Monday, February 25, 2008

Oscars, briefly (very briefly)

HOORAY! FOR:
  • Marion Cotillard
  • Taxi to the Dark Side
  • Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova and their song from Once
  • Jon Stewart bringing back Marketa after the commercial break to give an acceptance speech because she got played off by the orchestra after Glen Hansard talked
  • Ratatouille
BOO! TO:
  • Atonement. Boring score.
  • The Bourne Ultimatum. Three awards? 100%? Yikes
BUT HOORAY! FOR:
  • Jon Stewart's crack after The Bourne Ultimatum won Editing that "Wow, somebody just got ahead in the Oscar pool based on a guess."
BOO! TO:
  • No Country for Old Men --not a full-on boo, but I just don't get the fuss about that movie. Nor about Juno. Ugh
  • The length of the show. It was, like, barely over three hours! Terrible! I love loooong, languorous Oscar ceremonies.
  • They were so into starting up that music to play everyone off, and then they wasted our time with the historical clips of previous winners, so it's like we got to spend more time hearing past winners than this year's. Tsk, tsk.

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