The Oscars, though… I love the Oscars. I love movies and even on years where I’ve
only seen one of the movies that were up for Best Picture (like this year), I’m
fascinated by what the film industry has created and brought into our
culture. And it’s fun to see the stars
get together and honor each other for their hard work.
Because of other obligations, I missed the first
half of the show, but thanks to Hulu, I was able to go back and see everything
from the beginning. There’s a lot to
talk about, but the first, the elephant in the room: Seth MacFarlane.
I thought he was an odd choice to host the awards. He’s very talented and very funny, but the
only thing I’ve seen him host before was SNL—and let’s face it, the bar for SNL
is “average.” That, and he is not
tame. Eleven seasons of Family Guy, plus his other two animated
shows and his raunchy comedy, Ted,
was anybody surprised at what he did Sunday night?
Everybody he was going to offend he offended within
the first ten minutes, starting with the “We Saw Your Boobs” number. Considering how classy the Oscars are
supposed to be, it really didn’t fit.
Did I laugh? Yes. I’m not proud of it, but yes. But, come on, these women agreed to show them
for past projects, why are they shocked that that would come back to bite them in
the butt later? Except for Jennifer
Lawrence. She’s practically the only
grown Oscar nominee who’s never shown them and she looked victorious when
MacFarlane pointed it out.
He’ll never be asked to host again. Still, though not the best Oscars, it sure
wasn’t the worst. It was a great night
for music, and I will give a lot of the credit to MacFarlane for that. This guy knows how music works and he’s not a
bad singer himself. His closing number
with Kristin Chenowith, "Here's to the Losers," was the cutest thing I listened to that night.
Channing Tatum and Charlize Theron’s looked great
dancing on stage, and I had no idea Daniel Radcliffe was so light on his feet.
Both of the Bond songs were perfect. The Les
Miserables cast did not give their strongest show, but it was still nice to
see everybody together performing what may be the best moment in their
professional careers.
On the awards themselves, I thought Anne Hathaway’s
acceptance speech was very sweet; the part at the end with the hope of having
no Fantine’s left in the world was touching.
This sounds horrible, but my favorite moment was
when Jennifer Lawrence tripped going up the stairs, because it’s something that
I would do. I thought she handled that
mishap with grace and she was super cute the whole way through. I don’t have nearly the crush on her that
other men I know do, but she is a very pretty woman and seems as down-to-earth
as can be.
I was very happy that Paperman won the Animated Short award. That little film may be my favorite thing
that came out last year.
Now that the awards are over, I’m thinking I might
actually have to watch the rest of these movies. We’ll see how quick I get on that.
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