Oscars 2012 — Page 14

I agree with all you guys on pretty much everything.

Loved the Jaws music.

Renee looked...frightening.

Overall I did think the show was boring.

The Les Miz number looked cramped in front of the those panels. Considering the producers are musical guys I was expecting that to be the highlight. But it sounded horrible. The sound levels were all askew.

Samantha Barks looked fantastic though.



I had high expectations.

Seth McFarlane being edgy and deflating some of those egos with some well timed punctures.
Tributes to musicals (which I also love, duh)
And plenty of room for upsets and surprises.

What I got was a blander than bland version of McFarlane, some musical numbers that could have been so much more, and for the most part predictable wins.

Am I being too harsh?

---

Updated On: 2/25/13 at 06:24 AM

Ha! Love this:

---

Re-watched the whole Les Mis number. Must have been caught up in the moment. Oy! Not very good at all.

The horror. The horror. Seth McFarlane hit bold new lows of adolescent unfunniness last night -- "We Saw Your Boobs" -- really? Shatner's sudden appearance almost saved the day, but ultimately underscored the fact that way too much of the first half hour was All About Seth. Past Oscar hosts usually concentrate on the films, while McFarlane found it necessary to do a Kochian "How'm I Doin?" schtick that just devolved into a massive act of auto-analingus.

McFarlane wasn't the only one, though. The cast of THE AVENGERS seemed to be trying to do some kind of comic put-down one-upmanship act, but it fell really flat. It got to the point where I started to dread any sign that anyone was going to try to be funny.

The only really funny thing in the entire telecast was a shot of socks in a dryer. Think about that.

A lot of the show felt really perfunctory, by the numbers. That tired little montage of James Bond clips at least gave us one bit of high-camp class, when Shirley Bassey appeared to sing "Goldfinger" -- for my money the real highlight of the entire show. The Salute To Musicals was well done enough, I guess, and was interesting in that the performance of "All That Jazz" was infinitely better than what wound up in the Oscar-winning travesty, and good old Jennifer Hudson nailed her big song from DREAMGIRLS all over again, and then came that big LES MIS wankjob, with Russell Crowe proving that he just has no shame at all by showing up and making it clear that his godawful vocals weren't just a momentary aberration: the guy just can't f*cking sing.

Ms. Streisand's performance should pretty well put a stop to those rumors that she'll be doing GYPSY any time soon.

As for the awards themselves -- whatever. I'm glad that Jennifer Lawrence won. Can't really comment on Christoph Waltz's surprise, or on Tarantino's, because I haven't and probably won't see the movie. I'd say that ARGO winning Best Picture is like ROCKY winning Best Picture over ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, NETWORK and TAXI DRIVER, but I don't think that any of the nominated films are as good as ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, NETWORK and TAXI DRIVER.

I really really hope that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host next year. They manage the snark and the mean-ness and the deflation of egos with a degree of warmth and wit and even just plain intelligence that a boob like McFarlane can never approach. Remembering Poehler's joke about how, when it comes to torture, she'll take the word of the woman who spent 5 years married to James Cameron made McFarlane's pathetic smirking bullsh*t ("Here's To The Losers" indeed) all the more embarassing.

At least he never did "You like me, you really like me!" at Sally Field.

---

Updated On: 2/25/13 at 10:07 AM

Happy for Jennifer Lawrence. She is intimidatingly talented.

Sad for "How to Survive A Plague," but "Sugarman" had so much sentiment and promotion behind it I wasn't surprised. Still sucks.

Pissed about Ang Lee. I love him, love "Brokeback," love "Crouching Tiger," but I found "Pi" to be pretentious twaddle. Pretty, but in a very self-aware, oh look what we can do kind of way. I know the movie has tons of fans, but I'm not one of them.

I always wondered why Hathaway was nominated in the Supporting Actress category. Which female character would be considered the female lead in Les Mis or is there a female lead in Les Mis?

Was it the amount of screen time that determined which category she was nominated in?

I thought it odd when Susan Sarandon was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in Atlantic City when she was clearly the female lead.

What or who determines what category the performances fall under? The screen time of the role, the studio or a combination of both and other elements?

Susan Sarandon was nominated for Best Actress for Atlantic City.

I dont think Les Misearables has a female lead.

---

She's won everything under the sun for this and was one of the few locks...when she said "It's true" or whatever the first words out of her mouth were, I threw up in my mouth a little. I much prefer Jennifer Lawrence's what seems sincere surprise to Hathaway's increasingly rehearsed surprised.

Hathaway said, "It came true" as like a reference to having "Dreamed A Dream" and yeah, it was kind of puke-making.

---

Meanwhile, is Dustin Hoffman getting ready to do the Tony Bennett story? He looked ready for the part last night.

---

Does anyone knownwhere John Travolta bought his hair?

I guess I'm in the minority, but, I thought Anne Hathaway's comment about "It came true" was lovely.

Anyone winning an Academy Award must have had a dream at one point in their lives. How incredible for the winners who have their dreams come true.

I never thought that she was going for 'fake surprise'. While a win is never guaranteed, her joy at having won was evident.

I think she's elegant and classy and her moment was celebrated beautifully.

---

Entertainment Weekly said that Catherine Zeta-Jones was absolutely lip-syncing.

"but 2003 winner Catherine Zeta-Jones turned in an obviously lip-synched performance of Chicago's 'All That Jazz.'"


TOSS-UP: Movie Musical Montage