OSCARTOPSY 2008

i watched the harrison ford bit of that annual barbara walters abomination. WTF WHY IS HE STILL ROCKING THAT RETARDED EARRING?!

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lolzz

This CGI intro thing is heinous.

those are some big-ass pillars

omg they're CRYOTUBES

Jennifer Garner, yowza

Stewart's monologue was eh

http://photos.garoo.net/2004/02/20040219-alien4-005.jpg

i thought the cgi intro was going to turn into grand theft auto.

from the other thread:

OK, I laughed like a fool at the Olympia Dukakis gag.

god, musical theater is weird

i would cry if I were Amy Adams.

there needs to be an oscars chatroom

Can't believe I missed Enchanted in the theater. Looks like a real winner.

Julie Christie looks great!

The Rock is non-congruent with the rest of the universe this evening...

seriously every time i see that giant Oscar:

http://www.geocities.com/eventmovies/id4deadaliens.jpg

me and skots childhood friend billy westenhoefer just won for golden compass,,,,go billyyyyyyyyyyyyy

oh cool! yay for them!

the cuba gooding jr clip has aged even worse than his career

j ho has sum crazy decolletage

jennifer hudson looks rowr, but that dress er she needs more support up there

no waus @ rata over persepolis?

not surprising at all! it's the oscars

Javier Bardem = rowr

rat is cute

rat was a foregone conclusion, no matter how great persepolis was

yea javier looks great

brad bird is always so hot to tell his stories

also lol @ dixie carter sighting

i wont see august rush ever

and god bless you for it

http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/h/T/Q/augustrushpic12.jpg

soulful blacks

exactly

th flacidity of bill contis crew is whelming..cabbage patch shout out..owens on placidyl

I tried to kill myself, can I be a mod?

french scoring big tonight

seinfeld needs a lonnnnnnng vacation

a montage of bees in movies ooooooooooohkaaay

seriously this is Worst Oscars Ever so far

tutli putli is alot of gsbx crew and is great

gsbxe

fuck peter and his dumb wolf.x\zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

"wrap up those speeches, guys! we have a BEE MONTAGE to do."

Alan Arkin looks pissed or bored.

lol did anyone see at the v end of the red carpet segment regis called javier bardem "xavier bardem" and tommy lee jones "harvey lee jones" within like 5 seconds

arkin is always at th pizza shop in town looking pissed and bored

i bet js wasn't kidding when he was talking about the montages being prepared in case of the strike continuing.

"i bet js wasn't kidding when he was talking about the montages being prepared in case of the strike continuing."

........it all makes sense now

cmon cateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

hay guise Tilda Swinton!

*gasp*

huh

woo tilda!

lol tilda is sooo weird

i mean go tildaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I CALLED IT!

aw i heart tilda

aaaaaaaand, that's pretty much it for awards we don't already know who has won, right?

"me and skots childhood friend billy westenhoefer just won for golden compass,,,,go billyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

YAY!!!! that was so exciting!!!!!!!!

I'll still be pleasantly surprised if Christie wins.

(Xpost)

'always fantastic'

lol

next year: bunnybrains at the grammys!

billy was like a lil blonde tasmanian devil child

"what is it she does again?"

jack is th impregnator...brolin is rock jawed...mcevoy will out ledger u

will Josh Brolin please stick his tongue in McAvoy's mouth?

nerds rool

Tilda is great

terrible coen 'stache

yeesh michael bay gets to vote

ha ha "she's taken out and shot"

hey it's california plaza! (the price waterhouse building)

my first laff comes from a 50 old clip of Bob Hope xxp

year

mileyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

miley smokes 4 packs a day?

theres 2 songs from enchanted? whtashdthsakifiukkk

wow these musical numbers are pretty bad

I hate Miley Cyrus.

"the little mermaid" looms large over this music

th mix is so vox heavy ..poor bill conti

yr dress is nowhere near yr boobs lady

oh god get rid of this category

wyclef is embarassing

where's Rob Lowe and Snow White?

Why am I watching this crap?

darling it's better down where it's wetter take it from meeee

every commercial has sum pfork appved strk

i put out my joint in th snow and now i cant get it lit again

dench berry face off

SWEET NO HALLIE BERRY!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzrogennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

DUMB

im convinced they had no time to write any patter for this program

good job on those grunts, gasps, crunches, bangs and whizzzzes guys

the sound dudes are so bored they cant function

kerpow blammo kraaak

didnt we just watch this...

oh snap

snap crunch kaboom

sum biaxzarctyhes better strat gettin naked or sumthibng

whittaker sounds exactly like he does in the coke "shut off your cellphones" ad before the movies...

haha nice face cate!

evryone is so nice and full of warm wine and suffusion of carrot ginger

laura linney is rad

FUUUUUCK

world's cuetest canadian is shutout

seek out the tracey fragments by bruce mcdonald(hardcore logo) very fukked and awesome

french people be winnin oscars

get the oxygen tank

yay Marion!

