OSCARS 2013

The tiger was f'in rad, your pal did a good job

did it ever bite him

did he have to clean up its poop

can you ask him this for me thanks scott

still waiting

The tiger was some of the best FX I've ever seen. I've had people swear to me that it was real, despite all logic to the contrary.

I can understand that. It was fucking phenomenal, and heavy CGI is usually like sand in my eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5kNMz_c3JI

as usual, watched this 24 hour later with friends (annual ritual based on time zones)

ugh, this was the worst ceremony i have ever seen and i want to hire a hit squad on the smarmiest, least likeable, most misogynistic host ever. sadly can imagine Oscars finding us even worse options in future

he won an oscar for the lion witch wardrobe movie. i haven't seen him since high school. he was the brainy kid who was ALWAYS drawing. always. on the bus, in class, etc. very focused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7SFtdOjcUw

adorable!

No Andy Griffith or Ben Gazzara!

― Moodles, Monday, February 25, 2013 4:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Apparently Gazzara snuck in last year (@3:41):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNCHAEgm0L8

I mean @ 3:11

or 3:07... I need to stop hangin' w/Quentin.

Lots of coverage here (incl. reruns and new stuff)
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/oscars

Honorary Award speeches (a few seconds shown last night):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JsYTFukcgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACXVz7BRvfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHRqpheZyU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwy9UY2VgnQ

Those four clips added together roughly equal the time last night's Oscarcast wasted reminding the world that they were right about awarding Chicago and preemptively warning the world that history would vindicate Les Mis.

wait, Boal won something?

Harry Carey Jr., Ann Rutherford, Susan Tyrell, Alex Karras also non-memoriam'd.

"I'm pretty sure lazenby is dead"

no but as Dorothy Parker said of Coolidge, how would you tell?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ScreenShot2013-02-25at92849PM_zps5a5f61e2.png

Morbs with the Lazenby zing!

here's my Seth Macfarlane imitation:

"whenever i see Joan Rivers doing K-Stew slut jokes on her red-carpet review, I think what a sad, scary old cunt!"

Can't remember a time when the winners of both screenplay awards have cheesed me off so much.

there w/ you

did Crash win it

just a guess but eric you might want to take a glance at 2003

gasp in horror at 1990 while you're at it

Meh, Coppola didn't defeat anything particularly distinguished, and 1990 predates my rubbernecking Oscar races.

2005 definitely much closer to the mark.

morbz do you have the netflix? i'm gonna have a lubitsch marathon this weekend. loved the wildcat so much. the doll, i don't want to be a man, anna boleyn, and one arabian night are up next. hope they add more stuff like that. they thrill me and also make me fear death.

no netflix; NY public library

morbs how much hours a week would you guess you spend sitting in the library posting on the internet?

I've owned a laptop for almost 4 years, Bright Eyes.

wait do you work at the library? just trying to figure out why 'ny public library' is yr reason for not having netflix. does netflix have a beef w/ the ny public library and you're taking sides?

NYPL has 90% of what i need to see.

ok, that makes total sense. netflix is convenient but it definitely has its holes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N1vdyAIf28M#at=18

Goddamn it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1vdyAIf28M#!

Long, uneven postmortem by Denby, gets to the point here:

...All of which leaves Bassey. “Goldfinger,” whose title track she delivered last night, came out in 1964, a date recalled by Emmanuelle Riva, Alan Arkin, William Shatner, Quvenzhané Wallis’s grandparents, and nobody else. Short of importing Mary Poppins, or the Audrey Hepburn of “My Fair Lady,” there could be no swifter way of spiriting us back to that candy-colorful year. Here was the Bond song, all a-glitter, not merely repeated but refreshed for our delight. And our lady, at the gilded age of seventy-six, was no less fair. The spider-like pause, on “It’s the kiss of death,” was left to hang far longer, and more luxuriously, than it was in the original recording; the climactic growl on “only gold” would have sent Richard Parker packing; and, as for the knowing, hands-on-hips mini-shimmer at the words “pretty girls,” even the girlish Jennifer Lawrence must have been left pondering what it yet might take, in the long haul of stardom, to own the town. The assembled throng rose before Bassey had even signed off; these folk know royalty when they see it. Whatever you think about Quentin Tarantino, the man loves the pantheon, and he was up on his hind paws and clapping like a kid who didn’t realize that Santa Claus could show up in the middle of Lent. For an instant, we could all party like it was 1964.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/pleasant-shocks-anthony-lane-on-the-2013-oscars.html

so, how bad has Seth McFarlane been so far?

as bad as expected muliplied by worse

Most-watched Oscars in 6 years, he should be back. Almost half the jokes were decent to great, btw. (And I fucking hate Family Guy.)

u_u

i think I just realized how much I hate the Oscars is what it boils down to. And that Seth McFarlane is terrible

But Denby wrote it! No wonder I laughed a couple times.

I would think the overriding job of a host at this point is to generate lots of din, and to keep the show front and center (which, logically, it really shouldn't be any more). So he did that.

@DennisThePerrin
Is there a Kill List in Michelle's envelope?

holy shit that's hilarious

omg

morbs was that on twitter?

ok i found it

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