Posted on 01/25/2017 1:29:41 PM PST by cvolkay
3 hours? If only.
In 1979, host Johnny Carson said: “It’s two hours of sparkling entertainment spread over a four hour show.” And according to a chart crafted by Slate, 2002 marks the longest award ceremony ever, running nearly 4.5 hours long — 4 hours and 23 minutes to be exact. Yowza.
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I take the vow to NEVER watch Academy Awards again.
They are just Ameriphobic bullies.
I saw La La Land last week and was a little disappointed. Fantastic idea, great wide cinematography. Fantastic LA locations, I would have been crying with homesickness if I saw this when I lived in Europe. Some of my favorite or most familiar places. Great Mandy Moore choreography. Hope she wins an Oscar.
My problems with it were: the love between the two main characters was invisible. Terrible chemistry there. The plot fell pretty flat, though the theme, broken dreams in LA, is great. Before I saw the movie, I thought Emma Stone was a lovely woman. By the end of the movie, after interminable close ups of her face, she looked to me like a gecko. Less is more, on those huge close ups, director. It left me very meh. I was glad a movie LIKE it was made. But it didn’t quite get there, for me.
Oh! And FReepers will love this!! As DIVERSITY-ADDICTED as Hollywood is right now, they blew it on the most iconic dance scene in the film, the traffic dance. They used, OF COURSE, the connection from the 105 to the 110 north, because it has the most amazing views of the city and the hills, and no other vantage point quite does. Well, I happen to have used that transition a zillion times. If you froze traffic there and looked in the 30 closest cars (Mandy said they only used around 30 cars), you would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS see 50-60% white people as in this scene. It would be, like LA is, a large majority Hispanic, and probably as many blacks as whites, with others thrown in. The dancers were WAY OFF. I chuckled just watching it.
I haven’t watched in decades. It’s all just a sales ploy.
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I will not turn my TV on to watch their liberal crap ever again.
Period.
In the sense that they passed over worthy "White" movies to nominate "Black" ones?
Or in the sense that Hollywood made a lot of "Black" pictures that they wouldn't otherwise have made and they turned out to be good?
If it's the first, it's bad. If it's the second, and worthy films weren't excluded because of race, is it bad?
I don't remember who the host was, but it was David Niven on stage perhaps giving out an award when the streaker went through. Niven's response is classic: "Isn't it fascinating that probably the only laugh that man will get is stripping off his clothes and showing us his shortcomings."
I haven't watched it since about 2004 and am happier for it.
The Academy awards have long since ceased to be about actual acting/directing talent
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