Just awful. The show directing was all over the map. There were no stars there (M.I.A. were Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, Shia LeBeouf....). I love Neil Patrick Harris, and I hope he continues to have a marvelous career, but his opening number was painful to watch. No one in the audience looked like they were having any fun. The younger Hollywood stars (Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner, Amanda Seyfried, Kirsten Stewart) all looked very uncomfortable and underutilized. A tribute to Horror? I don't understand why Farrah Fawcett was left out of the "In Memoriam" while Michael Jackson was included. The Best Songs being performed by an interpretive dance company? One of the highlights of the show has always been the Best Song performers singing the nominated songs. It always made for such a nice break to see a huge musical talent perform at the Oscars. Ben Stiller's Avatar joke was horrible. The actresses all looked like they were going to a formal ball rather than dressing up super sexy for the Academy Awards. I was disappointed on every level with the show. Thank God for my Uverse DVR so I could skip right through 85% of the show.
The Oscars need to be entirely re-conceived. The entire show should be no longer than 2 hours. All of the technical awards should be moved off air and the death montage and special awards have to go. That just leaves the 2 Best Screenplays, 2 Best Supporting Actors, 2 Best Actors, 1 Best Director and 1 Best Picture categories and that's your show. It can be over in 2 hours and those awards are the only ones anyone really cares about anyway.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were funny. Sandra Bullock's acceptance speech was the best of them all. There were 2 or 3 good jokes, but honestly, I laughed the hardest at the Modern Family Oscar charades promo than anything I saw during the 3 1/2 hour long Oscars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diU5bm9wvjI
Of the 10 films that were nominated, I personally thought Up In The Air was the best film of 2009.The real Best Picture Winner should have been Avatar for literally forever changing the way films can be made. I am looking forward to seeing Hurt Locker, but I'm fairly certain I'm not going to think that it was the BEST film of 2009. One of the best? Yes. THE Best. No.
And it was fairly sexiest of Hollywood to engage in gender politicking. And really, in the second decade of the 21st century the press is making a big deal about a woman advancing? Women have had power in Hollywood for a very long time now. By making this a David and Goliath story of a former husband and wife and the triumph of the good little indie over the huge Hollywood blockbuster is just silly.
Bring back the gay Oscars from last year. At least they much better and Hugh Jackman sang!
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