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Is it just me or is the production really, really "off" this year? The camera never really seems to know where it's supposed to go. It's too dark when they go to someone in the crowd. And the jokes are really flat.
Sorry ColdChef. I'm on MetaChat, but I don't have a TV. You might want to check the next thread down. There's a couple of comments about the Oscar fashions.
99% of the time, I'm fine without a TV, but I have to admit, I'm missing it tonight.
Just turned it on, I can't usually sit through the whole thing. I don't really care what the academy thinks is a good movie, they usually make such dreadful picks.
Also no TV here. I'm never a big Oscar groupie. LT is, but he had a rehearsal tonight. Last year we livestreamed it. Without his impetus, I wasn't that excited about tracking it - plus, I didn't see very many of this year's movies, so I did other things.
What is wrong with Kristen Stewart? Is she just high all the time?
I truly think she is. I kind of like that about her. She's a part of the craziest franchise with not one but two massive teen heartthrobs, and she never looks happy.
If they cut that out, maybe we could have heard the best song nominees. Or maybe that guy who won for one of the shorts could have given his speech, instead of them playing him off as soon as he opened his mouth.
Watched most of it. I thought the jokes were all right; Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. had the best intro bit. NPH's intro for the guests was also pretty funny.
I did get annoyed at the woman bellowing out the results of each award over the PA right after we saw them, but overall I think it was smooth and good enough. I thought Bigelow was going to fall over there at the end, I wondered if she might have backstage.
No TV, and without much skin in the game (only saw Inglorious Basterds and, um, Star Trek to date), no impetus to stream. I did check Twitter occasionally (I have @trishalynn and @ebertchicago followed) so I got the key stuff, and I refreshed the Wikipedia page to see all the other winners. Sure was Hurt Locker's night, considering all the nail-biting as to whether it would even win Best Picture.
essexjan, he was singing while they showed a montage of all the people who died this year. And according to the radio this morning, they forgot Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur, both of whom did movies.
I held one, a number of times. A neighbor Stu Linder won one for editing a movie called Grand Prix.
It was just on a shelf in his house and it was hard NOT to grab is and pretend to accept it, etc.
It's really heavy!
He and is wife had an autistic child, which probably contributed to their divorce. His wife, who stayed in the house, pretty much drank herself to death.
I also finally got around to watching The Hurt Locker this weekend, danf. We liked it so much. It was a frillion times better than the damn Oscar telecast which was boring and stupid. I'll never get that time back.
gaspode, I was in the middle of a breakup and we saw Diner together, so my memory of that film was not good. I thought it sucked but it might have been the company and the circumstance.
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