makes ,unfairly juno look like ratatataoouile

I should have known: STINKING OSCAR BAIT PERFORMANCES ALWAYS WIN

crying dying equals gold

wiiii is funny

aww i wanted julie christie

(have we talked about tilda's dress?)

humanity (hahaha) in all of us

dude is still pissed he didn't get to be Joker again

BORING

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzforgotwhatmontageissupposedtobe

zwelawegewreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee u go girl craxy haiorpdoo

god so many awful fucking movies have won Best Picture.

esp. this decade.

bourne sweeping all unimportant categories yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

is paul greengrass related to mrs grass who does the soup..cuz that would be awesome

I've only seen like 2 Best Pictures from before 1987, and missed 3 or 4 more since then... Does this mean I need to stop professing to like movies?

No Country lost Best Editing = very curious.

for my money "Silence of the Lambs" was the last remotely worthwhile winner for best picture.

imdb humor is post strike gold

nicole looks like a bucket of crazy

omg she really does. it's like i can't tell if she's still gorgeous or if it's all botox. sometimes when she smiles my lips hurt

the moral of the story is that bourne was well edited.

when I grow up I wanna be Nicole Kidman's lips.

robert boyle loves teen pussy

hahahahaa

wanna look rich? ivory pashmina shawl.

watch out miley

i'm sorry what is nicole wearing on her neck? a silver tree?

The Department of the Interior didn't want us to be monkeying around on Mount Rushmore at all, because the original Ernie Lehman story was called "The Man on Lincoln's Nose," which sounded like a put-down of the monument. So the Department of the Interior said, 'Nobody is going to film this sculpture if the movie is going to be called The Man on Lincoln's Nose.' So I told Hitchcock, if the Department of the Interior is not going to let us work on the monument, maybe we better look for another high place. And he said, "But, Bob, Mount Rushmore is the only reason I'm making the movie!" So we went up to the top of the monument and found these rusty cables and boatswain's chairs that the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, had used. The other people on the crew were leery of heights, but I was younger and more foolish. I got in a boatswain's chair, and they lowered me over the edge of Lincoln's head. As I got down a little bit, the old cable was so twisted, it started twirling. I was spinning around in the middle of nowhere, and the people on the top were going nuts. But it didn't bother me. I managed to photograph a series of ten-foot sections, from the top to the bottom of each head, so we could make rear projections for the movie. Later, I became known as, "The Man on Lincoln's Nose" -- they even put the image on my 95th birthday cake.

cue strings plz

-.- ...zzzzzzzzzz

dudes th tits

in my book

i think every blog engine in the universe is melting down right now...

haha

penny!!! ugh she looks so fucking hot

Haha, all the foreign language films are like stereotypes of foreign language films!

lol holocaust winnarz

when are we gonna get a foreign film in which the Nazis win?

date movie

lol

mccreammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy

enchanted is not film i will be seeing anytime soon,thank you very much.

who the fuck is that singing

b/c there's no Jews or Nazis?

aww he's so cute!!!!

enchanted is not helping itself for the undecided.

breakin out the falsetto

michael buble just picked his teeth and a little piece of this guy came out of his mouth

it's an ok movie!

is that Rob Lowe singing?

duke lacrosse '02-'06

travolta took my botox

CHRIST Travolta is such a fag.

"this is my favorite catagory because i love musical theater"

what's everybody almost tripping over?

travolta's head is just too big, it's distracting

his bowtie is hypnotizing me

most underdressed

i drank guiness w th frames and it was fun..his girlfren is post teen? wwwwwwwwwwwwahhhhhhh

he's lost weight.

this academy award really means something to glen hansard

yah fukk u enchanted

"male menopause"

i don't even know what enchanted is

the name of Stevie Nicks' boxed set.

geez i wish she were here

i felt bad for the chick from once not getting to talk!

http://fleetwoodmac-uk.com/newsblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/stevie-independentoct2007.jpg

omg thank you

haha

yah i felt bad for htat chick too! more than most ppl who don't get to talk, she seemed like such a humble one

no way!!!!!!!!!! she's out again!!!

aw.

awxq2

awAAAAAWEZ

awwwwwwww

I thought they were going to have to start up the go-away music for her

diaz is poop flavored

nah she's totally hot. her cheekbones are ready to jump off her face tho

why she hate on sunrise?

Cam is a charmer, f the hataz. nice shade of pink too.

totes

fun girl at the party

Paul Dano's nose weighs at least 350 lbs.

i think u mean hilary swank's teeth

DEATH MONTAGE

HEATH LEDGER STANDING OVATION COMING SOON

swank is poop flavored

hillary swank has some of the least ridiculous hair of the night.

ha, i like how they finally put the death dates, so no one is wondering why people are left out.

lol @ teeth joek

i always hate how the applause in these montages becomes a measure of one's life.

i need a drink

adrienne shelly missed the deadline last year.

