<p>Annoys me that harry potter did not win anything even though they probably had the best technical there. Oh well…</p>
<p>Well #oscarsaudio was trending last night, so their issues with that were a real deal. I am very curious to see if ABC will acknowledge the problems they had and offer any sort of explanation. What a disaster and how embarrassing!</p>
<p>^so it wasn’t just me. I watched the beginning, and Billy Crystal’s singing was drowned out by the music. I kept thinking I just couldn’t hear him. If watching him didn’t make me feel old, not hearing him certainly did.</p>
<p>Not only did they have trouble with balancing audio correctly, but they had an awful “tinny” sound to all live audio with a strange sort-of-robotic sounding chirping/meeping going on in the background. My DH, who runs sound at our church and knows just enough about such things to be dangerous, said he thought maybe the signal was being overly compressed, or something like that… </p>
<p>All I know is it made the whole thing intolerable for me!</p>
<p>I’m so glad I watched long enough to see Christopher Plummer’s very classy speech. It was a great field of nominees and I always like it when the winner sincerely acknowledges the others in the category. No surprise that he delivered it so well, either - the stage actors never disappoint on that score.</p>
<p>Now I have to hunt up his movie, which I hadn’t heard of before award season.</p>
<p>I did not watch the Academy Arwards last night…but this year’s Grammy
Awards were so outstanding, it would be hard to match up!</p>
<p>Also noticed the Jennifer Lopez ah…er…chasm. Can’t but help think it was intentional because this isn’t the first time ‘Jenny from the block’ has appeared on an awards show essentially undressed. Looked like a strolling working girl. Can’t we have a bit more class on these shows?</p>
<p>Someone on Twitter said that Albert Haynesworth (overweight football player) needed to give Angelina 25 pounds.</p>
<p>My DH rarely notices this kind of thing, but he commented about Angelina’s twig arms. I like toned arms like Viola Davis has, so A’s looked really awful to me.</p>
<p>The sound problems were bad and really unacceptable for such a high profile show. You’d think they would have the absolute best working on this show.</p>
<p>Crystal did the best he could, but like most of the movies this year, it was just kind of “meh”.</p>
<p>Chrystal should have stopped while he was ahead. Now, he is just one of many in a long line of lackluster hosts. Everything was predictable and very dated.</p>
<p>Okay, I thought I was seeing too much of J-Lo. Hideous dress. It’s one thing to be proud of your curves. It’s another to choose a dress that adds volume to your curves.</p>
<p>Yes, pretty dull show. I thought Billy Crystal was fine. </p>
<p>I love reading the takes on the dresses the next day, because lots end up on both the worst and the best lists.</p>
<p>Speaking of Angelina Jolie, her “pose” at the podium obviously designed to show off her skinny leg made me a little embarrassed for her. Later, another Oscar winner made fun of her when he got onto the stage and repeated the pose.</p>
<p>I will say that throughout this entire awards season, I have not seen a single clip from *Bridesmaids *that makes me want to see it.</p>
<p>It was a big disappointment to me and I have no problem with gross-out and stupid humor. It was just not funny and kinda sad really. Very overrated.
I liked Angie and her pose. If you got it and she has it. 10 more pounds would not hurt though. It is Hollywood afterall–not the school board election.</p>
<p>There were parts of Bridesmaids that I thought were very funny. They don’t show any of them in clips though.</p>
<p>Watched the show in fifteen minutes on the DVR. H controlled the fast forward(FF)
FF…FF…FF until J Lo’s dress and suspicious “areas” FF…FF…FF “check out G Clooneys fake girlfriend!”, FF…FF…FF…see who wins Costume Design FF…FF…FF “OMG whats with A Jolies arms?!” FF…FF…FF Look, Marty Scorcese’s daughter is as bored as we are! FF…FF…FF “Honey, lets check out this guys French accent”. FF…FF…FF END.</p>
<p>You didn’t slow down for the Cirque show?</p>
<p>I wouldnt cross the street for a Cirque show. Not my cup of tea.</p>
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<p>I didn’t have a problem with it from a “it’s not the school board election” standpoint. It just looked so forced and pathetic-she used to be such a total siren, but now that she’s become border line emaciated, it just seemed like a desperate plea for attention, and thus, quite sad. I don’t know what’s going on with her, but she no longer has that fire and passion to her persona that she used to.</p>
<p>I loved Bridesmaids but I freely admit that my favorite movie genre is stupid funny. I get no points for culture when I rattle off my list of Top 10 movies…</p>
<p>And I did comment to DH about someone’s great arms later in the show. Too bad I can’t remember who it was…oh wait, it was Robin Roberts during the red carpet pre-show.</p>