I was hoping he would say “Theme from Shaft”.
Scrolling back through the thread, I think this reflects on why the tribute was no good. It’s possible they highlighted her just to give some time to Halle Berry as part of the whole ‘appealing to young people’ thing, but she did have an interesting life. Too bad they didn’t talk about it. 
I don’t have trouble at all believing that Bertie could walk around London unnoticed. He was not the King; he was not even the heir; he was third in line for the throne. He always kept a low profile out of the spotlight because of his impediment. There was no television. Perhaps his picture appeared in the newspaper occasionally but it was unlikely that most people outside of the government or royal family really knew what he looked like enough to recognize him on the street.
If I ever win an Oscar (my magic eight ball says outlook not good) my speech will be “Thanks for this somewhat arbitrary award given out by trying to discern who was best at something when we are all working on different projects and is the equivalent of comparing apples and oranges.”
Well, in my mind that is the speech I would give.
Also, am I the only one who think the award for Best Visual effects is becomeing kind of stale. Four of the five nominees showed CGI. Now I have nothing against CGI, it is pretty amazing these days, but it seems not to be anything that is very distinguishable amongst nominees.
Just coming in to say that, although I am a huge movie fan and religiously watch the Oscars, this was probably the most boring, worst Oscar telecast I have ever seen.
From beginning to end, there were few moments of interest and I cannot think of a single moment that will be memorable in a week.
Boring, boring, boring - and that is sad, considering The King’s Speech was the film I was hoping would win, but even that win didn’t seem all that exciting.
Nah. It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.
Inception used a lot of live camera effects and real sets for the weird gravity scenes.
Yep, I am glad that it won, because of that. The other four seemed sort of all the same.
At 20 I’m right around the age group they were supposed to be targeting this time, but out of all the people I know, most of them wouldn’t watch the Oscars if you paid them because some people just don’t care about this shit, and of the people I know that do (myself included), we know the history of the ceremony and we wanna see some glamour and some prestige and some proper Hollywood. Jokes are essential of course, but good ones - autotune montage: funny, James Franco in a dress… for some reason: not funny. Billy Crystal’s anecdotes: funny, Anne Hathaway singing a song… for some reason: not funny.
Except for the winner Inception, yes.
Everyone, check out “James Franco’s Oscars of apathy”. Kind of a guess at what he was thinking.
Especially a 20-odd year old musical theater song that was never even in a movie. I mean, I LOVE Les Mis, and I adore “On My Own”, but it was shoe-horned in so awkwardly that I really was taken aback. They couldn’t have had her parody “My Heart Will Go On” or “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”? A MOVIE song, at least?
Ugh, the writer really needs to find something else to write about than using a thousand words to psycho analyzing James Franco’s performance at the Oscars.
As much as I liked the movie, I have to agree.
“The King’s Speech” was a flawless effort and featured excellent work by top artists. Colin Firth’s performance was the work of a master and he absolutely deserved his award. But there wasn’t anything in the movie that, to my eyes, was particularly interesting from the point of view of the art of cinema.
“Inception,” to use just one example, wasn’t perfect, but it used the medium of cinema in interesting and novel ways. It was a much more impressive achievement, to my eyes, of overall filmcraft.
That isn’t to say that a movie always has to be a whiz-bang special effectsfest - Pulp Fiction was also an innovative, daring film. Fargo was an original and fascinating work. You could write books and teach courses on the lighting and cinematography of the “Godfather” films.
I didn’t see anything super original in “The Kings’s Speech.” It was, like I said, perfectly crafted, but it didn’t reach for anything.
Holy crap, I was actually the ONLY one in my pool who got 10/10 afterall!!!
I’m hosting the next NYC doperfest 
Jack’s usually sitting in the front row, wearing sunglasses and grinning. It just occurred to me that I don’t recall seeing him last night. Did I miss him?
He hasn’t been there in a few years. 2008 was his last one, I think. I guess he just doesn’t care to go anymore.
I wish they could convince Billy Crystal to host again.
Did anyone notice how orange McConaughey looked last night?
And I was a little irked that David Fincher couldn’t muster up a nod of appreciation for any of the times that he was thanked.
There was nobody over the age of 12 that I could see, unless they were a nominee or with one.
Jess Eisenberg was in Jack’s traditional seat, which I personally found hilarious for some curious reason.
I thought it was ungracious of Randy Newman to note that he had been nominated twenty times but had won the award only twice. Anyone else agree?