Hey It's Oscar time and I'm here to give my opinions on the show. Now unfortunately I'm not going to have the time or patience to sit through the entire show and live blog it but I'll hit on things I notice, like or dislike! I'm ready to be surprised by our host Seth Macfarlain and by the awards so bring on the Oscars!!!!
5:27- It's almost time!!
5:45- Solid intro funny, much better then most. Best joke was the Affleck one "So top secret that not even the accademy knows he exists!" Fantastic mix of old and new and hey William Shatner! Again really solid intro he's off to a really good start!
5:49- Best Supporting Actor right off the bat!
5:51 Cristoph Waltz wins!!! Wow didn't see that coming but love it!!! He's the best in the category and really deserves it! Awesome speech and uses Quintin Dialogue!! Fred pick 0/1
5:56- Melissa Maccarthy and Paul Rudd NOT FUNNY!!!
5:58- It's the tie breaker but I got the animated short!
6:00- Brave wins!!! The Pixar theory always works!! Even though it's not that good it's still the academy pick! Fred Pick 1/2 Roger Ebert thought he had them all and he's been wrong for all his picks so far....
6:03- Why are they taking cues from the Globes stop with the filler!! Time to take a nap...
6:07- Life of Pi wins cinematography no surprise there... I stand by Skyfall as having better Cinematography though! Fred Pick 2/3 Ps Robert Downy Jr. joke was ok and worked well enough!
6:10- Life of Pi wins visual effects no surprise there.... Avengers should have won though Fred Picks 3/4 Ps second Avengers joke kinda bad....
6:11- Wait play off is Jaws theme!!! WIN!!!
6:16- So wax is funny now???
6:18- Anna Karenina wins costume design, good pick no surprise there! Fred Picks 4/5
6:20- Hairstyle and Makeup goes to Les Miz disappointing on that one... I guess I should have saw it coming Fred Picks 4/6
6:22- James Bond tribute with Halle Barry???????? Strange...
6:24- the whole tribute thing makes me wonder why Skyfall wasn't nominated
6:25- Hey Shirley Bassy! She almost forgets the lines a few times..... Strange performance but OK I guess....
6:29- In brief retrospect I was too hard on Bassy!! She finished strong and got a great ovation. Really good moment and much better than the stupid video package! She still almost forgot the Lyrics...
6:32- Shorts so I'm not paying too much attention (nice break) Ps Jamie Fox not funny and kida awkward.... I'm going to watch all of them on dvd though they all look really solid!!!
6:37- I'm back ok... Liam Neeson.... Wait more stupid video packages....
6:43- Macfarlain is average and getting less funny... Jessica Chastain joke was too tasteless and not funny enough...
6:44- Searching for Sugar man wins! It's high on the list of movies I have to watch add one more into the correct picks category! Fred picks 5/7
6:45- By the way film students as trophy givers is a classy touch!
6:50- Hey look it's the biggest lock of the night award Foreign Film!! Winner is.... Amour duh! Haneke deserves this all the way what a fantastic film! It's good to see Haneke win I love practically all of his films!
6:52- Hey Orchestra gets notice! Yay!
6:53- John Travolta is up so is it a clip package... Yep
6:54- Oh wait live singing.... Wait who still cares about Chicago all these years later... It's good but not great...
6:57- So if no one cares about Chicago why does anyone care about Dreamgirls??... At least the singing is really, really solid!!
7:00- Well we can move that singing up to great territory great job Jenifer Hudson how is the Les Miz cast going to top that???
7:01- Wait with the new original song LAME!!!!! Ok here comes One Day More....
7:02- You can tell who has Broadway training in the cast... God Sasha Barren Coen and Hellen B. Carter are awful and so is the sound mixing..... Scratch that the sound mixing is really really awful.... Why are they getting a standing ovation?????!!!!!
7:10- Macfarlain isn't doing so hot at this point... Even his self deprecating effort wasn't great...
7:12- Back to the awards finally! Sound Mixing goes to Les Miz no surprise there! After the One Day More performance here at the Oscars you can kida see why they won! Fred Picks 6/8
7:15- Ted jokes aren't all that great... Sound editing time winner is wait tie what? First winner Zero Dark Thirty!! My pick! Fred Picks 7/9. For the contest I will award points for both right answers and won't take anything away but that's really weird! Second pick Skyfall I guess that works! I guess you can only have a tie in a "nobody cares" category like sound editing...
7:19- Hey Seth if you do a bit from Sound of Music DON"T LAUGH IN THE MIDDLE OF IT! OH Christopher Plumber!
