Yes. I do know I'm awfully late but what can I do? My schedule is crazy lately. Still, I believe I have something to say about this year's Oscars.
I almost didn't watch the Oscars this year. What happens? Here in
Brazil only one network holds the rights of casting it and the Big Brother's 10th edition (How could we get to that??? How?) is more important than the greatest ceremony of
the film industry. When it started on Brazilian TV four
categories had alredy been revealed and I had lost the opening number. Fortunately, moments later, I found a way to watch it on the internet and run away from the "simultaneous translation".
I thought that this year's Oscars would show what path will film making take.
Movies full of money and ultra high tecnology but completely empty, or
brilliant movies by themselves, whith no distraction. Which I don't
think it's the better way. And I'm now really optmistic about film
making because Avatar DID NOT WIN the best picture Oscar!!!! Ha! Between "The Hurt Locker" and "Pocahontas feat. Smurfs", "UP" was my favorite, but... hey! Avatar DID NOT win! /o/ \o/ \o\ *does the happy dance*
The ones that support Avatar say that it has a message of love,
conservation and conscience but still the critic and the message is
empty. They didn't handle it the way they should. The
hurt locker won movies OVER Avatar. On the other hand, in the
categories Avatar won, it had no real competition, they were well deserved. So I believe that this year's Oscars were fair and, as Mo'Nique said in her speach, they were about performance and not about politics. Movies like "Precious" and "The Hurt Locker" were really recognized in festivals around the world and the Accademy is now at least pretending to care about content.
One thing I noticed about the Oscars in general is that every year they have a kind of "theme" that chooses the winners. 2002 was race (Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won) 2009 was homossexuality (Milk). I thought, for a moment that this year would be like 2002 (Hollywood and it's creativity crisis...) but no! The minority contemplated this time was: women! Well... Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the Best Director prize, a day before the 8th of March. Tsc... Tsc... Hollywood has no creativity at all.
I have a theory about the way they choose the best actor/actress winners. I haven't watched any of the movies nominated in these categories this year, so I have no idea of who really had the best performance, but I do believe, and I say that because I have watched some ceremonies - that the academy doesn't know how to choose the winner among the five nominees. They choose the one that have alredy being nominated at least twice but never won, the other ones, if it is the first nomination should be happy by being nominated and wait some more years. Still, I have heard that Jeff Bridges really desearved it.
This doesn't happened in the best actress category, it was
Sandra Bullock's first nomination and she won because, maybe, and I'm
saying this because I haven't watched all movies, she was the best
between Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe, I don't know. But I confess that I really hoped that Gabourey Sidibe won, to show that you don't need to be white and skinny to be on the top, but, that's too much to expect from Hollywood. Meryl
and Helen are better actresses? Of course yes, but both of them have
won the Oscars more than once and hell! Meryl have been nominated 16
times!
Well, the Oscars were ok and fair, in my POV but the ceremony itself was extremely boring! I was excited about it because I loved last year's ceremony with Hugh Jackman hosting, the opening number was really funny and I loved "The musical is back". I couldn't stop laughing. And I had just watched a film with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin (It's complicated - Awesome! The movie deserves a post) but they were really just calling people to the stage, nothing more. The jokes were awfully unfunny! The only thing that was almost funny was the "Paranormal Activity" joke, just because this was the worse movie I watched in 2009.
Ups
* UP! My favorite movie of 2009, very well deserved Best Animated and Best OST prize. (And I'm a huge Hanz Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes) fan!!!
* They didn't have Original Song performance this year, instead the performance was for the best OST and I liked it. =)
* Listening to Morgan Freeman's voice explaining how sound editing works. And the thing was interesting, most people don't know why such category exists.
* Christoph Waltz REALLY desearved the statue. I didn't like Inglorious Basterds that much (I'm not a Tarantino fan) but he was impecable there.
