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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Oscars Recap and “Outpick Fred” Totals




Well it’s over! I’m terribly exhausted so these final thoughts on the Oscars will be in Bullet format:

  • No one who entered the contest out picked me this year sadly (I wanted someone to get there I really did). Out of 40 the winning total was mine with 29 points. After that Josh got 27, Brian got 26, Ethan and Ted got 24, and Sofya got 18. Again thanks to all that entered and let’s hope that next year’s contest gets some winners!

  • Now on to the Oscars themselves! So the show in general. Meh… It was average there was some good and some bad but overall nothing too good and nothing too bad either.
  • Let’s start with the good with the best awards acceptance speech done by none other than the amazing Daniel Day-Lewis who shone like no one else with his amazing speech that was funny and emotional!
  • Runner Up was Tarrentino who was cut off for some strange reason before not being cut off!

  • Shirley Bassy!!!! Who I was too hard on in the live blog and who saved the Bond segment!
  • Adele who got under micked (more on that in a second)
  • Jennifer Lawrence face plant!
  • Jaws as the playoff music
  • Barbra Strisand
  • On to the bad now
  • Seth MacFarlaine wasn’t that bad but after the decent opening he kind of began falling on his face a little with some unfunny jokes and strange bits
  • Someone needs to tell them that the idea of playing video packages of the best picture nominees sucks and that they should never take tips from the Globes (except for potentially hiring Amy and Tina). Stupid and a waste of time that could have been spent not going overtime
  • Some really boring presenters
  • The academy believes that people still care about Chicago to the point of it being annoying!
  •  And the worst offender of the night the sound mixing! Adele’s otherwise really good performance was destroyed because of this as was the Les Miz casts sort of ok one…
So that’s it the Oscars are done! Congrats to the winners and we will see what happens in this year’s movie season!

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