Where the oscars a bit of a let down?
September 4th, 2010
Where were the surprise winners? The fashion disasters? The mad speeches? The classic zingers? The answer – to everything in Hollywood lately, it seems – is the writers’ strike. With the Writers Guild Of America forging a pact with Tinseltown studios only two weeks before Oscar day, organisers were fully expecting to lay on the Awards with stars, writers and directors still on the picket line.
Their gameplan? Less fun. More montages. ‘Plan B’ involved endless clip-reels, musical interludes and stand-in presenters. So instead of Halle Berry, we get Seth Rogen pretending to be Halle Berry (not as funny as it sounds). We get John Travolta ‘waltzing’ (not as funny as it sounds). We get a 10-minute educational video on the Academy voting process (even less interesting than it sounds).
No surprise that US TV station ABC apparently told advertisers not to expect high viewing-figures for yesterday’s ceremony.
The actual show wasn’t so bad. Jon Stewart was pretty funny and the speeches were okay. Out of the performances, in my opinion they all sucked except for Amy Adams singing the Happy Working Song.
In terms of the prizes, I think everyone got what they deserved. All the movies were awesome and at the end of the day, I couldn’t even pick which one should win.
I can’t stand the people who are going around complaining that the commercial movies didn’t win. Juno winning best picture? Johnny Depp best actor? If you haven’t seen the other movies, don’t go around saying that they "got robbed". Just because those people might be more famous doesn’t mean they deserve the Oscar.
September 4th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
No, they were a HUGE letdown.
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September 4th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
I didnt watch it. I dont like the oscars. There is so many good movies out there and they pick moives i never heard of before. I thought that Juno should have gotten more and Johnny Depp had to get something, i mean come on. Plus everyone at the oscars[ex. George cloney(sp)] isn’t all that great.
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September 4th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
It was dull. Nothing surprising, you can even tell what films are being nominated ahead of time, the dramas with the a-listers, the foreign drama, and one indie comedy flick to round it out. Most come out in the same time frame too. All so formulated.
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September 4th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
There were three slips though. hahahahaha Miley Cyrus, John Travolta and Collin Farrel, all three of them slipped on the way to the microphone. that was very funny…
hahahahhahaha!!
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Me, my eyes and my tv..
September 4th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
I actually thought they were pretty good. I enjoyed them.
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September 4th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
The actual show wasn’t so bad. Jon Stewart was pretty funny and the speeches were okay. Out of the performances, in my opinion they all sucked except for Amy Adams singing the Happy Working Song.
In terms of the prizes, I think everyone got what they deserved. All the movies were awesome and at the end of the day, I couldn’t even pick which one should win.
I can’t stand the people who are going around complaining that the commercial movies didn’t win. Juno winning best picture? Johnny Depp best actor? If you haven’t seen the other movies, don’t go around saying that they "got robbed". Just because those people might be more famous doesn’t mean they deserve the Oscar.
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