The Oscars

[Gemini Cricket]

I also found Melissa Etheridge's moment wonderful. She kissed her wife smack on the lips and then thanked her wife in her acceptance speech. It was romantic and classy. I also thought she sounded really good live as always. It doesn't seem to be an easy thing to do.

The awards show also made me want to see more and more foreign films. That montage was super.

I also must say that the intro into the show was really dull. A bunch of people we don't recognize by face in front of a white background. It went on too long and was a bad way to start the show.

The Foley Choir was great, but because they did their job so well it made them appear not to be doing the sound effects themselves which they were. The reaction from our home crowd was one of 'are they really doing that or are they pretending to do it while the real effects soundtrack plays'. Their applause was meager which had me thinking that the audience at the Kodak were wondering the same. I thought it was fantastic.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I also must say that the intro into the show was really dull. A bunch of people we don't recognize by face in front of a white background. It went on too long and was a bad way to start the show.

I loved the intro. All those non-major nominees getting a moment to say something and have fun, without the nervous pressure of not forgetting to thank someone. And it really drove home that, even if the audience doesn't care about those "smaller" awards, it's still a freaking Oscar and those people are the best in their business. Mixing in the no names with the big names, relating their excitement, accomplishments, disappointments. I though it was wonderful.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I loved the intro. All those non-major nominees getting a moment to say something and have fun, without the nervous pressure of not forgetting to thank someone. And it really drove home that, even if the audience doesn't care about those "smaller" awards, it's still a freaking Oscar and those people are the best in their business. Mixing in the no names with the big names, relating their excitement, accomplishments, disappointments. I though it was wonderful.

I would have liked to have seen who they were. CG their names in under their faces. Maybe that would have sold me on it. Also, for me, it showed how some people are way more comfortable behind the camera.

[Strangler Lewis]

I didn't see Nicole Kidman last night, but I always find her beautiful in films and, oddly, somewhat ghastly when I see her in a glamour shot in a magazine or what not. She always looks like every rounded surface in her head--forehead, cheeks and chin--has been pumped full of air and buffed to a high gloss.