Oscars 2009
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lumineauxHere we go . . .
A few technical difficulties get us off to a slow start in the middle of the ABC Red Carpet special.
Meryl Streep is wearing a classy gray gown, no jewelry, but her hair - too too many shades of Bride of Frankenstein.
Penelope Cruz is wearing the Hollywood equivalent of a northern NJ Italian wedding gown.
Marisa Tomei is being devoured alive by an origami swan. And somewhere I'm sure there's an anime porn movie based on just that theme.
So we start the bidding on the first Oscars pool: how soon into the broadcast will they cut to Jack Nicholson?
I am probably the only person here who is having a geek squee over the musical director's discussion of setting the Lawrence of Arabia theme to a big band tempo.
8:30 Hugh Jackman. I must be largely alone in finding him sort of meh. But wait . . . the accent makes it all better. OK, as long as he speaks the entire time we're having sex, I wouldn't kick him out of bed.
8:32 Kate Winslet is gorgeous x 10 in gray. I want to be her when I grow up. I really do.
8:34 I'm amused by the conceit of a home-made opening number, but not that amused. It's time for cookies.
8:39 Mickey Rourke. Oh My Gawd. I bow before his awfulness. The hair. The silver tooth. The hair. The . . . oh nouns fail me.
8:42 Are they gonig to do a montage before every one of the major awards? That could be cool.
8:43 Tilda Swinton. The Queen of the Damned has emerged from her Todd Browning approved coffin to participate in presenting the Best Supporting Actress award. Apparently she's forgotten to wipe her mouth from the blood of her victims.
Eva Marie Saint is class classy classy.
Whoopi Goldberg - meh with the mehness. The dress is awful, to be sure. But I was hoping for a more epic awful from Whoopi.
8:45 Amy Adams seems to be wearing a pectoral ransacked from the Assyrian exhibit at the Met.
8:47 Given that Penelope Cruz is wearing a mafia girl wedding dress, I think Angelica Huston must be the mother of the bride. Why can't anyone in Hollywood fit a bodice properly? The boob squishing can't be comfortable.
Small time delay due to the belated arrival of dinner.
8:55 - Is that Sohpia Loren risen from the dead and attacked by taffeta?
Tina Fey and Steve Martin are funny. Maybe someone let them write their own copy.
Our first political speech of the evening from the screenplay winner for Milk.
We're a half hour into the evening and still no Jack Nicholson. I'm stunned. I'm inclined to go with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blinkensopps ' theory that Tilda Swinton drank his blood and dumped him in the coat room.
WALL*E for best animated feature, which makescaitlindancer happy.
Is it just me, or does Jack Black look just like the Baron of Settmour Swamp? Not as much as Peter Jackson does, of course.
Oh, what John Stewart could have done with a film named "Lavatory Lovestory." Lacking John Stewart this year, I'll just do it myself. Lavatory Lovestory: The Larry Craig Story ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig)
AHHHHHHHH! Jack Black "spoke" French! AAAAAAAH. My ears!
All caught up to live TV now.
9:15 Sarah Jessica Parker looks only slightly godawful on the SJP scale of awfulness. She is, after all, a class of fugly all her own. You just can't expect her to dress like normal people. I hate hate hate hate her makeup. She keeps tripping on her hem, which makes me feel oddly comforted.
mmmmmmmmmmDaniel Craigmmmmmmmmm
9:17 Oh feh. Dark Knight should have won Art Direction. But I am perhaps biased because of my profound dislike for Brad Pitt.
The way Daniel Craig says "Oscar" and "costume" makes me want to swoon. Having had bad experiences with swooning during last year's Oscars, I opt out.
9:23 The more I look at SJP's dress, the more I think 1980s Barbie prom girl. In fact, I think if I go back and dig up pictures of my prom (Northern NJ in the mid 1980s) I will find dresses just like that, only in neon.
