# Oscar watch-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674 "2010-03-08T00:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/121 "2010-03-08T03:34:42Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > OK, so why did those “Twilight” people say it’s been 37 years since a horror film has been recognized at the Oscars (The Exorcist), and then in the montage showed clips from several films of recent years that have won & been nominated for awards, including Best Picture? (Silence of the Lambs, The Sixth Sense, Misery, Sleep Hollow, etc.) Ah, but you see, those are **Dramas**! Or action movies (_Jaws_). Oh, no, not “horror”… SO THEN WHY SHOW THEM IN THE “HORROR” MONTAGE?? Scary =/= “Horror”. It was a tribute to _scary_, not to Horror. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/122 "2010-03-08T03:35:31Z")
I watched Hurt Locker because of the hype. I DID NOT GET IT. can someone please explain WHY. That is all. Why. The movie did nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/123 "2010-03-08T03:35:52Z")
The acceptance speeches for the Lifetime Achievement Awards were always some of the best parts of the ceremony. [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXPStRWmsY), for instance, is Satyajit Ray accepting the award from his deathbed. Or [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMC8kHycgwM) is Stanley Donen doing a little song and dance and explaining how to produce a movie. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/124 "2010-03-08T03:36:08Z")
> [@bramma23](#): > > There was no Nosferatu… Yes, there was. There was a quick shot of Max Schreck (1922). ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/125 "2010-03-08T03:36:18Z")
Yeah, I’m a little pissed that they kinda spoiled District 9 for the many people who didnt see it and probably would have wanted to, given the Oscar bump. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/126 "2010-03-08T03:36:37Z")
I think that Coke commercial about recycling featured a song by one of my favorite bands The Boy Least Likely To… Good for them! I love when bands I love get popular and on ads and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/127 "2010-03-08T03:37:32Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > I watched Hurt Locker because of the hype. > I DID NOT GET IT. > > can someone please explain WHY. > > That is all. Why. The movie did nothing. Hint: It isn’t an action movie, despite appearances. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/128 "2010-03-08T03:38:14Z")
Dead call! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/129 "2010-03-08T03:38:25Z")
And naturally, for the art of cinematography, they don’t show any clips of the nominees. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/130 "2010-03-08T03:38:30Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Wow, way to go, ruining Inglorious Basterds’s whole plot during that clip. Everything short of Hitler getting gunned down by Ryan the Temp… Eli Roth gunned down Hitler. Ryan the Temp didn’t really do much, he got busted by the Nazis outside. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/131 "2010-03-08T03:38:32Z")
If Cameron wins, what are the odds that he screams, “I’M THE KING OF PANDORA!!!”? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/132 "2010-03-08T03:40:59Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > I watched Hurt Locker because of the hype. > I DID NOT GET IT. > > can someone please explain WHY. > > That is all. Why. The movie did nothing. I caught it as a double-feature with Inglorious Basterds at the drive-in. That was one intense night of movie watching. I agree that it’s not an action movie. I’m not quite sure how to put what I thought about it, but I think the threads that have been made previously capture it. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/133 "2010-03-08T03:42:13Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Hint: It isn’t an action movie, despite appearances. I will play along with you. If it wasn’t an Action movie, then what was it? And that is my point exactly. No action. No nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/134 "2010-03-08T03:44:10Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > I watched Hurt Locker because of the hype. > I DID NOT GET IT. > > can someone please explain WHY. > > That is all. Why. The movie did nothing. He’s addicted to the adrenalin and to living on the edge of death. So much so that he can no longer feel alive when he goes back home and has to return to Iraq to get his fix. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/135 "2010-03-08T03:44:21Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Dead call! That was done fairly well. I like how they combined the audio with the song. I like James Taylor and the Beatle’s classic holds up well. ---
**Author:** ![LilGypsyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilGypsyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilGypsyGirl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/136 "2010-03-08T03:45:19Z")
And now the part of the show where I yell at the TV, incredulously, “WHEN THE HELL DID SO AND SO DIE??!!” The So and So’s from this year’s roll: Dom DeLuise Ron Silver I feel so out of it when that happens…😕 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/137 "2010-03-08T03:45:32Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Dead call! The format of the last couple of years - performer onstage taking attention away from the clips of the departed, muted applause so that the TV audience doesn’t notice who got dissed posthumously - doesn’t really do it for me. When the presenter was Demi and the music for her was Unchained Melody we knew the first one would be Patrick. They should have timed it so Malden’s “Amen” came after Taylor finished. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/138 "2010-03-08T03:47:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > He’s addicted to the adrenalin and to living on the edge of death. So much so that he can no longer feel alive when he goes back home and has to return to Iraq to get his fix. Ok. This gives me enough to illustrate my point. Who doesn’t have an addiction of one kind or another? I mean, for me, as the movie was, it was about a guy simply going to work. He just happens to be above average at what he does. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/139 "2010-03-08T03:47:21Z")
dancers on screen - bathroom break for millions… ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/140 "2010-03-08T03:48:15Z")
And since the Oscars NEVER run over time, we apparently have time for some odd break dancing combined with nerdy sweaters and Morgan Rum moves…😕 Excuse me–I used the term dancers before. I meant gymnasts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674.md?page=8)