I Slept Through Some of the Oscars and Missed the Best Part
Ah, the Oscars. The land of celebrities and red carpets, the good, the bad, and the ugly of fashion, and Hugh Jackman’s chance to get drunk, put on a tux, and make a complete ass out of himself in front of present company as well as 30 million live viewers. Whether it was because Hugh Jackman has hosted the Tony Awards or the fact that he has a Marvel comic movie empire under his belt or the fact that he will continue riding on the coattails of Stan Lee’s creation for at least another two years due to his upcoming movie where he plays, surprise, Wolverine, whatever decision-making process led to him hosting last night’s Oscars should be thoroughly evaluated and learned from for upcoming Academy Awards events.
The most acknowledged movies this past year were not musicals, yet Hugh Jackman’s complete and utter fail of a performance brought one word to mind: Lame. And perhaps that is why I missed the part I had actually been looking forward to seeing because I could not help but to fall asleep. And that part would be none other than watching Sean Penn accept the ‘actor in a leading role’ award for his performance in Milk. Luckily, however, I did get to see Dustin Lance Black accept his award for writing Milk and I was able to watch Sean Penn’s absolutely phenomenal speech this afternoon online and yes, I did tear up… during both speeches.
Dustin Lance Black’s speech:
Sean Penn’s speech:
While Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn are making Academy Award headlines for their equality activism, other moments of note include seeing Sarah Jessica Parker look like a real-life Barbie Princess doll that somehow broke out of the package, tape and twist-ties, escaped Toys R Us, and landed smack dab in the middle of the stage (the what the fuck are you wearing and fire your hair stylist moment,) Tina Fey and Steve Martin (the hilarious and just what we needed in the middle of seemingly nothing moment,) Ben Stiller (the Joaquin Phoenix moment and the you’re going to be here even if we have to make a bad comedian play you moment,) Cuba Gooding Jr. (the oh so very true moment,) and of course, Christopher Walken (the complete definition of pure awesomeness moment.)
Finally, what the Oscars did accomplish (and very well, at that) is send every celebrity in the audience home with an overwhelming sense of pride, whether or not they won an award, because at least they aren’t Hugh Jackman.
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the movies list and reason they got and year of the movie released.
i want to know even the top rated english movies till now.
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Compared to other years, the themes of this year's Oscar movies took risks. True, the risks were nothing compared to those taken by the heroes mentioned above, but relative to Hollywood, those movies were about as risky as Hollywood gets.
I feel sorry for Brad but I am very happy with Kate… She finally got an Oscar after 6 nominations!!
I haven't seen a single seen I missed the whole show.
I think the Hugh Jackman had some problem there.
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You think that's bad, I slept through the whole thing. I've been working nights so there was no possible way for me to watch it. I don't have any recording devices, glad you posted this. Sean Penn gave a pretty good speech, thanks for posting the videos to your blog, at least I saw a few minutes of it.
You think that's bad, I slept through the whole thing. I've been working nights so there was no possible way for me to watch it. I don't have any recording devices, glad you posted this. Sean Penn gave a pretty good speech, thanks for posting the videos to your blog, at least I saw a few minutes of it.