OSCARS 2013

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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

Dennis Perrin ‏@DennisThePerrin
LIFE OF PI is a visual metaphor for most of my romantic relationships. #Oscars

Dennis Perrin ‏@DennisThePerrin
Tarantino wins. My nigger! #Oscars

Dennis Perrin ‏@DennisThePerrin
You think there'll ever be hipster death camps? #Oscars

Dennis Perrin ‏@DennisThePerrin
Jennifer Lawrence reminds me of a girl I had a crush on in high school -- minus the restraining orders. #Oscars

Dennis Perrin ‏@DennisThePerrin
SARAH PALIN FOR POPE!

really great stuff

LIFE OF PI is a visual metaphor for most of my romantic relationships.

Meaning he made them up? I buy it.

Sorry your adventurous propaganda movie limped away with half a statue, honeybunch.

Sockpuppet Flight was a definite improvement.

lincoln only won half a statue?

Sorry your adventurous propaganda movie limped away with half a statue, honeybunch.

http://media.betterlucktomorrow.com/images/index_top.jpg

inevitable answer song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RD5NLYjBiQA

...prob nsfw

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/an-open-letter-to-ang-lee/
http://thinkinganimationbook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/a-piece-of-pi.html
http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/the-visual-effects-community-sees-red-in-the-wake-of-oscar-protest-and-on-air-snub

I hope that one gets some traction and all, but raising the question of what today's movies would look like without VFX? ... Um, in many cases, much better.

JD & leong, do you also believe that the Haneke Twitter is the real one?

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 25, 2013 5:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure the AW one is real...

― christmas candy bar (al leong)

i'm a little 'confused', maybe you have some inside info, bc at the bottom of armond white's city arts pieces it says "Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair", which is the twitter that has those spielberg tweets.

Man, Macfarlane's shitty routine has me playing Marc Loi facebook feminist on "progressive" friends' walls. What have I become?

Andy Griffith was not snubbed in the obit roll, hayseeds; he had one great movie role.

But what about Spy Hard

armond generally otm

http://cityarts.info/2013/03/01/oscars-post-mortification/

Definitely feels like it was written by the guy who loved Norbit.

even in his real-life-crit he manages to fit in a fuckup (joseph gordon-lewis)

that's a cute fuckup tho

at least he put the PC feminist crap in the shitter.