Oscars 2012
Feb. 28th, 2012 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Let's just make Billy Crystal the full-time Oscars host, okay?
I am not a traditionalist by any means ( I remember liking Chris Rock as a host), but the world just seems out of kilt when there is any variation on the theorem that anyone else but Billy can host (and I do like him as a host).
I generally liked the Oscars. I didn't have any real problems. It did deem a bit overly long at the end, but I think i would have kept it all (except a few technical rewards, I suppose) even the Cirque de Soleil number.
I have to give the Oscars the fact that they surprised me this year. I am admittedly not on top of films as in years past, but I did not expect The Artist to win as it did. I also did not expect Hugo to do as well (even though it was Scorcese).
I don't remember the local theaters trotting out the winning movies for an encore run. It seems like that always happens, but maybe, I am misremembering and that happens after the Oscars.
The Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Eugene Levy et al sketch (Wizard of Oz focus group) was maybe not as great as the media made it out to be, but it was indeed, it was pretty damned awesome.
I liked the opening sketch has well.
Overall, the Oscars did their job, and made me excited about movies for the moment. I also don't remember my initial reaction (I am sure I was against it) but nominating nine movies seems like a good idea.
While I am speaking about tv, I wanted to say I tried to muster through the first episode of Smash. I wanted to like it (Spielberg's name is attached) and I don't have an aversion to musical-style tv shows (I don't watch Glee on anything resembeling a regular basis, but I do like the bits and pieces I have seen).
NBC (as the critics have said) sucks. Smash tries hard, but just feels like a mess, and a boring mess at that. I couldn't muster my way through it.
I am not a traditionalist by any means ( I remember liking Chris Rock as a host), but the world just seems out of kilt when there is any variation on the theorem that anyone else but Billy can host (and I do like him as a host).
I generally liked the Oscars. I didn't have any real problems. It did deem a bit overly long at the end, but I think i would have kept it all (except a few technical rewards, I suppose) even the Cirque de Soleil number.
I have to give the Oscars the fact that they surprised me this year. I am admittedly not on top of films as in years past, but I did not expect The Artist to win as it did. I also did not expect Hugo to do as well (even though it was Scorcese).
I don't remember the local theaters trotting out the winning movies for an encore run. It seems like that always happens, but maybe, I am misremembering and that happens after the Oscars.
The Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Eugene Levy et al sketch (Wizard of Oz focus group) was maybe not as great as the media made it out to be, but it was indeed, it was pretty damned awesome.
I liked the opening sketch has well.
Overall, the Oscars did their job, and made me excited about movies for the moment. I also don't remember my initial reaction (I am sure I was against it) but nominating nine movies seems like a good idea.
While I am speaking about tv, I wanted to say I tried to muster through the first episode of Smash. I wanted to like it (Spielberg's name is attached) and I don't have an aversion to musical-style tv shows (I don't watch Glee on anything resembeling a regular basis, but I do like the bits and pieces I have seen).
NBC (as the critics have said) sucks. Smash tries hard, but just feels like a mess, and a boring mess at that. I couldn't muster my way through it.