9:24 WTF with Benjamin Button stealing the few awards that geek movies can win? Hellboy 2 rocked the house make-up wise and should have won. At the very least, making Heath Ledger look that fracking creepy should have rated. And again I say to you, WTF?!
9:25 It's the obligatory teen presenters. Oh Robert whatitis, stop trying to channel James Dean. You're bad at it.
The chickie's dress is kind of nice.
This year demonstrates a surprising absence of last year's big styles: boob jewelry and bright red. There seem to be a lot more subdued hues. Lots of grays.
And no, I'm not watching the romance movie montage. Chick flicks = bleh
I think it is very cool that the kiss from Milk made it into the romance movie montage (I watched it for a second there, I admit). Now it's time for more cookies!!!
9:32 Natalie Portman looks so adorable! It's a great color on her and she is beaming. I take back everything I said about George Lucas as a director: it took some kind of talent to have so completely squelched all of Natalie's natural charisma in three movies.
9:35 The Slumdog Millionaire cinematographer has 80s hair! Such 80s hair! And his wife is the mother from "Strictly Ballroom" (or at least wearing her clothes and makeup)
The doggie Mastercard commercial is toooo cuuuuuuute. I am a sucker for cute dog stories.
9:38 Jessica Biel forgot to finish dressing - her bathsheet is still wrapped around her dress from the shower.
I see that we've continued the tradition of having the hot young actress host the sci/tech awards. It's like the geek consolation prize.
9:46 Bored now.
Bored bored bored bored
9:53 Still bored. I like classic musicals and all, but not so much the high school musical review version Jackman and Beyonce are doing now.
Maybe I'll go put in laundry . . .
10:02 It takes this long to get a shot of Jack Nicholson, and then only because he won Best Supporting Actor. Who had an hour and a half in the pool?
Why is it that the Best Supporting Actors tend to be classy older guys who got shut out earlier in their careers, but the Best Supporting Actresses tend to be quirky ingenues who never do anything else worthwhile?
And why is Philip Seymour Hoffman wearing that hat? Penance? A Rastafarian sympathizer?
10:05 Oh ew. Cuba Gooding Jr.'s intro for Robert Downey Jr. is just . . . ew
I hope they paid him well for it.
10:06 And featuring Christopher Walken as the Cryptkeeper.
Now, if Christopher Walken, an old song and dance man himself, had done the montage for musicals, I would have watched *that*
10:08 The fait is now accompli. As if there were any doubt, Heath Ledger wins a posthumous Best Supporting Actor. His family accepts, and you can see where he got his wonderful bones.
I will not snark the non-professionals' clothing.
Half of the audiences looks like they're going to cry.
10:13 In that shiny shiny suit with that hair, Bill Maher looks like a televangelist of the cheesiest kind. The fact that he would be profoundly insulted by that comparison only amuses me more.
I like the Art Deco background behind Maher. But I am a sucker for the Art Deco/Art Nouveau thing.
10:16 The crazy French guy in the leather jacket balancing the Oscar on his chin. I am in love.
10:17 What a very nice red satin dress on the winner of the second documentary award. It's, well, red. It fits her figure and is classy, rather than gaudy. I like the folds in the back. Again, very Art Deco/Art Nouveau.
10:25 Clearly, I am Cranky McCranky Pants tonight, because even the action movie montage did not amuse me. Or would that be Cranky ingen Cranky Pants? Yeah, obscure heraldic joke for the six people on my F-List who will get it.
10:27 WTFFFFF? What is it with the fucking Benjamin Button love?! Best visual effects?!?!?!?!? You had Iron Man, one of the finest integrations of CGI, models and live action ever. You had Dark Knight. You had Hellboy 2. And fucking Benjamin Button gets the award?
Hollywood, you have just cheesed off geeks everywhere. Beware.
10:29 Oh yeah, you think by throwing us the sound editing award, the geeks will not rise in rebellion. I think not. You just watch. You will never get tech support again.
10:31 Oh noes! That woman skinned a Muppet and is wearing its pelt as a shawl! Stop the Muppet slaughter!
