Tu_triky wrote:

Somebody needs to oil his rusty innards cuz he ain't looking so hot these days. "Thank the Maker! This oil bath is going to feel so good! I have such a bad case of dust contamination."

LOL.

bmwracer wrote:

LOL.

Sorry, man. I am a nerd.

Tu_triky wrote:

Sorry, man. I am a nerd.

Nah... I was thinking the same, but I wanted to let someone else chime in.

bmwracer wrote:

Nah... I was thinking the same, but I wanted to let someone else chime in.

Funny thing is I've hiked there at Runyon Canyon dozens of times in the past...I've never seen anything so interesting as C3P0...just a bunch of dogs but there have been a lot of fine women too.

If I was there I would have tipped the statute over into the gorge and yelled FREEDOM like in Braveheart.

Tu_triky wrote:

If I was there I would have tipped the statute over into the gorge and yelled FREEDOM like in Braveheart.

bmwracer wrote:

Me --->

Did anyone watch?

I didn't watch a single minute.

bmwracer wrote:

Did anyone watch? I didn't watch a single minute.

I watched some of it.
I was greatly surprised to see the movie Avatar not win much, and that
Hurt Locker movie won most of it all.

qilver wrote:

I watched some of it. I was greatly surprised to see the movie Avatar not win much, and that Hurt Locker movie won most of it all.

I saw the results on the news... Not surprised, really: the blockbusters seem to always get shut out of the major awards.

bmwracer wrote:

Did anyone watch? I didn't watch a single minute.

Well I was actually surprised to be able to watch the Academy Awards at all this year. Cablevison and ABC or its' parent company Disney had a big financial spat over who owed who money and ABC was pulled completely off the air for Cablevision customers in NY, NJ and CT on Saturday March 7th at midnight. Cablevsion somehow decided to restore ABC at 8:43 PM ET on Sunday night, with no advance announcement, eventhough the Academy Awards started at 8:00 PM ET. Or did it start at 8:30 PM ET, who knows? The whole thing was strange. I just happened to turn on my TV at 9:15 PM and was able to watch most the the award show.

I had a feeling Mo'nique was going to win for Best Supporting Actress in "Precious" so I wanted to see that and I did. I also thought that Katherine Bigelow was going to be the first female director to win for " The Hurt Locker" so I got to witness that too.

I do think the set director should have been a little less creative and more practical by not putting all the stairs on the stage that the presenters had to walk down without any handrails.

I mute out most of the acceptance speeches because most of them are boring!

Enna wrote:

I mute out most of the acceptance speeches because most of them are boring!

Yeah, most of them do get a little tiring and redundant.

Enna wrote:

Well I was actually surprised to be able to watch the Academy Awards at all this year. Cablevison and ABC or its' parent company Disney had a big financial spat over who owed who money and ABC was pulled completely off the air for Cablevision customers in NY, NJ and CT on Saturday March 7th at midnight. Cablevsion somehow decided to restore ABC at 8:43 PM ET on Sunday night, with no advance announcement, eventhough the Academy Awards started at 8:00 PM ET. Or did it start at 8:30 PM ET, who knows? The whole thing was strange. I just happened to turn on my TV at 9:15 PM and was able to watch most the the award show. I had a feeling Mo'nique was going to win for Best Supporting Actress in "Precious" so I wanted to see that and I did. I also thought that Katherine Bigelow was going to be the first female director to win for " The Hurt Locker" so I got to witness that too. I do think the set director should have been a little less creative and more practical by not putting all the stairs on the stage that the presenters had to walk down without any handrails. I mute out most of the acceptance speeches because most of them are boring!

You are a pro, Enna. You got the whole viewing experience down to a science.

I thought it was a bit ridiculous how they did an interpretive dance number to the score of The Hurt Locker....

Anyone watching this?

bmwracer wrote:

Anyone watching this?

I was going to, but since I wasn't nominated for anything (again) I decided to pass.

gaijinmark wrote:

I was going to, but since I wasn't nominated for anything (again) I decided to pass.

Maybe next year.

I watched! James Franco was painfully dull, you could tell Anne Hathaway was getting a wee bit desperate to compensate for his woodenness. I MISS BILLY CRYSTAL!!!!

Pretty predictable Oscarcast overall. Too bad for The Social Network. (As if the Weinsteins didn't have enough Oscars already.) At least Aaron Sorkin won for Adapted Screenplay, which he deserved.

Oh, and it was strange seeing Trent Reznor all nicely scrubbed up. So that's what he looks like beneath all that hair... So at every NIN concert hereon he'll have to be introduced as "...and the lead vocalist, Oscar-winner Trent Reznor!" Lol.

Ender's Girl wrote:

I watched!

That's one.

Can't honestly say I watched. Just bits and pieces in between watching tennis and an episode of GOU...

I did think they might have done better with Billy Crystal and Whoopie Goldberg.

James and Anne are not good at standing up in front of a large audience are they??? Boring. Back to GOU...

brad2 wrote:

Can't honestly say I watched. Just bits and pieces in between watching tennis and an episode of GOU... I did think they might have done better with Billy Crystal and Whoopie Goldberg. James and Anne are not good at standing up in front of a large audience are they??? Boring. Back to GOU...

Everybody seems to be panning James Franco's performance as one of this year's hosts.