THE 2011 CHUD.com Academy Awards MASTER DISCUSSION - Page 2

Updated Oscar tally -- Alice in Wonderland: 2.  Entire Harry Potter franchise: 0.

Sorry lady, but seriously, don't read off the notes.  Eye contact!

"Updated Oscar tally -- Alice in Wonderland: 2.  Entire Harry Potter franchise: 0."

Aww....Hugs.

So, Alice in Wonderland is going to have 2 more Oscars than True Grit by the time the evening is said & done (at least that's my guess)...Ugh.

Wow Jake, what happened to all the charisma in The Prince of Persia?  Go back to your Persian/English accent!

Holy shit Afro Boy.

Nice to see Fletch's afro won an Academy Award.

Holy fucking shit balls, are they actually doing auto-tune jokes? Jesus, kill this show with fire.

Dude, it's the young and hip Oscars.  How can they not involve auto-tune.
 

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Originally Posted by Park Chan-wookie 

Holy fucking shit balls, are they actually doing auto-tune jokes. Jesus, kill this show with fire.

Oscar had one shot to be interesting. With Banksy not taking the stage, that ship has sailed.

Billy Crystal is still alive apparently.

Rian Johnson has correctly predicted every winner so far: http://twitter.com/rcjohnso

Hologram Bob Hope confirms this year's event as the saddest, creepiest in history. 

Paltrow is the worst.

Yikes I like the guy but Franco is really bad as host. He's amusing but not in a good way. Hathaway seems to be carrying the show....not that that's saying much.

Celine Dion???!!!??? Is this trying to rape every fiber of my being?

Good actors, really boring hosts.

Franco looks like he should be wearing a neck brace or something. As for Hathaway, it's been nothing but "OMG WHAT AN HONOR I'M HOSTING THE OSCARS!!!!!" stuff the entire night.

Actually, I think Hathaway is somewhat pulling it off. Maybe hosting next to Franco makes her look all the better, tho.

Renn, looks like I'm going to owe you a $1.

I'd like to pull Hathaway off. If you know what I mean.

I said this last year, but again, it's a shame they are no longer showing the lifetime achievement and Thalberg awards. It would've been cool to see Eastwood and DeNiro sharing anecdotes/ praising Eli Wallach.

This is totally a make up award for SITH.

Fincher didn't win Best Director? FRIGGIN' CRAP.

Holy shit, are the Oscars actually going to end before 11:45?

The King's Speech felt so slight to me, good though it was.

Enjoy being this decade's Shakespeare in Love.

Steven Spielberg basically acknowledging that the Oscars are terrible at awarding truly great movies.

So is True Grit the biggest loser ever?  10 nods, zero gold.

Went 19/24 for predictions this year.

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Originally Posted by Park Chan-wookie 

Enjoy being this decade's Shakespeare in Love.

I was going to compare it to "The English Patient" myself (I'm someone that would much rather watch "Sack Lunch"), but "Shakespeare in Love" works too.

The King's Speech = Chariots Of Fire

The Social Network = Reds

Inception = Raiders Of The Lost Ark

The Fighter = Atlantic City

The Kids Are All Right = On Golden Pond

etc....

God that was boring. Like rip-my-face-off boring.

The Oscars are always terrible, but my god was that torture.

Anne Hathaway looks damn good in a tux, and that's about all I got.

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Originally Posted by stelios 

I'd like to pull Hathaway off. If you know what I mean.

More like, I'd like HER to pull ME off, right? *Badumching*. 

That might be the worst Oscar broadcast in my adult lifetime. Sloppy and unfunny with some truly headscratching production choices. It's kinda sad when your awards show is getting schooled by the Grammys.

Franco and Hathaway were painfully bad. I am generally up for some Oscar cheese and Hollywood cock sucking but WTF? This was so bad. Not a funny or original moment in the entire night. Next year just bring in Gervais or Rock and let them roast celebrities.

what a trainwreck :(

The lack of dance numbers and sound editing montages was a step in the right direction.

Also, Norm McDonald should livetweet every awards show.

Comparably minimum fluff: Good.

Hosts so lifeless you literally couldn't find anything to make jokes about other than how boring they were or if one of them was stoned: Bad.

'Cute' kids singing Over The Rainbow while the Oscar winners creep up behind them to bludgeon them with their awards: Worse.

The King's Speech backlash: Priceless.

I can't believe I gave up two hours of sleep so I could wake up early in the AM to watch this.

We can only pray you learn your lesson for next year Stelios. Or at least that Greece finally gets DVRs.