Jack Nicholson's buying Jaeger shots at the bar.

they left out adrienne shelly?

hahaha xp

i always hate how the applause in these montages becomes a measure of one's life.

^^^^^ otm

wtf no brad renfro.

nicholson needs to get his teeth whitened

i know, no brad!

did people really like my dad or was that just ingmar bergman spillage?

Oh, no. Happy birthday, man. I have an American agent who is the spitting image of this. Really truly the same shape head and, it has to be said, the buttocks.

And I'm giving this to him because there's no way I would be in America at all ever on a plane, if it wasn't for him. So, Brian Swardstrom, I'm giving this to you. And Tony Gilroy walks on water, it's entirely official as far as I'm concerned, and Jen Fox and Steve Samuels, our incredible producers.

And Sydney Pollack, and George Clooney, you know, the seriousness and the dedication to your art, seeing you climb into that rubber bat suit from "Batman & Robin," the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch, you rock, man.

Thank you, thank you, thank you

oo he's cute

best oscar speech with both "nipples" and "buttocks" in it, like, ever

the softest, least threatening soldiers america could muster

why the fuck are soldiers talking to me right now

we all know hollywood still hates america

oh come ON that was a solid burn

loldiers

omg

xanaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

i feel bad about the whold wide world

tom hanks as al gore in: the al gore story

hanks is our bob hope

he was my graduation speaker!

all date movies yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

lol @ tom's "MWAH"

elton john ate jack osbournes hair

true

so wait was heidi wearing some hot red dress tonight or something? wtf is this coke commercial

ford goes for "middle part"

ford needs to cut back on the lithium

:(

codyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

also the bottom half of his face looks like it has been melted

but that's not new rly

bah

I think I've seen this lady's boobs in real life!

oscar for best shoulder ink goes to D.C.

if it turns out ford has parkinsons i'll be all :-[

boobs equals oscars

word xp

what a fucking mess is diablo cody.

who the fuck is she

i got mad at sum lady cuzz she had bought sum furniture at th store and she never picked it up and then i found out she had really bad MS

she's a former exotic dancer (TM)

* sigh *

the only thing missing from Juno was Leslie Nielsen.

i hope this doesn't start some sort of backlash for juno

can i pimp the Tracey Fragments twice in the same thread? kinda th anti juno..page is roolin in it

i don't know but the leopard print dress was not very flattering on the legs there :/

i miss john wayne

Her screenplay is bad and she should feel bad

Yeah, is there something wrong with Ford? Either he was very drunk or he has a medical condition that hasn't been revealed. I hope he was just wasted.

erm, didn't she wear the same dress to the baftas?

DDL countdown

ford is 65 yrs old and often they get sleepy

Helen Mirren as Madeleine Albright.

CAJONES

hellen mirren, you are my hero.

i love th detective bbc mirren

whoa helen is so hot

that entrance was amazing

OMG PRIME SUSPECT

why isn't DDL there again?

GO GEORGE!

but daniel, damn

OK nevermind

he just had to make a milkshake in the men's room

valley of meh

why did they cut to prince instead of depp?

ddllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

"the handsomest bludgeon in town"?

omg he's soooo fine

ok WTF

him and his nose

now THIS is how you give a weird speech.

the earrings are so 1990 though.

golden sapling

SO 1990s

and was one bigger than the other?

another middle part!

nice dreams

yeah Mirren looked amazing

im goin all middle part tommorrow and bludgeon people w my golden sap

Wait, I thought DDL wasn't there?

i know, her sleeves!!!!

^^ yeah i thought they said that too!!

xpost

clooney oscar by 2010

ddl ws just in the mens room or whatev during that other dudes award

he's got one already!

(xpost)

first time no Americans have won any of the acting awards?

for what??

syriana, supporting.

depp = oscar by 2012.

i miss matthau

such hot dudes and tommy lee in best actor category.

i miss walter matthau

xxxx-post

lol

i KNOW such hot dudes! tommy lee's a total babe too

i miss matthau a LOT! was just thinking that

Those goddamn foreigners, taking all of our jobs and Academy Awards!

martin scorcese killed ertugen w that sum stones movie

stupid stones movie i mean

These three youtubes with Neil Simon have some great Matthau clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXfMrqMT82Q

coen power

if we could've switched out tommy lee with ryan gosling i think history could've been made.

YES

let's put a border around the kodak theater

WHERE CAN I SEE THIS KISSENGER MOVIE?

nice height disparity coen genetic controller!

Liked No Country but Coen Bros. rub me the wrong way

Remind me of smarmy film dudes at my job

they rubbed you...sue!!!!!!!

always got to be a freakin sweep. boo.

