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I thought the Oscars were spot on in every case and for all the right reasons. SM was a great film with outstanding cinematography. Well done everyone involved!
 
The Oscars were one of the best in many years. It moved along better. The opening musical number with the makeshift props/sets was in the spirit of filmmaking and fun.
Surprisingly, the part I liked the least was the Seth Rogen skit. The laughing at the sad movies was funny for about 20 seconds then became stale very quickly. Overall a very nice show.
 
RedCrosser said:
The Oscars were one of the best in many years. It moved along better.
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it did feel faster/shorter to me, which I guess is good. The idea of presenting the similar tech awards together I think worked well and didn't take away from the winners.
 
Benjamin Button didn't do much for me. It seemed to long and uneventful. Slumdog was a great movie and I was more emotionally involved but I don't think it deserved best cinematography. I thought TDK was amazing visually and honestly think it should have won best cinematography.

Slumdog did deserve all the other awards. The soundtrack was pretty amazing and was the one element that really stood out to me.
 
I don't watch the god damned oscars. And I don't watch the god damned super bowl either.

As for Slumdog, it was too implausible to be "best" anything, in my book. I have no desire to ever suffer through Benjamin Button, based on what I've read about it.

I've commented on the look of Slumdog in another thread. The faces were not lit in a pleasing way, to me. They seemed to lack dynamic range and have a plastic feel. Someone suggested that that may have been 35mm film (and pushed around too much in post). Whatever, the look of the faces annoyed me, and I didn't like or appreciate it. The story was an eye roller. And the lead character was a champion of mindless greed. He could have quit at a million, even ten million, but he had to risk everything to go for twenty million, just because.

The brother subplot was horrendous.

Half the movie worked. The other half, not so much. That's my take, and I'm sticking to it.
 
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I was just wondering if the guy on camera stage right was from TMZ...found it quite amusing how he/ switcher kept showing the over the shoulder shot of Jennifer Aniston looking towards Brad and Angelina.

Oh yeah..Slumdog did NOT deserve all that they got. Best SOUND EDITING??!!!

WTF??:wacko:
 
I think it's great Slumdog won [not just because I'm a Brit] - it's maybe a sign of a signal change in America that's been going on recently - who'd have ever guessed a foreign film, partly in a foreign language, with a mostly Indian cast & crew (all mostly unknown in the US) & filmed in a real slum would ever win 8 Oscars!!? And a film that at one stage almost went straight to DVD...I guess the Academy and a lot of Americans in general just love an under[slum]dog :biggrin:
 
I've disagreed with Brandon before, so I suppose I will again. :-)

The move "Slumdog" was great. But the story behind it is even better. Like my favorite of all time from 1976, this had a "Rocky"-esque story to it.

My other opinions? I was bummed that Viola Davis didn't win for supporting actress. If you can steal a scene from Meryl Streep in your one scene in a movie...you win an Oscar.

I am VERY glad Micky Roarke didn't win. While I absolutely loved "The Wrestler," I thought 90% of the beauty of his "acting" was in casting. He WAS that guy. But I didn't feel he did that much incredible acting. I mean...I wouldn't have voted an Oscar for Stallone's acting, either, though he was about the only guy who could play "Rocky" as well as he did.

I thought the show itself was much more entertaining this year than past ones. I thought Jackman did an incredible job. I personally would still cut another hour from it. It is a pop show for pop culture...if average people cannot name one nominee even after they are stated...well...maybe it should go into the technical achievements awards done before the show. Sorry techies. Sorry best animated short in a foreign language. :-) The Academy needs to do this show with the golden rule of editing: leave the audience wanting MORE.
 
The show opened as a breath of fresh air and I was kind of on my heels by how solid it was. We had people over to watch and we were all looking at eachother after the first 20-30 minutes and were stoked.

Then it went off the rails rather quickly and turned into something equivalent to a 3rd-rate Vegas show. It even made Beyonce look bland and boring, which I didn't think was possible. I also cannot believe that they had the moving camera for the memorial for those that died. Was that really necessary? You couldn't even read the names or see half of the people.

