Originally Posted By SuzieQ LOL DDMan26. I think most guys would agree with you. Lot's of women, too!
Originally Posted By trailsend During Lauren Bacall's piece on the old movies, didn't you love the music? I miss good movie music! It seems to me there used to be so many great songs performed at the Oscars.
Originally Posted By smeeeko Well I really enjoyed the oscars. Everyone seemed to be thinking Jon Stewart was going to crash & burn but I think he did great.. sure he had a few nervous moments but he started out really funny and he kept it going.. SeanYoda & I enjoyed the funny faux political ads for the different nominees.. The ladies really (for the most part) looked classy and I really liked Jennifer Lopez's dress. I thought it was green or sage.. and I thought she looked very classy in it. Not too much at all. There were a couple dresses that just seemed to make you wonder if they were fit proper but for the most part very classy.. very old hollywood nice! George Clooney (and I'm not fangirl) was a class act too.. I also thought the Robert Altman thing was pretty good. I've seen Shortcuts and Prete a Porter and a few others (not all of course!) but my absolute fave film of his was Cookie's Fortune! The fact that Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep were able to do that dialogue live and not flub it all was amazing! =) I actually haven't seen any of the best movie nominies so I was worried that other than the Jon Stewart monologue I wouldn't enjoy it, but I did! I actually want to netflix all the films I've been missing this last year. I wasn't keen to see them really (we've only really seen Disney movies at the theatre.. ) but the show actually made me want to see them more. Oh and Itzhak Perlman! omg.. love him I got to see him at a free summer concert in Philadelphia many years ago and felt so honored then, so was glad to see him honoring the film scores with his playing. =) Ok I'm gushing so I'll stop.
Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder We weren't sure Bacall was going to make it through her piece. She had quite the grip on the podium. Either the teleprompter was moving too fast for her or she simply lost her way, I don't know.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Georgie-Georgie-Georgie ... oh was he lookin' gOOd. Glad he got recognized. Star Wars III .. complete shut-out. I thought a year ago this was going to be George Lucas' chance for recognition for his Star Wars franchise of SIX films. John Stewart pulled it off okay. I got the feeling he wanted to play it safe .. and stay away from some "obvious" cracks to the times.
Originally Posted By Spooky Ghost Pretty entertaining show. I thought Stewart was great and I loved the slander campaign ads "Sponsered by a shadow organisation no way affiliated with Felicty Huffman" Most of the awards I was happy with except Best Picture. Gone are the days of subtlety in film, now we must endure being bashed over the head with tired old themes reeking of an after school special.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 I saw Ang Lee in an interview. Although he had just won an Oscar he seemed genuinely letdown and surprised by BBM's loss in Best Picture.
Originally Posted By JeffG I think perhaps the most telling detail about the overall selections of the Academy this year is that this is the first year in history that the Best Documentary Feature winner grossed more at the box-office than the Best Picture winner. -Jeff
Originally Posted By kennect The Altman bit reminded me of a film of his I had forgotten about....Three Women...Anyone seen it? If not you should... Just put it on the top of my rental list at Netflix...
