Ok here are my thoughts on the 82nd annual Academy Awards show last night March 7th.
First of all it wasn't exactly exciting, no big surprises or controversy, just some ill placed dancing segement and no Farrah Fawcett in the "In Memoriam" segment. The Academy claims they didnt have enough time to keep her in but if they had cut the crappy dancing and the really useless "homage to horror" they would have time to spare. As such Tom Hanks had to blurt out the winner for Best Picture without rereading the nominees. And another thing I was glad to see that someone finally decided to do away with the PC "and the Oscar goes too" and back to the oldie "and the winner is" because that's what they are, winners and the others lost, however you want to spin it that's just the bottom line.
Now Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were good, not great but with the material they were given they did a good job moving things along and getting some good laughs here and there.
As for the winners I was a little surprised by "The Hurt Locker" winning since I was expecting "Avatar" to take home the big prize. I was glad to see Sandra Bullock win for her great job in "The Blind Side".
If they were giving an award for the most times the word "F**K" was used then "District 9" would have been the runaway winner. Decent movie but could have done with a little less "F'ing".
Now could someone please tell me what the heck Sean Penn was talking about before he handed out the Best Actress award? Was he talking about forgetting to mention his wife last year? or was he just drunk?
Congratulations to all the winners and this was a good year for movies and the ratings of the show proved that "Avatar" and "The Blind Side" could bring out people to watch the awards and I think expanding the number of nominees to add more mainstream/popular movies was a great idea, now let's see if it works next year.
