Movies: Academy Awards 2009

Stray thoughts while watching the Oscars.

• I loved the Tina Fey/Steve Martin bit, because I love anything that sticks it to Scientology. Scientologists are idiots!
  
• Jeers to ABC for showing Brad & Angelina while Jennifer Aniston was doing her schtick.
  
• Did the audience laugh when the Art Direction guy said David Fincher was a wonderful human being?
  
• That "Duchess" costume guy seemed a bit of a jerk - "We had great music by Rachel Portman but that's not it."
  
• The Ben Stiller bit had great potential but went nowhere.
  
• Even Baz Luhrman looked embarrassed by that dumb musical clusterfudge.
  
• Joel Grey is tiny! I'd like to see the "Man On Wire" guy balance him on his chin.
  
• Danny Boyle = Morrissey
  
• Oscar song mash-up!
  
• Kate Winslet is a big old fake. She is demeaning Hollywood with her fakeness.
  
• Did Sean Penn say we elected the Elephant Man president? Just when you have him pegged as a bleeding arse liberal, he goes and insults Barack Obama.
  
• Why do we have to see clips from former winners to appreciate this year's nominees, Stephen bloody Spielberg? It's all this montage crap that causes the show to run so bloody long.
  

Movies: Oscars 2007

Some hardy souls are live-blogging the Oscars. I was curious to read what they had to say about Leonardo DiCarprio's near-fellatio of Al Gore.

• Entertainment Weekly. They note that during the Al & Leo bit:
  

  In the audience, Jerry Seinfeld seems ready to roll his eyes.

  
  
• Those professional snarks at Defamer.
  

  Despite Leo DiCaprio's prompting, Al Gore does not announce his candidacy for the presidential race, explaining, "I'm f***ing terrifed of David Geffen calling me a fatty in the New York Times tomorrow."

  
  
• The Onion Av Club's The Hater. I think this is sarcasm:
  

  Al Gore just made a funny, y'all!

  
  
• The Onion's clueless Entertainment columnist, Jackie Harvey. Didn't mention Leo & Al, but had this great line:
  

  Melissa Etheridge could make the phone book interesting if you showed it on screen behind her while she was performing.

  
  
• The Answer May Surprise You may be the puniest live-blog ever.
  

  While I was outside, I apparently missed a very funny exchange between Leo DiCaprio and Al Gore. Something about the environment or running for president or something. My mom tried to recap it for me, but I think she's high.

  
  

Nobody mentioned that Gore has Ted Kennedy's Disease aka "Fat Head".