Cormac MacCarthy smiled for the first time tonight.

wowz

i like that cormac is feted

Cormac McCarthy wore a tuxedo for the first time tonight.

Sydney Pollack should be thanked in every acceptance speech.

Remind me of smarmy film dudes at my job

-- Capitaine Jay Vee,

anti smarmite

pollack roolzs

uhoh its over see ya guys thnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

AFTERPARTY!!

overall I didn't like No Country.. javier bardem was great though

should i spend $400 on sale martin margiela boots actually in my size y/n

picture?

http://barneys.richfx.com.edgesuite.net/Image/media/PG_15619.5054_TH.jpg

i can't afford that, it just kills me they actually have the right size still on sale

yeah, those are not worth $400.

i forgot ddl was married to arthur miller's daughter.

I'm sorry I missed this thread. I was doing it the old fashioned way with my friends. :(

biggest winners:
no country 5
bourne ultimatum 3

think sean young watched the show from rehab?

I thought "No Country" only won 4.

won best visual effects for bardem's hair. all cgi!

you're right xp

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/dreamworks_skg/collateral/_group_photos/jamie_foxx6.jpg

I never realized that this was Javier Bardem too.

I like that at the very moment No Country confirmed Morbs' whole theory about the Oscars being all about arty bloody guy movies, the producer gets up and calls his boyfriend "Honey."

So, like half the recent clips searchable under Oscars on YouTube are of Miley Cyrus.

i didn't know that either eazy, just remember thinking he was good.

bourne sweeping all unimportant categories yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
haha this was the most exciting part of the whole night to me. i clapped and yaayed and made booya-style comments

i have no idea how i managed to get my sickass self out of the house. the oscars have power, helpless against it, all logic gone. also there were chips and weed.

and i watched 'eastern promises' AND 'no country for old men today'
and 'atonement' yesterday
i got myself involved :/

Sadly my pessimist Atonement best pic prediction cost me a point in the pool.

I got 14.

fuck you comcast dvr for shutting off at the scheduled end of this mess and making me miss cohens and best picture and best actor, but oh well, this whole thing was boring and awful except for glen hansard. diablo cody should stop dressing at the stripper store.

I think Tilda Swinton showed Diablo Cody how a true renegade would dress and act at the podium.

guys, i won a ratatouille DVD (first place) for my pix. i was 5/6 in the maj. catagories -- i was only wrong about diablo fucking cody

Then only relevant pool I'm in is the New York Times 2008 Office Pool, and No Country for Old Men wasn't even an option for best picture. I would have picked it, too! Thanks, William Safire!!!

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none of my friends won :(

i think she's cute and her speech was decidedly unpompous. for some reason i thought it would be.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/02/the_oscars_we_ended_the_writer.html

^^ like a really lame attempt at zing culture

Diablo Cody seemed nice and sweet, but her movie still wants me to eat my eyes and shit them out and stuff the eyeshit in my ears.

Jesus, that Guardian Oscars blog thing is the least witty/interesting/perceptive/worthwhile thing I have ever seen in my life.

The only thing I liked is when they had clips of Stallone presenting Oscars, for some reason that made me laugh hysterically. I may have been a little drunk though.

No Country lost Best Editing = very curious.

Not so weird. Bourne Ultimatum won the ACE (editors' guild) award.

What a fucking snooze. When the only surprises are visual FX and which Iraq-war film won doc feature....

sole highlight: Hitchcock's production designer

I thought that NCFOM would've won at least one of the three that Bourne took, though. If not editing, then one of the two sound awards.

the producer gets up and calls his boyfriend "Honey."

yeah, I'd forgotten Scott Rudin was gay, if I ever knew it.
I'm sure some gay guy manned the shears for the Chigurh haircut.

a gay hairdresser? get outta here.

Liked No Country but Coen Bros. rub me the wrong way

duh, they're filmmakers.

Elizabeth II for costumes SUCH an obvious call in retrospect. Most distant era always has the advantage.

god, musical theater is weird

My friend, none of the shit on that stage was musical theatre. KILL BEST SONG!

Sweeney Todd art direc & Taxi to the Dark Side made me happen. My, it would've been awkward if the Baghdad soldiers had presented the our-troops-torture award.

happy^

Nothing's made me happen.

thanks everyone - this thread has helped me regain the ground i lost by er forgetting the oscars were on! and i suspect it's a lot more fun to read than the awards were to watch.

humanity (hahaha) in all of us

OK THIS WAS GREAT, JACK!

it sounded so sinister when he said it

then again, it's jack nicholson

I also like the way the assholes stuck Sembene, Bergman and Antonioni in the middle of the obit montage so it wouldn't (they hoped) look ludicrous to end with Heath Ledger.

not having seen it, how come no one's mentioning teh bits that vereyone else seems to be mentioning - the mad ginger lady's speech and day lewis kneeling to be knighted.

also did heath ledger win the dead montage challenge? or were they chronological? is that the word?

