I watched the Oscars so you didn’t have to
I sort of watched them, anyway. That is, I watched a bit and then almost immediately got sick of listening to the relentless messaging. I have never personally witnessed a more self-righteous bunch of preening self-congratulatory PC hypocrites engaged in the activity of churning out bilge.
Then again, when you think about it, the Oscars have always been about self-congratulation, but long ago it was limited to praising themselves for making movies and acting in them. But now most of the recipients seem to be in the business of telling us how downtrodden and yet incredibly courageous they are.
So I turned the sound off, and then turned it on again briefly whenever I happened to notice something to which I might possibly want to listen—for example, Gary Oldman winning Best Actor for “Darkest Hour”.
But I cannot resist my annual fashion guide to the Oscars. And so, without further ado, we have—
One of the best, always: Helen Mirren, who is 72 and never looks anything less than fabulous. It helps to have a great body and posture that a younger person might envy, because although this dress and especially this color are beautiful, it wouldn’t look half this good with most of us in it:
Nicole Kidman is a skinny package with a big bow (which turns into pockets, each big enough to fit another Nicole Kidman into):
Maya Rudolph’s getup is odd:
Until you consider the popularity of “The Handmaid’s Tale”:
Jane Fonda looks scary to me:
Ming the Merciless:
Haley Bennett is channeling a rara avis, but not an attractive one (Bennett is on the right here; to the left is a photo of a model in the same dress):
Andra Day is a throwback:
To Fragonard:
Helen Mirren indeed looks great. I’m not usually a fan of how anyone looks in this sort of formal dress. I first saw Mirren in Savage Messiah, a film I liked at the time that has become hard to find. She played the rich young girlfriend of a wild British sculptor, whose work shocked everyone before he went off to World War I. She was memorable.
I didn’t watch the Oscars, don’t think I have since I was a child. I’ve never seen the Grammys or any other artistic awards show. But I won an award once, and can testify that sitting in the audience waiting to find out your fate can be intensely nerve-wracking. It wasn’t so much that I wanted so badly to win as that I felt I would be humiliated if I lost.
I made a point of recommending, in my acceptance, the novels of my defeated foes.
I am non-religious but even the LGBT community is starting to get on my nerve for constantly playing victim and creating a boogeyman out of Christianity to make themselves feel GOOD and SPECIAL. Being a victim feels good make no mistake about it because victimhood gives you a sense of belonging that you are part of something bigger, by pretending to be a victim also earn you sympathy and caring from others that you don’t get if you are not a victim. I don’t know, I rarely hear christian mentioning homosexuals tbh, but it is the gays who just can’t let go of the Christians, keep claiming how they are still being hated and persecuted by Christians and bullying Gays is all Christians do 24/7 when in fact homosexuals are nothing in Christians’ mind, if they want to sin then go ahead to sin, they are the ones who is going answer to the lord, not Christians. Its like Pence can’t say anything without the homesexuals taking it out of context and use it as proof that Christians are out there hating gays 24/7. No one care about you, so stick you penis in another man’s azz and leave us alone please.
abortion is not a woman’s choice, the choice should be made before the baby was conceived, like not letting a stranger man inseminate her. when a baby is conceived the baby’s right to live trumps the woman’s right to choice, it is as simple as that.
I’d like to design some clothes for these poor abused virtue signalers. I’d put price tags next to partially exposed body parts: boobs: grab here, $ 100; butts, grab here $50; pussies; grab here, $500; penetrate, $1000. Imagine how the prices would look in metallic embroidery or in sequins. At least Mary Rudolph could say she got her role because of her talent.
I just can’t stand the moral posturing and preening any more. They could give the Pharisee lessons in self righteousness.
They are like the posturing donator who waves the hundred dollar bills for everyone around to see before putting them in the donation box, it is way over the top and embarrassing. The progressives took sucking up and azz kissing to the next level just so they can win over some more votes come November.
I haven’t watched the Oscars in years, but I always look up the dresses first thing the next morning. Neo, you found most of my favorite horribles, and I agree that Helen Mirren looked amazing – as she always does. As for other nice dresses, I did see one very lovely, very simple white dress with no fuss except for a little graceful bling on the shoulders. (Looking it up . . . aha!) It’s Margot Robbie, whoever she is. Here:
https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/oscars-red-carpet-celebrity-fashion#19
And by the way, what a great and useful word “bling” is!
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.
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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.
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.
Emily Blunt’s dress. At first I thought maybe too busy, but now I think the whole look is lovely.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
It’s just another form of worshiping elohim, which Moses had to kill his own people to punish them for.
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/
Jesu H. Christo! (To borrow an expletive from P.D.Q. Bach.) What the heck happened to Maya Rudolph? She used to be cute.