I also cannot believe that Slumdog, The Reader, and Benjamin Button were even nominated for best picture. Man, I love Fincher, but of all of his movies to get nominated for best picture? This would be at or near the bottom.
 
Yes, were those individual presentations by actors scripted by writers? Some of them seemed very real. I liked that a lot.
 
Kevin Wild said:
I've disagreed with Brandon before, so I suppose I will again. :-)
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And I'm sure you will yet again, and it will always be welcome by me. The Slumdog's screenplay was the thing that made me not like the movie, but as I admitted, I'm aware that I'm missing the point or something went over my head. To each their own :)

Kevin Wild said:
My other opinions? I was bummed that Viola Davis didn't win for supporting actress. If you can steal a scene from Meryl Streep in your one scene in a movie...you win an Oscar.
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This is now my line I'm going to tell in every post oscars discussion i have. :) I never thought about it in that context before. You're so right!
 
Kevin Wild said:
Yes, were those individual presentations by actors scripted by writers? Some of them seemed very real. I liked that a lot.
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I too liked the 5 past winners presenting thing, although some of the compliments seemed more like ego stroking than anything true or constructive, but aside from that I hope they continue to do it that way next year.

Wish they had done that with best director as well.
 
Brandon said:
Wish they had done that with best director as well.
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I can see it now.

Presenter: Danny Boyle, you managed to completely steal the style and tones of City of God and water them down into a superficial, crowd pleaser!

I think that the presenter should even be Fernando Meirelles, lol.
 
Jim Klatt said:
Then it went off the rails rather quickly and turned into something equivalent to a 3rd-rate Vegas show. It even made Beyonce look bland and boring, which I didn't think was possible. I also cannot believe that they had the moving camera for the memorial for those that died. Was that really necessary? You couldn't even read the names or see half of the people.
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I agree with the way they broadcast the In Memoriam segment, very distracting. My opinion is that they should just have stayed with the one Steadicam that was tracking back and forth near the screen or just dissolved directly to the clip. There was also awkwardness with Queen Latifah singing and the audience not knowing whether to applaud over her or not.

Beyonce was performing to tracked vocals while the rest of the cast was singing live. She seemed more concerned about blocking her face or turning it away from the audience at the top of some verses than on performing. I don't know if she didn't rehearse her tracked vocals or if she had planned on singing live but was sick or had a last minute mic malfunction. The situation was detrimental to the performance.

Anyways, the staging looked spectacular in the theatre. They did have some issues with scene transitions which were not as obvious on TV. Considering how hard it is to broadcast a live event like that and make it look good on TV, I think they did a pretty good job.
 
Although I'm ramped up on all the reasons why lip-syncing occasionally occurs, it was a slam on the show itself and Beyonce as a performer that there was felt a need to havea performer of her stature lip-sync.

Note to all "special event" producers: you can't lip sync on TV any more if there are close-ups to be had......everybody knows what it looks like, and even my 10 year old said "Daddy, she's not really singing" about 20 seconds into the bit.

Lip-syncing on live TV is dead...........please and thank-you.
 
I also couldn't believe that they were mixing in old films with the best picture nominee montage...
 
Tim Whitcomb said:
WATCH THIS: http://www.blinkx.com/video/forest-...two-men-the-same-story/r-o12KqGJxx9rogk_ES4AQ
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Lol! I agree..

I've only seen the trailor for "Gump2", during the five minutes that I watch TV before an advert comes on and I just call time on the day

I keep saying to my dad, why do you pay for Sky, its all adverts and those suckers are all paying too? Golf is the short answer.. anyway..

Three times that trailor has been the last thing I've seen before I've gone to bed. Once was enough frankly, and I'd already decided it looked like yet another plastic vehicle to transport me on a pointless journey to nowhere interesting at a fairly slow pace, calculated to look superficially inviting, with a cast to remind you there are actually only fifty actors in the whole world

I find knowing one day I'll die really helps to inspire me to try and spend my time more wisely, though it doesn't always help enough. Thats why I don't bother to watch award shows, and when I do I normally turn the sound off and do voice overs. How I cried one year..

Reading what other people say about the Oscars is more interesting actually..
 
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