production awards (design, makeup, costumes), the sound awards that nobody understands the difference between, all of the "old movies are so great!" montages (thankfully only present this year in the opening song and in the sound of gaga bit, both of which sucked), and actually kick those bores off when they start listing their dogs. If the show were under 2 hours it might be bearable.

I was OK with the dancers this year -- they only appeared during the songs, and they weren't the focus.

the gaga thing was almost incomprehensible to me; they think people want this?

i'm not surprised redmayne won - everyone knows the academy loves to reward stories of illness and disability blah blah - but it's still kind of annoying cuz he's being rewarded for a striking performance in a tedious, underwritten, insight-free movie.

he does an amazing job of charting hawking's physical decline but i learned virtually nothing at all about the man, his work, or his thoughts or feelings. he's just like a chill bro who likes a beer and thinking about things i guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

birdman was great fuiud
Keaton robbed obv fuiud

Birdman is nothing if not one big piss take,

OK, I don't even know what this means. You really don't think the script is not Innaritu & Co's defiant justification for THEIR brand of "arty" Hollywood horseshit sentimentality?

My friend's review of Birdman: "It's not that good! It's Michael Keaton."

all of the "old movies are so great!" montages

suck it

O'Hehir postmortem:

Harris floundered and struggled against a stale script and its leaden gags. He repeatedly fumbled names, appeared to go blank for several seconds while eye-locked with a seat-filler, and evidently paid no attention to what was happening when he wasn’t talking. He made a crack about a dress worn by the director of a short film about two seconds after the woman had finished talking about her son’s suicide, and stepped on director Laura Poitras’ powerful acceptance speech for the documentary “Citizenfour” with a weirdly reactionary joke about Edward Snowden and “treason.”

,,,That third-rate David Blaine thing with the sealed predictions in a box, and Harris’ forced attempts to get some shtick going with Octavia Spencer? Jesus Christ. It just would not stop. (I appreciated that when Harris tried to drag Robert Duvall into it, Duvall gave him nothing.) But seriously, people, and I know this is heresy of a high order: Seth MacFarlane was funnier! At least he had the courage to make an ass of himself!

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/23/oscars_2015_nuggets_of_electric_political_theater_amid_oceans_of_lame/

apparently there is upset that Joan Rivers was absent from in memoriam.

BITCH WAS NOT A MOVIE ACTRESS

the first wave of the thinkpiece flood!

Also apparently not a member of the Academy xpost

Also saw a lot of whining about Harold Ramis not being included, even though he died before last year's Oscars and was presumably (can't remember) included in that one.

They're always liberal with that "RIP" thing, they could have made space for Joan.

Also, the Oscars' disability fetish has gotten beyond offensive, IMO, to people who actually have to live with a disability.

The first person with a serious disability who acts in a role that features no disability will get all the Oscars.

Bill Murray gave Harold a shoutout on stage last year. Maybe he was a "too soon" 2014, like PSH, though I guess the latter slipped in the montage last year.

They're always liberal with that "RIP" thing, they could have made space for Joan.

They are not. No Andy Griffith a few years ago, and he actually gave one great film performance.

No Andy Griffith a few years ago, and he actually gave one great film performance.

"Matlock" was a TV show though.

Big Thinkpiece #2:

As for the big winner: Voters were obviously mad about Birdman, and everyone who was rooting for something else is … you know, mad about Birdman. It is possible to admire the exquisite craft and technical facility with which the movie was made, to be amused and charmed by its droll, darkly comic take on narcissism, artistic aspiration, and the fight of a creative individual to make a mark, and still feel a slight twinge of … This again? Another movie about showbiz and its lovable nutcases? There are stretches in which the Oscars seem to go into hibernation; think of the 1980s, when Chariots of Fire and Gandhi and Amadeus and Out of Africa and The Last Emperor won and it was hard to discern how much curiosity, or much of anything other than a desire to retreat from the world and the country into a kind of pictorial/historical splendor, the Academy had. In retrospect, I think those movies won not because Academy voters didn’t care about what was going on in America, but because they didn’t know what was going on with American movies. The 1980s — post–Raging Bull, pre–indie boom that began with 1989’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape — were a decade of uncertainty and trepidation about what American films were supposed to be, other than blockbusters.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/decoding-the-2015-oscars-the-birdman-win-and-what-it-tells-us-about-hollywood/

think of the 1980s, when Chariots of Fire and Gandhi and Amadeus and Out of Africa and The Last Emperor won and it was hard to discern how much curiosity

Wow, I'm having really painful, depressing flashbacks.

apparently there is upset that Joan Rivers was absent from in memoriam.

BITCH WAS NOT A MOVIE ACTRESS

Ahem:

http://statici.behindthevoiceactors.com/behindthevoiceactors/_img/chars/char_68993.jpg

http://beautyblitz.com/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/gallery-images/Muppets-Take-Manhattan-final.jpg

"Matlock" was a TV show though.

is this humor our are you ragging on a face in the crowd? in any case, the andy griffith show far surpasses matlock in terms of pinnacles of griffith's career: television phase.

also

No Andy Griffith a few years ago, and he actually gave one great film performance.

unless it's what you were alluding to above, you must never have seen no time for sergeants