The 2010 Academy Awards

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Alex B.

The Academy Awards are tonight at 7pm central on ABC. Red Carpet on E! now

My favorite moment was Martin's reference to The Jerk with the girl from Precious. That had me rolling.

Anyone notice they left Farrah Fawcett out of the deceased tribute?

I was relieved Avatar didn't win Best Picture, which I was expecting. I still haven't gotten around to watching Hurt Locker to see if it's better than Precious or A Serious Man. I was really bummed by Avatar winning best Art Direction, which it really didn't deserve.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

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I was really bummed that Avatar won for Cinematography. There really not much Cinematography involved in that movie. Since everything was computer animated around what little live action that was involved.

Then again, meshing the live and the animated has its challenges.
 
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Okay, a few more thoughts from me.

1) With the number of deceased, why did John Hughes got 5 minutes? He's good, yes, but no better than the others.
2) I know Ferrah wasn't there and should have been, but what about Bea Arthur?
3) Why the fuck was Michael Jackson in the montage? Talk about stupid.
4) I know they like to do original score & stuff but what was with the 5-minute interpretive dance number? How can you dance to "The Hurt Locker"?
 
Espy

Espy

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sixpackshaker said:
Then again, meshing the live and the animated has its challenges.
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Thats an understatement.

I would venture, and I haven't read the cinefex article on it yet so maybe they did something unusual, that like most big movies with lots of CGI every shot is still filmed and requires just as much cinematography as every other film. Its just that the post end is heavier and matched with CGI cameras.

Just out of curiosity Alex, what do you think deserved the Art Direction oscar?
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

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Dave said:
Okay, a few more thoughts from me.

1) With the number of deceased, why did John Hughes got 5 minutes? He's good, yes, but no better than the others.
2) I know Ferrah wasn't there and should have been, but what about Bea Arthur?
3) Why the fuck was Michael Jackson in the montage? Talk about stupid.
4) I know they like to do original score & stuff but what was with the 5-minute interpretive dance number? How can you dance to "The Hurt Locker"?
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1) He was incredibly influential and launched the careers of so many people. He had a hand in nearly every great comedy in the 80s. He defined a generation and a decade with his work. He 100% deserved a tribute like that.

3) He was responsible for a lot of memorable and amazing short films. He worked with Scorcese and John Landis.

4) I couldn't drink fast enough to catch up with that segment.
 
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Dave

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The Lovely Boner;350891][QUOTE=Dave said:
Okay, a few more thoughts from me.

1) With the number of deceased, why did John Hughes got 5 minutes? He's good, yes, but no better than the others.
2) I know Ferrah wasn't there and should have been, but what about Bea Arthur?
3) Why the fuck was Michael Jackson in the montage? Talk about stupid.
4) I know they like to do original score & stuff but what was with the 5-minute interpretive dance number? How can you dance to "The Hurt Locker"?
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1) He was incredibly influential and launched the careers of so many people. He had a hand in nearly every great comedy in the 80s. He defined a generation and a decade with his work. He 100% deserved a tribute like that.

3) He was responsible for a lot of memorable and amazing short films. He worked with Scorcese and John Landis.

4) I couldn't drink fast enough to catch up with that segment.[/QUOTE]

I agree with you on 1 but don't think he should have had a different spot than the normal memorial.

Short films? You mean videos? Are we including them in the Oscars now? No. Michael did NOT belong there and I'm very glad we won't have to worry about him again.
 
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Alex B.

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Espy said:
Just out of curiosity Alex, what do you think deserved the Art Direction oscar?
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I'm not sure which one should have actually, because of the others Sherlock Holmes is the only one I got a chance to see. I just thought that, much like the script, there was way too much in Avatar in the way of design (from the ship designs to the landscape) that we'd seen before already. It was fine, don't get me wrong, just not original enough to earn a top prize. To me, anyway.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

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sixpackshaker said:
I was really bummed that Avatar won for Cinematography. There really not much Cinematography involved in that movie. Since everything was computer animated around what little live action that was involved.

Then again, meshing the live and the animated has its challenges.
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The cinematography was a big deal for Avatar because the new technology allowed them to digitally project the environment and animals of Pandora into the camera video that the director and others watch while filming. Meaning while the actors walk around the green screen room, you can actually see what will be around them in the movie. That's fucking amazing.
 
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Alex B.

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Speaking of short films, I wish there were a good venue for those. Occasionally I'll catch a short documentary on HBO or something, but the short fiction and animated films I never get to see any of (other than Pixar's of course).
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

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Yes, Dave, there is literally an Oscar for "Best Short Film". Live action and animated.
 
sixpackshaker

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John Hughes got the attention because the academy snubbed him through his entire career. Comedies never get much attention.
It is how one critic said that Jeff Bridges really got the Oscar for his turn in The Big Lebowski, because he was passed over on the grounds that it was a comedy.
 
