-Ellen DeGeneres was pretty funny, not by actually saying anything funny, but by making everyone else feel bad about themselves. Nice.
-First nominee for Word of the Year: "sticktoitiveness."
-The Showing of the Costumes was awkward.
-There's something not right about the thought of Jack Black and Will Ferrell double-teaming Helen Mirren.
-My conspiracy theory regarding the Sound categories turned out to be true.
-Everyone was spared the shame of having to interact with the animated characters.
-Best Supporting Actor, typically the first award, gets pushed back waaaay into the show. Nice pickup by Alan Arkin, btw.
-The screen constantly switching back to 4:3 aspect ratio to accomodate the ticker for the local school closings ruined my HD viewing experience.
-The Reading of the Screenplays was awkward.
-Cars not winning Best Animated Feature ended The Girl's streak of correctly handicapping the Oscars up to that point.
-This whole "penguin movie craze" must end. George Miller: Step away from the cute animal movies, and resume production on Mad Max movies.
-Nice to see Mummenschanz back in action again.
-Through some apparent ballot miscount, Pan's Labyrinth didn't win Best Foreign Film, the one real travesty this year. Oh well; it still won three Oscars. Fuck Hollywood, Viva Mexico!!
-Larry David was not amused by An Inconvenient Truth winning an Oscar.
-The Stiffing of Dreamgirls was awesome.
-Matthew Broderick must be pissed that Little Miss Sunshine won Best Original Screenplay, because the chances of him getting his personal assistant back just went down to zero.
-Ennio Morricone and Quincy Jones are tight. And I wonder if that song will be the first single off Celine Dion's next record. Hmmm...
-A musical not winning Best Song is awesome. And The Girl and I agreed that it would be better if all the performers had just come out and played one of their greatest hits than what they played. I would have preferred "I Wanna Come Over" to whatever it was that Melissa Etheridge actually won for. (Eddie Murphy performing "Party All the Time" would have been good, too.)
-Helen Mirren got what she deserved. Not that there was a doubt, considering she'd won every other award possible for that role.
-Marty Scorsese did the right thing, and mentioned Andy Lau in his acceptance speech.
-And, even with its dogshit ending, The Departed was the right pick. I'll always cheer for Clint, but it was Marty's turn.
Good stuff. See you in 365.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
The Annual Oscar Recap
Posted by E at 9:26 pm
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as you know, i like the departed. only issue with the win is that if i were ranking scorcese films, it would barely make the top 5. My top 10 list (which I expect you to mock) is:
1. Goodfellas
2. Raging Bull
3. Taxi Driver
4. Mean Streets
5. The Departed
6. Cape Fear
7. Casino
8. Gangs of New York
9. Aviator
10. Age of Innocence
N
Move around the top three and take Mean Streets out of the top five, and I've got no problem with your list.
But, what, no love for New York, New York? Please.
No The King of Comedy?!?
And yes...Taxi Driver is number one.
Not sure if you jest, but I'd put King of Comedy in the top five. That's just me, though.
No jesting here...I was 100% serious!
I'd put Color of Money in there, too.
I've only seen King of Comedy once, need to re-review and see how I feel about it. I like COM, but don't love it. However, "It's like a nightmare" is one of my favorite trash talks of all time. N
Well, The Hustler is one of the best movies ever made, so, of course the sequel isn't going to be as good.
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