The Oscars: A musical

Seems like a lot of people loved the Academy Awards last night? I gotta say I thought the show was horrible but that has probably to do with my dislike of musicals. Which had me basically giving a Luke-like "Nooooooo" when another song-and-dance number came on. And I like Hugh Jackman so that's nothing against him hosting.

Also not sure about the 5 for 5 presenters and the reason for it is pretty insulting to last year's winners. "Sorry, we did it one way all throughout the award show's history but you guys simply are not big enough stars to present alone. We gotta make a stand here." You gave them the freaking Oscar last year, big stars or not.

On the other hand it was nice to see a group of five previous winners say something about current nominees. Though I miss the clips.

Not having seen a single one of the nominated movies, I can't comment much on them. Am happy for Kate Winslet's win. I like her and I think she earned it.

Also happy about Heath Ledger's basically honorary award but honestly, it's also damn hypocritical since he probably wouldn't even have been nominated if not for his passing. And his performance damn well deserved the award (yeah, I saw Dark Knight). No matter what.

IMO the movie would have also deserved a nomination as best picture. Winning or not? Who knows. But a nomination would have been good. In that vein, I liked Will Smith and Hugh Jackman dissing the Academy dissing action flicks. Heh.

The Oscars: A musical

Seems like a lot of people loved the Academy Awards last night? I gotta say I thought the show was horrible but that has probably to do with my dislike of musicals. Which had me basically giving a Luke-like "Nooooooo" when another song-and-dance number came on. And I like Hugh Jackman so that's nothing against him hosting.

Also not sure about the 5 for 5 presenters and the reason for it is pretty insulting to last year's winners. "Sorry, we did it one way all throughout the award show's history but you guys simply are not big enough stars to present alone. We gotta make a stand here." You gave them the freaking Oscar last year, big stars or not.

On the other hand it was nice to see a group of five previous winners say something about current nominees. Though I miss the clips.

Not having seen a single one of the nominated movies, I can't comment much on them. Am happy for Kate Winslet's win. I like her and I think she earned it.

Also happy about Heath Ledger's basically honorary award but honestly, it's also damn hypocritical since he probably wouldn't even have been nominated if not for his passing. And his performance damn well deserved the award (yeah, I saw Dark Knight). No matter what.

IMO the movie would have also deserved a nomination as best picture. Winning or not? Who knows. But a nomination would have been good. In that vein, I liked Will Smith and Hugh Jackman dissing the Academy dissing action flicks. Heh.