82nd Annual Academy Awards

[Raiden]

I'm happy that Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director; about time that a female director wins the Oscar. However, although Avatar didn't have the most original story, I still think that overall it deserves BP over Hurt Locker (which is a good movie but hardly the best I've seen last year). Cameron already won his Oscar so him losing to Bigelow isn't a big deal, but Avatar not winning the biggest prize is definitely a surprise to me.

 

[Sawyer]

Martin and Baldwin still sucked as hosts... then again, who really gives a **** about the hosts, anyway?

 

[xwolverine2]

Martin and Baldwin still sucked as hosts... then again, who really gives a **** about the hosts, anyway?

really? i rather enjoyed them alot...

though the highlight was ben stiller lol

 

[That-Guy]

My thoughts... in a nutshell...

The Hurt Locker winning so many awards was fine... it wasn't my favorite film of the year and I don't think it was the best, but it was certainly a worthy movie and much better than some of the other nominees. Also, glad to finally see a woman win Best Director. I knew, as soon as Barbara Streisand walked out, that Bigelow would win, considering the Academy famously snubbing Barbara for Yentl and The Prince of Tides.

Still don't think Sandra Bullock should have won over Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sadibe, but we all knew it was going to happen. I did like her acceptance speech though, and I do think it's cool that she also showed up to collect her Razzie award.

Jeff "The Dude" Bridges, however, had the best acceptance speech at and Oscars, ever. Okay, maybe that's pushing it, but still, you gotta love this guy. Though I have yet to see Crazy Heart, I was pulling for Jeff, because the guy is so great and he's played some of my favorite characters of all time.

Mo'Nique... she deserved the award and all of that, but her speech left me scratching my head. Apparently she was referring to media criticism for not "campaigning" for an oscar. Good for her, I suppose, but for those of us who didn't know about that until after the fact, her statement about choosing the performance over the politics almost made her sound like she thought that the other actresses in the category were only nominated for their popularity and didn't hold a candle to her performance. I know now that's not what she meant... but that's sort of how it came off to me.

Christoph Waltz. That's a bingo! I knew he'd win, and did he ever deserve it. The most shocking thing though is how humble and nice Waltz appears to be in person. You'd never guess, by listening to his acceptance speech, that he could be so convincingly viscious as a Nazi colonel. That is a testament to great acting.

Other tidbits...

The bizarre Kanye West Interruption moment over "Prudence." That was so strange and while there is history for what took place, I don't think that the axed producer of that film won anyone over with her rude and confusing interruption.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were funny, but were they really the hosts? It seemed like they provided the opening monologue and then disappeared for most of the show. Which is fine, I guess.

Not sure why Clooney looked so pissed. Maybe it was a joke, but he certainly looked angry about... something.

Sean Penn... I love this guy as an actor and an activist, but what was up with his weirdo comments prior to presenting the Best Actress Award?

Helen Mirren may be in her 60's, but she's still got it going on.

That dance number with all of the movie scores was atrocious. Whoever thought that up should be blacklisted from ever working in Hollywood again.

Last but not least, thank God that Transformers: ROTFLMAO didn't walk away with an award. I know it was for sound mixing or something, but still if that movie had won an Academy Award - ANY AWARD AT ALL - I think that the universe would have imploded.

 

[matrix_ghost]

I thought Baldwin & Steve did an okay job. Nothing spectacular like last year although i thought there were too many musical numbers.
Their jokes were sometimes hit & miss and at times it really did feel like a frikkin roast.
The comments from Martin especially were quite harsh.
When Tom Ford & Sarah Jessica parker came to present the best costume design , Martin said something along the lines of .
"ladies & gentlemen. Please welcome Tom Ford and SJP. He directed a movie called Single Man and shes weighs single pound".

His past presenter jokes had more effect IMO.

On March 25, 2001, host Steve Martin opened the Oscars with this bon mot, ... "This show is being watched by roughly a billion people around the world, and everyone is thinking the exact same thing: That we're all gay

 

[dark_b]

No, it doesn't.


As far as Avatar is concerned, if Cameron really spent 10 years on the movie, don't you think he should have given more thought to the story instead of rehashing a mix of Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, and Ferngully?

he spend 4 years and not 10 years.

 

[Darthphere]

I'm glad to see the Academy made the right choice instead of ******ing Jim Cameron like they did at the globes. Avatar was good, but the story bordered on plagarism and to declare it the best picture of the year is laughable.

OMG! I agree with Matt.


Also, that horror montage was laughably bad.

 

[Crook]

I thought the worst part of that montage was they thought it was a good idea for castmates of the Twilight movie to introduce it, and they had the nerve to actually say "the genre has unfortunately not received Academy recognition since the 70s".

I couldn't have been the only one that thought "you guys are part of the problem".

