87th Academy Awards/Oscars (2015) live thread

Those "reactions" were staged. The "Boobs" song did MacFarlane no favors, but I wouldn't use phony annoyance from actresses in the audience as evidence he'd ruined his chances at a second hosting gig...

 

Jerry Seinfeld doesn't seem funny to me anymore. I'd rather have Larry David. He IS funny but wouldn't get the gig.

 

Why don't they just have Jimmy Kimmel host? He's ABC's late-night guy, so it seems to make sense.

 

Seinfeld was one of the few comedians on the SNL special that appeared live that was funny. Eddie Murphy is not funny anymore. Chevy Chase is not funny anymore. Seinfeld is still funny. And yes, Larry David is funny. That is why Seinfeld was the funniest sitcom ever.

 

I honestly can't see Larry David ever agreeing to host the Oscars. No way.

 

He would never do it. It would be hilarious if he did, and probably a disaster, but he would never do it. He's writer at heart, not a live peformer. Plus he's way too jaded and sarcastic to be accepted by the Hollywood elites.

 

I can't see the Oscars asking him!

 

Maybe substitute "dumb" for "odd" ... We have a tendency, because they're rich and famous and talented, to assume that these people are also gifted with above average intelligence. In Travolta's case, maybe not so much. And we always thought that when he played Vinnie Barbarino and Tony Manero and Bud (just discovered his Urban Cowboy character never had a last name) he was acting.

 

Right.
So it's clear Travolta needs to host!

 

Bill Murray ?

 

Yes!
Nick Ocean for 4 hours please,

 

I know some of it was staged, but I also know he got beaten up quite a bit in the days following because of that song. I thought it was basically harmless myself, but I can understand how some people might think otherwise.

 

No, I'm sticking with "odd". When I've seen Travolta in interviews, he's just seen oddly disconnected and out of touch. It's not a matter of smart/dumb - it's a matter of strange!

 

Lady Gaga sings:

 

And then there's the response from this big Gaga fan

 

That was better than the show itself. Made my night.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing either Portland's own Anna Kendrick or perhaps Mindy Kaling (or both!) have a go at hosting. Anna would predictably kill on the musical numbers, and both she and Kaling are hilarious on Twitter. Might be hard to work around their busy schedules, though.

 

I saw Bill Murray at a Q&A after a screening of St. Vincent and he seemed so comfortable in his skin that I doubt he would do it. A good choice though.

 

Dame Edna

 

Dame Edna has hung up her Gladiolas.

 

Well, now I know why "American Sniper" didn't win. Just saw it. It wasn't a very good movie. Not well-structured at all. Really only one good scene: the attack during the sand storm. Otherwise, it was all over the place and felt hapzard and rushed. It would bounce back and forth between Iraq and the US without warning or explanation. It also felt really low budget. Those boot camp scenes looked like they were filmed in one afternoon at Venice Beach. Maybe this is what comes of Eastwood's reported fondness for shooting fast and moving on. It shows, Clint.

 

I'm surprised it was even nominated, and not because I think it's a bad film. It didn't win 'best picture' because of the prevailing political attitudes in Hollywood.

BTW, someone told me that its box office was greater than all of the other 'best picture' nominees' box office receipts put together.

 

You don't sound very "American"...

 

How did it get nominated in spite of "prevailing political attitudes in Hollywood?"

What's the point about the box office numbers? Pretty sure Transformers 4 made four times as much as Sniper. Should it have won best picture?

 

I don't care about politics, I just care about good filmmaking and I thought it was kinda sloppy as a film. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't Best Picture worthy. Its funny, I thought the best shot in the film was lifted from "Lawrence of Arabia." but that was a film that is structured like Swiss watch, whereas "Sniper" was all over the place. And that ending was just terribly done. what a rush job.

Was I the only one who had trouble understanding what Bradley Cooper was frequently saying in the beginning of the film? Later it showed him doing Coppenhagen dip, so I thought "That explains it. He was trying to talk with chewing tobacco under his lip!"