March 5, 2018
Eddie Vedder sings Tom Petty for the Oscars
Most #MeToo noncompliant 3 seconds:
"You're a movie star now. You give them what they want, you can get anything."
Shockingly close to "And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
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"Shockingly" ?
Don't spend too much of your time on #Me-too compliance. The hypocrisy is beyond comprehension and will overwhelm you.
I seriously don’t get the appeal of the Oscars.
That is all.
Remember when the Oscar In Memoriam piece would always bring tears to everyone's eyes? Thwe bastards can't even do that right anymore.
Yes that is shocking, perhaps even heartbreaking - do you think Trump got the idea from this 1982 movie script?
There are simply too many people in the In Memoriam section. It's not designed for the larger audience, what with all the behind-the-scenes people. Yes, it matters when anyone dies, but we're not at a funeral. It should be a celebration of the few people who were really well known. I suspect they do it to include more women and people of color. That is, to cover themselves for lack of diversity.
Anyway, the biggest star who died was Jerry Lewis, and though they gave him the honor of the last spot, it was not enough. And having Roger Moore just say "Bond, James Bond" felt wrong. James Bond didn't die.
Jennifer Garner looks like she has had work done. Lips, forehead pulled up etc
And if you are accused rapist Kobe Bryant you can make it to the stage at the 90th Academy Awards, taking home the Oscar for animated short film for “Dear Basketball”.
Time’s UP for #METOO
Vedder really has a unique, emotive soft voice. Notice he picked up a Rickenbacker for the tribute. I wonder if it was Petty's own?
There seemed to be more names and faces that I recognized this year, which makes sense as everyone grows older.
I hung around during the broadcast catching up on reading while my wife tried to be entertained. I noticed that they kept bringing back Best Supporting Actresses from the distant and not-too-distant past, with clips from their movies, to introduce various things. I did not see the same treatment of men from Movie History. But then, as we discussed earlier this week regarding the "strong women movies" that are all hyper-violent and abused women. Well look who won this year?
A woman who is a victim by virtue of her murdered daughter and the local patriarchy.
A mute (gee what signal are they sending there, Rhardin?) woman who fucks a fish-dude.
A man who paid off a girl to avoid a rape charge makes a short movie about his dreams of playing basketball.
Then there was Dunkirk.
Hmmm.
Oh and the host-with-no-penis? Nice touch.
" I noticed that they kept bringing back Best Supporting Actresses from the distant and not-too-distant past..."
Yes, why was it the supporting category?
My guess is that if they had gone with leading role, it would have been too obvious how the role was usually prostitute.
By the way, I think I've become entirely unwilling to watch a movie where the female character is a prostitute (other than "Nights of Cabiria," one of my all-time favorite movies), where we see a woman getting rape (even if it's viewed from a feminist perspective), or where a woman is terrorized and we're supposed to look at her scared face for our entertainment.
I also won't watch a movie that shows people being tortured (for our entertainment) or scares/kills/threatens children (for our entertaiment).
I have to change the channel even when they show the autopsies on NCIS Althouse.
That was exactly what I thought, Althouse. Key word: supporting.
I love Rita Moreno and she was fantastic in West Side Story. And she still fits the dress she wore 50 years ago to get that BSA award! But she did play a (reformed) prostitute in several Rockford Files episodes. I think you're onto something as to why they avoided Best Actress category.
So much for that:
https://www.thewrap.com/oscars-ratings-tank-16-percent-last-year-jimmy-kimmel/
A more interesting and pertinent 'In Memoriam' would have featured dead careers, finishing up, of course, with Weinstein.
So its a 256 second clip put up by ABC/Disney, of which 56 seconds is taken up setting up the Memoriam, and then the remaining 200 seconds, we do get perhaps 3 seconds of memory for each person. Their lifetime of garnering 15 minutes of fame reduced to a final 3 seconds.
And you can barely hear the lines of those we are memorializing, because the background music is cranked up as loud as the foreground memorial. Which makes sense if you are actually at the Oscars event, because the singer was standing in front of the video memorial. But for viewers of the slide show; I wanted the music turned down. Normally these things are a moment of silence, but I get playing clips of famous lines. But you can't quietly memorialize or hear the famous lines because of the loud music.
By the way, I think I've become entirely unwilling to watch a movie where the female character is a prostitute.
Not even "Never on a Sunday"?
Otherwise, I agree (ref. Althouse @ 8:50 AM) on all points.
Tom Petty was one of the biggest losses of 2017- Room is a great song & we get Vedder doing a soulful rendition strumming a Rickenbacker. (Young Tom idolized Mcguinn & Lennon and their Ricks.)
Prostitutes get paid and are not emotionally invested in it. They sound like the sensisble women.
There are simply too many people in the In Memoriam section. It's not designed for the larger audience, what with all the behind-the-scenes people...I suspect they do it to include more women and people of color. That is, to cover themselves for lack of diversity.
I thought that as well. Rushing through ruins the timing. No time to absorb and acknowledge the greats.
It's different when they do it.
2 legs good, 4 legs bad....
Julia Roberts said she does everything except kiss on the lips. Kissing on the lips is too intimate.
I wish that this segment was longer.
There are a bunch of people I would love to add to the list.
And if you are accused rapist Kobe Bryant you can make it to the stage at the 90th Academy Awards, taking home the Oscar for animated short film for “Dear Basketball”.
Why not if your accuser was a mentally ill woman who refused to testify in court against you?
I suspect they do it to include more women and people of color. That is, to cover themselves for lack of diversity.
Who knew Colonel Sanders was Japanese?
Poorly done. Mediocre song, hurried presentation of each individual. Would It have killed the show to give each of the dearly departed one more second on screen?
In viewing this clip I hate that they included speaking snippets from so few of the people who've passed. They couldn't make this a little longer to give a last word to some more of them? We'll always have Jimmy Kimmel, so cut a few of his minutes to give us a few more minutes with these folks who are gone.
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