Spare a thought for Kevin O'Connell - twenty nominations and no win, poor guy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/22/eveningnews/main2506107.shtml (article from last year when he was on 19)

as somebody mentioned upthread, they totally snubbed brad renfro

The obits were 'randomly' ordered so people who have only seen films since Jaws didn't hafta worry about who the great directors were.

The applause for Bergman was surprisingly enthusiastic.

they knew the chess scene from commercials and Bill & Ted

I think people clapped the most for Jack Valenti, which was gross.

Elizabeth II for costumes SUCH an obvious call in retrospect

so true^^^^

Also I noticed Marion Cotillard looked a bit like Leah Remini, which was scary. Not because Leah is ugly or anything, but because she is such a crazed Scientologist you get the impression she'd murder you in your sleep to get to clear.

Her Edith Piaf probably would.

There Will Be Clear

also, more formula music bipics to come. that Shaggs thing gets greenlighted, w/ Kidman?

Cate Blanchett to play Nicole Kidman in upcoming biopic, written by David Thomson.

John Travolta's "hair" looked like it was drawn on with magic marker.

now THIS is how you give a weird speech.

-- Clay, Monday, 25 February 2008 04:36 (10 hours ago) Link

OTM! That was a highlight for me. I like my actors to be reclusive, preternaturally talented, and completely batshit.

I take everything back I said about Michael Clayton. It was worth it to have a winner/speech/gown everyone at work so violently hated.

haha, you're the only perv who liked the Batman joke? wtf is wrong w/ them co-workers?

btw, to have an all-sexy Best Actor lineup McAVOY was needed.

I think people clapped the most for Jack Valenti, which was gross.

Sounded to me like Suzanne Pleshette got the most, but yeah, any applause for that asshole is rong. I shouted "hahaha, fuck you, you're dead!" at the tv.

So, like half the recent clips searchable under Oscars on YouTube are of Miley Cyrus.

-- Eric H., Monday, 25 February 2008 05:22

in this morning's USA Today they quote her saying something like "This is really fun and exciting but I'm so tired, I just want to go home and get on YouTube."

Carell & Hathaway marching out to the "Get Smart" music was the most shameless prerelease presenter plugola since... Goldie Hawn & George Segal hyping The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox? (I must have been truly offended by that as a teenager.) I hope GS bombs massively.

Carell & Hathaway marching out to the "Get Smart" music was the most shameless prerelease presenter plugola since... Goldie Hawn & George Segal hyping The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox?

What about Steve Martin "Bringing Down The House" as host a few years back?

how could they tarnish the oscars with commercialism like that? for shame, hollywood, for shame.

at least carell didn't talk into his shoe

I could be wrong because my memory is pretty hazy, but don't they have at least one shameless plug every year? I thought the Get Smart plug was megacheesy but it didn't seem that remarkable.

the whole thing is a plug for Hollywood!

wtf is wrong w/ them co-workers?

There is a serious lack of appreciation for the authentic oddball in the outside world.

tilda swinton is the worst kind of "eccentric" aristo. and you fuckers drink it up! she's like lord john marbury in 'the west wing' only with a whiney outsider shtick to go.

yeah i kinda hate her

I shouted "hahaha, fuck you, you're dead!" at the tv.

Pretty much the same thing happened at my house.

I'd believe you, that one guy, if you'd said "Cate Blanchett."

cate can do no wrong. this is mostly anglo class hatred from my quarter, you understand.

how is an australian any kind of aristo

his is mostly anglo class hatred from my quarter, you understand.

that pesky thing.

Sword fight!

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/1/0/5/4/18834501-18834502-slarge.jpg

just so sad that DDL peaked with his Jim Sheridan Trilogy.

Does Blanchett come off like Lili Taylor's Valerie Solanis in I'm Not There? That clip was awful, but I know I shouldn't judge stuff from Oscar clips.

I thought that NCFOM would've won at least one of the three that Bourne took, though. If not editing, then one of the two sound awards.

-- jaymc, Monday, February 25, 2008 2:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

me too. practically lost me the poll. and the elizabeth thing. and the tutli-putli thing :(

yeah, that clip they showed of I'm Not There was pretty bad, not the best part of her section. xpost

i meant the pool xp

i think if i saw Cate Blanchett in person i would fall down dead. she's too beautiful to be real.

tilda swinton is the worst kind of "eccentric" aristo. and you fuckers drink it up! she's like lord john marbury in 'the west wing' only with a whiney outsider shtick to go.

I haven't a clue what the hell any of this is supposed to mean. I dig Tilda because she is a strange actress who gives strange performances.

god the enchanted songs were brutal. i'm glad the once kids won. didnt see it tho.

I haven't a clue what the hell any of this is supposed to mean. I dig Tilda because she is a strange actress who gives strange performances.

