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02/23/09
Yay!
- Heath Ledger won the Best Supporting Actor
- Hugh Jackman as the host
- Wall-E
- Domo Arigato Mr Roboto!
- Jack Black betting on Pixar using Dreamworks money
- Set design
Nay!
- Wall-E screenplay lost to Milk
- Moving/panning cam work during memoriam
Anymore?
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I think they just couldn't figure out how to get a bouncy musical number out of Holocaust movie . . . :)
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02/23/09
How often do you see footage from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE on the Oscars?
Somewhere Ed Wood is smiling . . . .
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The big production number with Bouncy (whatsername?) lip-syncing while everyone else sang their guts out was embarrassing. Baz Lurmann, your visa has been canceled. Please report to LA-X for immediate deportation.
Rough for TDK - Hollywood loves the money movies like that make but hates to be seen with it (like your cousin who makes a fortune selling Amway.)
And the cynic in me feels, if Heath had been eating M&M's that night and woke up the next day with a hangover, Hollywood would have been more than happy to pass him over last night too.
Before anyone throws a brick, I'm not saying the Oscar went to a sub-standard performance. I'm saying his untimely passing forced Hollywood to grudgingly recognize a good one they'd rather have ignored because it wasn't for "a serious piece of work."
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Everyone I know who's actually from India.
02/23/09
And this is from someone whose sat through HOURS of bad Bollywood.
02/23/09
A) Pulp Fiction was better than Forrest Gump
B) Brokeback Mountain was better than Crash
C) Anything was better than Shakespeare in love
D) Star Wars is more classic than Annie Hall (highly debatable)
E) All of the above
The sad part? I can't say any of the movies in the best picture category were better than Slumdog Millionaire. It was a good movie. Just not best movie material. Neither were any of the others in the category. The Dark Knight or Wall-E both deserved that over generic "feel-good uplifting movie of the year #367."
02/23/09
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02/23/09
I don't get the hate on the show. I actually watched the whole thing, and I haven't done that in years. Not perfect, but at least Hugh wasn't trying to be funny. He was just charming.
02/23/09