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Dave

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The Lovely Boner said:
Yes, Dave, there is literally an Oscar for "Best Short Film". Live action and animated.
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I know that. But not music videos, which is what Michael Jackson did. The music video awards are over there ---->
 
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Dave

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The Lovely Boner;350937][QUOTE=Dave;350934][QUOTE=The Lovely Boner said:
Yes, Dave, there is literally an Oscar for "Best Short Film". Live action and animated.
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I know that. But not music videos, which is what Michael Jackson did. The music video awards are over there ---->[/QUOTE]

Thriller and Bad were much more short films than music videos.[/QUOTE]

Did they have music in them of the same name? Were the acting parts nothing more than a vehicle for promoting the songs? Nope. Music videos. Fail.
 
Dave

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Compare the IMDBs of the people that were there in memorial. ONLY Michael Jackson had so little to offer the medium. Ed McMahon, Farrah, Bea Arthur were all in movies yet they were not there because they were more TV than movies. Yet MJ was there? He was MUCH less deserving to be up there than Farrah or Bea. Much.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

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Dave, are you suggesting somehow that these things are based not on merit but popularity? I am appalled that you would even think such a thing.

Appalled I tell you.
 
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Alex B.

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To be fair, he was a 3D Pioneer with Captain EO. Cameron clearly owes it all to him. :p
 
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Philosopher B.

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Some of my thoughts:

I literally yelled 'Fuck yeah!' when they said Christoph Waltz' name, and it was sweet that Bridges got some love. The Hurt Locker, Up, and even Star Trek brought home some gold while Avatar was pooped on in most of the more important areas.

I can't believe Sandra Bullock got an Oscar. Granted, while I haven't seen The Blind Side, the clips I've seen have left me less than impressed. She's hard enough to watch without badly dyed hair and a lame southern accent. It's like giving Keanu Reeves an Oscar. Speaking of which, he looked like he just crawled off of a desert island.

The camera loved Maggie Gyllenhaal. I didn't mind.

The announcement of Best Picture was terrible. I know they announced the nominees throughout the night, but it still felt abrupt and anti-climactic.

I can't stand the congratulatory format of praising all the Best Actor and Actress nominees. Just ugh. I had to stop watching.

I really wish Inglourious Basterds could have at least snagged some other award, like Best Screenplay. Tarantino needs more love.

The John Hughes tribute made me very happy, especially when they included the 'those aren't pillows' clip. :biggrin:

The fact that those Twilight bergs announced the horror tribute montage thingy made my stomach churn.

Bridges had the best on-stage reaction.
 
Cajungal

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What was even crazier, PB, is that Twilight was INCLUDED in their little Horror medley. Twilight was in the same tribute as The Shining. :confused:

I gotta say, I was happy for Mo'Nique, but she can be kind of... intense, I guess. Same thing happened when she did a comedy show at a federal prison. It was half comedy, half preaching about society. Did anyone else see Samuel L. Jackson make a "uhh, wtf?" face after her speech?
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

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I'm so glad I'm not the one that vomits in her mouth a little every time I see S.Bullock.
 
Calleja

Calleja

I didn't like The Hurt Locker that much, to be honest. I don't understand why it got so many accolades, it was a decent movie, sure, but nothing we haven't seen lots of times before. It was, to me, the epitome of "meh".

I would have given the oscar to either Inglorious Basterds or District 9. But if it were up to me the show would have been nothing but Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin being hilarious and handing out the awards themselves, hour and a half tops, boom, done.


I did get goosebumps when James Taylor started singing A Day in the Life, though, but not because of the tribute... that song just gets to me. It's so fracking awesome.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Dude, the original version of some MJ videos are, in fact, short films. They're at least 10-20 minutes long and tell a story. They're so much more than just music videos when seen in their entirety.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

My wife has decided that this year, we are going to watch every movie nominated for a major award. All of them, documentaries included. Considering that Star Trek was the only movie nominated for anything that I've seen this year, I'm not sure how to feel about that.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Fun Size said:
My wife has decided that this year, we are going to watch every movie nominated for a major award. All of them, documentaries included. Considering that Star Trek was the only movie nominated for anything that I've seen this year, I'm not sure how to feel about that.
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You're going to watch a lot of amazingly good and well-crafted movies.







and The Blind Side.
 
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Steven Soderburgin

In addition to all the Oscar nominated films, you should watch Moon, The Informant!, Adventureland, and Where The Wild Things Are. They are in the "should've been nominated for everything but weren't nominated for anything" category of this year's Oscars.

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Also, I really really want to see Un Prophete, but it's not playing anywhere in Austin yet. I'm probably going to go see The White Ribbon this week.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

It was great to see T-Bone Burnett get some recognition. I know of him more as a musicologist than musician, but I want to hear his stuff badly.
 
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Alucard

Glad Up, Inglorious Basterds, Star Trek, and many others won something.

I didn't really care about Avatar. Sure decent film but overhyped.
 
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