The OscarsFollow

Anyone watch them?

I watched some. Kate Blanchette's dress was my favorite.

The Kings Speech was the big winner. It was a good movie....was it that good? Well I guess it's all relative.

I was surprised True Grit, with ten nominations, didn't win a single award.





Edited, Feb 28th 2011 5:38pm by Elinda

I blame Varus. It's all about the Pres.

My girlfriend was watching it; I was semi-dozing when it started. I was conscious enough to hear the Best Supporting Actress winner's semi-crazed speech, and to hear The King's Speech win Best Original Screenplay (which I figured made it a guarantee to also win Best Picture), then immediately fell asleep. I loathe awards shows.

Edited, Feb 28th 2011 1:46pm by Eske

My response to every year's Oscar/golden globe/emmy/grammy/etc. award show:

"That was last night? Whatever."

Didn't watch the Oscars, but ran into them, so to speak. Some friends and I went to go see Rock of Ages at the Pantages Saturday night. Had no clue when we bought the tickets that it was the night before the Oscars (which in retrospect explains why it was so hard to buy decent seats). There were a hell of a lot of limos parked out front, and they were already cordoning off sections of Hollywood south of Hollywood and North of Sunset when the show got out. Didn't stick around to see who was getting into them, partly because that's not my thing at all, but mostly because it was freaking freezing.

It did make our breakfast plans "interesting", since our big plan was to go to The Griddle for ridiculous pancake yummyness. Our brilliant plan of staying at a hotel near Universal and taking the metro to/from the theater worked fine (aside from the bitter cold on the walk back up the hill), but it wasn't so great for driving to/from our designated yummy breakfast spot. Had to skirt the blocked off area along Hollywood to get to The Griddle, then drove right past the southern section along Sunset to try to get back to the 101 and back home. Along the way, we saw a major accident (someone drove their sports car literally *over* a motorcycle, always good for traffic). After waiting for the ambulance to clear out in front of us, we got down to Vine and hear another siren coming from behind us (and traffic scattering). Strangest firetruck ever. It was black and said "Bomb Squad" on the side. Apparently, they take security semi-seriously or something...

Was a fun weekend. Would have rather not had to deal with Oscar craziness though. As to the Oscars themselves? Meh!

I've never heard of anything or anyone discussed in this thread, except I guess Natalie Portman.

...seriously? In southern California? No.

I was a bit disappointed that Despicable Me didn't get a nomination.

Agreed. It just lacked both the star power and the franchise.

It was below freezing on Saturday night. One of the women in our group is from New York, and regularly travels back to visit family (and is a big theater goer). She was wearing a heavy coat, gloves, and a scarf. Since I live in Southern California and don't own those things, I think I can safely say that it was bitter cold. To me, anyway. :)

Oh. Forgot. About a half block along the way, she pulled one of those woven cap thingies out of her purse and put it on to keep her ears warm.

Edited, Mar 1st 2011 1:28pm by gbaji

Helen Mirren speaking French made my pants tight.

Correct! Anything under 60 is bitter cold. :)

Edited, Mar 1st 2011 6:52pm by gbaji

Those are called "ice cubes" and we're smart enough to keep them confined to our drinks with the umbrellas on them!