Oscars 2010 - live streaming posts!

[scherbchen]

well, somebody had to do it.

first thing I have to say, and I am feeling less of a man as I type it, is that I love Sandra Bullock's dress.

I'll go hide in a corner now. so pretty

 

[scherbchen]

and a German oscar is the first one of the evening. woohoo!

 

[sophie]

YEAH!!! Waltz took best supporting!

(No surprise, but that one and Up are the only ones I really care about)

 

[Shekwan]

The way I hope the major awards go:

Best Picture: Up - Basically I'm happy with anything but Avatar.
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow - She should have got one for Point Break so this will make amends.
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges - I really hope Morgan Freeman doesn't win. I found his performance in Invictus more comical than anything else.
Best Actress: I don't care. Haven't seen any of the performances and don't feel strongly one way or the other about the nominees.
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Waltz. Brilliant, memorable stuff.
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Gyllenhall. Should got one for Secretary anyways.

Also, looking at the wiki theres an Irish movie up for the animation award so it would be great to see that win.

 

[Evie]

Yeah, best supporting actor for Christoph Waltz was the one that I really cared about. Waltz turned that movie into something truly memorable.

 

[JtheJackal]

This ultra short acceptance speeches are really getting on my nerves, its the acceptance speeches that are entertaining. And worse of all was putting the tributes and awards to Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall in another event.

How about we get real emotion instead of so much stuff and clips about the nominees before they win.

 

[Cutlass]

I'm glad i didn't watch most of it. It's boring as toast.

 

[warpus]

I'm not watching, but am really glad that Waltz won for supporting actor and really happy for the dude for winning best actor in a leading role!

Now let's just hope that Avatar doesn't win best picture (It's a great movie, but not a "best picture"), but it probably will.

 

[JtheJackal]

Congrats to The Hurt Locker for its Best Picture win.

Overall a pretty uninteresting Oscars.

 

[BasketCase]

Now let's just hope that Avatar doesn't win best picture (It's a great movie, but not a "best picture"), but it probably will.

Surpriiiiiise!

 

[warpus]

Wow.. My respect for the academy has inreased slightly!

 

[Evie]

So Kathryn Bigelow has won the Battle of the Exes.

Fun.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Hurt Locker won!

Though I'm still disappointed that District 9 didn't take anything home... oh well...

 

[Winner]

Unbelievable

It's basically as if a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals felt guilty that they liked Avatar, so they had to give the prizes to someone else just to avoid suspicion.

Pathetic.

If someone keeps nagging that Avatar doesn't have a good story, he should just damn realize that Hurt Locker has no story at all. Giving it the best film award is ridiculous and I suspect it got it simply because

a) it isn't Avatar
b) it isn't Avatar
c) it isn't Avatar
d) it's about Iraq
e) the director is a woman
f) the woman is James Cameron's ex-wife

Did I say it is pathetic already? Oh yes, I did, but I'll repeat it: it's pathetic!

As for the "best director" award - not giving it to Cameron for the hundreds of innovations seen in Avatar and the amazing way he used his 3D and virtual cameras to intensify viewers immersion is an insult to common sense and a further proof that the Oscars should be downgraded to an unimportant, heavily politicized all-American exercise in snobbery.

 

[aelf]

Why the hell should Avatar win anything except in a CGI category or something? That movie deserves to earn lots of money, not to win awards

 

[BasketCase]

Actually, Winner, you're just a really poor movie critic.

Avatar had an awful story. The same old story we've seen a million times. Evil corporations, evil business, evil military. The fact that Hurt Locker took the "Best ORIGINAL Screenplay" should have clued you in to where Avatar's problem is: it took an old story and told it badly. Dear God, Darth Vader spent three entire movies behind a mask--YOU COULD NOT SEE HIS DAMN FACE--and he still conveyed more personality and pure evil than Quaritch.

Any damn fool can hire a CGI company to do great special effects. Using those effects to make a good original story, that's something else. Hell, even I write better sci-fi than Cameron. And good acting--well, that's something no CGI company can fake.

Cameron got what he deserved. Awards for special effects, and that's all. The look on his face when he realized he was not getting either Best Director OR Best Picture, was priceless.

Edit: Actually, Avatar was hands-down the winner for Most Hypocritical Picture.

 

[Winner]

Why the hell should Avatar win anything except in a CGI category or something? That movie deserves to earn lots of money, not to win awards

Why the hell should Hurt Locker win anything? What's new about it, what's better, what's interesting, what hasn't been seen already?

Avatar has plenty of that, Hurt Locker is IMO just another knock-off of Black Hawk Down, which is unfortunately much less enjoyable and even less believable.

Christ, if you hate Avatar so much, at least give the awards to a competitor which deserves them.

 

[Winner]

Actually, Winner, you're just a really poor movie critic.

Correction, I am no movie critic which helps me to maintain sanity.

Avatar had an awful story.

At least it has a story What's so great about the story in Hurt Locker?

The same old story we've seen a million times. Evil corporations, evil business, evil military.

As opposed to "good army, troubled hero, big explosions"? How original!

The fact that Hurt Locker took the "Best ORIGINAL Screenplay" should have clued you in to where Avatar's problem is: it took an old story and told it badly.

Again, as opposed to what? People are so blinded by their vitriolic hatred of Avatar that they miss the fact that the competitor is just as empty, clichéd and unoriginal as Avatar, at least if that's how they see it.

Dear God, Darth Vader spent three entire movies behind a mask--YOU COULD NOT SEE HIS DAMN FACE--and he still conveyed more personality and pure evil than Quaritch.

I hardly think so.

Any damn fool can hire a CGI company to do great special effects. Using those effects to make a good original story, that's something else. Hell, even I write better sci-fi than Cameron. And good acting--well, that's something no CGI company can fake.

Now this is just ridiculous. Avatar moved CGI to a completely new level - it's comparable to the revolution brought by the Jurassic Park in the 1990s. It used dozens of revolutionary filming techniques and it succeeded to create a sublimely beautiful virtual world that people can enjoy and immerse in - as demonstrated by the number of people who went to see it.

Cameron got what he deserved. Awards for special effects, and that's all. The look on his face when he realized he was not getting either Best Director OR Best Picture, was priceless.

If I were him, I'd simply inform the snobs that if they don't recognize excellent and revolutionary directing when they see it, they should just crawl under a rock and die for all I care.

 

[Karalysia]

Hurt Locker won? Awesome. They definatley deserved it.

 

[Winner]

Hurt Locker won? Awesome. They definatley deserved it.

Well, then perhaps you will tell me why. What's so great about it? (yes I've seen it)