Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won for Best Original Screenplay, and Brad Bird got his Oscar for The Incredibles, and that’s all that matters.
What was up with having the presenters standing in the audience? It just seemed too informal and odd. Next year they should just start handing out awards as people arrive on the red carpet. That’ll get the show moving faster.
Eric Lim smells like noodles; enjoys driving in traffic in the Los Angeles area; is scared of girls; tries to make people feel bad; is allergic to hot wings; is (almost) undefeated Go Fish Champion; is the destroyer of toasters; is a self-qualified CSS Ninja; wants to learn to ride a unicycle just so he can call himself "GizmoDuck"; and is an aspiring writer who doesn't write.
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Didn’t Chris Rock make that same joke, except with “parking lot” in the place of “red carpet”?
:-P
Oh, did he? I only caught the first few awards, and then the last few.
the whole idea of oscars is kind of silly when you really think about it… looking at what are all obviously great pieces of art and saying one piece is better than another. if they weren’t great, they wouldn’t be in the running… and then to say ONE is the best… from the choices to the winner, its the opinion of a small group of people who happen to have a lot of hype around this little statue they give to THEIR favorite performances. you don’t have to a pro in the field to know what good art is..
another problem is they seem to define “good acting” as extreme acting (i think eric and brad mentioned this a while back).. you gotta be crying, really really angry, insane, dying, or some other extreme. anything else, no matter how convincing, doesn’t get their attention.
oscars shmoscars.
Yeah, I think the same should apply for sports. All the teams are good, or else they wouldn’t be pros. Why should they compete to see who’s the best? They should just dance and stuff. For that matter, we should all wear black. We shouldn’t look better than other people. In black, everyone looks good, or not, its subjective.
best movie? depends on who you ask and the qualities they feel are more important than others.
best sports team? check out the playoffs, the standings, the scoreboard.
so yeah, judging film and sports teams is a bit different. we’re not talking foreign policy or sports team analysis here… its art, expression, and taste… there is no best.
“we shouldn’t look better than other people”? never said one movie *shouldn’t* be better than another…. said one movie gets a small statue and another does not because a small group of people say so based on what *they* think. not quite sure where this clothes analogy came from or where its going… so may it go where it will.
i’m off to meet pedro.
you actually watched?