Oscar Night

[filkertom]

Make your picks, liveblog it, gnash your teeth because your favorite film lost. Go wild.

ETA: Or not, apparently. ;)

Comments

[jss]

No. :)

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

I predict I'm going to skip the whole thing. As usual.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Same here. I usually hear something about someone/thing that one sometime in the 6 months or so after they're awarded. Totally by accident.

As usual, I've seen between 0 and 1 film with any nominations.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Don't plan on watching it. I do hope that a certain movie does NOT win best picture.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Ten nominees? Steve Martin ca. 2010 hosting? Bored now. :-)

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

Currently watching Holmes on Homes and quite happily missing the whole spectacle. :-)

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

I thought Neil Patrick Harris was sixteen shades of awesome, and the over-the-top fans and sequins Busby Berkeley dance number made me wave my hands with glee.

Then Steve Martin started talking and spoiled everything. But I still loved the opening....

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Yah, I've been too busy watching "In the Shadow of the Moon" and downloading some music shows.

But I will smile if I read tomorrow that "Avatar" got its butt whomped...

[saganth.livejournal.com]

OK, your avatar just stuck this song in my head:

"I'm a Daffy girl, in a daffy world! I'm so spastic, and elastic..."

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Tom, are you paying attention to this one?

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

I've been locked up in the barracks all day, and we don't have TV here. I look forward to going home in 8 days, so I can try and catch up with the rest of the world.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I'm actually finding the show quite amusing. I wish they were doing the musical numbers with the nominated songs, though.

Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. debating writers vs. actors was pretty damn hilarious. And hey, Up won, so I'm happy.

[cathain.livejournal.com]

I wish Coraline had won :(

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Ahh, that may explain why the flist and etc have been dead as doornails today... I'm so out of it I didn't even know that was today.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Why does everybody want AVATAR to lose? I think we can use all the Best Picture Oscar-winning genre films we can get, myself.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

I can't say about anybody else, but I wasn't impressed with Avatar's plot. And if winning Best Picture for a film that was top-rate visuals with a no-big-deal plot is the best SF can do, I'm not interested.

I want an SF film to win Best Picture because it was the Best Picture all the way around. Script, acting, FX, directing, and whatever else goes into deciding Best Picture. I don't know which film should win, offhand, but Avatar isn't it as far as I'm concerned.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

It could be said the plot of Avatar was kept simple to help with the immersion factor. And it's not like other Best Picture awards had great script, acting, FX, directing, etc. In fact I could think of some that didn't.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Because it's NOT a Best-Picture-quality movie. Stunning effects, terrific score... third-grade Disney-retread plot. The idea of wanting to see that movie win Best Picture because it's a genre film, rather than on its own merits, really bothers me.

Let it take the awards it deserves (Effects definitely, Score possibly), and let something with real plot and characterization have Best Picture.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Like Hurt Locker (as if that had any plot of characterization either)?

[alverant.livejournal.com]

How about how sci-fi films that are Best Picture on its own merits quality not even be considered for nomination because they're sci-fi films? Sci-fi constantly get snubbed except for things like special effects because they are sci-fi films. It wasn't until Star Wars that sci-fi files were even CONSIDERED best picture material

Look at Titanic. Nice effects, bland score, unoriginal plot that's been done before and lifted from a history book. But that won despite being inferior to Avatar in every important way. Same is true of Dances with Wolves and a host of other movies that won.

The fact that films like Forest Gump and Rocky won Best Picture disproves the idea that movies that aren't Best-Picture-quality shouldn't win. Meanwhile the fact Iron-Man and Dark Knight ARE Best-Picture-quality but weren't even considered shows a bias in the selection process that needs to be countered.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Two wrongs don't make a right. I don't want to see ANY genre film win just for the sake of it being a genre film -- that's tokenism, and it damages the genre just the way racial tokenism damages the fight for racial equality.

And I'd never heard of Hurt Locker, let alone seen it, while I have seen Avatar. Therefore I feel qualified to comment on the latter but not on the former.

[mythdude.livejournal.com]

I'm loving the jokes in this one. To me at least this is one of the best Oscar ceremonies in years! :D

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

I watched the whole thing, and enjoyed it. Well done, especially compared to most Oscar telecasts.

The winners? Yeah, I'm good. I haven't seen The Hurt Locker yet, but given the reviews, I'm not surprised.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Go Army, Beat Na'vi!

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it, but I'm so very very glad I TiVo'd it. There was a lot of blah this year. But I'd put Robert Downey Jr. and Tina Fey together any day of the week.

[tommytoony.livejournal.com]

Of all those movies, I've only seen "Up"...and that won...so yay.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

No sci-fi film has EVER won Best Picture despite the large amount of sci-fi films that were of best picture quality. The closest sci-fi has is Return of the King which is technically fantasy and is the only fantasy film to have won that award. So why all the hate on sci-fi?

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch the tribute to the great god Os-car last night, but will go through it probably tonight in about 15 minutes to see if there was anything worth watching.

As for the movies, I didn't see a single movie in 2009 (heck, I think the last movie I went to the cinema for was "Brokeback Mountain"). I'll play catch up with "Dark Knight," "Star Trek" and "Harry Potter 6" at my sister's place over the year, and hopefully will watch HP6 in time for HP7, Part 1.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

The only reason I'm upset is that the Oscars don't have a "No Award" option.