DVR the Oscars? Watching this along with several other exasperated and defeated people live is half the fun.

I do the same thing every year. Wake up at 3AM. This might be the first time I've actively regretted it.

So... Just finished the DVR of the broadcast, sure was happy about the fast forward feature and I honestly can't remember much of anything about it, except maybe missing Billy Crystal as host.

Haven't seen King's Speech yet so... there's that. Looks like it's still playing so I might check that out this week but still feel like Inception was robbed. Really glad Bale won... loved his performance in that film. yep ... 3 ish hours and that's all I got.

Spielberg's little comment about the Best Picture losers, and the surprisingly excellent montage with Firth's last speech as background was about the only thing about the actual production worthwhile.

As for the awards....eh. No surprises, though it still makes me both endlessly amused and proud the guy who wrote March of the fucking Pigs is an Oscar winner.

This is gonna be another one of those years where I forget who won Best Picture within six months.

I think Hooper's win is a fairly unwelcome surprise. I love KING'S SPEECH and have no issue with its other awards, but of the nominated guys Fincher pulled off the not-inconsiderate feat of making a movie about Facebook and its nerdy founders riveting, fast-moving and truly dramatic.

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Originally Posted by Andrew Merriweather 

I think Hooper's win is a fairly unwelcome surprise. I love KING'S SPEECH and have no issue with its other awards, but of the nominated guys Fincher pulled off the not-inconsiderate feat of making a movie about Facebook and its nerdy founders riveting, fast-moving and truly dramatic.

Yeah, and Hooper & co. pulled off the not-inconsiderate feat of making a movie about a guy summoning the courage to be the King of England not detached, stuffy and cold, but relatable, warm, heartfelt and engaging.  I wouldn't care if Mothra blew all of the royal family into the ocean, and The King's Speech gripped me for every minute. 

I have a feeling I'll be repeating this long after this ceremony, but The King's Speech *is*, really, a damn good movie. It is, however, entirely outclassed in every aspect by the other major nominees this year.

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Originally Posted by Ryan C.B. 

Yeah, and Hooper & co. pulled off the not-inconsiderate feat of making a movie about a guy summoning the courage to be the King of England not detached, stuffy and cold, but relatable, warm, heartfelt and engaging.  I wouldn't care if Mothra blew all of the royal family into the ocean, and The King's Speech gripped me for every minute. 

You don't see the difference? Appropriating the sports-movie structure for TKS was an excellent move, but it's not exactly an insurmountable challenge to make an engaging film about one of the most likeable royals in recent history overcoming personal strife to lead the country. Hooper does some interesting things with personal space and never puts a foot wrong, but it's not revelatory. Fincher, on the other hand, turned a story containing almost an entirely unlikeable cast of characters and a subject matter that would have most people furrowing their brows in confusion into a fast-moving near-thriller, and yet the frenetic pace and machine-gun editing never feels out-of-place. And he gets astonishing performances out of a cast of near-unknowns, whereas Hooper was working with a triptych of multiple-Oscar nominees and winners.

I reiterate: TKS is a great film, and I don't begrudge it three of the four awards it picked up. I just think Hooper was outclassed in his category, and won more for because of the film's overall momentum than anything he contributed.

It's not like The King's Speech spontaneously came into being. Hooper didn't simply put Firth and Rush in a room and went "Go!"

The King's wasn't my choice for Direction or Best Movie but it is a very, very worthy choice.

I would've still put Aronofsky above Fincher (the way Black Swan is put together is simply revelatory) but both should've won before Hooper. Still, the man did do a very good job.

Although the competition was strong this year and the movie was considered the "dark horse" by most circles, neither in a lock for most categories nor counted out entirely because of the Coens, I'm surprised by True Grit not taking home the gold in any fucking category.  Meanwhile, Alice in Wonderland picked up two awards -- technical, I'll grant that, but both categories that True Grit should have had in its place.

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Originally Posted by stelios 

It's not like The King's Speech spontaneously came into being. Hooper didn't simply put Firth and Rush in a room and went "Go!"

No-one's saying it did. I just think it's probably easier to direct Firth and Rush to great performances given a)their pedigree and b)the material. Getting a very talented but relatively inexperienced Jesse Eisenberg to conjure a likeable character from the Silicon Vally-sized asshole that is Mark Zuckerberg seems like more of a mountain to climb.

Ultimately I'm wary of the Academy once again trudging down the "Best Director = Best Picture" road. They did a pretty good job of distinguishing between the two in the early '00s, but these past few years they've fallen right back into that trap.