The Oscars: Highlights Having Nothing to do with the Awards
Posted by Maggie
February 26th, 2007 at 10:22am
In Special Events
Of course I'm happy The Departed/Marty won. But there were a few genuinely amusing moments during last night's Oscars that had little if anything to do with the films and people nominated. They're the reason the telecast was ohmygod four hours long, but they made me smile.
In particular, there was Will Ferrell and Jack Black on not being Oscar material. In song.
I also liked the sound effects choir and Tom Hanks making fun of Chris Connelly. What do you think? Any other bright spots in the endless, pointless pageantry?
Also, we saw the suicidal robot ad again, and they changed the ending. Weak, GM. If you're going to have an extremely offensive suicidal robot, don't water it down. Just go for it.
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1. Liz | February 26th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I actually couldn’t make it through the whole ceremony. Gave up around 11, when they did the musical montage of some random film composer’s work. I figured I could check out the few non-boring, non-self-indulgent moments on YouTube.
That said, the kids messing up their lines while presenting Best Animated Short was kind of cute. And props to Al Gore, of course…that was cool.
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