-- Eric H., Monday, February 25, 2008 5:31 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

ya i know. did suzy forget to log out??

I haven't a clue what the hell any of this is supposed to mean. I dig Tilda because she is a strange actress who gives strange performances.

I think you kinda have to be a state school kid who went to Oxbridge to follow any of it.

and even then...

lol those Britishes.

god the enchanted songs were brutal. i'm glad the once kids won. didnt see it tho.

They were painful. I'm pretty glad I don't have a child who is old enough to want to see things like this yet.

All of the songs were pretty brutal. Even the "Once" song was wrestled to the ground and choked dead by the orchestration.

That Kristen Chenoweth performance was hell. If I take my friends that are fans of hers on faith, she was just all wrong for the song, but I have a sneaking suspicion that she's a chore to listen to in any context.

I actually enjoyed the setpiece with the song in the context of the movie, but they didn't get anything right.

Overheard at my Oscar party, upon Swinton's win:

Woman 1: Is she the token person who shows up drunk to collect her award?
Woman 2: No, no, she's just a rich, eccentric British person! That's what they're all like!
Woman 1: Sorry, I haven't met very many people in that category.

i felt especially bad for amy adams. that song didnt' seem to make sense without cartoon animals or something romping around. she seemed so alone on that stage!!

(xpost) Oh she's rich? I hate her.

Yeah, Amy Adams was hung out to dry there.

in "animals cleaning apt" context the happy working song is pretty classic.

ya i liked enchanted but pulling those songs out of context was just cruel.

the lol of it all is i didn't go to state school.

suzy would fkn LOVE tilda.

how is an australian any kind of aristo

-- gff, Monday, February 25, 2008 5:06 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

naw tilda is the aristo. cate is perfection, always. (i won't see 'elizabeth 2' obv.)

(xpost) Oh she's rich? I hate her.

-- Eric H., Monday, February 25, 2008 5:36 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

i don't even know if she's that rich -- not the issue here, although her posturing as a boho outcast is weak.

see the derek jarman thread for context.

did it seem like she and the clooney sort of hate each other?

you're rich? I hate you then. xp. jokes bruv

next time, fuck the original songs and bring on THE MOLDY PEACHES!!!

Here's the actual scenes in Enchanted, so people can see how off the Oscar performances were (frankly its the setpieces rather than the songs themselves that work, I'm glad that the Once song won):

"happy working song"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KObgs81QyR4

"how does she know?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYU4cqUAUs

man, actually after watching those clips I hope I never hear the songs outside of context again

hay guys i didnt see this what won

is the lower half of Javier Bardem's face always browner, or did he just shave the evening before, rather than that morning? looks silly.

did anyone see barbara walters where she was interviewing ellen page and said something like, "ellen, the moldy peaches. i just don't get it."

the only movie i saw was no country for old men & i thought it was ok. gonna go see the milkshake movie this week!!

i don't even know if she's that rich -- not the issue here, although her posturing as a boho outcast is weak.

Aren't most "boho outcasts" (as opposed to garden variety outcasts) posturing anyway?

I can't contribute to a Derek Jarman film thread, having only made it about 15 minutes into Sebastine before flipping it off and slipping into the bathroom.

walters is just getting worse and worse. best one of the night:

walters: what do you think of when you remember alien.
harrison ford: (smiles) ridley.
walters: ridley...
ford: scott.

Barbara thought Harrison Ford was in Alien?!

barbara walters on Moldy Peaches = ILX tastemaker

what did she say?

Barbara thought Harrison Ford was in Alien?!

-- Eric H., Monday, February 25, 2008 5:44 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

haha i mean blade runner.

next time, fuck the original songs and bring on THE MOLDY PEACHES!!!

Make them next year's honorary winners. Bathroom break hat trick.

Aw, I wish I would have watched the Walters interviews now, they sound battier than ever.

http://www.websophist.com/BarbaraWalters247MO.jpg

http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/JPEG

Aw, I wish I would have watched the Walters interviews now, they sound battier than ever.

-- Nicole, Monday, February 25, 2008 5:46 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

you missed her in a hippy shirt

:(

BAD VISUAL IN BRANE

My fave film of the three best pic noms I saw was Michael Clayton but I'm cool with the Coens getting belated acknowledgement as none of the films I really enjoyed this year had a chance of even getting nominated. Man, was this a weak year for prestige films.

not really. i mean crash won last year. crash.

no, the departed won. AND IT FUCKING ROCKED.

and now, my favorite 7 months of the year, where everyone shuts up about the Oscars.

oh snap, xp

And goes to see the latest superhero movie?

I want to get that sexy Zodiac two-disc box set and see if it's as good as I remember it being.

no, the departed won. AND IT FUCKING ROCKED.

-- da croupier, Monday, February 25, 2008 5:51 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

i mean the year before of course. no country, twbb better than the departed i think.

i wish zodiac had gotten ANY shine at all :(

xp: no, and gets ready for the Manoel de Oliveira centennial retro at BAM.

