Oscars: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good:

•   The winners mostly deserved their awards.
    -Jeff Bridges was the sentimental choice, and basically won for all the times he was snubbed, but I’m cool    
     with that because he’s The Dude. His speech was a bit lame though. Christoph Waltz and Mo’Nique deserved
     to win, but their victories were predictable.

•   Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin had some good zingers.
     -Fuck the haters. I like Martin and Baldwin. Not every joke worked, but the ones that did worked well. “In   
     Inglourious Basterds, Christoph Waltz played a Nazi obsessed with finding Jews. Well Christoph…The  
     motherload!” (Ok, so maybe it was a bit offensive, coming from a gentile anyway).

•   Kathryn Bigelow wins for best director.
     -I think some people expected Bigelow to make some inspirational speech about being the first woman to   
     win this, but instead she looked totally stunned and thanked a bunch of people like everyone else. Good for
     her. She’s consistently said her gender isn’t important as far as being a director goes and she stood by that.

•   Ben Stiller dressed as a Nav’i.
     -I was disappointed that Sacha Baron Cohen was kept from doing his skit involving carrying James 
     Cameron’s love child, but c’est la vie. Stiller managed to be funny without being mean-spirited, as usual. 
     Good job!

The Bad:

•   John Hughes tribute.
    -Why was this guy singled out for a tribute? He’s not exactly a Scorcese or a Kubrick. His movies include 
     Ferris Bueller,  Breakfast Club, and the Asian-dissing Sixteen Candles in the “plus” category, all ‘80s
     favourites, but hardly timeless classics. He should win recognition for making the most dated films of all
     time.

•   Horror movie tribute.
     -Was this a bone to the kids out there that think the Oscars are lame? this pathetic montage of clips from 
     famous horror movies? How about nominating one for once? And why was Twilight in there? Not even
     Twilight fans would consider that shit a horror movie. There was also a considerable lack of zombie movies 
     shown. For shame.

•   Sandra Bullock wins best actress.
     -Shouldn’t that Razzie award she won two days earlier be proof enough this woman can’t act?! My high
     school crush aside, Sandy had it right when she asked, “did I deserve this or did I just wear you down?” Oh
     very much the latter, sweetie. Very much the latter.

The Ugly:

•   That arty dance thing for best original score.
     -Was this the best original score category or Stomp the Yard? With the exception of Up, most of the music  
      this year was largely forgettable, and hardly what I’d call danceable. One of the dancers should’ve yelled
      out “you got served!” at the end.

•   Some old lady pulls a Kanye.
     -Roger Ross Williams, one of the winners of the Documentary Short Oscar for Music for Prudence gets 
      rudely interrupted by his collaborator on the film, Elinor Burkett, about ten-seconds in, and her speech is a
      rambling mess. Apparently they had a falling out before the movie was finished, and his mother tried to
      block her from going up with her cane. He did run up there pretty quickly, and quite girly I might add.
      Here’s an interview with both idiots over what happened.