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Where's the Academy Award Thread?

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Asking Kristin to do emotion is like asking Corky to explain BCS.
 
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So glad the show ruined Flight. Um, guys, spoilers? F*wads.

Yes, I've seen it already.
 
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Have Daniel Day-Lewis host the Oscars next year. He makes the best joke of the night and is just coolness.
 
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Jennifer Lawrence is awesome. Love her reaction to Seth wanting to see her boobs. (While Charlize Theoron was a total a-hat) and her reaction to the fall. She also did the impossible in Silver Linings Playbook. She made it so a Philadelphia sports fan had a soul.
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
Jennifer Lawrence is awesome. Love her reaction to Seth wanting to see her boobs. (While Charlize Theoron was a total a-hat) and her reaction to the fall. She also did the impossible in Silver Linings Playbook. She made it so a Philadelphia sports fan had a soul.
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I'm thinking the some of the women's reactions to the boobs bit was worked out a bit ahead of time. Charlize Theron has done too much topless work to be really miffed at a joke like that in real life. Add to that, so shortly after that song was done she was on stage doing a dance number with the man. It strikes me as her reaction being prerecorded.

I didn't watch the whole show as I had other things going on at the time, but I think Seth did a decent enough job. The bit with Shatner ran a bit long, much like he does with a lot of jokes on his shows.
 
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I was kind of meh on the whole show. It was just loooooong. I do not think Seth will be asked back. I was not horrified by anything he said but people were. I did love his reaction to the reaction of his John Wilkes Booth joke, which admitedly was not a good one. Presidential assassination jokes rarely are.

I thought the play off music to Jaws was inspired. I've read lots of comments about how rude it was. And if they cut out the 20-minute monologue they would have more time for people to speak without being cut off. And that's a bunch of crap. He could have had a 3-minute opening number and winners would still drone on and on. In my opinion, one thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other. That is not the place to talk about the plight of this or that, it's not. I was so impressed they got so blatant with the play off music. Kudos to whoever came up with that.

Some of Seth's jokes were a bit off the mark. He was trying to slam one person, yet used another person to do it and the uproar over people who didn't get the inital slam was so annoying. Two examples:

1. He was talking about the age of the little girl who was nominated and said it would be a few years till she was of age till she was eligible to be George Clooney's date. That was more of a slam against George Clooney but one FB friend was all over it saying it sexualized a nine-year old. Please.

2. He made a comment about Rex Reed interviewing Adele and made a comment about her weight. That was not a joke about Adele being heavy, it was a slam against Rex Reed who last week made some very bad comments about Melissa McCarthy's weight in his review of Identity Thief.

Also, when he was introducing Christopher Plummer, how do people not get the The Sound of Music reference with the Nazi soldier? That was the exact scene from the movie!! It was the Oscars!!! I thought it was hysterical.

I was happy with all the winners. They were all pretty predictable this year. No real surprises. So glad Argo won. I really enjoyed it. The guy who won for the screenplay (for Argo) gave my favorite speech of the night.
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
Jennifer Lawrence is awesome. Love her reaction to Seth wanting to see her boobs. (While Charlize Theoron was a total a-hat).
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I think the reactions were a setup and not them reacting in the moment.

I thought Seth did fine. Could have been worse. No idea if they'll ask him back.

As for the show running long, they should have started it at 7 regardless. I thought a 7:30 start time was preposterous with the scheduled run time at 3 hours.
 
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I saw most of the movies, but to tell truth, they were just ok. Though better than the stuff we normally get like vampires etc, but the documentary winner ( "Searching for Sugarman", about a Detroit singer from the early 70's) was terrific and if you ask me was better than any of the big movies..WAY better.
 
Scarlet said:
I was kind of meh on the whole show. It was just loooooong. I do not think Seth will be asked back. I was not horrified by anything he said but people were. I did love his reaction to the reaction of his John Wilkes Booth joke, which admitedly was not a good one. Presidential assassination jokes rarely are.

I thought the play off music to Jaws was inspired. I've read lots of comments about how rude it was. And if they cut out the 20-minute monologue they would have more time for people to speak without being cut off. And that's a bunch of crap. He could have had a 3-minute opening number and winners would still drone on and on. In my opinion, one thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other. That is not the place to talk about the plight of this or that, it's not. I was so impressed they got so blatant with the play off music. Kudos to whoever came up with that.

Some of Seth's jokes were a bit off the mark. He was trying to slam one person, yet used another person to do it and the uproar over people who didn't get the inital slam was so annoying. Two examples:

1. He was talking about the age of the little girl who was nominated and said it would be a few years till she was of age till she was eligible to be George Clooney's date. That was more of a slam against George Clooney but one FB friend was all over it saying it sexualized a nine-year old. Please.

2. He made a comment about Rex Reed interviewing Adele and made a comment about her weight. That was not a joke about Adele being heavy, it was a slam against Rex Reed who last week made some very bad comments about Melissa McCarthy's weight in his review of Identity Thief.

Also, when he was introducing Christopher Plummer, how do people not get the The Sound of Music reference with the Nazi soldier? That was the exact scene from the movie!! It was the Oscars!!! I thought it was hysterical.

I was happy with all the winners. They were all pretty predictable this year. No real surprises. So glad Argo won. I really enjoyed it. The guy who won for the screenplay (for Argo) gave my favorite speech of the night.
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The john wilkes booth line was the setup. The "Too soon?" line was the punchline. But I'm not surprised most critics missed it, seeing as they've probably seen one episode of family guy in their combined lives.
 
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I thought the sock puppet version of "The Flight" was outstanding. We all laughed out loud at the scene of all the socks spinning out of control in the dryer! Classic.
 
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I thought the JWB line was the funniest line of the night, closely followed by Aniston's "Welcome to the club" line about waxing.
 
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I thought Seth was very good. Problem is most of your Hollywood types have no ability to laugh at themselves so he probably won't be back.
 
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