I'd probably rather see No Country again than anything (aside from the Departed, which I'll take over quirkpulp that DOESN'T get off on being action trash) that won since, uh, Silence Of The Lambs or whatever. But usually most years I can say prestige pic x was ROBBED and now it's just "well the quirkpulp guys won, not like we did much better than that this year, really."

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2Bp2q2IhDL._SS500_.jpg

One of my favorite moments of the night (don't know if it was mentioned upthread, which I havne't read through yet) was Blanchett's reaction to the clip they showed for Elizabeth. She was all "c'mon, people, you nominated me for that?!" That's pretty punk too.

otm

Oh, yes, not only does everyone see Manoel De Oliviera movies, but also everyone lives in New York. How daft of me to forget that.

yeah, Blanchett made an adorable face at that ridic elizabeth clip. she is the best.

now everyone can shut up about critically acclaimed art-pulp never winning Oscars.

OK Eric, then it's time to start planning for Toronto in Sept!

Why? So I can see all the Oscar movies one and a half months before everyone else in the U.S.?

I want to get that sexy Zodiac two-disc box set and see if it's as good as I remember it being.

-- caek, Monday, February 25, 2008 5:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

it's lush

I'm really over the mystique of festivals. I trace it to the moment Ken Loach won the Palme. < / bait >

so aside from stuff already in the works like Stop-Loss do you think the near-total shutout (and flop status) of the year's Iraq flicks from the nom pool will stop them from making the crap? I think Tommy Lee Jones' Elah performance was great (and shoulda won) but I'm glad nothing else about that film (or Rendition or Redacted or Lions For Lambs or whatever else might have come out) didn't get shit.

or rather, that nothing else <i>got</i> shit

Anthony, THE SURGE HAS WORKED.

We have entered Toronto this year, because in a straw poll I took at Sundance people kept telling us that it is their new favourite.

no country fans should definitely check out Elah, as it has Josh Brolin, as well as a scene where Tommy Lee Jones visits his old retired friend Barry Corbin.

Elah was doing so well until the last five minutes.

Not taking Loachbait (until you see it) ... they show plenty of films that don't get released for 3 years at TIFF! Reading about fests doesn't count.

Reading about fests doesn't count.

Check and mate. Of course, that's why I don't consider myself a cinephile any longer.

it'd be your re-baptism.

Elah was starting to fly off the rails a good bit before that, but it sure took a lot longer than Crash to reach the waht-zone.

it's a shame that Josh Brolin with goatee means fun performance while Josh Brolin without goatee is hottttt. Got a total mancrush for this guy. Pissed they're gonna let him play Bush. I don't want to conflate those guys.

I'm really over the mystique of festivals. I trace it to the moment Ken Loach won the Palme. < / bait >

-- Eric H., Monday, February 25, 2008 6:01 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

samesies

No, Morbs.

admittedly Toronto does have pretty terrible gay bars...

That's beside the point. The reason I don't want to go to TIFF is that I don't want to go to TIFF.

Pissed they're gonna let him play Bush. I don't want to conflate those guys.

I did not know that! That's unfortunate, GWB should never look hottt.

did you conflate Nixon & Tony Hopkins?

Brolin looked older in Flirting with Disaster.

in the sense that both were distinctly not hott, yes

x-post

I forgot Brolin in Flirting w. Disaster. He was pretty hott in that.

No Ratings for Old Show

As unsurprising as the best picture winner.

Bill Maher:
"My favorite movie of the year was the one about the heartless con man who's obsessed with finding oil. Its called No End In Sight."

The poster:

http://www.douglasatwell.com/images/milkshake.jpg

yeah what a bummer about ZODIAC!

no.

Edward Yang was not in the obits either.

i'm glad french girl won, she seemed to genuinely enjoy her award.

she even cried like Hillary.

Clinton or Swank?

Swank's tough like a man.

I was surprised DDL's speech didn't rhyme

lol

i'm glad french girl won, she seemed to genuinely enjoy her award.

-- akm, Monday, February 25, 2008 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i was lolling at "you rocked my LIFE!"

"thank you, life! thank you, love!"

boo hiss

i dunno. I guess his was a high-profile death, given his age, but i'm sure there's a handful of behind-the-scenes artists who died last year, didn't make the cut (there's always next life), and had a greater impact on the industry. Is tragically young reason enough?

otoh, it would have taken 4 or 5 seconds.

i wonder how the academy even puts their "in memorium" together. Obviously actors are weighted way more heavily than any other profession. Then directors, producers, DP's on down the chain. Basically you better be the world's greatest gaffer if you're gonna make the cut.