10:35 Even I, a complete Oscars geek, am finding this year's awards to be completely out of touch from the actual movies that people like. I've never been this completely bored. I might even go to bed early.
10:36 A tribute to Jerry Lewis?! Are you trying to suck all of the joy out of my Oscar experience? I could be spending this same valuable time and energy defending Paragon City.
10:41 Yes, Jerry Lewis deserves a humanitarian award. But I don't want to have to watch it. Cranky ingen Cranky Pants to be sure.
10:49 Nathan Fillon has a new series. Yay for Nathan getting a steady paycheck. Boo for the likelihood of a Firefly reunion being pushed further off, what with most of the cast working on other things right now.
10:50 Maybe the music will assuage my crankiness.
Nope, still cranky
10:54 I like the color of Alicia Keyes' dress. I almost painted my bathroom that color. You know, that doesn't sound as complimentary as it sounded in my head.
10:57caitlindancer has squeed over the Bollywood number. All I can think of is Edmund's imitating the Indian dancing at Pennsic.
11:01 Lots of Slumdog Millionaire love tonight. The befuddlement of the guy accepting the award is so cute. The foreign honorees are so less jaded than the Americans, and so much more genuine.
11:05 Hugh, you cannot lull me back into being interested with your seductive accent. Liam Neeson, on the other hand . . . What is it about men with certain kinds of accents that makes me melt.
11:06 I like the blue dress on the actress from Slumdog Millionaire. It has a sari-like feel and another great, atypical color.
11:08 The Japanese honorees for best foreign language film are completely delightful. So cute and genuine.
11:12 Queen Latifah lets down all those of us who are bigger than a size 2 by appearing in a horribly designed dress. Great color, lousy fussy accessories and a horrible hip-hugging cut. Mermaid skirt - bleh
The death applause meter is tepid tonight. They must have asked people not to applaud over the song. On the other hand, it means no tacky popularity contest.
I *love* that they included Mala Nuri among the honorees, even though the only movie she ever made was "Plan 9 From Outer Space."
11:16 WORD to all those who have complained about the swooping camera action on the "In Memorium" section. Even though the applause wasn't all that audible, I think Paul Newman was the big winner.
11:18 I realize that my attitude towards the Oscars has become much like my attitude towards large courts in the SCA: get in, do the job, get out so we can all go home. No schtick. This particular Oscar telecast feels like a bad Birka court where the only award I care about has already been given out and I can't leave because I'm sitting in the front row and it would be impolite.
11:18 Reese Witherspoon shopped at the same store of awful overdoneness as Queen Latifah. The color is great but what is it with the unnecessary tucks, sashes and whatever that stuff is on the bodice?
11:20 More Slumdog Millionaire love.
mmmmmm more dreamy accent I don't care that he's a scrawny pasty white dude with funny hair. That accent saying "Tigger" mmmmmmmmmm
11:26 With these actresses, there must be at least one horrible dress . .
Sophia Loren looks like Miss Haversham goes glamor, as done by a drag queen. Scary ass shit.
Shirley McLain looks sort of cool. I could almost see Mercedes wearing something like that.
Marion Cotillard sort of reminds me of Vivian Leigh in that dress. It's a great color (deep deep blue) and I am a sucker for the huge circular skirt/train thing.
Halle Berry looks exotic. The bodice is overly fussy, but that seems to be the flavor of the month right now. That and big ass earrings.
Aaaah! Something is growing out of Nicole Kidman's boobs! Aaaah. Kill it quick! Quick!
11:32 Nice! I've love Kate Winslet since Sense and Sensibility. She's seven thousand kinds of awesome and a very very classy lady. Plus, she's not a size 2 and is proud of it.
Following through on my SCA court analogy, this is the Peerage that I sat through the rest of the this damn boring court to see.
11:37 Why the theme from the Magnificent Seven for the Best Actor background? Now I just want to go hit something.
