Monday, March 06, 2006
So the oscars... what was that all about?
Uma Thurman was looking good. God bless her. Atleast she had a decent dress this time. Jennifer Garner almost fell... damn...almost. Jessica Alba can't read.
But what was with the awards...
It's hard out here for a pimp???? That's a song? That wins a prize? Maybe the token black sympathy award.
And Reese won... good old fashioned american girl with the slapped in forehead and the cheerleader smile... her parents who were "always proud of her" and her grandmother who did something or the other... playing a "true woman"... a celebrity country singer married in love with a drunk and dopie legend... sure... not the middle aged transexual mom... I dunno why... but I just hate Reese... I actually liked her in the movie... but can't stand her as a person... feel like smacking her triangular face...
nice..
and best picture goes to this movie which is supposed to be racism... but isn't about anything really... just a mish mash of rather tame short stories with some REALLY forced connections... it's like a movie that tried to be Magnolia or Pulp Fiction... but didn't make it... sorta skirts around the issues of race.... no drama... no climax... nothing confrontational at all...very hollywood fashion to be honest... a movie that I have already forgotten to be honest.... and suspect will forget even more by this time next year...and has possibly one of the most unoriginal movie titles of all time.
And memoirs of a geisha picks up all the art and costume awards... there is nothing remotely authentic abt that movie... the actors aren't japanese.. te location isn't japanese... the settings are wrong... the timelines are wrong... the art direction jumps around from the 1600's to the 1920's in a matter of minutes... it's like "Indiana Jones: The temple of doom" set in Japan...
Atleast there was Jon Stephens adding a dash of political incorrectness to the evening... loved that "if we bring down this Oscar statue do you reckon we could have a democracy in the academy?"
Is it just me... or is there right wing conservative christian propaganda everywhere these days...
probably just me...
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