#51
Posted: 2/27/11 at 11:10pm
Yes.
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#52
Posted: 2/28/11 at 12:20am
Did anyone else notice how many film actors were left out of the "in memoriam" section?
BETTY GARRETT, ARON KINCAID, BARBARA BILLINGSLEY, RUE MCCLANHAN, EDDIE FISHER, GLEN SHADIX, HAROLD GOULD, JOHNNY SHEFFIELD, SIMON MACCOKINDALE, TOM BOSLEY, MEINHARDT RAABE, COREY HAIM, GARY COLEMAN, ILENE WOODS, DOROTHY PROVINE, CAMMIE KING, NEVA PATTERSON, FESS PARKER, BRUCE GORDON, JILL HAWORTH, MARGOT STEVENSON, etc.
BETTY GARRETT, ARON KINCAID, BARBARA BILLINGSLEY, RUE MCCLANHAN, EDDIE FISHER, GLEN SHADIX, HAROLD GOULD, JOHNNY SHEFFIELD, SIMON MACCOKINDALE, TOM BOSLEY, MEINHARDT RAABE, COREY HAIM, GARY COLEMAN, ILENE WOODS, DOROTHY PROVINE, CAMMIE KING, NEVA PATTERSON, FESS PARKER, BRUCE GORDON, JILL HAWORTH, MARGOT STEVENSON, etc.
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#53
Posted: 2/28/11 at 12:45am
Eric Rohmer was not featured. Pretty sure Chabrol and Tura Satana were not in the montage either.
#54
Posted: 2/28/11 at 8:17am
I fell asleep before the In Memoriam part. I loved Scarlett Johannson's dress. I also loved the little True Grit girl. She was adorable.
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#55
Posted: 2/28/11 at 8:30am
As much as I love Hathaway, next year's Oscars should be hosted by Downey & Law. Franco & Hathaway seemed like an ambitious idea, but I guess the writers just didn't know how to make the most out of it. For me, the theater was the star of the night. The way it morphed into some of the segments was very impressive.
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#56
Posted: 2/28/11 at 10:54am
How did THE KING'S SPEECH get nominated (let alone win) for original screenplay when the director admitted that it was based on a play his mother suggested?
More category fraud?
More category fraud?
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#57
Posted: 2/28/11 at 10:59am
It was intended to be a play that David Seidler himself wrote. The script was passed along to many people to eventually Tom Hooper whose mother saw a reading of Seidler's script.
#58
Posted: 2/28/11 at 11:01am
I thought Hathaway did fine. The real clunker was Franco. She would have been fine with someone with some life to play off of. He was just dead. Or stoned out of his mind. I am not sure which.
#59
Posted: 2/28/11 at 12:35pm
I LOVVVVVEEEEDDDD the intro!!!! I was rolling on the floor with their Black Swan skit! James in tights........yum!!!!!
I found his discomfort in the tights (ie covering his "package") to be very funny.
Did anyone else notice how many film actors were left out of the "in memoriam" section?
Don't they usually exclude those they feel are "more famous" in other mediums? Though that doesn't explain Woods, Haim, and others.
I thought Hathaway did fine. The real clunker was Franco. She would have been fine with someone with some life to play off of. He was just dead. Or stoned out of his mind. I am not sure which.
Between twitter & facebook I saw a lot of hate for Hathway which I didn't quite get. I thought she was fine but Franco's whole "I'm too cool for this" schtick weighed it down. And everything I've read today has pointed at Franco being the problem. I loved the bit with her singing "On My Own" to Hugh Jackman (who pulled her up to join him two years ago). But when James came out dressed in the "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend" dress I expected more than just standing there. I guess they wanted the dress itself to be the gag but I wanted more.
I found his discomfort in the tights (ie covering his "package") to be very funny.
Did anyone else notice how many film actors were left out of the "in memoriam" section?
Don't they usually exclude those they feel are "more famous" in other mediums? Though that doesn't explain Woods, Haim, and others.
I thought Hathaway did fine. The real clunker was Franco. She would have been fine with someone with some life to play off of. He was just dead. Or stoned out of his mind. I am not sure which.
Between twitter & facebook I saw a lot of hate for Hathway which I didn't quite get. I thought she was fine but Franco's whole "I'm too cool for this" schtick weighed it down. And everything I've read today has pointed at Franco being the problem. I loved the bit with her singing "On My Own" to Hugh Jackman (who pulled her up to join him two years ago). But when James came out dressed in the "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend" dress I expected more than just standing there. I guess they wanted the dress itself to be the gag but I wanted more.
