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     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1639 Registered: 03-2006 |
I know it's all over the media anyways, but hats off to Mr. Scorsese. I think it's just delightful that he finally won an Oscar. What a great director - they just don't come any better. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1261 Registered: 04-2005 |
I was glad to hear it, but thank god I didn't sit through that whole award show to find out. It was on in the other room, and sounded like the most boring, PC-stilted Oscars ever. Things I've read this morning seem to confirm that. But yes, Scorsese was WAY overdue. Glad the Academy could put aside their Eastwood-centric ways for once and honor one of the all-time greats at last. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1641 Registered: 03-2006 |
Err yeah, it was pretty f-ing long. I know, cause I watched most of that sucker, not really by choice, but more for "peace in the palace". I didn't mind that PC-ness, and enjoyed Ellen who seemed to have a great, easy flair for it. What I minded was the shitloads of meaningless and trivial technical awards. If they're serious about making it punchier, why don't they just eliminate all that trainspotter stuff from the live broadcast? I enjoyed seeing the Randy Newman number, performed by him and James Taylor, and enjoyed the numbers from Dreamgirls with Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce (oh, my sweet Jesus). Not that I'm into their style of music so much, but on a strictly technical basis, they have tremendous pipes. Some of the speeches were, honestly, pretty affecting, too, particularly Forest Whitaker's. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 422 Registered: 08-2006 |
MS shoulda won it in '90, hands down. "Dances with Wolves" over "Goodfellas"? Isn't Kevin Costner still selling plasma to pay off "Waterworld"? I didn't see the broadcast but I liked Melissa Etheridge's comment about her Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" being the only naked man who'd ever be in her bedroom. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 238 Registered: 09-2006 |
Three cheers for Mahtin, definitely...though at the same time I found this quote amusing: "Of course, the evening's big disappointment was that Martin Scorsese did not join his fellow great directors Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang - who never won an Oscar in competition. Instead, he joins Norman Taurog, John G. Avildsen and Sam Mendes as one of the immortals whose name will always, from this moment on, be preceded by the term "Academy Award-winning" as if it were a prefix. (I kid.)" | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1279 Registered: 05-2005 |
He does deserve it, especially after all this time. I am quite cynical about the celeb thing, but Helen and Forest are very good, though where have all the other stars gone? Where's the 'edge'? (no, not the U2 one!) Funny, Queen of England and King of Scotland!!!???? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 495 Registered: 01-2005 |
Agreed about Forest deserving it this time, however Gump should have lost to Pulp Fiction for Best Picture! Very PC as Kurt and LK have mentioned. Do you Al Gore will use the momentum to lauch another run at the White House? I heard he's worth 500 million thanks to buying a ton of Goggle stock when Goggle was just starting up. He seems to be enjoying himself too much though in his current activites, so probably not. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1644 Registered: 03-2006 |
Since they discussed this ad nauseum on my beloved cable news yesterday I'm pretty up on it. The smart money says Al probably won't run, unless there's a gap left by Hillary and Obama shooting each other down. But overall, the pundits think Al was just too beaten and battered by the campaign of 2000, getting robbed of his victory, etc., to go through it all again. Some armchair psychologists even pondered whether that trauma was what has caused Al to look as though as he hasn't been doing his wind sprints all summer... |