What will you do instead of watching Oscar? [and now Oscar discussion]

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by JWBear

For me, it was the nausea inducing camera movements. Just focus on the screen and stay still, damn it!

Didn't notice and shaky camera movements, but my only complaint with the memorial was, with all of the ancillary screens showing cool stuff, they spent way too much time on a tight shot of the main screen so we couldn't see the smaller screens. But that's the fault of the director of the TV broadcast, not the people who produced the memorial.

And, GC, I will second iSm's suggestion to skip that montage. It WILL piss you off.

And I forget who it was directed at, but "Suck it _____" was an awesome moment.

Bill Maher is such a douche. According to LSPE, he was whining earlier in the day about his film not being nominated, then he get up there and whines some more. Get over yourself. At least Jack Black's was funny.

Until recently, Sophia Loren had been aging beautifully. Now she's yet another colligen injected, plastic surgeried wreck. I will never ever be able to fathom how people think that walking around with a face that's obviously been stretched and injected (and hit with a coat of lava orange from their local auto body shop for good measure) "hides" their age in any way shape or form. If anything, it's just a big, obvious neon sign that says, "Wow, they must have aged HORRIBLY to have wanted to have that done do them."

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

And I forget who it was directed at, but "Suck it _____" was an awesome moment.

Kate Winslet, and she was brilliant. Plus, I'm envious (as I always am) of people who can really whistle. Her dad A+!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Kate Winslet, and she was brilliant. Plus, I'm envious (as I always am) of people who can really whistle. Her dad A+!

No, not that one. I'm talking about the sound guy who was in the Pineapple Express bit.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Bill Maher is such a douche. According to LSPE, he was whining earlier in the day about his film not being nominated, then he get up there and whines some more. Get over yourself. At least Jack Black's was funny.

Agreed. Bill Maher is a total douche. He can't help himself being a douche. And it's long since it stopped being funny. It wasn't even just whining about his fecking un-nominated douche-fest of a film (granted I haven't seen it, but if it's Bill Maher and he believes in it, it's a douche-fest), he couldn't help taking an open crack at religion while he was at it. I didn't even know about prior whining, and I still thought it was pretty douche-y.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Agreed. Bill Maher is a total douche. He can't help himself being a douche. And it's long since it stopped being funny. It wasn't even just whining about his fecking un-nominated douche-fest of a film (granted I haven't seen it, but if it's Bill Maher and he believes in it, it's a douche-fest), he couldn't help taking an open crack at religion while he was at it. I didn't even know about prior whining, and I still thought it was pretty douche-y.

Yay for the pointless religion swipes!

But I find odd the assumption that his comments were unscripted. Pretty much everything said by someone not holding an Oscar in their hands is pre-written. His comments weren't funny (or insightful) but that may not be entirely his fault.