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#60
Posted: 2/28/11 at 1:58pm
Anne seemed to be the one put as the one making the punchlines while Franco played straight man, so one ends up looking ridiculous while the other looks stoned and completely impersonal.
The presentation was clunky. I liked the background concept when it was Tom Hanks talking about art direction but it was never really exploited that well and some odd still choices. Also Hathaway going to an actor who goes to a presenter with some connection to the category announcement really messed with the flow.
At the end was cheesy and something cut out an ending of Glee going to nationals.
Loved they figure out to isolate the clapping in the In Memoriam and a proper montage of the Best Picture nominees, even if it was so obvious TKS was the winner, unlike last year which was mention one by one and suddenly out of time just have Tom Hanks open the envelope to say the winner.
Glad in the Best Actor/Actress category they let just one presenter talk about the nominee on the fly instead of each person who knew each nominee talked on and on about the person like last year. Jennifer Lawrence mentioned in an interview that she is a huge fan of Jeff Bridges and regularly quotes The Dude, so you could tell she was having a blast that he talked about her.
This was young and fresh Oscars in name only. People who prefer ADD pacing would have checked out after the superimposition of Franco and Hathaway was over. Just seemed like a disconnect of what the writers thought was funny and what is actually behind what makes those two funny.
The presentation was clunky. I liked the background concept when it was Tom Hanks talking about art direction but it was never really exploited that well and some odd still choices. Also Hathaway going to an actor who goes to a presenter with some connection to the category announcement really messed with the flow.
At the end was cheesy and something cut out an ending of Glee going to nationals.
Loved they figure out to isolate the clapping in the In Memoriam and a proper montage of the Best Picture nominees, even if it was so obvious TKS was the winner, unlike last year which was mention one by one and suddenly out of time just have Tom Hanks open the envelope to say the winner.
Glad in the Best Actor/Actress category they let just one presenter talk about the nominee on the fly instead of each person who knew each nominee talked on and on about the person like last year. Jennifer Lawrence mentioned in an interview that she is a huge fan of Jeff Bridges and regularly quotes The Dude, so you could tell she was having a blast that he talked about her.
This was young and fresh Oscars in name only. People who prefer ADD pacing would have checked out after the superimposition of Franco and Hathaway was over. Just seemed like a disconnect of what the writers thought was funny and what is actually behind what makes those two funny.
#61
Posted: 2/28/11 at 7:44pm
At the end was cheesy and something cut out an ending of Glee going to nationals.
I'm sorry but I thought it was beautiful and I'm glad those kids got the chance to do it
Glad in the Best Actor/Actress category they let just one presenter talk about the nominee on the fly
On the fly? It was scripted.
I'm sorry but I thought it was beautiful and I'm glad those kids got the chance to do it
Glad in the Best Actor/Actress category they let just one presenter talk about the nominee on the fly
On the fly? It was scripted.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#62
Posted: 2/28/11 at 7:54pm
Watched the After Party on E! and was a bit disturbed when they showed Justin Bieber and the girl he is dating walking into the Vanity Fair party unescorted.
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#63
Posted: 2/28/11 at 8:44pm
Eris, I thought pushing the kids all the way to the back was trying to keep interest in the show and the song choice and the nominees coming back out just did not warm my cold heart. Great for the kids but why not at the beginning?
I am sure it was scripted to a degree but the whole one on one, talking to the nominee like they are buddy-buddy (can believe Sandra Bullock calling Jeff Bridges by 'Dude', Jesse Eisenberg not so much) seemed to go along with humanizing the nominees like last year (which if you told me was scripted I will give you Colin Farrell talking about Jeremy Renner and Michelle Pfeiffer talking about Jeff Bridges as counters). Plus it was Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges. I just do not think scripted, robotic recitations with those two.
I am sure it was scripted to a degree but the whole one on one, talking to the nominee like they are buddy-buddy (can believe Sandra Bullock calling Jeff Bridges by 'Dude', Jesse Eisenberg not so much) seemed to go along with humanizing the nominees like last year (which if you told me was scripted I will give you Colin Farrell talking about Jeremy Renner and Michelle Pfeiffer talking about Jeff Bridges as counters). Plus it was Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges. I just do not think scripted, robotic recitations with those two.
#64
Posted: 3/1/11 at 11:29am
I knew it wouldn't happen, but I really wanted Eisenberg to win.
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