Oscar 78
The Oscars seemed a bit dull last night. Jon Stewart never really seemed to click with the audience but there were plenty of moments to make the show worthwhile.
The Western movie mash-up was one of the highlights of the evening. A number of Western movie clips were cleverly edited together with a Brokeback theme. With all the of the re-edited movie trailers circulating the web, I thought this was brilliant.
The most exciting part of the night occurred when Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar for Best Song In A Film — It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp. The acceptance speech was hilarious and part of it was bleeped out. The audience finally came alive and Stewart got a good laugh when he said “I think it just got a little easier out here for a pimp.”
After winning the Oscar, Jordan “Juicy J” Houston of Three 6 Mafia had this to say,
I just couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t stand still. I had to run somewhere. I started to run somewhere. People thought the police was probably chasing me somewhere.
My favourite line of the night came from Jon Stewart when he made the following observation.
For anyone keeping record, Martin Scorsese, zero Oscars. For Three 6 Mafia, one.
Stumble It!Posted in Movies at 11:46 AM
Comments
The humorous western movie montage was great, as was the joke about the local television ads…the first time. Given those, and the montage of industry people that passed on in 2005, they could have done without the various and several other montages. What were those all about, anyway? I mean, why not lose two of those montages, and give everyone an additional twenty seconds of acceptance speech time? The way they cut off some of those people was scandalous; especially the final award of the evening. I couldn’t believe they cut the mic on the acceptance speech for the winner of the BEST PICTURE award.
Regarding Jon Stewart, his problem was that he was the most intelligent person in the room. He had me in stiches from the get go, but the live audience just didn’t seem to get all his jokes.
Posted by: Paul on March 6, 2006 12:44 PM
The producers of the show did a great job of showing the audience reaction to some of the winners getting cut off.
Bobby Moresco won the best original screenplay with Paul Haggis. Haggis spoke first and they cut Moresco off when he started to speak. Then we saw a shot of Charlize Theron covering her mouth and pointing to the stage where a confused Moresco kept looking around. Brutal.
Posted by: Jay on March 6, 2006 2:09 PM
I swear the Academy Awards organizing committee castrates their hosts. How else can we explain the long line of hosts that, although they are otherwise proven, tank on oscar night?
Posted by: Shiz on March 8, 2006 4:58 PM