 

[BlackLantern]

Mo'Nique... she deserved the award and all of that, but her speech left me scratching my head. Apparently she was referring to media criticism for not "campaigning" for an oscar. Good for her, I suppose, but for those of us who didn't know about that until after the fact, her statement about choosing the performance over the politics almost made her sound like she thought that the other actresses in the category were only nominated for their popularity and didn't hold a candle to her performance. I know now that's not what she meant... but that's sort of how it came off to me.

I think it was a general statement about how some actors get snubbed because of their reputation or politics....look at Burt Reynolds when he got nominated for 'Boogie Nights', he was practically a lock and they give it to Michael Caine because the Weinsteins went psycho with their ad blitz

 

[Prison Mike]

didn't they include clips of Twilight in the horror montage? I was surprised and angry by that.

 

[Paroxysm]

I missed it but whatever, I just wanted Bridges and Waltz to win and they did so i'm pretty happy.

 

[Sawyer]

I thought the worst part of that montage was they thought it was a good idea for castmates of the Twilight movie to introduce it, and they had the nerve to actually say "the genre has unfortunately not received Academy recognition since the 70s".

I couldn't have been the only one that thought "you guys are part of the problem".

Twilight's inclusion really pissed me off. They arent horror.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

I thought the worst part of that montage was they thought it was a good idea for castmates of the Twilight movie to introduce it, and they had the nerve to actually say "the genre has unfortunately not received Academy recognition since the 70s".

I couldn't have been the only one that thought "you guys are part of the problem".

have to see this horror montage, the really got the cast of twilight to announce it

 

[dark_b]

didn't they include clips of Twilight in the horror montage? I was surprised and angry by that.

it was an insult.

i respect that the franchise is popular. but its in no way scary or horror.

 

[Sawyer]

The Shining, Poltergeist, The Excorcist... Twilight?!

Stanley Kubrick must be spinning in his grave.

 

[BlackLantern]

I thought the worst part of that montage was they thought it was a good idea for castmates of the Twilight movie to introduce it, and they had the nerve to actually say "the genre has unfortunately not received Academy recognition since the 70s".

I couldn't have been the only one that thought "you guys are part of the problem".

I don't know if I agree with that....the horror genre took a serious campy turn in the late 70's, early 80's

I really can't think of any horror films in just the past 10 or 15 years IMO that warranted academy recognition

 

[matrix_ghost]

I think it was a general statement about how some actors get snubbed because of their reputation or politics....look at Burt Reynolds when he got nominated for 'Boogie Nights', he was practically a lock and they give it to Michael Caine because the Weinsteins went psycho with their ad blitz

Thank god they're losing more and more awards these days.

 

[Dark Donnie]

I laughed at Stiller dressed up as a Na'vi.

 

[Marx]

Martin and Baldwin still sucked as hosts... then again, who really gives a **** about the hosts, anyway?

really? i rather enjoyed them alot...

though the highlight was ben stiller lol

I ejoyed Martin and Baldwin as well. As for Ben Stiller...

didn't they include clips of Twilight in the horror montage? I was surprised and angry by that.

Twilight's inclusion really pissed me off. They arent horror.

I thought that was incredibly insulting. In what world does Twilight fit in with classics of HORROR!?!?!

 

[That-Guy]

I think it's funny that who ever scripted the horror montage segment had Stewart and Lautner proclaim that a horror film hadn't won an Oscar since the 70's and then proceeded to show a clip from Silence of the Lambs, which... won Best Picture in 1991.

 

[Marx]

I think it's funny that who ever scripted the horror montage segment had Stewart and Lautner proclaim that a horror film hadn't won an Oscar since the 70's and then proceeded to show a clip from Silence of the Lambs, which... won Best Picture in 1991.

You caught that too, huh?

 

[Darthphere]

Also, zombie movies were not represented at all, except for one clip of Night of the Living Dead.

 

[Darthphere]

I think it's funny that who ever scripted the horror montage segment had Stewart and Lautner proclaim that a horror film hadn't won an Oscar since the 70's and then proceeded to show a clip from Silence of the Lambs, which... won Best Picture in 1991.

Yeah, that was another problem I had with it, some of those movies were really stretching the definition of horror. Silence of the Lambs is not a horror movie in the classical sense.

 

[Crook]

I don't know if I agree with that....the horror genre took a serious campy turn in the late 70's, early 80's

I really can't think of any horror films in just the past 10 or 15 years IMO that warranted academy recognition

I'm not disagreeing with that, all-in-all the genre has become a big, fat, joke. No one tries anymore and has been for the past two decades relying on horror tropes that do nothing to develop the story or characters.

Twilight is part of this immense crowd of movies who have trounced on the foundations. Hence "part of the problem".

 

[BlackLantern]

I'm not disagreeing with that, all-in-all the genre has become a big, fat, joke. No one tries anymore and has been for the past two decades relying on horror tropes that do nothing to develop the story or characters.

Twilight is part of this immense crowd of movies who have trounced on the foundations. Hence "part of the problem".

not to mention guys like Sam Raimi (Evil Dead), who essentially made poking fun at the genre the cool thing to do...

no one takes horror seriously anymore