So I’m finally over the hangover and had some time to digest the spectacle.
Watching the Oscars from the balcony of a single screen cinema was awesome. The Rio Theatre was packed, people dressed up, the cash bar was flowing and JJ’s Trucketeria outside kept us all in much needed BBQ pork.
As for the show I had low expectations and so was pleasantly surprised. I was also surprised reviews of the show, but I suppose I shouldn’t be, it seems to be part of the Oscar tradition to trash it, the host, the stars, the winners, the losers, the industry and everything in general. Not that it doesn’t often deserve it but really, this time it just seemed like easy pickings for a cranky populace.
The VFX industry snafoo is the most significant of the politics at play this year. As an industry they’ve been getting screwed but at the same time they set up there own industry to get screwed, putting it up along libertarian lines, and mismanaging their business’ to leave their industry open to exploitation. It’s not right or just but it was predictable. Form a Guild guys, fantasies of fierce individualism and a ruthless attitude just end up leaving you vulnerable.
Argo did deserved best picture.
Jennifer Lawrence deserved Best Actress but more for Winter’s Bone and even Hunger Games then for Silver Linings Playbook which i just saw. It’s pretty blah even if she was hot in it, though the movie did start to feel like an excuse to have her jumping around in spandex.
The music was great, the banter moved along and Jack Nicholson was able to steal the whole show with one turn of his head. Then he flirts with Jennifer Lawrence and steals the show again. damn.
So yeah, good times at this years Academy Awards and it’s the Rio again for next years awards.
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