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Topic: Academy Awards for the year 2006
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Paul Burt
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From: San Francisco, CA, United States
Registered: Apr 2006
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posted 02-28-2007 11:22 AM
For me, it was just another typical Awards ceremony. No worse and certainly no better than most. Ellen DeGeneris' shtick was only mildly annoying. I quite liked the shadow dancers. Taking up only a few seconds each time, they created iconic silouettes out of nowhere. Very cool, especially the Prada shoe. And even some of the commercials were enjoyable, most especially Wes Anderson's Am. Express promo. The 3 comedians number was fun, and so was the 3 Big Shots bit. I kind of liked the staging directions on the screenplay nominees, it gave a sense of how it appears on the page. Al Gore looked pretty puffy, but he's definitely learned how to loosen up. The pacing was slow, as usual, but steady. Sure, I missed Billy Crystal, but the guys gotta be sick of the gig by now, it's clearly stressful and exhausting.
I agree that Children of Men ought to have won something, but there wasn't a winner that I totally disagreed with. Too bad Peter O'Toole didn't win, but sadly he didn't deserve to. Unlike those other 7 times when he did.
That outside announcer was clearly a moron and had no place on the show. He even announced an upcoming award that had already been given.
Could have been a lot worse.
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Mike Schindler
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From: Oak Park, IL, USA
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 03-01-2007 01:31 PM
I've now watched THE DEPARTED twice in 8 days, once before the Oscars and once after. Overall, I like it even more than I did before, but I really can't see why it won best editing. In a broad structural sense, there's some interesting stuff going on, but individual scenes look hacked together. I know that John Frankenheimer said match cuts are for losers, and in general, I agree with him. You can get away with that in something like MAGNOLIA. But that's not how THE DEPARTED was shot.
There weren't any editorially groundbreaking movies this year, so it's hard to say what was the best. But what about something like MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III? It had a very classical style, and it never missed a beat. It did what it tried to do perfectly.
I cannot figure out what the Academy is looking for in this category. Every year, it's like, "What? Um, okay. Why?" The worst was 1999. THE LIMEY came out that year, not to mention MAGNOLIA. And they give it to THE MATRIX? Now, I love THE MATRIX as much as everyone else, but there are cuts in that movie which make me cringe. I would say the editing in that movie is just plain bad. And yet, it wins the Oscar. It's just ridiculous.
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Christian Appelt
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From: Frankfurt, Germany
Registered: Dec 2001
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posted 03-01-2007 02:01 PM
I feel Ellen DeGeneres did a good job. Sure, she was not as funny as Billy Crystal, but - in my opinion - far above Steve Martin whom I remember as the least funny, unnecessary offensive host. He definitely spoiled the show for me.
If an artists get a lifetime achievement award, you would expect his speech to be translated properly. I do no understand more than a few words of Italian, but I'm quite sure that Ennio Morricone's speech was translated badly. Morricone is a true gentleman and would not speak DeLaurenteese English publicly, so an adequate translation would have been good.
Someone should tell Jack Black that he is no Donald O'Connor, neither in terms of elegance, singing or dancing.
I wonder how Jack Nicholson will manage to behave more bizarre next year - DeGeneres' joke about him laughing, talking & enjoying himself made me smile.
Film clips for Sound Effects must have explosions and screeching tires. Obviously, Sound Design is about being LOUD.
Film clips for Film Editing must be as fast as possible. Good editing means cutting as fast as possible.
Most womens clothes were designed by people who hate women and want to make them look bizarre. Nicole Kidman looked like a stretch version of Renée Zellweger's famous "red fish" dress (without mumps, admitted).
What a pleasure to see a goodlooking woman in a simple, beautiful dress - one of the Costume Design presenters, she wore a dark blue glittering dress.
And I wish they would not skip over the Technical Awards as fast as they do nowadays.
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Pravin Ratnam
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From: Atlanta, GA,USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 03-02-2007 05:52 AM
I watch it for fun. I like snarking at these shows. I personally thought Ellen was fine as a host. If you can't do routines like rystal does at the Oscars, then I would go the Ellen route who mixed in crowd participation as much as a monologue. I liked the way she got Clint, Spielberg and Marty joking around. The best thing about her is she makes the guests feel comfortable, so you do not get some half hearted attempt at a joke. Clint and Spielberg seemed to have fun joining in.
TOO MANY FREAKING POINTLESS MONTAGES. You know if they really want to promote Hollywood and they are running short of montage themes over the years, how about showing some highlights of movies from the current year that were not subject to overexposure on mainstream tv?
You know what award I care about the most - the Best song nominees. Because this is usually what we have to endure for 20 min or so every OScar year. No one forces us to watch more than a couple of second clips of other nominations. SOMEONE PLEASE BAN RANDY NEWMAN FROM OSCARS. He gets nominated for every little piece of crap he does. Dreamgirls songs- meh. The movie was fine, I just didn't think the original songs were that good. The Melissa Etheridge song was horrible(and I normally am not a Gore basher. so I say this out of no bias to the doc itself. But the song nomination was ridiculous).
The Ennio Morricone tribute was terrible. Instead of Celine singing, how about some of the clips Tarantino borrowed for Kill Bill which a lot of the younger moviegoers are familiar with? No wonder the Oscars keep losing younger viewers.
I normally get annoyed by pity votes. BUt considering it was Scorsese, and the lack of a strong set of nominations the last two years, who really cares if they give him an award? If there is not enough quality in the nominations, nothing wrong with going with past experience too and making a nice Oscar moment for a guy who is a genuine lover of movies.
As far as Jerry's quip on high concession prices, who really cares? It is no big deal either way. Though I admit regular moviegoers should do what I do if they hvae a problem with high prices. I only use the Regal moviewatcher free popcorn offers and upgrade for a dollar to medium. There is no law that mandates we buy concessions. Maybe some of the fatasses can try to watch a movie without having to munch on something.
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