Oscars response thread - I'm counting on you - Page 2

€uroMeinke · 03-08-2010, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

I am very presumptuously placing this thread here in hopes that you all will update it with whatever is going on at the Academy Awards tonight. I don't have a television, and I'll be at my desk working, so, keep me posted!

Hmm, I guess it's still a few hours before things really get going out there on the West Coast.

I think it's time you got Twitter

flippyshark · 03-08-2010, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I think it's time you got Twitter

*sigh* I suppose.

Moonliner · 03-08-2010, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I didn't see one dress that I wanted to steal and make mine. Very unusual!

Me either, but I suppose that's not at all unusual for me.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-08-2010, 07:48 AM

I was waiting for Kathryn Bigelow's arms to fall off from the weight of those statues.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-08-2010, 07:54 AM

Did anyone understand wtf Sean Penn was talking about?

JWBear · 03-08-2010, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Did anyone understand wtf Sean Penn was talking about?

Does anyone ever?

Ghoulish Delight · 03-08-2010, 10:32 AM

Before the Oscars, Reelz was showing the awards ceremony from a visual effects society. Between Up and Avatar, no one else stood a chance. It actually seemed like they were inventing categories that those 2 films weren't eligible for (Best Visual Effects in a Film that Was Animated But Didn't Have Balloons Or Blue People) just so someone else could win something.

As if to prove how geeky a gathering it was, the award for best single effects sequence was given to Avatar for the 5 second shot where Neytiri drank some water out of a leaf.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-08-2010, 12:11 PM

Oh, and I'll say it...hooray, Avatar didn't win Best Picture!!

Mind you, I really liked Avatar, I'd even go so far as to call it outstanding. However, while it was an outstanding visual experience, the actual story and characters were just not best picture quality. They were good enough for what that movie needed, a story marginally interesting enough to keep you looking at the pretty for 2.5 hours, but bland and unobtrusive enough to not get in the way of the real star of the show, the effects.

But if Avatar had won Best Picture simply because it's the top grossing film, well, it'd be time to start calling Thomas Kinkade the best painter of all time. I mean, look how much money his paintings bring in!

That's just not a definition of "best" I'm ready to accept.

RStar · 03-08-2010, 12:23 PM

I guessed 15 winners, and got 9 wrong. I got all the main was right, and all the shorts wrong. Of course had I seen the shorts, I might have done better than just guessing....

I felt that Steve and Alec seemed like they were trying too hard.

Gemini Cricket · 03-08-2010, 12:27 PM

I didn't watch last year's Oscars (I was in Micronesia) and I didn't watch this year's Oscars (I was onstage for "Hair"). I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot, tho. I guess it just doesn't have the draw for me as it used to. I could have had someone Tivo it for me, but I was like... meh!

03-08-2010, 07:48 AM	#14
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I was waiting for Kathryn Bigelow's arms to fall off from the weight of those statues. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Did anyone understand wtf Sean Penn was talking about? __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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03-08-2010, 10:32 AM	#17
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Before the Oscars, Reelz was showing the awards ceremony from a visual effects society. Between Up and Avatar, no one else stood a chance. It actually seemed like they were inventing categories that those 2 films weren't eligible for (Best Visual Effects in a Film that Was Animated But Didn't Have Balloons Or Blue People) just so someone else could win something. As if to prove how geeky a gathering it was, the award for best single effects sequence was given to Avatar for the 5 second shot where Neytiri drank some water out of a leaf. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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03-08-2010, 12:11 PM	#18
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Oh, and I'll say it...hooray, Avatar didn't win Best Picture!! Mind you, I really liked Avatar, I'd even go so far as to call it outstanding. However, while it was an outstanding visual experience, the actual story and characters were just not best picture quality. They were good enough for what that movie needed, a story marginally interesting enough to keep you looking at the pretty for 2.5 hours, but bland and unobtrusive enough to not get in the way of the real star of the show, the effects. But if Avatar had won Best Picture simply because it's the top grossing film, well, it'd be time to start calling Thomas Kinkade the best painter of all time. I mean, look how much money his paintings bring in! That's just not a definition of "best" I'm ready to accept. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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RStar Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Me & Manyard hangin out! Posts: 5,433	I guessed 15 winners, and got 9 wrong. I got all the main was right, and all the shorts wrong. Of course had I seen the shorts, I might have done better than just guessing.... I felt that Steve and Alec seemed like they were trying too hard. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup! www.StarTownGifts.com
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03-08-2010, 12:27 PM	#20
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	I didn't watch last year's Oscars (I was in Micronesia) and I didn't watch this year's Oscars (I was onstage for "Hair"). I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot, tho. I guess it just doesn't have the draw for me as it used to. I could have had someone Tivo it for me, but I was like... meh!
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