Live-Tweeting the Oscars. No, really.
By Burbanked on Feb 22, 2009 in Blogging, Celebrities, Movies, TV, The Oscars | 2,074 views |
Here’s a wacky idea: after two weeks of complete non-bloggery, I’ll just what the heck go ahead and live-Tweet the Oscars. I’ve embedded my Twitter updates below, and you can follow me here. Refresh your browser if the newest updates doesn’t show up. Fans of Hollywood excesses! Enjoy!
UPDATED: different widget-embed here:
UPDATE, ONCE MORE: with the show over, here’s my Twitter archive instead of a live feed (the last stuff is at the top; then it gets earlier in the show as you move downward):
- That’s an intriguing final montage of 09 films. Lots of great, unseen footage, mixed in with some truly awful crap. G’night all!
- now THIS is a montage. terrific stuff.
- whoooops. sorry Mickey Rourke. guess there’s no such thing as a true underdog.
- Kingsley needs a WRESTLER-style second chance.
- RICHARD JENKINS OWNS THE GOOGLES.
- @rejects a hat-ish head covering of some sort. I’ll rule it a Yes.
- Please welcome the star of THE LOVE GURU and BLOODRAYNE, Mr. Ben Kingsley, ladies and gentlemen!
- @rejects I don’t know; didn’t you see Philip Seymour Hoffman?
- did Kate Winslet just tell Meryl Streep to suck it?
- way to talk about yourself, Halle Berry.
- …and I was worried that I wouldn’t get to see weepy Halle Berry this year. yay.
- And in related quality movie news, MADEA GOES TO JAIL made $41 million this weekend.
- Tigger and Styx referenced in the same show. Find THAT elsewhere, Oscar haters!
- oh Danny Boyle’s jumping up and down. Guess so.
- hey, I was loading the dishwasher. did I miss anything important?
- Sound editing should have gone to WALL-E. The movie’s 76% sound!
- the action montage is way too over-edited. what a shock.
- Did I just read that right? The following commercial was directed by Helen Hunt? Good to see our Oscar winners working.
- Thank you, Academy, for sparing us the chance that Bill Maher could make an even more self-serving acceptance speech.
- these tributes from actors to the nominated actors are nice – but does anyone miss seeing movie clips of the actors’ actual work?
- boy do I miss Kevin Kline in movies.
- Okay, actors are oddballs, quirky. But really, what’s with the hat, Philip Seymour Hoffman?
- If finally allowing movie advertising into the Oscar show was meant to give us dreck like THE PROPOSAL, well yee-haw.
- Hopefully that musical bit gave the audience a chance to go out and drink, ensuring more pleasurable antics for the rest of the show.
- Unironic Hugh Jackman dance number. uh oh.
- AAAARRRGH. Now they’ll give Katherine Heigl more romcom roles. Damn montage.
- confession time: I LOVE Oscar montages.
- Makeup and costume Oscars: awarded for making Brad Pitt look old and wrinkly, making Keira Knightley look pretty.
- When pairs of people accept Oscars together, do they agree ahead of time who won’t get to talk?
- SJP & Daniel Craig, now starring in “Dull and Duller”
- YEAH SHOUTOUT TO STYX!
- Hey, is Hugh Jackman still working tonight?
- The music accompanying the animation montage makes me want to end my life.
- Yep. Jack Black is still more annoying than funny.
- These script nom presentations are curious that the finished films follow the scripts EXACTLY, right down to performance. Rare, no?
- Aw. Who WOULDN’T fall in love with Steve Martin?
- Dustin Lance Black: just goes to show what some on-screen credit love will do.
- Oh no. I’ve only seen one of the original screenplay nominated movies. I must have had a pretty loser movie year.
- Steve Martin and Tina Fey make a nice pair. Are their ages too far apart for them to star in romcom together?
- These actress tributes are a nice, personal touch. But they strike me as maybe getting old in this show pretty fast.
- Thanks for the reminder of your Oscar, Whoopi. It’s kinda hard to remember.
- The show is 13 minutes old and we’ve already got two rather needless standing ovations. Long night.
- Nice shout-out to TDK. Even incorporated the billion-dollar milestone. Nifty.
- Annoyed cutaway to Baz Luhrman = not nearly long enough.
- Brad & Angelina are christened on the red carpet by the white-haired ABC guy as “the most glorious couple here”. They appear bored by this.
- Wifey says that Amy Adams’ dress makes her look like Spider-Man.
- CRUSH HER, WOLVERINE, CRUSH BARBARA WALTERS!
- Until I saw him, I was certain that the guy in the white suite on E! was a woman talking. Just saying.
- TV Guide Live on the Oscar red carpet: Lisa Rinna’s upper lip looks like an old garden hose with a bumpy field mouse stuck inside.
- one of the strangest Oscar nights in memory: I’ve seen zero of the five best picture noms. May need to turn in my movie geek card.
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Ray | Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
Good job, Alan!!
I completely agree with you about WALL-E’s shocking snubs in the sound cateogries. Unbelievable.
I loved certain things about the show itself … like the previous Oscar winners presenting the nominees from their respective class (Halle Berry notwithstanding). I could have done without the musical numbers and the bizarre comedy bits, which seemed a bit too much like the MTV Movie Awards. But overall, it was pretty good.
Mark my words, though: THE WRESTLER will be considered the PULP FICTION of this year’s class.
Burbanked | Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
@Ray: some of the comedy was decent; I liked Tina Fey and Steve Martin quite a bit. The first Hugh Jackman number was tolerable, the second was way too long and pointless.
The thing that really occurred to me, though, was that – with the dance numbers, the personalized acting tributes, the TERRIBLY shot and edited In Memoriam montage – there was much, much fewer movie clips, and therefore much less emphasis on the actual work of the nominated filmmakers.
Ray | Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
Yeah, you’re right. There really wasn’t much in the way of actual film consideration here. It was more like The Sonny And Cher variety show from the seventies except with more stars ans money.
Too too Badeenie | Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
Burbanked, I cant believe you didn’t like musicals. Anything with Judy Garland music deserves praise. The musicals were great, and what a cutie the host is. i don’t know about you, and seems you gettin lazy with the blogging. I still like you, but don’t know if piper guy still does. he hasn’t been around.
Burbanked | Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
@Too too: I do like musicals; I just can’t figure out why the Oscars need to devote such large amounts of time to them at the expense of showing, you know, actual movie footage from last year’s best films.
Scott | Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
I loved the first number, especially the great dig at THE READER. Hugh Jackman hasnt seen it? Yep, join the club.
The second musical number was kinda pointless, but entertaining in its own way. Tina Fey and Steve Martin absolutely killed in my house, and I think Steve Martin was her boss in BABY MAMA, wasnt he?
The tributes to the nominees were nice, and I bet the nominees would have appreciated it far more than we did. So shouldnt that have been left for the after parties? And pardon me but Joel Grey? They could not find a more well known supporting actor winner than him? And what was with Daniel Day Lewis not presenting for Best Actor and being replaced by Michael Douglas?
I liked Hugh, enjoyed most of the pairings, was better than most years but still overly long at times. 7/10.
Burbanked | Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
@Scott: THE READER bit was funny, and I really have mixed feelings about the Oscar-winners- honoring-the-nominees bit. In some cases, it seemed spontaneous and heartfelt – MacLaine to Hathaway for example. In other cases it struck me as two people who had never met, and one of them was handed something to read about the other. In a meaningful, actorly way.