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Old 02-22-2009, 11:34 PM   #1
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The one thing you'd think they couldn't f*ck up was the memorial. But they did it.
Oh, and I thought it was the best memorial ever. Beautiful live song, so many touching deaths, the side screens with the alternative images from the dearly departed's body of work. And the camera work only bothered me in that it sometimes moved in too close to see those other screens. Really, the most moving Oscar memorial I have ever seen.

The new format was fantastic. The troupe of past acting winners presenting en masse was inspired, and reached it's zenith with the completely touching Best Actress presentation. This new tack really highlighted the value of the nomination, and downplayed the crapshoot of the win. Loved it.


Similarly innovative was the montage of Best Director noms, intersperced with films that likely provided influence and inspiration.

The medley trio of best nominated song was such an improvement over dragging them out one-by-one throughout the entire show. I liked the clever backstage set for the costumes/make-up/design/cinematography and the cool speaker set for the sound awards.

Speaking of sets - - the crystal curtain prosenium was absotabulary gorgeous, OMG.

Jackman's "thrown-together" opening number was hillarious. Ben Stiller as Joaquin Phoenix, histerical. Steve Martin and Tina Fey, funny as all hell. Who was in that other comedy bit, with the stoner dude and the cinematographer? All the comedy scored big.

The comedic touches in the acceptance speeches were also bizarre and great. The tightrope walker balancing the Oscar on his chin! WTF. The two separate Japanese acceptances were classic comedy gold ... that fantastic audience shot of everyone going "huh?" - and the first guy who finished with "Domo Arrigato, Mr. Roboto" HAHAHAHAHAHA!


Despite that I thought the nominees were bleh, and the Slumdog streak retarded, I found this the best Oscar show literally in decades! Loved it, loved it, loved it.

Oh, Nicole Kidman was the most glorious vision of the evening.


Bleh on Sean Penn for being the only one from Milk not wearing a white knot. But thanks for the gay rights bit in your acceptance speech. Other Milk winner Lance Black also gave a moving speech on The Gay. So not a bad night for "my issue," but it was a drag that few other attendees wore the white knot.


Jerry Lewis looked better than I expected. Sophia Loren, though. OMG, poor woman. Generally not as many fashion faux-pas as in other years, though. Really a high class show.

And a great Oscar party at Le Chez. Thanks everybody. So.Much.Fun.
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Old 02-22-2009, 11:43 PM   #2
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Who was in that other comedy bit, with the stoner dude and the cinematographer?
Seth Rogan and James Franco playing their characters (though Rogan much thinner now) from Pineapple Express.

I stopped watching at 8 o'clock (never did go back to my movie 'til then) and watched The Amazing Race instead because I was generally bored. My feeling watching it was that it must have been pretty compelling in person but made for semi-lame TV. The animation montage was awful but I've already forgotten the other montages (though it is good that they managed to get Transporter 3 and Death Race into the Oscar telecast).

The aspect I didn't like was the redundancy of describing each of the nominees: "Sound editing is important whether it is creating a space robot or mimicking large caliber gunfire while a man ages backwards. And the nominees are Wall-E and Benjamin Button." For some reason I found that annoying.

The responses I'm reading elsewhere are showing a strong love it/hate it split. My mood may have been helped if it were for the fact that most of the time the worst or second-worst movie (Slumdog or Button) was winning.
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