11:38 I had *such* a crush on Frank Langella after seeing him in Dracula back in the late 1970s. He still looks pretty damn good.
You catch some real affection between some of the people doing the presentations and the nominees. DeNiro and Penn seem to like each other, for example.
DeNiro needs a hair cut. And Sean Penn look orange and creepy.
Adrian Brody is doing his best imitation of a serial killer. Or possibly my pizza delivery guy. And these are not mutually exclusive.
Is that Anthony Hopkins' real accent? It's not quite squee inducing, but it's completely cool. In all the movies I've seen him in, I never realized.
Sir Ben Kingsley has the sort of voice that should be saying "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
Can't argue with Sean Penn's winning Best Actor. And I do like that he said he knows how hard he makes it to appreciate him. That's a measure of class.
I think Jennifer Anniston is also thinking "Thank God it wasn't another award for Benjamin Fucking Button"
11:47 I think that Steven Spielberg has ceased to age. He's sort of settled into a grizzled teddy bear look.
We're having fun now playing "name that movie"
11:52 Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Picture. Glee ensues in the hall.
And we're out, a hair before midnight. That was . . . . a festival of mehness. I am one of the biggest Oscar geeks ever, and I found it to be utterly boring.
Thanks to everyone who came along for the ride and we'll hope for a better crop of movies next year. In the meant time, plot your geek revenge . . .
A few technical difficulties get us off to a slow start in the middle of the ABC Red Carpet special.
Meryl Streep is wearing a classy gray gown, no jewelry, but her hair - too too many shades of Bride of Frankenstein.
Penelope Cruz is wearing the Hollywood equivalent of a northern NJ Italian wedding gown.
Marisa Tomei is being devoured alive by an origami swan. And somewhere I'm sure there's an anime porn movie based on just that theme.
So we start the bidding on the first Oscars pool: how soon into the broadcast will they cut to Jack Nicholson?
I am probably the only person here who is having a geek squee over the musical director's discussion of setting the Lawrence of Arabia theme to a big band tempo.
8:30 Hugh Jackman. I must be largely alone in finding him sort of meh. But wait . . . the accent makes it all better. OK, as long as he speaks the entire time we're having sex, I wouldn't kick him out of bed.
8:32 Kate Winslet is gorgeous x 10 in gray. I want to be her when I grow up. I really do.
8:34 I'm amused by the conceit of a home-made opening number, but not that amused. It's time for cookies.
8:39 Mickey Rourke. Oh My Gawd. I bow before his awfulness. The hair. The silver tooth. The hair. The . . . oh nouns fail me.
8:42 Are they gonig to do a montage before every one of the major awards? That could be cool.
8:43 Tilda Swinton. The Queen of the Damned has emerged from her Todd Browning approved coffin to participate in presenting the Best Supporting Actress award. Apparently she's forgotten to wipe her mouth from the blood of her victims.
Eva Marie Saint is class classy classy.
Whoopi Goldberg - meh with the mehness. The dress is awful, to be sure. But I was hoping for a more epic awful from Whoopi.
8:45 Amy Adams seems to be wearing a pectoral ransacked from the Assyrian exhibit at the Met.
8:47 Given that Penelope Cruz is wearing a mafia girl wedding dress, I think Angelica Huston must be the mother of the bride. Why can't anyone in Hollywood fit a bodice properly? The boob squishing can't be comfortable.
Small time delay due to the belated arrival of dinner.
8:55 - Is that Sohpia Loren risen from the dead and attacked by taffeta?
Tina Fey and Steve Martin are funny. Maybe someone let them write their own copy.
Our first political speech of the evening from the screenplay winner for Milk.
We're a half hour into the evening and still no Jack Nicholson. I'm stunned. I'm inclined to go with
blinkensopps ' theory that Tilda Swinton drank his blood and dumped him in the coat room.WALL*E for best animated feature, which makes
caitlindancer happy.Is it just me, or does Jack Black look just like the Baron of Settmour Swamp? Not as much as Peter Jackson does, of course.
