I didn't find last night's Oscars terribly inspiring either. I didn't care for some of their "alternative" presentations of handing out Oscars in the aisles, as well as having some of the contestants line up on the stage like it was a beauty pagent or something. Dumb.
Got tired of seeing Beyonce perform all the songs too. Josh Groban's song should've been JUST Josh Groban (it's not a freakin' duet), and the Phantom of the Opera song should've been sung by Emmy Rossum. No idea why it wasn't, aside from them trying to pimp Beyonce's star power all over the place. Lame.
Chris Rock seemed surprisingly tame too. Disappointed with that, since I was expecting him to dole out some pretty good shots at some folks.
Happy to see Clint pick up a couple more. He's way cool.
Hilary, Jamie, and Morgan Freeman were all shoe-ins, and well deserving choices too, so I was glad to see no ridiculous upsets in those categories.
Can't say I'm really excited with all the "foreign" stuff filtering in though, and in some fairly major categories. When entire movie clips and songs are in different languages that no one attending and viewing can understand, from flicks that barely saw the light of day in the U.S., I dunno... Seemed like they were making some kind of attempt to globalize the Oscars this year. I prefer to watch stuff that I am both familiar with (even if but vaguely) and stuff that's actually in freaking English. Thumbs down.
Another thumbs down to Melanie Griffith for forgetting she's like 60 years old, yet still has a dress that reveals nearly her entire ass. **** that. Show me some of the young, hottie butts, but not from anyone over 40 please. Thanks.