I could sort of see why they might not include Renfro (didn't think he was big enough, known for getting into all sorts of trouble, etc) but then again, it was just a glaringly noticeable omission given that he died less than a week before Ledger, and was around the same age. I don't really see why he shouldn't have made the cut considering that he started acting earlier, was in a few memorable films, and had been noted for being a fine actor despite all his later problems.

yeah i mean it's not the crime of the century and it's mostly its recentness that made it a noticeable omission. but he did some interesting stuff. (onscreen too, ba-dum-bum). it would have been nice to see him.

yeah also apparently, both the BAFTAs and SAG included him in their tributes.

they left whooopi goldberg and steve martin out of the montage of oscar hosts as well, apparently (or so I've heard from EVERYONE ON EARTH WHO WATCHES THE FUCKING VIEW), I think this oscars was probably kind of slapped together.

None of the montages were comprehensive except for the one for Best Picture. The ones for the acting/directing categories were chronological but sometimes they'd skip five years or so to maintain momentum (as long as it was before 1990, so no one would really notice).

I would have rather had Renfro than Jack Valenti, that's for sure.

I don't think I realized how much I hated that guy until he was in the montage though, so perhaps it served a purpose.

Sorry, I know that sounds pretty Shakey Mo.

did Brad Renfro make one decent film besides Bully, aside from his brief role in Ghost World?

Edward Yang's films have been almost impossible to see in America, but Yi Yi did win a bunch of US awards (not an Oscar, characteristically).

omg, Jane Russell lives...

http://dlisted.com/node/24073

?!? Okay, I am honestly surprised, I had no idea she was still alive.

I was channel surfing last night and caught a story on Nightline about Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova. Apparently they'd agreed that Hansard would give the speech and then Irglova was only going to say "Thank You." She's also the first person in Oscar history who got cut off that was brought back to speak again.

FWIW, I have never heard of Brad Renfro

xp: and it was SO worth it...

probably was for her!

not a good standard.

Then why do you watch the Oscars at all? To grouse that no one in America remembers that Edward Yang died?

You mean man.

(x-post)

I actually didn't watch the first 2 hours at all, bcz I was shaking my TV, trying to get a picture!

(EH is grumpy when Slant only gets 16/24)

Although yes, Yang (and Renfro) should have been included. Certainly that montage could have been six seconds longer.

Ummm who put Miley in Valentino?

I'm quite happy to defend Tilda Swinton, she rocks, posh or not. Derek Jarman too.

Fight the real enemy for once, 'Enery.

i thought tilda swinton was great! she made BATMAN jokes for crying out loud. i dont understand you brits.

i thought tilda swinton was great! she made BATMAN jokes for crying out loud. i dont understand you brits enrique

I thought she was great!

Gary Busey should get all Ryan Seacrest's jobs. At least for a month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDoAUJDcKU

I have been out of America too long to cope with Ryan Seacrest at all.

I laughed my ass off when I heard Tilda Swinton's speech. Also, yo, she's SCOTTISH. Of course she's going to give Clooney stick.

Oscartopsy call from my mother was very Mpls-centric and went YAY TEH COENS HOMEBOI RULZE, OMG DIABLO CODY LEOPARD FAT SUIT, HOW SHE WAS EVER STRIPPER?

The Ryan Seacrest red carpet interviews were great, he is so glib and creepy and horrible.

your mom thinks diablo cody is fat?

Not really. It's my mother's job to harsh on one woman each Oscars (nice, but for inventing the Renee Zellweger Blowjob Face we must all forgive) hence OMG LEOPARD FAT SUIT OH NOES TACKY TAT N BINGO WINGS, NOT FLATTERING.

Fuck, if I had my pick of ALL THIS DIOR the animal print would never be selected.

did she send you a telegram?

>_<

What did she say about the alien-like Tilda Swinton?

Renee Zellweger Blowjob Face

uh

tilda swinton rulez

Rulez what, the underworld?

NARNIA, duh

I should have figured that.

No offense to her, but I saw a pic where she was next to Marie Cotillard after the awards and let's just say she "pales" in comparison.

What a hottie Marie is though, damn.

What a hottie Marie is though, damn.

Yes, Best Actress is voted mostly with stiff dicks these days.

Helen Mirren gets nothing but hard statuettes and bubblegum

^^reference that will be totally lost on basically everyone in this thread

xxpost Yes, she is a hottie.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/filmslide/lavieenrose/pic3.jpg

hotties with ugly prosthetics do esp well (Charlize as Wuornos)

had I known the actress was a hottie (only knew pics like that) she would have definitely would have made my pool.

lol, Musto:

10:23 p.m.: It's time for the drippy "Once" song sung by the busker and the immigrant. This Czech should be bounced. So should this entire tuneless category. Can it, Oscar!

10:51 p.m.: What is everyone slipping on onstage? Did one of the pregnant people break water or did Julie Christie sprinkle some slime up there for Cotillard to die on? But here's a real slipup: The Once song wins! The best four notes I ever heard!

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0809,314369,314369,15.html