Oh, what John Stewart could have done with a film named "Lavatory Lovestory." Lacking John Stewart this year, I'll just do it myself. Lavatory Lovestory: The Larry Craig Story ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig)
AHHHHHHHH! Jack Black "spoke" French! AAAAAAAH. My ears!
All caught up to live TV now.
9:15 Sarah Jessica Parker looks only slightly godawful on the SJP scale of awfulness. She is, after all, a class of fugly all her own. You just can't expect her to dress like normal people. I hate hate hate hate her makeup. She keeps tripping on her hem, which makes me feel oddly comforted.
mmmmmmmmmmDaniel Craigmmmmmmmmm
9:17 Oh feh. Dark Knight should have won Art Direction. But I am perhaps biased because of my profound dislike for Brad Pitt.
The way Daniel Craig says "Oscar" and "costume" makes me want to swoon. Having had bad experiences with swooning during last year's Oscars, I opt out.
9:23 The more I look at SJP's dress, the more I think 1980s Barbie prom girl. In fact, I think if I go back and dig up pictures of my prom (Northern NJ in the mid 1980s) I will find dresses just like that, only in neon.
9:24 WTF with Benjamin Button stealing the few awards that geek movies can win? Hellboy 2 rocked the house make-up wise and should have won. At the very least, making Heath Ledger look that fracking creepy should have rated. And again I say to you, WTF?!
9:25 It's the obligatory teen presenters. Oh Robert whatitis, stop trying to channel James Dean. You're bad at it.
The chickie's dress is kind of nice.
This year demonstrates a surprising absence of last year's big styles: boob jewelry and bright red. There seem to be a lot more subdued hues. Lots of grays.
And no, I'm not watching the romance movie montage. Chick flicks = bleh
I think it is very cool that the kiss from Milk made it into the romance movie montage (I watched it for a second there, I admit). Now it's time for more cookies!!!
9:32 Natalie Portman looks so adorable! It's a great color on her and she is beaming. I take back everything I said about George Lucas as a director: it took some kind of talent to have so completely squelched all of Natalie's natural charisma in three movies.
9:35 The Slumdog Millionaire cinematographer has 80s hair! Such 80s hair! And his wife is the mother from "Strictly Ballroom" (or at least wearing her clothes and makeup)
The doggie Mastercard commercial is toooo cuuuuuuute. I am a sucker for cute dog stories.
9:38 Jessica Biel forgot to finish dressing - her bathsheet is still wrapped around her dress from the shower.
I see that we've continued the tradition of having the hot young actress host the sci/tech awards. It's like the geek consolation prize.
9:46 Bored now.
Bored bored bored bored
9:53 Still bored. I like classic musicals and all, but not so much the high school musical review version Jackman and Beyonce are doing now.
Maybe I'll go put in laundry . . .
10:02 It takes this long to get a shot of Jack Nicholson, and then only because he won Best Supporting Actor. Who had an hour and a half in the pool?
Why is it that the Best Supporting Actors tend to be classy older guys who got shut out earlier in their careers, but the Best Supporting Actresses tend to be quirky ingenues who never do anything else worthwhile?
And why is Philip Seymour Hoffman wearing that hat? Penance? A Rastafarian sympathizer?
10:05 Oh ew. Cuba Gooding Jr.'s intro for Robert Downey Jr. is just . . . ew
I hope they paid him well for it.
10:06 And featuring Christopher Walken as the Cryptkeeper.
Now, if Christopher Walken, an old song and dance man himself, had done the montage for musicals, I would have watched *that*
10:08 The fait is now accompli. As if there were any doubt, Heath Ledger wins a posthumous Best Supporting Actor. His family accepts, and you can see where he got his wonderful bones.
I will not snark the non-professionals' clothing.
Half of the audiences looks like they're going to cry.
