Friday, March 02, 2007
Belated view of the Oscars.....
Finally, I have the actual time and a teensy bit of energy, so I can chime in on the Academy Awards even though it is extremely old news by now. Welcome to my world of unintentional delay. I'll be lucky to make it to my own funeral on time, heh heh.
Dan and I kept our usual tradition of grabbing a list of the nominees and selecting what we thought would win. We're usually at quite a disadvantage due to not having seen mosst of the movies in question, and this was no exception. We had both seen "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", "The Devil Wears Prada" and "United 93"; Dan had also seen "Superman The Return" and "The Black Dahlia".
Dan kicked my butt with his picks. He got 13 right, while I only predicted nine correctly. Both of us did better than usual, though.
There were some definite shockers this year, like Alan Arkin for Supporting Actor, "Little Miss Sunshine" for Original Screenplay over "The Queen", and Melissa Etheridge's song for "An Inconvenient Truth" instead of something from "Dreamgirls". But I knew that when Scorsese got Best Director that "The Departed" was a shoo in for Best Picture. And there was absolutely no doubt about Helen Mirren as Best Actress.
About the show itself: the opening segment was painfully slow and long, and Ellen Degeneres was quite obviously nervous. But she gained confidence as the show went on, and the later segments, especially the ones with Scorsese and Eastwood, were quite amusing. I think overall she was very good, and I hope that she will be given the chance to host again.
Moments I liked: Will Farrell and Jack Black singing to Helen Mirren, better than usual Original Song performances, Martin Scorsese receiving the Best Director award from Coppola, Spielberg and Lucas. Moments I disliked: every time the orchestra drowned out a speech. Best part of the whole show: Forest Whitaker's moving acceptance speech, which is posted in its entirety a few posts below this one.
Fashion critique: no truly dreadful designs, but what was with all the atrocious colors? Shades of brown, orange, yellow and green....Bouncy, I mean Beyonce, and Kate Winslet looked like they were wearing pistachio pudding. Both Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson wore much more attractive red dresses during their Best Song performances.
Meryl Streep and Jessica Biel were dressed so casually they looked like they were going to a backyard barbecue. And does no one curl their hair anymore? The flat hair was drab and unappealing on several women.
Nicole Kidman's fire engine red dress just was too much for her pale complexion. And that bow on her right shoulder just looked silly and ruined an otherwise elegant style dress. The only thing that was worse was Jennifer Hudson's space suit jacket, which thankfully she removed once she got inside.
Kudos to Helen Mirren, who managed to look sophisticated and a bit slinky at the same time. Emily Blunt wore a gorgeous blue number that totally outshown Anne Hathaway's dreadful bow-tie top dress when they presented together. And for the pantsuit crowd, Melissa Etheridge looked great in silver grey.
The amateur critic has spoken.
Dan and I kept our usual tradition of grabbing a list of the nominees and selecting what we thought would win. We're usually at quite a disadvantage due to not having seen mosst of the movies in question, and this was no exception. We had both seen "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", "The Devil Wears Prada" and "United 93"; Dan had also seen "Superman The Return" and "The Black Dahlia".
Dan kicked my butt with his picks. He got 13 right, while I only predicted nine correctly. Both of us did better than usual, though.
There were some definite shockers this year, like Alan Arkin for Supporting Actor, "Little Miss Sunshine" for Original Screenplay over "The Queen", and Melissa Etheridge's song for "An Inconvenient Truth" instead of something from "Dreamgirls". But I knew that when Scorsese got Best Director that "The Departed" was a shoo in for Best Picture. And there was absolutely no doubt about Helen Mirren as Best Actress.
About the show itself: the opening segment was painfully slow and long, and Ellen Degeneres was quite obviously nervous. But she gained confidence as the show went on, and the later segments, especially the ones with Scorsese and Eastwood, were quite amusing. I think overall she was very good, and I hope that she will be given the chance to host again.
Moments I liked: Will Farrell and Jack Black singing to Helen Mirren, better than usual Original Song performances, Martin Scorsese receiving the Best Director award from Coppola, Spielberg and Lucas. Moments I disliked: every time the orchestra drowned out a speech. Best part of the whole show: Forest Whitaker's moving acceptance speech, which is posted in its entirety a few posts below this one.
Fashion critique: no truly dreadful designs, but what was with all the atrocious colors? Shades of brown, orange, yellow and green....Bouncy, I mean Beyonce, and Kate Winslet looked like they were wearing pistachio pudding. Both Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson wore much more attractive red dresses during their Best Song performances.
Meryl Streep and Jessica Biel were dressed so casually they looked like they were going to a backyard barbecue. And does no one curl their hair anymore? The flat hair was drab and unappealing on several women.
Nicole Kidman's fire engine red dress just was too much for her pale complexion. And that bow on her right shoulder just looked silly and ruined an otherwise elegant style dress. The only thing that was worse was Jennifer Hudson's space suit jacket, which thankfully she removed once she got inside.
Kudos to Helen Mirren, who managed to look sophisticated and a bit slinky at the same time. Emily Blunt wore a gorgeous blue number that totally outshown Anne Hathaway's dreadful bow-tie top dress when they presented together. And for the pantsuit crowd, Melissa Etheridge looked great in silver grey.
The amateur critic has spoken.
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