7:20- Supporting Actress time! I love Christopher Plumber so much!! This one's practically a lock winner is..... Anne Hathaway for practically having a cameo in Les Mis! Easy pick! Fred Picks 8/10 At least we got to hear another fantastic speech from Anne Hathaway! She's always so good with those speeches...And she didn't get played off! Good job Oscars!
7:29- Accademy president! (IE break time)
7:30- Yay Film Students!!! Go Film Students!!
7:32- Editing I have no idea about this one I went with Argo Winner is.... Argo! Got that one! Actually diserves it to a certain extent! Zero Dark Thirty was well edited as well... Fred Picks 9/11
7:34- Adele is comming up with the best Bond Songs in years! Locking it even more as the winner! She sounds really good but they need to turn her mic up really badly she's getting outpowered... Oh There we go! Still her miking sucks.... Not her fault either she's close to it... Another sound mixing fail!!! Adele really sounded great though! Yet no standing ovation... Sound mixing fail!!
7:43- Seth has lost all hope for redeaming himself for me... He was good at the start but has fallen off ever since....
7:44- Look more stupid video packages (break time)....
7:47- At least this vid package reminds me of how bloody fantastic Amour is!
7:48- Production design time! Another one I'm schechy on winner... Lincoln hunh didn't pick it but it's a great choice! Fred Picks 9/12
7:51- Govonors awards (break time)
7:57- Clooney time! In Memoriam... Great intro George!
8:01- Barbra Strisand singing and doing a dang fantastic job of it!!!! Great job!
8:04- Great performance!! Really emotional!!
8:05- So let's play how late is the Oscars going to go.... It looks already like this one is going to be a while....
8:08- Why do the Oscars think that people still care about Chicago???!!! Strange!
8:09- Music awards time! Best score time.... Winner is.... Life of Pi another correct pick for Fred! Fred Picks 10/13! Ps the Chicago cast is really annoying!
8:12- Wow did they ever do a disservice to the other original songs as they don't get to perform live!!!! Save for Ted of course! Yay Norah Jones!! Biggest Lock of the night is Best Original Song... Winner is Skyfall of course! Easiest pick of the night! Fred Picks 11/14 Adele is crying! Hey other guy gets to speek!! I don't think he can believe that he gets to speek!
8:18- So we have both writing awards, directing, both acting awards, and best picture left! Folks we have a while to go...
8:23- Adapted screenplay time Dustin Hoffman is decently funny.... Winner is.... Argo! Wow didn't see that one comming at all! I think it has a good shot at best picture now!! Fred Picks 11/15
8:25- Original screenplay biggest tossup of the night! Winner is.... Django Unchained!! Yes! Sorry I got that one and I love Tarrentino!! Fred Picks 12/16 Tarrentino is getting played off unfortunaltly as he's thanking the other writers! Shame!!!
8:32- Directing this early!! Wow I guess they're covering for not nomintaing Bigelow and Affleck! Winner Ang Lee! Who saw that comming??? Cirtanly not me! Wow! Wow! Wow! I really bit that one! Good for him! Fred Picks 12/17
8:39- Still realing a bit from Directing! Best Picture is up in the air now!
8:41- Jean Dujardin is charming as usual! Best Actress time... Another toss up!! Go Chastain for amazing performence! Go Lawrence for my pick!! Winner is Jennifer Lawrence!! She fell on the steps!!! Get's standing ovation for falling! Fred picks 13/18! Robert De Niro is falling asleep! Good speach she's breathless and dosn't make fun of Maryl!
8:45- Hey look it's Maryl!! Actor time! Another lock!
8:47- Hey look Joaquin Phoenix!! Remember him he is so great in that film and so much better than Hugh or Bradley! Cut's to him and he looks sad that he has no chance! Sad! Winner is... Daniel Day-Lewis! No suprise there! First actor to win 3 in the category! Standinng ovation! Deserves every second of it!! He's one of the greatest of all time! He's so brilliant and even his Margaret Thatcher joke works! Great speech he should just go on forever! Fantastic! Fred Picks 14/19
8:52- Right to best picture! Hey it's Jack! And Michelle Obama??!! Go America I guess..... I like Jack though! I take back my earlier statement this is the biggest tossup of the night by far now!
8:54- Here we go back to Jack! Best Picture here we go! Winner is.... Argo!!! Wow I got it! They really screwed up with not nominating Affleck for Director! Fred Final Picks 15/20! Not bad!! I guess it was clear when it won Screenplay! Good for them no qualms with who won! Really emphisize director! Affleck has to do his speech he should of had for director! He thanked Canada! Covered his screenwriter on that one! Going to tally up those points now and write some final thoughts!
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