Did anybody watch the Annual Film Promotional Event and Social Justice Lecture last night? Personally, I was playing video games and watching hockey.
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The Oscars are pretty much actors and actresses deciding who gets a statue. While the nominees are selected by peers, the actual award is not. You get actors and actresses selecting who had the best visual effects, best make up, etc.
I stopped watching the Oscars after they awarded a horror flick the Best Picture Oscar over Beauty and the Beast because it was, in their words, “a cartoon”. Despite the voice over industry becoming open to big names (thank you Robin Williams and Aladdin) the rank and file still do not see animated films as anything like “real acting” and will never consider them for awards. Which is why the separate award for animation was re-instated, primarily because of BatB.
Here’s a good response to the Oscars I could relate to
https://www.google.com/amp/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/la-street-artist-targets-oscars-mocking-posters-hollywood-highland-979443
No, I was to busy doing nothing to bother to watch the Oscars or as I like to call it now days – The Festival of the Crazed Crap Weasels.
What video games, V? I’m between Civ 4 games and keep bouncing between Tales of Maj’Eyal and trying to make 1996’s Emperor of the Fading Suns work on my 64-bit powered ultra-widescreen; I’d love something new.
While I have threatened not to watch over the years, this was the first year that I boycotted the Oscars totally; no runway red-carpet, no telecast, not follow-up. I still haven’t looked at the “news” for the results. I worked on some paperwork and watched the PGA Tour golf re-broadcast from West Palm Beach.
At-least something useful was accomplished…
I watched American Sniper. Counter-programming.
Louis B. Meyer Oscar Weiners with Ripple and vinegar always makes a mess on the red carpet. I opted for Cheetos, bacon, avocado, Scotch and anchovies in a blender with a strawberry yogurt puree and a night of diarrhea and hallucinations.
I watched reruns of Married With Children which used to be on Sunday nights on Fox ages ago
The Oscars were on? Who knew?
Regards,
Peter H.
My hockey team played (and won earlier in the day) so I read and played/cuddled with the dogs. Dogs are much better than the self congratulatory circlenjerk thatbis the Oscars.
Worked on my new website
http://www.thebostont.byethosm/?i=1
I heard about the Warren beaty mess up though
That’s actually the only movie I saw in a real, live movie theater in 2015. In one of those fancy, schmancy resevered stadium-seating, our sound system goes to 11, ultra-super-digital redone theaters. In the middle of a work day. During a blizzard. I was literally the only person there with the whole place to myself — phone goes off while a tank is rolling through Fallujah, “Watching a movie, American Sniper, yeah really enjoying it so far, how’s things.”
“Please choose your seat on the touchscreen in front of you.”
“But the theater is empty, there are no reserved seats.”
“You still have to choose a seat.”
I heard about Warren getting the wrong envelope and announcing the wrong name. I guess the Russians must have hacked the Oscars, too.
Yeah, the messup was the highlight of the evening, and I heard about it this morning.
Steve Harvey won the Internets with this tweet:
“Good morning everybody! Went to sleep early last night. So… what I miss? #Oscars”
It was all a fiendish Trumpkin plot to discredit Hollywood.
They were all in one room. Just seal the exits and announce that, ” …an all expenses vacation to Montana has just been added to your swagbags. Immediate bus transportation is available at ALL exits. Please proceed in in orderly fashion… No, sorry, cellphone service is now temporarily unavailable, move along.”
I also skipped watching the annual display of a bunch of mediocre talents clapping for themselves.
I meant to watch but cat needed a good brushing. Maybe next year if nothing better comes up.
I want to know who at Breitbart had the good humor to add basketball scores to their oscar feed.
Tip: Don’t brush the cat so often, and all sorts of things more interesting than the Oscars will “come up.”
This is the first time that I have not watched any of the awards shows. I used to love watching because of the glitz and glamor. I couldn’t watch even the red carpet coverage. The thing I don’t understand is how or why these celebrities think that they are so much more informed, intelligent, and righteous than anyone else.
Had no idea it was on, but I wouldn’t have watched anyways. I have boycotted the movie industry a long time ago. And television, as well. Luckily, the most I heard about it today was one sentence from the Psyche professor: “Did anybody watch the Oscars last night?” And since he got silence as a response, that was the end of hearing about the Oscars.
In all fairness, this class was at 9 this morning, so maybe the other students weren’t awake when he asked.
Good News For Hollywood! Few people actually witnessed them messing up the Best Picture award announcement.
Bad News For Hollywood. That’s because Variety reports that it was the least watched in nine years.
@21: Oh, dear. I’ll pass that along to hubby.
well they did have a lot of flubs but they got all the political slurs correct. that’s the real purpose of the show isn’t it.
I guess I’m the only person who actually watched the really big shew. I intended to boycott, but it was one of the few times in which I had access to a live viewing which I controlled and could therefore mute at will. I will have to say that it was a pretty decent production and didn’t drag on like some years. It wasn’t as bad as I expected (much like Andy Levy noted on Red Eye) from a political and SJW point of view. I missed the opening monologue which was Jimmy Kimmel cementing his guest list for the next year, and I think I missed the first of the virtue signalling. But other than that, it wasn’t bad. Gael Garcia Bernal needs to get thwapped across the head for wasting his presenting time babbling about being just another Mexican migrant who wants to live without walls.
The best part was the surprise ending, which was better than anything Hollywood produces as fiction. An Emmy deserves to go to Jordan Horowitz, the producer of La La Land, who corrected the presentation error rather effectively, and left smarmy Jimmy Kimmel looking like a dunce on stage. Hopefully PwC will find another partner to help do the tabulation honors next year, since it was alleged he was busy taking selfies with the famous people just minutes before handing out the wrong envelope.
As noted on several outlets, the day after was supposed to be the drubbing that the Monster Not-My-President got by the Beautiful People, but instead all anyone is talking about is the Big Mistake at their own presentation.