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Red carpet roundup
Feb. 28th, 2005 12:03 amWell, after watching the Oscars I feel like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons, immediately going online to express his displeasure. XD
( My problems with Million Dollar Baby's sweep - beware, there be spoilars for MDB's SUPER SEKRIT SURPRIZE ENDING!!1! within )
I was also sad to see the sweep for the following reasons, which are a little less defensible and much more subjective:
1. Clint Eastwood looks like the Mummy. Seriously, you can tell the guy's had quite a bit of plastic work done and none of it helped.
2. Dammit, Hilary Swank already has one Oscar. Stop hogging the glory, girl! I still haven't forgiven you for The Core.
3. By the same token, the fact that Clint Eastwood has a directing Oscar and Martin fucking Scorcese doesn't is a travesty.
4. As for Morgan Freeman winning Best Supporting Actor...well, OK, I was actually glad for that, he was criminally overdue for an Oscar anyway.
As I was expecting, Finding Neverland (which I was rooting for) was overlooked. Oh well, Best Score is at least something. And I do think the Academy will give Kate Winslet an Oscar eventually. Johnny Depp, on the other hand, I'm afraid will go the same way as Scorcese - always abridesmaid nominee, never a bride winner.
Other opinions: Cate Blanchett is good, so I approve of her win, though I have yet to see the film and in the snippets I have seen she looks and sounds more like Lauren Bacall than Katharine Hepburn; Jamie Foxx's speech made me all "awwww" inside; I'm betting Annette Bening is going to call a hitman on Hilary Swank tomorrow morning ("I'll never win an Oscar with that bitch around!"); and the first Spanish-language Best Song won (from The Motorcycle Diaries). Woo, Latinos represent!
( My problems with Million Dollar Baby's sweep - beware, there be spoilars for MDB's SUPER SEKRIT SURPRIZE ENDING!!1! within )I was also sad to see the sweep for the following reasons, which are a little less defensible and much more subjective:
1. Clint Eastwood looks like the Mummy. Seriously, you can tell the guy's had quite a bit of plastic work done and none of it helped.
2. Dammit, Hilary Swank already has one Oscar. Stop hogging the glory, girl! I still haven't forgiven you for The Core.
3. By the same token, the fact that Clint Eastwood has a directing Oscar and Martin fucking Scorcese doesn't is a travesty.
4. As for Morgan Freeman winning Best Supporting Actor...well, OK, I was actually glad for that, he was criminally overdue for an Oscar anyway.
As I was expecting, Finding Neverland (which I was rooting for) was overlooked. Oh well, Best Score is at least something. And I do think the Academy will give Kate Winslet an Oscar eventually. Johnny Depp, on the other hand, I'm afraid will go the same way as Scorcese - always a
Other opinions: Cate Blanchett is good, so I approve of her win, though I have yet to see the film and in the snippets I have seen she looks and sounds more like Lauren Bacall than Katharine Hepburn; Jamie Foxx's speech made me all "awwww" inside; I'm betting Annette Bening is going to call a hitman on Hilary Swank tomorrow morning ("I'll never win an Oscar with that bitch around!"); and the first Spanish-language Best Song won (from The Motorcycle Diaries). Woo, Latinos represent!
