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• 1 - Distorted Angel

  Feb 27, 2005 at 3:27 pm

  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

  Feb 27, 2005 at 3:41 pm

  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

  Feb 27, 2005 at 4:25 pm

  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

  Feb 27, 2005 at 5:46 pm

  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

  Feb 27, 2005 at 10:24 pm

  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

  Feb 27, 2005 at 10:55 pm

  Fitting in the dead tribute by Yoyo Ma that Russ Meyer got as much treatment as Marlon Brando.
  

• 7 - Eric Olsen

  Feb 28, 2005 at 1:14 pm

  but Marlon got to go last, out of alphabetical order

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