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"For those of us who have loved movies our entire lives and marked the passages of life by the movies that inspired us during those times, watching the Oscars is a chance to join with millions of people from all over the world who feel the same way. Today's world offers few such opportunities and that is why I think we love the Oscars."
Gil Cates, producer of the Oscar telecast
Oscars: Reports of Its Death Greatly Exaggerated
There are those who pronounce every year that the Oscars are dead or dying, a dinosauric remnant of an earlier age when men were men and movies mattered. In addition, they think the show itself too long, too boring, too...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 10, 2005 11:08 AM
Poll Results: 2/1/2005: What Movie Should Win Best Picture?
It's time, once again to inflict my non voting poll upon the masses! 2/1/2005: What Movie Should Win Best Picture? The Aviator 10% 1 Finding Neverland 20% 2 Million Dollar Baby 0% 0 Ray 0% 0 Sideways 0% 0 Other...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 9, 2005 07:28 AM
Animation Fest at the Motion Picture Academy
Since I signed up to be on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences press list leading up to the Oscars, I have been subjected to a numbing array of press releases on such matters of import as the...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 8, 2005 03:50 PM
Chris Rock "Challenges" Liberal Hollywood Audience with Anti-Bush Jokes
It’s been a little over a week since the Oscars were broadcast on ABC and after digesting the comic material (particularly the opening monologue); it has never been more evident that Chris Rock should stick with his day job –...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 8, 2005 11:36 AM
Oscars: The Day After...
I am not one to criticize fashion, or comment on the state of the Oscars or it's broadcast. I am more suited for looking at the winners and perhaps second guessing their choices. So, I am going to do that,...
Posted in Blogcritics on February 28, 2005 09:18 PM
Article comments
1 - Distorted Angel
I gave up watching the Oscars a few years ago, but if anything induces me to watch at least a part of it tonight, it'll be Chris Rock. One of my biggest complaints is the length of the stupid thing - I really can't stay up late enough to watch the really interesting awards and still get up to go to work the next morning.
2 - Mike Kole
I will probably check out the first half-hour, only for Chris Rock. I couldn't care less about watching them hand out awards. I enjoy movies but generally have no time for awards shows.
3 - Rodney Welch
I look forward to this gorgeous bitch every year -- I'm entirely in agreement with the worst things that can be said about it, and at the same time I don't give a shit.
It's overlong, stuffy, hypocritical, stupid, commercial, and guaranteed to piss off everyone; there is no such thing -- absolutely no such thing -- as a complaint-free Oscar ceremony. Tomorrow by this time, Blogcritics will be crammed to the gills with posts from people who gripe about it's length, or the costume numbers, or the speeches. If it was shorter, people would still bitch -- they'd say they liked it better longer and more glamourous. In fact, that's already true. Over the past few years, when the orchestra has started "playing off" winners who go on too long, I've heard people say they WANT to hear what the winners say, and the orchestra cut-off is rude!
In my world, this is the only televised awards program worth a moment's notice -- the others all slide by me without so much of a peep on my part. I haven't the slightest idea who won whch Grammy, Tony, Emmy or Golden Globe. For me, the show is still an event that's just plain enjoyable to sit through even when it sucks. There's the opening, the jokes, the who-died-this-year, and I'm just interested in seeing who won. And this year I'll be seeing it as I did last year with a load of others at the Nickelodeon in Columbia, SC, where it's broadcast on a movie screen and there's a pile of food and beverage and shit. Usually I watch it by myself -- and it's still fun.
4 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
i am gutted beyond belief that the BBC are not showing the awards this year in the UK, rather than SKY, ie, RUPERT MURDOCH TELLY which i don't subscribe to. The ONE FUCKING YEAR i wanna see it, when Kirsten will be handing out an award, and i had planned to sit up till dawn observing it and listening to the GET OVER IT soundtrack inbetween times. This is horrible and evil.
5 - Jim Carruthers
But, Duke, you get to capture the footage of Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom presenting the best editing Oscar, and photoshop your head onto Bloom's effin nice tuxedo.
The rest of it is pretty crap.
Though, I'm glad "Ryan" won best animated short, and if you haven't seen it head over to to NFB.ca.
6 - Jim Carruthers
Fitting in the dead tribute by Yoyo Ma that Russ Meyer got as much treatment as Marlon Brando.
7 - Eric Olsen
but Marlon got to go last, out of alphabetical order