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Al Timiter

The show just isn't doing it for me. I'm only watching now to see if Mickey Rourke wins. Biggest Blunder: Not showing sample clips when announcing Supporting actor and actress nominees. Next Biggest Blunder: Voice over narration over sample clips when announcing nominees for Screenplay awards.....Next biggest blunder: Show seems to have no pizzaz.
I don't think the overnites are going to be good at all. What do you think?
 
At the outset, I was actually a bit interested in seeing the new stage design, with the band on-stage instead of in the pit. And what do they do? Throw a huge backdrop in front of them the entire show. What a waste.

I found the problems with the curtains in front of the screen during the first montage to be quite hilarious. Did anyone else catch someone saying "Open them!" right off-mic?

The opening number by Jackman was nothing but cheese. Perhaps I just have an uber-sensitivity to fluff and corny stuff like that. But I didn't care for it.

Agreed on the odd compliment-riddled speeches given by former winners. In college, my teachers would always say "show, don't tell" with regard to on-air pieces. They really should have shown clips instead of told how good they were. Perhaps Hollywood assumes that the at-home viewers follow the movies and actors as closely as they do.

Anne Hathaway has enormous teeth. Really just an altogether huge mouth.
 
dhett said:
Biggest Blunder: watching the Oscars. That's 3 hours of your life you'll never get back.
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3 hours? That's pretty much half the show's runtime - or at least it feels like it...

(Don't blame me... I watched NASCAR... ;D )
 
whitfm said:
The opening number by Jackman was nothing but cheese. Perhaps I just have an uber-sensitivity to fluff and corny stuff like that. But I didn't care for it.
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I didn't watch the Oscar's last night cause I had to work. When not working, I have watched the show, but I do grow tired of the long, drawn-out process of presenting the awards and the speeches where people have nothing to say. I think the producers should pre-interview each nominee and find out what they might say in the case they win. A minute of blathering seldom is entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoXLu9Rz70g&feature=related
 
dhett said:
Biggest Blunder: watching the Oscars. That's 3 hours of your life you'll never get back.
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Or four -- if you count the Barbara Walters Special before it. Hugh Jackman gives Baba Wawa a lapdance. Nuff said.
 
whitfm said:
I found the problems with the curtains in front of the screen during the first montage to be quite hilarious. Did anyone else catch someone saying "Open them!" right off-mic?
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Yes, I caught that. That and Will Smith's comment that "Yeah, I'm still here, Hugh must be napping." He didn't seem to be too happy to be presenting a third honor.

I did enjoy watching:
-Jen Aniston and her two friends
-Angelina and her two friends
-Alicia Keys and her two friends (I thought Alicia looked stunning...probably the bestlooking of any female last night)
-Tina Fey and her two friends (Tina looked gorgeous...she and Steve Martin had the best comedic bit all night)
 
Personally I never watch any awards shows anymore. I find them drawn-out and boring.

Added to that there wasn't one movie out last year that interested me enough to shell out $7.00 or $10.00 a ticket at the movie theatre, I can pay just $3.50 on pay-per-view and watch the movie in the comfort of my own home.
 
Consider this: I was at a movie a couple of Saturdays
ago, standing in line waiting to get popcorn, and I
struck up a conversation with a woman who was complaining
that her ticket, popcorn, and Coke set her back $20 (and this
with a senior citizens' discount, yet!). I know, she (and I, too)
could scrap the popcorn and Coke but maybe neither of us wants
to. And she's not alone in complaining about ticket and concession
prices; they are ridiculous (imagine what a family of four is paying,
even with discounts for the kids). So yes, I understand exactly why
you would wait for a movie to appear on PPV (or maybe even DVD).

I think one thing that is hurting the Oscars are the Golden Globes.
It's gotten to the point that the media practically declare the Golden
Globe winners to be the Oscar winners--weeks in advance. There
goes the suspense. "Slumdog Millionaire" almost didn't make into
theaters, but I recall that last year's winner was one nobody (other
than the people who vote on these things) had ever heard of.

As far as I'm concerned, awards shows have never been anything
but one more reason for performers to get in front of audience and
stroke each other's egos. They could take all of them and throw them
to the wolves.

Steve Allen once said that the only award that means anything is
the one you give (figuratively) to the movies and TV shows you choose
to watch, or the music you choose to listen to.
 
Al Timiter said:
I don't think the overnites are going to be good at all. What do you think?
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Well the ratings were up six percent over 2008. I hate awards show but my wife - who never goes to the movies or buys music - insists on watching the Oscars and Grammies, so I had to suffer through the Oscars (in our tiny house you can't escape the TV audio when it's on).

One thing, I kept hearing this talk about a a huge ackman being on the Oscars. Never saw it, so does anyone know what an ackman is and big to they have to get to be considered "huge?" I thought maybe it was one of those guys from Ax Men on the History Channel, but I figured if one of them show up at the Academy Awards they'd axe Sean Penn and Bill Marr.
 
DToTheJ said:
dhett said:
Biggest Blunder: watching the Oscars. That's 3 hours of your life you'll never get back.
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3 hours? That's pretty much half the show's runtime - or at least it feels like it...

(Don't blame me... I watched NASCAR... ;D )
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Will you can triple the time ,if you include E Entertaiments Oscar Red Carpet Preshow that started at 2pm est plus the 11:30pm post show.Wow talking about a long drag.
 
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