Originally Posted By Ursula ^ I think the thing with the makeup is that is it sooooo good in BB that you can't see it for makeup. And now, ladies and gentleman, since Klucky can say she hates Sean Penn, I feel I can add my two points for my own opinion. I can't stand Sarah Jessica Parker. I hated her dress, too. You'd think she could afford a dress that fit properly. Why was she there at all, anyway?
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Well they have to have someone to put on the worst dressed list Ursula!
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I think the awards given to Benjamin Button were kind of like "Well we have to give it SOMETHING. Well they make him look old and short. How about effects and makeup." There were much more deserving movies in that catagory.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Oh, on the subject of dresses at the Oscars...don't any of these designers know how to HEM a dress?! I mean unless it's someone super tall like Charleze Theron (sp?), these poor women are tripping all over their gowns. Now I get the vintage gowns like the one Penelope Cruz wore & that you don't wanna go whacking at a vintage gown, but if you're 5 foot tall, don't pick a dress that has 2 feet of extra fabric at the bottom! :0)
Originally Posted By Ursula I mean seriously. Compare and constrast Brad and Angelina with Sarah and Matthew. One couple showed class and one couple posed the entire time expecting rave reviews. Oh, and may I please have Angelina's earrings?
Originally Posted By DyGDisney >>>One couple showed class and one couple posed the entire time expecting rave reviews.<<< Which was which? I missed the first 40 minutes of the show.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne LOVED Hugh Jackman..though I love him anywya and all eh had to do was turn up to impress me..however I really felt his openign number was brilliant. LOVED Miley's dress.. I know it wasn't to popular with most people but maybe I'm just young enough to like it anyway. Did not like Ben Stiller.. maybe his humour was just lost on me? But me and my Mum just sat there saring and slowly saying 'what?' over and over.. very strange Loved Kate Winslet finally winning! It was the second time I cried..the first being the Ledgers accepting Heath's award.. loved that as well Loved the musical sequence in the middle. I didn't mind the HSM/Mamma Mia cast being there but I felt they actually didn't highlight them too much.. took us a moment to realise they weren't just random back up dancers. Loved the past winners individualy adressing each nominee.. made the night very special for them I felt. Hated Beyonce's dress and that red outfit she wore in the musical sequence.. actually I'm not a huge beyonce fan anyway so I may be a bit biased Didn't understand... where SJP's boobs came from?!?! She doesn't seem to have gained weight anywhere else yet they sure looked bigger.. Didn't like the way they merged all three songs into one and I really think they could have found more songs to nominate. All up I though it was very well done and far mroe entertaining thna previous years.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Did not like Ben Stiller.. maybe his humour was just lost on me?<< I have a feeling you have no idea of the "inside joke" he was playing up. Haven't you heard of the infamous interview of Joaquin Phoenix on Dave Letterman's show, recently? There's a topic on it right here in this section. You might want to check out post #1.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I would have liked to have seen Hugh's hair styled as Wolverine. It's also been a while since I've heard him speak with his native accent...
Originally Posted By oc_dean My thoughts on this year's academy awards? Slum Dog best picture? My question .... did the academy members vote because they got caught up in the emotion of "everyone loves 'the under-dog' story"? Or did Slum Dog really triumph on every single artistic level .. over all the other nominees? Example: Two "Best Picture" nominees - 1965: Doctor Zhivago The Sound of Music We know which one won. There you go! I also thought The English Patient was a bit too "hyped up" for what it deserved,the year it won, compared to other films.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I think all of the Best Picture noms were flawed; there's no pic I saw this year that I thought was undeniably brilliant. Probably the two closest were both animated, Wall-E and Sita Sings The Blues. And I've scratched my head at other Best Picture winners over the years. Recently, Crash and Titanic I thought were both overrated. I knew Titanic would win, but LA Confidential was a far better movie IMO (my favorite review of Titanic was whoever said that "somewhere in this bloated 3 1/2 hour movie there's a good 90 minute disaster flick struggling to get out"). As a screenwriter, Cameron's a great action director. It's not only recently, either. Ever see "The Greatest Show on Earth?" Best Picture winner I finally saw recently. Glossy, star-driven entertainment and has its moments, but nowhere near the best picture of its year (probably not even in the top 10, looking back). Oscar voters DO get caught up in the trendy pic of the moment (which is how I think Crash won). That said, IMO Slumdog deserved to win as much as any of the others.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne 'Haven't you heard of the infamous interview of Joaquin Phoenix on Dave Letterman's show, recently? There's a topic on it right here in this section. You might want to check out post #1.' ohh.. I have seen that clip! I just had NO IDEA thats what he was doing... oh well I still don't think it was that appropriate but at least I understand what was going on..
Originally Posted By mele <<As a screenwriter, Cameron's a great action director.>> HA! That pretty much sums up my thoughts about Titanic.
Originally Posted By DAR <<I knew Titanic would win, but LA Confidential was a far better movie IMO>> Good Will Hunting was the far and away the best film that year.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>oh well I still don't think it was that appropriate but at least I understand what was going on.. << Ben Stiller is a comedian. I would expect someone like him to roast Phoenix, who deserved it! What a whacked-out weirdo he became! Unless .. it's all a publicity stunt. We won't know for a while.
Originally Posted By oc_dean There were elements of "Slum Dog" that did touch on a deeper, human level. I just so hate the idea the movie was framed so much around "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" which got played out way too much. One of the things our beloved Disney. Co. does .. oversaturate the market till the point they kill it .. because people got so sick of it! Gee ... * overkill * saturation .... I seem to recall a song 'it's world of toons, toons, toons, toons,'