Downs
* What the hell wereBella and Jacob Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner doing there? Especially presenting a tribute to Thrillers and Horror movies? What was Twilight doing in this Thriller/Horror tribute? Hell!
One thing I noticed about the Oscars in general is that every year they have a kind of "theme" that chooses the winners. 2002 was race (Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won) 2009 was homossexuality (Milk). I thought, for a moment that this year would be like 2002 (Hollywood and it's creativity crisis...) but no! The minority contemplated this time was: women! Well... Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the Best Director prize, a day before the 8th of March. Tsc... Tsc... Hollywood has no creativity at all.
I have a theory about the way they choose the best actor/actress winners. I haven't watched any of the movies nominated in these categories this year, so I have no idea of who really had the best performance, but I do believe, and I say that because I have watched some ceremonies - that the academy doesn't know how to choose the winner among the five nominees. They choose the one that have alredy being nominated at least twice but never won, the other ones, if it is the first nomination should be happy by being nominated and wait some more years. Still, I have heard that Jeff Bridges really desearved it.
This doesn't happened in the best actress category, it was
Sandra Bullock's first nomination and she won because, maybe, and I'm
saying this because I haven't watched all movies, she was the best
between Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe, I don't know. But I confess that I really hoped that Gabourey Sidibe won, to show that you don't need to be white and skinny to be on the top, but, that's too much to expect from Hollywood. Meryl
and Helen are better actresses? Of course yes, but both of them have
won the Oscars more than once and hell! Meryl have been nominated 16
times! Well, the Oscars were ok and fair, in my POV but the ceremony itself was extremely boring! I was excited about it because I loved last year's ceremony with Hugh Jackman hosting, the opening number was really funny and I loved "The musical is back". I couldn't stop laughing. And I had just watched a film with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin (It's complicated - Awesome! The movie deserves a post) but they were really just calling people to the stage, nothing more. The jokes were awfully unfunny! The only thing that was almost funny was the "Paranormal Activity" joke, just because this was the worse movie I watched in 2009.
Ups
* UP! My favorite movie of 2009, very well deserved Best Animated and Best OST prize. (And I'm a huge Hanz Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes) fan!!!
* They didn't have Original Song performance this year, instead the performance was for the best OST and I liked it. =)
* Listening to Morgan Freeman's voice explaining how sound editing works. And the thing was interesting, most people don't know why such category exists.
* Christoph Waltz REALLY desearved the statue. I didn't like Inglorious Basterds that much (I'm not a Tarantino fan) but he was impecable there.
Downs
* What the hell were
* Alec and Steve. I expected more.
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2 comentários:
I like your show review! You're right: it was boring. Plus, it didn't really feel like the real Academy Awards show. Not sure why. Twilight stars didn't help.
I am glad "Avatar" didn't win many awards, but I am not really sure if "The Hurt Locker" was a great movie. Perhaps it's a great film, but I don't like the subject. It look like they didn't use the subject to criticize the war, but to present Americans as heroes. I don't like that. "Up" was my favourite.
And you're right: this year's show had a "woman" theme. How lame.
As for acting awards, they really have a weird way of choosing the best ones. Sometimes it's the lifetime award. Sometimes it's "we snubbed you before, now we'd like to apologize". Sometimes it's: "you are generally a crappy actor, but you gave a surprisingly good performance this time". Sometimes it's: "we'd like to be politically correct". Who knows? I know nothing about Sandra Bullock movie or her role, but it smells like political correctness or "generally crappy actress that gave a surprisingly good performance". Or both. I liked Jeff Bridges, though. He was amazing in "Crazy Heart". The movie itself is a bit boring, but when you finish watching it you really have a feeling you know this guy, you feel like you watched a really honest part of this man's life. It's interesting. Oh, and I like opening song ("Hold On You").
It didn't feel like the Academy at all! Did you noticed that many people that usually attend to the ceremony wasn't there? The Brangelina couple, for exemple.
I would like to watch "Crazy Heart" but this town doesn't help. =/
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