10:13 In that shiny shiny suit with that hair, Bill Maher looks like a televangelist of the cheesiest kind. The fact that he would be profoundly insulted by that comparison only amuses me more.
I like the Art Deco background behind Maher. But I am a sucker for the Art Deco/Art Nouveau thing.
10:16 The crazy French guy in the leather jacket balancing the Oscar on his chin. I am in love.
10:17 What a very nice red satin dress on the winner of the second documentary award. It's, well, red. It fits her figure and is classy, rather than gaudy. I like the folds in the back. Again, very Art Deco/Art Nouveau.
10:25 Clearly, I am Cranky McCranky Pants tonight, because even the action movie montage did not amuse me. Or would that be Cranky ingen Cranky Pants? Yeah, obscure heraldic joke for the six people on my F-List who will get it.
10:27 WTFFFFF? What is it with the fucking Benjamin Button love?! Best visual effects?!?!?!?!? You had Iron Man, one of the finest integrations of CGI, models and live action ever. You had Dark Knight. You had Hellboy 2. And fucking Benjamin Button gets the award?
Hollywood, you have just cheesed off geeks everywhere. Beware.
10:29 Oh yeah, you think by throwing us the sound editing award, the geeks will not rise in rebellion. I think not. You just watch. You will never get tech support again.
10:31 Oh noes! That woman skinned a Muppet and is wearing its pelt as a shawl! Stop the Muppet slaughter!
10:35 Even I, a complete Oscars geek, am finding this year's awards to be completely out of touch from the actual movies that people like. I've never been this completely bored. I might even go to bed early.
10:36 A tribute to Jerry Lewis?! Are you trying to suck all of the joy out of my Oscar experience? I could be spending this same valuable time and energy defending Paragon City.
10:41 Yes, Jerry Lewis deserves a humanitarian award. But I don't want to have to watch it. Cranky ingen Cranky Pants to be sure.
10:49 Nathan Fillon has a new series. Yay for Nathan getting a steady paycheck. Boo for the likelihood of a Firefly reunion being pushed further off, what with most of the cast working on other things right now.
10:50 Maybe the music will assuage my crankiness.
Nope, still cranky
10:54 I like the color of Alicia Keyes' dress. I almost painted my bathroom that color. You know, that doesn't sound as complimentary as it sounded in my head.
10:57
caitlindancer has squeed over the Bollywood number. All I can think of is Edmund's imitating the Indian dancing at Pennsic. 11:01 Lots of Slumdog Millionaire love tonight. The befuddlement of the guy accepting the award is so cute. The foreign honorees are so less jaded than the Americans, and so much more genuine.
11:05 Hugh, you cannot lull me back into being interested with your seductive accent. Liam Neeson, on the other hand . . . What is it about men with certain kinds of accents that makes me melt.
11:06 I like the blue dress on the actress from Slumdog Millionaire. It has a sari-like feel and another great, atypical color.
11:08 The Japanese honorees for best foreign language film are completely delightful. So cute and genuine.
11:12 Queen Latifah lets down all those of us who are bigger than a size 2 by appearing in a horribly designed dress. Great color, lousy fussy accessories and a horrible hip-hugging cut. Mermaid skirt - bleh
The death applause meter is tepid tonight. They must have asked people not to applaud over the song. On the other hand, it means no tacky popularity contest.
I *love* that they included Mala Nuri among the honorees, even though the only movie she ever made was "Plan 9 From Outer Space."
11:16 WORD to all those who have complained about the swooping camera action on the "In Memorium" section. Even though the applause wasn't all that audible, I think Paul Newman was the big winner.
11:18 I realize that my attitude towards the Oscars has become much like my attitude towards large courts in the SCA: get in, do the job, get out so we can all go home. No schtick. This particular Oscar telecast feels like a bad Birka court where the only award I care about has already been given out and I can't leave because I'm sitting in the front row and it would be impolite.
11:18 Reese Witherspoon shopped at the same store of awful overdoneness as Queen Latifah. The color is great but what is it with the unnecessary tucks, sashes and whatever that stuff is on the bodice?
