Hollywoodistas - Oscars

The critics at Premiere are going senile

liza — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:18:58 -0500

I want a recount!

OSCAR’S WORST MOVIES EVER : Chicago
2002 – Winner of Best Picture at the 75th Academy Awards
Directed by Rob Marshall
Starring Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta Jones

Some hold that this know-somethingish vulgarity made movie musicals matter again. No. Chicago merely revealed that there was a new kind of fogy coming up in the population, one that could help this musical turn a profit. Anyone who doesn’t die from embarrassment when the words "razzle dazzle" are drawled from Richard Gere’s smirky mouth has no right to denigrate anything else ever on the grounds of being corny of kitschy.

Whomever wrote this list is not only insane but absolutely senile.

Not content with branding Chicago as one of the worst, their list of best movies does not include anything after Annie Hall --which was made in 1977.

I mean, c'mon. Annie Hall is like the movie every critic likes because they want Woody Allen the stand-up comedian back. When you look at his whole catalog, Crimes & Misdemeanors is the movie where the auteur and comic come together and get divorced in one cinematic swoop.

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Google needs to whoop some Oscars.com ass

liza — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:16:10 -0500

I can't believe the people who run the Oscars are this stupid :

The Oscars Versus Google - Forbes.com:

If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' aim in forcing YouTube to remove all clips of the Oscars was to somehow reap more money from its ownership of the footage, that would be one thing. But Ric Robertson, head administrator of the Academy, told Variety it was "really not about [protecting that] business opportunity."

The Academy even plans to remove all Oscar clips from its own site to "whet people's appetite for next year's show." I wonder why those Oscar.com clips were allowed online in the first place.

So basically, AMPAS and ABC think that in order to "manage their brand" and encourage people to see their "product" next year, they need to banish all clipped highlights of the show? They think that scarcity of this year's telecast is going to get them more people to sit in front of a couch for four hours next years?

Are they nuts?!

A quarter of a million people have watched just the Farrell, Black and Reilley musical bit I review here. That's not including all the numbers for Ellen Degeneres' opening monologue, Jennifer Hudson's speech, the Dreamgirls performance or Martin Scorcese's win.

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The Best Oscars Moment EVER!

liza — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:57:21 -0500

This has got to be the single most weirdest moment in Oscar history and I LOVED every minute of it.

We were in the middle of the chat when everything stopped. And I mean, EVERYTHING S T O P P E D!

They totally jumped the shark with the Elements & Motion sound effects choir.

Honestly, I don't know how they could top that next year.

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2007 Oscars - Winners' List

liza — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:13:09 -0500

Winners shown in bold.

Best Picture:
"Babel"
"The Departed"
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"The Queen"
I actually thought the awards were going to be split between Marty and Babel since "The Queen" was more about Helen Mirren than Stephen Frears. I think this is the first time a Martin Scorcese movie wins for Best Picture.

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"
Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"
Peter O'Toole, "Venus"
Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"
Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"
Anytime a black person wins an accolade, a klansman looses his sheet, but man, this is one time I wish an old white guy got the prize. I'm sorry, but with one foot in the grave, Peter O'Toole should have gotten the honors. It's probably the biggest snub in Oscar history and I am asbolutely upset by it.

Best Actress:
Penelope Cruz, "Volver"
Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"
Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"
Kate Winslet, "Little Children"
Thank goodness Meryl Streep lost. I mean, no offense, she was brilliant in the part, but she has more than her share of Oscars. This was Helen's night. Period. End of story.

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Peter O'Toole didn't win? That's so effing wrong!

liza — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:15:34 -0500

21:01:39 ‹liza› Peter O'Toole has to win
21:01:48 ‹liza› man, that would be so awful if he did not
21:01:54 ‹liza› the man is almost dead
21:02:01 * Bouldin quit (timeout)
21:02:07 ‹Monte Carla Fab› anytime they say Peter o'Toole's name, everyone should take a drink
21:02:25 ‹Monte Carla Fab› i love him. he is a wonderful actor
21:02:38 ‹Monte Carla Fab› i think he would appreciate it
21:02:49 ‹Kai› yeah O'Toole HAS to win
21:05:34 ‹Kai› ha! a rolling papers joke!
21:06:08 ‹liza› OK, sorry but I will be upset if Peter OToole doesnt win it
21:06:15 * Kai quit (timeout)
21:06:31 * Anonymous941 changes his/her nickname to Kai
21:06:32 ‹Monte Carla Fab› yeah, me too
21:06:35 ‹liza› oops
21:06:52 ‹liza› ryan gosling ... who knew?
21:07:08 ‹Monte Carla Fab› who nudged him?
21:07:15 ‹liza› he's like ... omg, why i'm here
21:07:17 ‹liza› heh
21:07:20 ‹liza› have no idea
21:07:48 ‹Kai› Forrest!
21:07:56 ‹liza› peter o'toole grew up in the same irish town as frank mccourt
21:08:14 ‹liza› the guy that wrote the book angela's ashes
21:08:16 ‹liza› peter
21:08:23 ‹Monte Carla Fab› i knew it

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