Oh my dear sweet Jebus … could that Oscar ceremony have been any longer and boring than it was? It really don’t think so. Surely there is someone in Hollywood who could come up with a fast paced and exciting awards ceremony. I wonder who gets put in charge of producing the kind of crap that was on last night. All the endless (and totally pointless) movie montages. All those dumb dance bits that celebrated such great movies as “Snakes on a Plane.” All the tired and played out acceptance speeches thanking every single person under the sun. The exception to this was Forest Whitaker. Another exception was Ellen Degeneres who did an excellent job hosting. I think I might just have to skip watching the Oscars next year.
The fact that we get to see the show 3 hours earlier than you is one of the very few advantages of living out here, TV-wise. But even getting over at 9:15 is too damn late when there was so much garbage on the show. I think they ought to cut out a lot of the presenters speeches and lame jokes – that would save a lot of time!
How about, no pre-written crap for presenters to say (unless they can all work it in cleanly like Clooney – who I think may have ignored the scripted stuff and just did his own thing), and make pre-written thank you speeches against the rules so that the winners have 30 seconds to wing it. And fire whoever does the dance stuff. Come on. How can they not have known how lame it was?
Ellen was all right, but half her jokes had punchlines you could see coming. And the Gospel choir moment was a sign that the show was off the cliff already.
sad.
I was real disappointed that no one thanked me.
bitch, bitch, bitch…