OSCARS 2013

I didn't hate MacFarlane like some of you did, some of his jokes hit the mark, but a few were unfunny in a cruel way. Mostly I felt like it was a total waste of an evening. I didn't have a rooting interest in a single category, and I didn't even watch more than 15 minutes--I sat in an adjacent room on the computer listening. Actually watching would have been less of a waste. I should have stuck with my initial idea of watching a movie instead.

during the opening monologue i was like 'when did the oscars become a roast' but i assume thats the gervais effect

my only stake was that john williams lose, and he did.

i'm trying to remember whose speech i found most cringey but it was a crowded field

Nearly every strategy Seth seemed to be attempting was done a zillion times better by Steve Martin.

Also, it's pretty brazen for the show's producers to spend a good solid 15 minutes' worth of broadcast time constructing an alternate narrative in which a movie they helped shepherd to screen (Chicago) revived movie musicals, and then positioning that development as the single most important thing to happen to movies in the last decade.

Off-topic about the hosting, but I didn't realize (or remember) Anne Hathaway got married...to a guy who, by all appearances, manages a comic book store.

xpost yeah it was like Oscars Tribute To Chicago was the theme for the show

i'm not a student of this stuff; do the oscars usually try so hard to work in the presence of movies that actually made money (avengers, bond) ?

that onion joke is funny

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:06 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh no how can anyone think this

chicago is literally a movie that doesn't exist outside of the oscars universe

has anyone actually seen it and if you have are you sure it wasn't a dream

That was the whole reason they reopened the best pic noms above five. Blockbusters still never win, though.

I missed the Seth MF lyric that Onion tweet was apparently referencing.

Moulin Rouge came out a year prior to Chicago, but no one said a peep about it last night. I guess because, even though it's a musical, it didn't come over from Broadway?

More like it didn't win any Oscars that, 10 years later, still demand an explanation.

because even they know that putting an elton john cover on stage and parading it around as the spirit of oscar is ridiculous?

Seth MF won me over when he flipped the Mel Gibson joke back on the audience, "oh, you're on his side now?". But then he lost me again with the Clooney/9 year-old thing.

well the AW one fooled me w its unfunniness!

LOL @ Tommy Lee Jones' red carpet photo

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who's that lady and why did she bring a wax ulysses grant

that's mrs Tommy Lee jones

the number of jokes in the opening about shit that happened at the golden globes seemed way lame to me

Rolling Stone is REALLY upset Seth MF

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/oscars-2013-stupid-is-as-stupid-does-20130225

ugh no how can anyone think this

― lex pretend, Monday, February 25, 2013 11:17 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

it made me laugh... and it wasnt even at her expense! good shit imo

you're a cunt, then

lol well okay. touché.

one bright spot in this whole mess: charlize theron, lord...

I think I got the full effect of her gorgeousness when she was standing with Dustin Hoffman. She looked RAD

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"chicago is literally a movie that doesn't exist outside of the oscars universe"

i read that the producers of the oscars last night had produced Chicago.

You think?!

I read that they wooed, impregnated, midwifed and birthed it.

Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.

He sang a show tune about the hot nudity in The Accused – 30 seconds of Googling would have explained why that line wasn't a keeper, but obviously Seth's staff was too chickenshit to give the boss any bad news.

Thankfully only watched a bit of this. Laughed at the Von Trapp joke.

Seth had some really foul jokes but I thought the production in general was really terrible, and often Seth was a bright spot by comparison. If someone could just rein him in he could be a very strong host. But I don't get the sense that he's able to go out of his comfort zone at all.

yeah wtf was with all that 'it was 10 years ago this year since Chicago..' ?? like they were talking about A World Event.

Gonna be a lot of hobbits up on stage next year.

The cast of "The Hobbit" should host, in character!!!!!

Was there no lifetime achievement award last night, or did I miss it? (Was that the Pennebaker segment? Usually they don't honor people together.) Also, doesn't last year's winning director usually present this year's, like with actors? They had Fonda and Douglas do that.

Doing a Twitter search, no one seemed to pick up on the Kardashian/beard joke as being about Kanye. Related to that, McFarlane seemed kind of uncomfortably and opaquely between dry loutish Kimmel wit and dry loutish Charles Nelson Reilly.

how is that about kanye?

They shifted all of the lifetime achievement stuff to the Governors Awards so that it isn't as rushed, right?

I'd rather see that than a lame clip package of Bond scenes or performances from Chicago and Dreamgirls or the stupid loser song at the end.

I don't think anyone picked up on it because it wasn't a joke about Kanye?

xpost (Well, OK, maybe it wasn't: Introducing bearded Ben, the Family Guy writer said: “The first time I saw all that dark facial hair I thought, “My God! The Kardashians have finally made the jump into film.”)

Terrible idea. Bergman and Kurosawa and Ray (or the Kazan controversy) has been the #1 reason to watch for a long time.

no one seemed to pick up on the Kardashian/beard joke as being about Kanye.

Yeah, and I guess that joke about the Oscar orgy at Jack Nicholson's place was supposed to be a joke about Roman Polanski?

I thought it was just another dated Oscars joke, like the cocaine joke. Har har cocaine orgy '70s those were teh days...

oh my god

https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/306078858241798144

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@charlesmurray Yeah, if only self-confidence had anything whatsoever to do with talent or taste.