Comments on: I watched the Oscars so you didn’t have to

By: Bilwick

Bilwick — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:19:12 +0000

Jesu H. Christo! (To borrow an expletive from P.D.Q. Bach.) What the heck happened to Maya Rudolph? She used to be cute.

By: Bilwick

Bilwick — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:56:58 +0000

Meanwhile, for those of you who found “The Shape of Water” inspirational . . .

https://www.thewrap.com/shape-of-water-dildo-sex-toy-sales-surge-oscars/

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:11:49 +0000

It’s just another form of worshiping elohim, which Moses had to kill his own people to punish them for.

By: Yankee

Yankee — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:42:56 +0000

I watched about half of this, intermittently. It wasn’t that bad, unless you happened to be a white male, and then the message was that your sole duty now was to get out of the way.

There has been a serious cultural shift in less than ten years, just from looking back on lists of movies nominated for Best Picture. As for the nine films for this year’s award, I haven’t seen any of them, and have no immediate plans to.

1. The Shape of Water: fish sex and Cold War paranoia
2. Call Me by Your Name: two gay dudes, where one is 24 and one is 17
3. Darkest Hour: Churchill bio-pic (after reading Pat Buchanan’s book, perhaps he is over-rated?)
4. Dunkirk: another WWII movie
5. Get Out: the sort of movie to watch with friends for some laughs
6. Lady Bird: coming-of-age in early 2000s, worth a look if in that age group
7. Phantom Thread: fashion design with Daniel Day-Lewis, but you instead want to see him in a movie where he kicks some ass
8. Three Billboards, etc: just a revenge film
9. The Post: heroic liberals speaking truth to power (hopefully next year we can get a movie where Meryl Streep is eaten by dingoes)

As for the fashions, I’m wondering how the women at such awards handle a call of nature while in such expensive and voluminous dresses. They are there for quite a few hours, after all. Perhaps it is not such a good idea to want them to be in charge of everything.

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:34:44 +0000

IMHO viewership for the Oscars will continue to decline & they will not recoup their losses. Ditto Hollywood. People have finally had some impact on their revenue stream by not attending their movies or admiring them for their silly, not thought out opinions. I believe there will be a continual * turn over* in who is the current *big thing* in LA LA land.
Take Jennifer Lawrence, she is taking a year off ( lol).to “fix democracy “. Too bad her time is now. in a year she is yesterday’s news, & another sweet thing will replace her.
(Not a bad thing if you ask me) but sadly ( for her) nobody told her FAME IS FLEETING. Streep, Hanks, etc represent the last of Hollywood *stars*. . You ll now see someone around for a short stint and then fade, it s been happening a bit all ready and will continue to be the new normal.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:25:03 +0000

Saw this quote in some Oscar wrap up article –

George Michael, who certainly knew about these things, once defined a star as ‘someone with a little something missing rather than a little something extra’.

By: Elaine T

Elaine T — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 03:13:41 +0000

That dress Mrs. Whatsit posted a link to is pretty, and better looking than most sleeveless/strapless dresses, but I’ve never see any of that basic idea – strapless -that manage to look good.

Nicole Kidman should fire whoever talked her into what she wore, and that … thing Bennett is wearing is atrocious. Is it feathers? It looks like grass.

Helen Mirren is the only one who looks elegant and classy.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 01:23:34 +0000

Emily Blunt's dress. At first I thought maybe too busy, but now I think the whole look is lovely.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:22:10 +0000

Mrs Whatsit:

That’s a pretty dress—

However, I don’t think it’s very flattering on her. The first reason is that she’s a bit straight up-and-down. But the second—and more important, I think—reason is that she has broadish and bony shoulders, which the dress emphasizes. The biggest thing there is her shoulders. I think something softer might have been better.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:16:27 +0000

First, thanks to Neo for the comparison pictures, especially Ming; given Fonda’s past, I think I would prefer his company.

Ray Says:
March 5th, 2018 at 4:56 pm
I just can’t stand the moral posturing and preening any more. They could give the Pharisee lessons in self righteousness.
* * *
An interesting thought: Jesus was normally quite tender with the sinners who succumbed to the temptations of the body (though still enjoining them to sin no more), and more censorious of the premeditated sins of greed and ostentatious preening.
The pity-me-piety of the Hollywood crowd seems to combine the two.