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- Rand0
the most boring oscars ever--an impressive achievement
- iamnotyourgirl0
I loved when Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt came out in character. They were great, along with Meryl.
Jaline
(Feb 26 07, 02:02)i am so with you, jaline!
i thought meryl's performance was so good in that movie. i love that movie.
- Nairn0
Not that I really care - but how on earth did Scorcese win 4 bloody awards for a remake of a better movie? If I were him I'd be bloody insulted - in fact, as a fan I am - to not be recognised for original and actually impressive movies like Goodfellas or Casino - they were defining movies of my generation. I'm not even going to mention Taxi Driver or Raging Bull lest I be sick.. oh... *chunder*
The Departed was just a Hollywood rehash which trampled over all of the original Infernal Affairs' subtlety with big budget and Western bling.
Fuck Hollywood and their self-aggrandizing back-slapping.
Roll on piracy, cheap digital studios for all and meaningful smaller budget original movies.
- paraselene0
i don't care what he got it for as long as it wasn't that horrible schlock gangs of new york. christ that was a shit film.
- kelpie0
yeah nairn, I fucking hate all these "oops we fucked up in the past" awards they hand out. just admit you're all a bunch of shits and give up.
All industry awards are crap, and I don't care if Angelina Jolie's breasts make an appearance at these ones.
- mirrorball0
Thought it was great when that dude spoke in Spanish and clint was thrown by it lol Did you here the crowd moan a lil, fuck them!
- mattyd040
he was speaking fritalian, mirrorball man. get it right!
- mattyd040
nairin, i completely disagree with you on scorsese getting it. it is not like he wrote it or anything. he just directed it, and he directed it brilliantly. a lot better of a job than lau and mak did in my opinion. so, stating that he shouldn't have got it for a remake is absurd.
- JSK0
mattyd
think of it this way..
you made this design with some theme than someone took it and made it better and won awards.
does that seem right?
- JSK0
mind you, your design was great but didnt have that "national / international feel" to it..
- mattyd040
if it was martin scorsese i'd probably be fine with it.
- JSK0
if it was martin scorsese i'd probably be fine with it.
mattyd04
(Feb 26 07, 08:16)i dont think it matters who it is..
did you see the original?
have you noticed that alot of the scenes are identical?
- mattyd040
i have seen the original. where i liked it, and the scenes are the same, the shots aren't. which is where scorsese added his own element.
the elevator scene in 'the departed' was infintely times more well executed than that of 'infernal affairs'.
- JSK0
on that scene, it was more blunt. it was like did that just happen?
you only had few moments to take it in.
as great MS is, director is the story teller. he really didnt make this story his own.
one more thing is that, the gang relationship in asia / hk is different from north america. i thought that the scene / character was forced in to the story to make sense
- Jaline0
I don't think this year's Oscars were as boring as previous years have been. However, it went on for sooooooooooo long. More than 45 minutes over the scheduled end time.
- Jaline0
9:00 p.m. : The entire auditorium, and the living room in which we're devouring pretzels, melts at the sight of Abigail Breslin and Jaden Smith presenting an award together. A million biological clocks start ticking in fast-forward. They're giving out the prize for Best Animated Short, ushering in the part of the evening where we have no idea what should win, or will win. If there's anything with Nazis, that will win — the Academy loves it some Nazis — or maybe The Little Matchgirl will take it, since young people die in that one and it looks hugely depressing. But then, up comes No Time for Nuts, and if that wins, it's a crime — there is ALWAYS time for nuts, people. Don't send the wrong message. Think of the children.
9:01 p.m. : Jaden Smith reads the wrong line off the TelePrompTer and shrugs it off with the kind of charisma that makes it clear Will Smith is absolutely responsible for half his DNA. Our wombs ping again. The winner, though, is The Danish Poet, which ... we're sure it's very good, and at least it's not the one with the anti-nut title.
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- robotron3k0
the Oscars are usually boring, thought I don't know who was responsible for choosing Owen Wilson as host, but I didn't find him funny at all...
- ninjasavant0
I think Ellen, who I normally find unfunny, did the funniest oscar hosting of the last 10 years. The speeches were dreadful though.
Here's why I think Scorcese shouldn't have won. Mind you I've never seen any of his movies (or many movies at all for that matter, but I work in film . . . weird . . . anyway) so whether or not The Departed deserved the attention it got is besides the point. The reason is that he's no longer socially relevant on the Oscar scale. Before last night he was the director of amazing films but had never won the directing Oscar. So every year he made a film his name was brought up in many discussions about nominees and whatnot. Now he's got his Oscar so its no longer a topic.
Its kinda like the Red Socks, when they won the world series, they aren't the curse of the bambino team anymore, they're just the shitty team from the city with funny accents that won a couple years ago. No more talk about playoffs and curses, no more social relevance.
Peter O'Toole's face was priceless though when he continued being socially relevant though.
- Jaline0
I think Ellen, who I normally find unfunny, did the funniest oscar hosting of the last 10 years. The speeches were dreadful though.
ninjasavant
(Feb 26 07, 09:13)I agree, except I've always liked Ellen.
- kodap0
ahah..
loved the moment of the photo with Clint Eastwood taken by Steven Spielberg for her "myspace"...