Conan O'Brien was doing such a good job putting on a good Oscars show -- along with the show's producers, who embraced the gaudy nonsense that the show should embrace, but more on that in a second -- that it wasn't until its second half that I realized I didn't give a shit about any of the movies or people winning the prizes. That they held off my annual Oscar annoyance and bitterness that long is an incredible feat! There are a couple of winners -- Flow for Best Animated film, Daniel Blumberg's incredible score for The Brutalist, No Other Land for Doc, and I'm Still Here for International Film -- that make me very happy. Several others are fine. But when you're as meh as I am about every single one of the top prize winners? Keiran Culkin is the only performance of the four acting winners I really like, but I could name twenty people I'd have handed that statue to over him including three of the other people actually nominated against him (I haven't been able to bring myself to watch The Apprentice yet). And I admit I need to re-watch Anora -- I have only seen it once at NYFF in the fall -- but y'all know...
When Conan made the joke about Anora using “the f word” 479 times I thought maybe we were gonna get a joke about its rampant homophobia for a second, haha silly me
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
... my repeatedly-expressed feelings there. And while I quite like The Brutalist I'm of the mind (apparently very very lonely of that mind) that Brody and Jones are its weakest aspects. (And JFC Brody's speech was insufferable proof that he remains insufferable.)
I was expecting this to pop up in the middle of that speech
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Anyway I loved the production of the show, which embraced the hokey dance numbers of the past, and which really let -- for its first half anyway -- the nominees in all the craft cateegories get their due. Until they decided things were running too long and started cutting people off -- as soon as they start doing that I start getting tense and annoyed and the entire mood shifts. And then I started noticing that I wasn't liking the winners and yadda yadda Mikey Madison beat Demi and I was done. Y'all have thoughts?
Robbed
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) March 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I can't believe the film where [f-slur] ass bitch is a running joke won Best Original Screenplay. Over The Substance to boot.
These Oscars just sucked except for I'm Still Here and Conclave's International Picture and Adapted Screenplay wins.
My heart broke for Demi!!
Why in God’s name is Timmy dating that Jenner girl?
I truly thought this was going to be Demi's night.
Timmy looked hotter at the Vanity Fair party fyi
Honestly i bought that Anora, a roughneck girl from Brighton Beach would not use the kindest, correct words. Im shocked that she didnt say more slurs to be honest.
I agree, I was taken a back by it for sure (I hate hearing that word in any context) but a sex worker in New York who only sees men as people who wanna use her body, and when one doesn’t calls them that seems quite on point with the character, but I don’t know any NY sex workers so I can’t say.
The Oscar’s have always been a popularity contest. I stopped watching them decades ago.
As I've said before I don't entirely buy that in 2024 a girl from Brooklyn would be screaming "fag" around, but even if she would be my problem then becomes I hate Ani. And I really don't think the movie doesn't want me to hate Ani. Which makes me think the movie doesn't think of me as a viewer at all. And then the movie alienates me further. And then from there I see piles of people falling in love with Ani and I'm like WTF? People calling her "brash but loveable" -- fuck no? I'm fine with "complicated characters" but the movie doesn't really wrestle with Ani being as "complicated" as this makes her. She's a real asshole and so I stop caring about her and the movie and I peace out. It's not for me.
Guy Pierce shoulda won. I hated the Brutalist but he was outstanding. No Other Land winning was a great moment. And I loved Anora. A great character arc for MM.
Of all the virtue signaling Hollywood can do, which is a lot of virtue signaling, those stupid lapel pins were driving me mad.
The Academy Awards is major studios awarding each other a gold statue. It's all subjective.
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