Comments on: The Oscars: Oh my god just shut up already

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:57:39 +0000

Unfortunately it turns out they have television and The Oscars in Mexico, so I still might end up wasting 4 hours of vacation time on that bullshit circle jerk.

As long as there are drinks with umbrellas I might make it through.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:51:21 +0000

Oh, and also, Javier Bardem’s smoldering hotness almost distracts me from the fact that Tilda Swinton looks like she just parachuted in.

By: sara

sara — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:38:37 +0000

Ooh, good to know. I guess the Oscars are the ladies’ Super Bowl, then. Except during years when the Patriots go to the Super Bowl and Tom Brady swans around in tight pants.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:20:03 +0000

Sara, just so you know, I had a conference call with the gays. All of them. We agreed that the gay Superbowl is actually the season finale of Project Runway.

Sorry for any confusion.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:23:40 +0000

Last year’s tribute to binoculars and periscopes was awesome!

By: sara

sara — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:31:48 +0000

Yes, you’re right. I think last year or maybe the year before Jake Gyllenhaal introduced a montage of, like, landscapes. It was mind-boggling. And I would love to see more creative demonstrations of the work people do—one year I think they had mini fashion shows for the costume nominees, and that was legitimately cool. I also like to see the different shots the editors are working with and how they combine them to get the finished product. That stuff is interesting!

I forgot to mention that my problem isn’t with people like Kyle who genuinely don’t like the show, only put up with it because the person they live with has it on the TV and if they’re not in front of a TV that night are happy to miss it. I just don’t get people who seem to hate the entire concept and yet commit to writing about it and/or watching it. I don’t like hockey, but I don’t bitch about how the Stanley Cup playoffs are SOOOO LOOOOONG AND BORING, do I? (Okay, yes. But only at work.)

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:24:41 +0000

I mostly agree… although, really, as much as I enjoy clips packages, I can see the case against them when you’re producing a four-hour show. At least have them something to do with something. But instead this year they will probably have a four-minute tribute to, I don’t know, movies with mountains in them, or movies with a substantial height differential between lead actor and lead actress. And any and all production numbers can suck it. They have nothing to do with movies so I don’t care.

I’d rather see that time going to more substantial clips of the actual acting nominees (or others, even! I’d love to see them choose a directing or writing clip but maybe that’s too much analysis to ask for).

But anyway, you are right on about those “small” categories. I am way against jerks who are like “nobody cares about you, you’re the editor/sound guy/cinematographer!” I totally care about that stuff. Just commit to four hours of movie stuff.