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Well, I TRIED to get up at 8 in the morning to catch it from the beginning, but didn't get up until 10:15 lol. So, what I DID catch I liked. I liked Jon Stewart, thought he was pretty funny, but I missed the monolouge unfortunately. Not worry, it will be back on in about 5 hours for a rebroadcast . Anyway, I was happy and yes, shocked that "Crash" won for best picture. I think a lot of people were--including the filmmakers and cast of the movie. They all had these gasps like, "Wow, we just beat BrokeBack Mountain." I seen them both and liked them both just the same. Yeah, crash gets slammed alot since so much of its subject matter seems 'tired' and in-your-face about racism. I agree with some of it to a degree, but as a Black boy from L.A., I'm sorry, but it still resonates and more relatable than a bunch of gay cowboys in 1960's Wyoming. Like I said Broke Back Mountain is a great film and I certianly assumed it would win like everyone else did, but its not a film I would want to sit and watch over and over again. Crash is something I've seen several times (mainly from my bootleg DVD I got in Thailand for $2 ;D), but it DOES have an impact no matter how sloppy the screenplay seems to be at times. Anyway, whichever one won would've been fine in my book. It does remind me of the Shakespear in Love Versus Saving Private Ryan showdown. Everyone KNEW Private Ryan would get it, especially after the director winning the award for it, but shocked everyone and completely went the other way. Of course, I wonder how many people talk about Shakespear in Love today versus Ryan? I saw Shakespear once and that was it. Ryan is something that is still discussed today. Anyway, it was a good show even though I didn't catch it all. Oh yeah, Ang Lee is the MAN right now here in Hong Kong. LOL, he's been on every newscast here and there been interviews of him for the last few days. Hong Kong is sending out their love Ang Lee, that's all I got to say. Also, 3-6 Mafia winning an Oscar??? Wow, back in Compton where I'm from, I'm sure that's what people are REALLY talking about . Congrats yall!!!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I can't believe that Nick Park rubbish beat Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle - unbelievable.
Originally Posted By TheRedhead "Everyone KNEW Private Ryan would get it, especially after the director winning the award for it, but shocked everyone and completely went the other way." See, I think it's a matter of taste. I thought Private Ryan was a terrible film with an awesome first 20 minutes. Shakespeare in Love was a better film, but of course quality doesn't -really- matter when it comes to the Oscars. I think the reason it won was because it was a typical Hollywood story (Hollywood loves stories about itself) dressed up in pretty period costumes. Throw in Miramax's relentless politicking, and Shakespeare was a shoe-in. I thought Crash was one of the worst movies I saw last year. Sophomoric and phony. There have been many interesting movies dealing with race and racism. Crash felt like it was made by an NYU film student. And by the way, I'm not at all surprised that a documentary outgrossed all the films nominated combined. Besides the fact that critically acclaimed films rarely dominate the box office, our society has firmly become obssessed with reality entertainment. And that's what documentaries are: reality tv on a big screen. It was unheard of a decade ago for documentaries to make ANY money. That's no longer the case, and Penguins success is a logical progression of the popularity of reality stuff.
Originally Posted By trailsend >>>>Gowns should not have pockets!<<<< mele ~ provided you a link here ~ look at Sandra Bullock's dress! <a href="http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2006/redcarpet?GT1=7876&photoidx=39" target="_blank">http://movies.msn.com/movies/o scars2006/redcarpet?GT1=7876&photoidx=39</a> Must be something about pockets this year! FWIW, I loved Crash. I thought about Crash for weeks, months after I saw it. I was really moved by Crash. Mr. Trails and I reluctantly rented it; nothing else was available; but, boy am I glad we did. It started off awful, to me, but, I really got into it.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ I'm having a good time reading reviews this morning. Needless to say, critics can't agree on anything. Jon Stewart was great (E Online), he was terrible (Comcast homepage news). Michele Williams's dress was a disaster (E), it was a true fashion winner (Comcast). LOL!
Originally Posted By DlandJB Well I had a blast. It was the first time I've been on the West coast for the oscars so they were on early and over before 9 and that is heaven for me. We had some friends over and did an Oscar pool, decorated with some stars and a "red carpet" and had a blast. Having only seen one of the pictures up for best picture, I had to guess and I thought Brokeback would lose because it was over-hyped -- and sure enough. The voters don't like to be told the winner is a forgone conclusion before they fill out their ballots. Liked John Stewart and think he'll only get better. The only network on the air this morning saying he blew it is Fox, which is funny. Please please let's get some better songs nominated in the next year. Hated all three of them. Wish they had given it to Dolly as a sentimental choice.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m <<Anyone is better than Billy Crystal. Yeah, Rsey, the music is very annoying.>> mele, we usually have SO much in common, but I must say Billy Crystal was my all time fav host (although I can't even remember who was before him, but he was definitely better than Chris Rock)