11:20 More Slumdog Millionaire love.
mmmmmm more dreamy accent I don't care that he's a scrawny pasty white dude with funny hair. That accent saying "Tigger" mmmmmmmmmm
11:26 With these actresses, there must be at least one horrible dress . .
Sophia Loren looks like Miss Haversham goes glamor, as done by a drag queen. Scary ass shit.
Shirley McLain looks sort of cool. I could almost see Mercedes wearing something like that.
Marion Cotillard sort of reminds me of Vivian Leigh in that dress. It's a great color (deep deep blue) and I am a sucker for the huge circular skirt/train thing.
Halle Berry looks exotic. The bodice is overly fussy, but that seems to be the flavor of the month right now. That and big ass earrings.
Aaaah! Something is growing out of Nicole Kidman's boobs! Aaaah. Kill it quick! Quick!
11:32 Nice! I've love Kate Winslet since Sense and Sensibility. She's seven thousand kinds of awesome and a very very classy lady. Plus, she's not a size 2 and is proud of it.
Following through on my SCA court analogy, this is the Peerage that I sat through the rest of the this damn boring court to see.
11:37 Why the theme from the Magnificent Seven for the Best Actor background? Now I just want to go hit something.
11:38 I had *such* a crush on Frank Langella after seeing him in Dracula back in the late 1970s. He still looks pretty damn good.
You catch some real affection between some of the people doing the presentations and the nominees. DeNiro and Penn seem to like each other, for example.
DeNiro needs a hair cut. And Sean Penn look orange and creepy.
Adrian Brody is doing his best imitation of a serial killer. Or possibly my pizza delivery guy. And these are not mutually exclusive.
Is that Anthony Hopkins' real accent? It's not quite squee inducing, but it's completely cool. In all the movies I've seen him in, I never realized.
Sir Ben Kingsley has the sort of voice that should be saying "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
Can't argue with Sean Penn's winning Best Actor. And I do like that he said he knows how hard he makes it to appreciate him. That's a measure of class.
I think Jennifer Anniston is also thinking "Thank God it wasn't another award for Benjamin Fucking Button"
11:47 I think that Steven Spielberg has ceased to age. He's sort of settled into a grizzled teddy bear look.
We're having fun now playing "name that movie"
11:52 Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Picture. Glee ensues in the hall.
And we're out, a hair before midnight. That was . . . . a festival of mehness. I am one of the biggest Oscar geeks ever, and I found it to be utterly boring.
Thanks to everyone who came along for the ride and we'll hope for a better crop of movies next year. In the meant time, plot your geek revenge . . .
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Date: 2009-02-23 01:28 am (UTC)Love the irridescent paillettes on Anne Hathaway's dress.
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Date: 2009-02-23 01:29 am (UTC)Oh, Jan says Ann Hathaway is in serious risk of becoming a nose on a stick.
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Date: 2009-02-23 01:54 am (UTC)But I won't be surprised if Wall-E gets it.
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Date: 2009-02-23 02:03 am (UTC)Maybe Tilda Swinton drained him of his blood and he's a corpse lying in the coatroom...
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Date: 2009-02-23 02:18 am (UTC)It is painful
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Date: 2009-02-23 03:27 am (UTC)Fuck Benjamin Button.
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Date: 2009-02-23 03:27 am (UTC)NO EFFING CCBB was better for making 1/8th of the movie over the ENTIRE EFFING FILMS of DarkKnight and IronMan.
THEY JUST GOT OVER Saying "Action films get shafted" and then Shafted the Action Movies....
TWICE!
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Date: 2009-02-23 04:15 am (UTC)Seriously.. just focus on the screen so we can read the names!
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Date: 2009-03-10 05:39 pm (UTC)If you want to see Ben Kingsley being a bad guy try Sexy Beast (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203119/), a nasty little convoluted British Gangster movie that you can get from Netflix.
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