If you don't expect too much from the Oscars, you won't be disappointed. I don't think that was Jon Stewart's best work, but it was a lot better than some of his predecessors have done.
I haven't seen any of the films, so I won't comment on the merits of any of them.
I liked George Clooney's acceptance speech (Proud to be non-mainstream!). I liked Reese Witherspoon's acceptance speech. Rambling as it was, I liked Phillip Seymour Hoffman's acceptance speech.
All due respect to Dolly Parton, but I don't think any of the three nominated songs were worthy of an Oscar. Couldn't Ang Lee have found a good soulful C/W song for Brokeback Mountain?
Some of the shorts (both documentary and animated) looked interesting; I wonder if anyone does compilations of Oscar nominees for those films on DVD?
I'd heard good reviews of both Tsotsi and Paradise Now; I wonder if the voters felt they'd rather pick a South African movie than a Palestinian one.
I liked the joke about tearing the Oscar statue down, as well as Stewart's line after the montage of "socially-relevant" films: "All of those problems went away after that." I suspect that offended some of the Hollywood types, who often seem to believe they're a little more powerful social force than the rest of us think they are.
And hey! It ended more-or-less on time!
Posted by Linkmeister at March 6, 2006 10:07 AM | TrackBackI miss the Hollywood of yesteryear...
Where are the Ava Gardners, Geogory Pecks, and Marlon Brandos of this generation?
You can get some of the Oscar nominees (live action and animated shorts) via Apple's iTunes store.
Posted by: Ryan at March 6, 2006 07:34 PMYeah, but it seemed long right from the start. and then . . . it got longer.
Posted by: The Heretik at March 7, 2006 02:35 AM