Monday, February 23, 2015

Hey y'all, it's the Oscars - Part 2!!

Part 2 starts with NPH doing a Birdman parody which basically means he wanted to show us his undies. Michael Keaton did it funnier haha. But I did like the Whiplash joke which was also a Birdman joke about the score. SYNERGY!! Now Miles Teller & Margot Robbie tell about scientific Oscars held two weeks ago at what looks like a cheap hotel in Beverly Hills. Oscar nominees get a swag bag worth over $100K, these folks got to pinch Margot's bottom. Well, they got to think about it without being slapped.

Now someone who I don't understand how she keeps getting work, Sienna Miller. She wasn't awful in American Sniper. She's with Chris Evans from those superhero movies I don't want to see. This was rightly won by Whiplash. I'm not sure what sound mixing is or how it's different from sound editing, but the drumming sounds were great. Sound Editing was won by American Sniper. I thought the sound was great it in. You can tell I'm proficient in these categories.

NPH changes to a red suit to introduce last year's winner Jared Leto in a powder blue suit and white shoes, because he's performing in a Pat Boone tribute band after? Patricia Arquette won and she should have. I don't usually like her in most things, ok in anything. But dang if she wasn't awesome in Boyhood. Big props to the sublime Laura Dern and the awesome Emma Stone for their noms. All the clips were the best, but Meryl's clip should have been The Last Midnight. Patricia's lipstick smear was thanks to Emma Stone and her speech ended with a call for wage equality which led to Meryl Streep giving a huge loud cheer. Doesn't bother me, you do the work you get the pay, male or female. I hate it's still an issue in 2015.

Haha, loved the PETA/Peeta joke there. Now Rita Ora is singing a lesser Diane Warren song on a tall platform and wearing some ugly snake necklace. Is it done yet? It is if you are watching on DVR and hit FF :)  Now Ansel Elgort from Fault In Our Stars and Chloe Grace Moretz from a great future in Hollywood present visual effects. I wished Guardians of the Galaxy would have won, but Interstellar earned it. Now Anna Kendrick & Kevin Hart present best animated short film, because both of them are animated and short. Feast wins and it's fun to see their spouses get all weepy & excited because this is their biggest moment. You go strangers! Now Zoe Saldana & Dwayne Johnson present animated feature, but not to the snubbed Lego Movie, the only one I saw, but to Big Hero 6 which kinda looks entertaining. Yeah, don't care for some reason. Cue more crying spouses, commercials FAST FORWARD, Academy president, FAST FORWARD. OK, back to awards, Chris Pratt (I want to hang out with him and his wife Anna Faris) and Felicity Jones who was perfectly fine in Theory of Everything. The production design Oscar goes to The Grand Budapest Hotel. So perfectly strange and beautiful. Wes Anderson is also a bit strange and unique, like his date's lace tablecloth dress.

Now Idris Elba and Jessica Chastain get introduced with the heroic feats their characters in films have done, while NPH reminds America that in 1,000 Ways To Die In the West, he pooped in a hat. This award is cinematography, and the award logically went to Birdman for the look of creating a movie of one continuous shot. So flipping BRILLIANT! Trivia, he worked with Jessica Chastain in Tree of Life.

Now Meryl Streep lends appropriate gravitas to what I call "the death parade" aka those who died this year. It's then Jennifer Hudson's turn to remind us she can sing, but thankfully not remind us that she can't act and not remind us she went on Weight Watchers. The song was from the flop TV show Smash. Yeah, that show was memorable, at least the music wasn't awful.

After a commercial, best British name ever nominee Benedict Cumberbatch and better without trying to do an American accent Naomi Watts present best editing to Whiplash. It was brilliant edited. PS, was Naomi Watts wearing a dress over a sparkly tube top or do I just not know fashion?

Now, Empire's own Lucious Lyon himself Terrance Howard gets overly emotional presenting the final best picture nominees Whiplash (brilliant and brutal) The Imitation Game (good and solid but didn't move me except for Benedict's performance) and Selma (so powerful to watch and experience)

Normally I would question why Jennifer Aniston was anywhere near movie awards, but apparently her movie Cake earned her great reviews and some nominations. But not an Oscar nom, Angelina still has her beat. Bahaha. Sorry, not an Aniston fan lol. David Oyelowo was mesmerizing as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma. So amazing and a warts and all performance. Citizenfour about controversial whistle blower Edward Snowden wins. I want to see it just to get a fuller picture of what he did and how he's viewed.

So that's it for hour 2, I leave it being political :) Ready for the last part or 2? You better be!

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