Crazy Heart is a flawed film and he's done better performances in better movies. However, he's still Jeff fucking Bridges and he deserves an Oscar. I'm glad he won.Quoting MadMan (view post)
Crazy Heart is a flawed film and he's done better performances in better movies. However, he's still Jeff fucking Bridges and he deserves an Oscar. I'm glad he won.
I agree with this post 100%. That's how the Oscars work, sadly.
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Oy.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
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Not a bad speech though.
Oh yeah great speech.
Yay for Bigelow.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Well, that was... fast.
Thank God Hurt Locker won, even though it wasn't the best movie of the year. Plus Bigelow deserved to win Best Director.
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James Cameron is gonna hang himself tonight.
Mark my words.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I was surprised the Academy picked it, not giving my own opinion. So you're not welcome.
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More likely: he'll go into damage control tomorrow, which will be remarkably easy, since Avatar is the most successful movie of all time. I would've loved to have seen an Inglourious Basterds win, but what can you do?
...whoa. They're playing the theme from E. T. Remember when that film lost to Gandhi? I don't. I wasn't even born yet.
Meh, whatever. The Academy is often wrong.
Good show overall tonight. Much better than last year's. By far.
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Nice! I win $5.
Indeed. Not my favorite of the year. Hell, it's not even my favorite of those 10 but rather that than Avatar or Precious. It's a more satisfying winner than Slumdog Millionaire was last year too.
Overall, a decent enough ceremony. Baldwin and Martin did a perfectly fine job methinks. They should get Conan for next year though.
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It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
I was so hoping that the changes in the best pic category were going to backfire and leave us with some weird surprise winner. Hearing The Hurt Locker was pretty damn anticlimactic. Good film though.
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It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
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Was I watching a different show? Martin and Baldwin were terrible, with only a couple of bright spots.
Oh yeah, Slumdog Millionaire was merely good, while The Hurt Locker was great. Avatar not winning rules, simply because it shouldn't have even been nominated.
Conan is too out there for the Oscars. Too edgy and hip. NPH would be a fantastic choice-maybe they should pair the two.
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Really? They were funny together. Alone, they wouldn't have been as humorous-it was a good idea.
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Martin and Baldwin were the best hosts in a while. Really enjoyed them. Glad they chose to keep some rather touchy humor in, too.
Loved Martin's comment about Meryl Streep. "She holds the record for most nominations. Or as I like to think...most losses."
And with Jeff Bridges winning Best Actor and Up! winning Best Score, I was happy.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I'm very very happy with the outcome.
- Seeing Bigelow up there and realizing she made the manliest movie of the past five years just feels so inexplicably arousing. So cool! So awesome! And she's 58?! Blimey!
- Gag reflexes aplenty during some of the best actor and actresses announcements, but Tim Robbins saluting Freeman was downright fantastic.
- Fisher Stevens won an Oscar? Cool for him, but that came out of nowhere.
- Baldwin and Martin were fine, but is it just me or has the role of the host been severely curtailed in recent years? No biggie though. I found most of it quite amusing.
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Downey Jr. should host the Oscars next. Why hasn't anyone thought of this?
Sandra winning aside, it was an okay show. I also loved the Robbins roasting of Freeman. That's how it should be done and not waxing their balls on a godly pedestal.
Had a fun time watching it with Barty and Chrisnu. We should have a Match Cut get-together for next year's Oscars.
Sure why not?
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RDJ would make an excellent host. And Morris I agree that they really have cut back on the amount of screen time given to the hosts, but that does result in a much shorter awards show.
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Also, I feel amazed that I have to point this out, but the Academy devotes five minutes of this year's telecast to a cheesy horror montage...
...and doesn't include Bigelow's great vampire flick Near Dark?
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I think if I wasn't at a bar having a blast with the other patrons, I would've born bored shitless tonight with this Oscar.
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