# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/141 "2010-03-08T03:48:31Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > I will play along with you. > If it wasn’t an Action movie, then what was it? A “Character Study.” ---
**Author:** ![bramma23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/142 "2010-03-08T03:49:13Z")
Just because a movie doesn’t have a linear plot doesn’t mean it has no action. It’s a character piece. ---
**Author:** ![bramma23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/143 "2010-03-08T03:50:16Z")
These are good dancers and everything but it’s quite a jarring juxtaposition of b-boys to orchestral movie scores. ---
**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, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/144 "2010-03-08T03:50:20Z")
I think it’s kinda like the way a lot of people view the show House. Read the threads about each episode and you quickly learn that the people posting on the show here aren’t really that interested in the medical mystery part of the show (even though that’s how it’s advertised) but about the interaction between the main characters and (to some degree) the patient of the week. And that’s what I liked about The Hurt Locker. It’s not really about Iraq. It’s about a small unit under extremely stressful and dangerous conditions that has to trust each other and what happens when a new guy who, as Dio says, is so different from the rest of the unit joins and really changes everything. ---
**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, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/145 "2010-03-08T03:51:40Z")
The choreography for the Avatar bit was good. I am tired of break dancing–it was popular when I was 16. I am 47. Move ON, already! ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/146 "2010-03-08T03:51:58Z")
Was Farrah Fawcett passed over during the “In Memorium” segment? ---
**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, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/147 "2010-03-08T03:52:51Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > A “Character Study.” AHA! I think I got it now. The Hurt Locker == Reservoir Dogs. Yeah, well, I thought Reservoir was crap also. :eek: I mean, That’s how I feel about it, not afraid to lay that down there. ---
**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, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/148 "2010-03-08T03:53:13Z")
Did she ever make a theater release film? I thought she made TV movies. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/149 "2010-03-08T03:53:57Z")
I took offense at Mo’nique’s statement – “award based on the performance, not the politics”? Or I would have taken offense if I’d ever won an Oscar. It just seemed unnecessary. She’s been the odds-on favorite to win. Her performance was outstanding. Why inject politics into it? I stopped watching after the horror montage. It’s been a very safe and boring show, IMHO. ---
**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, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/150 "2010-03-08T03:55:03Z")
Those are the best speeches - not “I want to thank my agent and my accountant” but “I want to tell all the kids out there it’s okay to be creative and different”. ---
**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, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/151 "2010-03-08T03:55:57Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I took offense at Mo’nique’s statement – “award based on the performance, not the politics”? Or I would have taken offense if I’d ever won an Oscar. It just seemed unnecessary. She’s been the odds-on favorite to win. Her performance was outstanding. Why inject politics into it? > > I stopped watching after the horror montage. It’s been a very safe and boring show, IMHO. What the hell was she talking about anyway? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/152 "2010-03-08T03:56:05Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > 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. In junior high, a kid did a book report on _Jonathan Livingston Seagull_. He did a plot breakdown, and then finished with, “It was OK I guess, if you like birds.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/153 "2010-03-08T03:59:14Z")
May I suggest that if you want to discuss a particular movie, you start a new thread dedicated to it? This thread is for general chitchat about the awards show qua show, not the merits of specific films. ---
**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, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/154 "2010-03-08T04:01:00Z")
What film is in the lead now? ---
**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, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/155 "2010-03-08T04:01:34Z")
The only connection with the oscars and politics I can think of in recent history is the speculation that Crash only won best picture because they wouldn’t give it to Brokeback Mountain because, it is alleged, of teh gay. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/156 "2010-03-08T04:01:57Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > What film is in the lead now? Hurt Locker and Avatar are kicking butt. ---
**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, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/157 "2010-03-08T04:02:12Z")
Is it me or do all the men’s tuxes seem like they don’t fit well? ---
**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, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/158 "2010-03-08T04:04:57Z")
I wanted Food Inc (I have seen that and it is good) to win, but The Cove is also good (or so I’ve heard). ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/159 "2010-03-08T04:05:23Z")
Wow, so far I’ve only missed two awards (both screenplays.) Not counting the short films since I’ve never heard one words about any of them before. ---
**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, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674/160 "2010-03-08T04:05:50Z")
And everyone who has a DVR will now roll that back, JUST because abc changed cameras. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-watch-along-thread/531674.md?page=9)