94th Oscars: Movie Musical Mania! - News & Discussion Thread- Page 5

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 12:41am

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 1:00am

TaffyDavenport said: ""

 

 

 

Our three Broadway vets!

I personally think it's great that they only decided to give out 3 acting awards tonight –– too much competition among the actors between Denzel and Andrew and Benedict that there was no need to give out an award.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 1:02am

People are wild. The Oscars put the Smith's front and center - seating wise - then kept digging into them. I'm not here for the Will Smith erasure.

[UWS10023]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 1:13am

The whole configuration with the tables in front and then the stadium seating was awkward. I thought it was one of the weaker shows in recent memory as far as it’s conception. The transitions were nonexistent and it was weird how the non televised awards were inserted into the live broadcast. When one of the hosts made reference to the second hour starting I could not believe that it had only been one hour for it had felt like so much longer. The Chris Rock joke WAS mean. She was sitting right there for heaven’s sake. Usually jokes like that are said about people that are not in attendance like the weight gain joke. But Will did snap. It certainly will go down in Oscar history. I did think that Amy Schumer was landing with her humor.

Updated On: 3/28/22 at 01:13 AM

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 2:22am

Amy was great (and I loved all the hosts, but it did feel a little 2 vs 1) - but her and Jennifer Lawerence are really good friends so that “fat joke” was def in jest. 

[Seb28]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 5:45am

Julie Andrews has never hit someone at the Oscars. What a wonderful time that was.

The joke had no class. The violence even less. The worst part of this is that a big part of the population (including posters here) find this kind of behaviour normal. The world is turning into a Zoo, where violence is the only way to express yourself and where hosts of this kind of events descended to dumb roast jokes. The time of real humour, elegance and respect is long gone.

[fbueller]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 7:17am

Has Janet Hubert commented on the Will Smith assault incident?

[BJR]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 7:58am

It's a great reminder that you can defend someone without violence. And battery is not excused by an offensive joke.

It's truly shocking how many people defend violence.

What if it was a non famous person going up on stage? What if the comedian was a woman? What if he hit him twice? Where is the line? How about, the line is no violence at The Oscars.

Shameful the producers of the program didn't immediately swoop into action to condemn such a destabilizing and unhinged action.

[fbueller]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 8:01am

Moment of honesty.  How would the reaction be different if a white man like Hugh Jackman had punched Chris onstage?

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 8:09am

Is there any content anywhere of Rachel Zegler with her WSS cast mates-or anyone from the movie?? 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 9:14am

There's a slow-mo of the slap/punch and Will Smith doesn't even make contact with Chris Rock. Also, why wasn't Will Smith escorted out? That's assault. Just seems staged.

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 9:40am

Ugh. Just when I thought I had seen the last of the word “staged” in this thread, here come the conspiracy theories…

[Seb28]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 9:51am

fbueller said: "Moment of honesty. How would the reaction be different if a white man like Hugh Jackman had punched Chris onstage?"

Then the physical offender would have been slaughtered by the media and public reaction, and the host would have dwelled in the victim role. That situation would have fitted the popular narrative. Reality is the other way around.

But of course your example is just figurative. It hasn't happened in 93 years. And will most probably never happen either. The Oscars will probably disappear.

Updated On: 3/28/22 at 09:51 AM

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 10:09am

sparksatmidnight said: "Am I the only one who thought bringing out Liza was a bit... tasteless? She seemed a bit lost on the reason why she was there, even"

She faired better than Kirk Douglas the last few times he was at the ceremony. Also, she’s recently been making public appearances (CBS This Morning) and with the 50 anniversary of Cabaret, it makes sense. I think she seemed nervous more than anything. 

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 10:18am

If Ricky Gervais was punched everytime he personally offended someone he would have been dead long time ago.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 10:39am

Y'all...that was so staged.  Come on, now.

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 10:57am

Borstalboy said: "Y'all...that was so staged. Come on, now."

To what end? Who does it benefit? They both come off looking pretty bad.

[UWS10023]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 10:59am

TheQuibbler said: "sparksatmidnight said: "Am I the only one who thought bringing out Liza was a bit... tasteless? She seemed a bit lost on the reason why she was there, even"

She faired better than Kirk Douglas the last few times he was at the ceremony. Also, she’s recently been making public appearances (CBS This Morning) and with the 50 anniversary of Cabaret, it makes sense. I think she seemed nervous more than anything."

Seems there was some awkwardness with a Bette Davis appearance a year or two before she passed if I remember correctly. I thought Liza looked good.

The slap was so unfortunate for so many reasons one being the escalation of violence seen in Ukraine and USA city streets and subway systems.

The In Memorandum section needs to always show close up photos or clips of the person who passed away. Splitting the focus with a large group of performers does not work.

Congrats to CODA! What a lovely movie!
 

 

 

 

Updated On: 3/28/22 at 10:59 AM

[Seb28]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 11:23am

So the host of the Oscars was physically assaulted/attacked on stage, why was Smith not escorted out?

Another group of men was sexually assaulted/groped by a woman, why was Hall not escorted out?

Wat kind of sewer has the Oscars turned into?

Updated On: 3/28/22 at 11:23 AM

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 11:50am

Clearly, they didn't want to "talk about bruno", because that was not the song at all. 

[Playbill_Trash]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 12:10pm

Does anyone else agree that Questlove has an EGOT ahead of him?

He has a bunch of Grammys and now an Oscar. He has a history of producing broadway shows and was even Tony nominated when Fela was up for best musical in 2010. So I can believe some kind of creative involvement again could get him a Tony in the future.

And as far as the Emmy’s go, there’s tons of categories where he could easily win based on his talents and possible upcoming projects.

I could say the same about Billie Eilish now, just hasn’t shown a big theatre connection - yet.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 12:17pm

It benefits the Oscars, whose ratings have been circling the drain for years. 

 

I'll take a line from David Sirota:  My thoughts on the Oscar Slap incident are that it’s 70 degrees in Antarctica and what’s left of the livable ecosystem is being destroyed and so we should focus on that.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 12:18pm

Seb28 said: "So the host of the Oscars was physically assaulted/attacked on stage, why was Smith not escorted out?

Another group of men was sexually assaulted/groped by a woman, why was Hall not escorted out?

Wat kind of sewer has the Oscars turned into?"

 

I found the extreme to which Hall's bit continued to be going to far...I grew uncomfortable.  On the other end, it would be interesting to know how the men felt, if this had happened (without consent) with a man groping women, the world would be screaming.

 

[Melissa25]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 12:29pm

Completely agree.  Was very uncomfortable and thought it tasteless and not funny at all.

[OhHiii]

Posted: 3/28/22 at 12:38pm

Borstalboy said: "Y'all...that was so staged. Come on, now."

You...are wrong. Come on, now.