It was a startling night at the Oscars with no clear cut winner... 3 different movies had 3 Oscars... Hell, if King Kong could have taken one more technical Oscar... it would have had the most without garnering even a nomination in the Major categories...
The big shock of the night was anything beating out Brokeback Mountain... The only shock for me was that it was Crash that did it! Crash was not a great movie... and in any other year... it would have been lost in the crowd. However... it did win. I think the split was obvious..... hopefully this year the Oscar voters will nominate some movie that people actually WATCHED during the year.
As for the show itself... it was probably the worst produced Oscar broadcast ever. The stage was cheesy, the clips were shown with no subtext or storyline for doing so, and the host was mediocre.
As per request... I am gonna talk a little about Jon Stewart.... Let me just say, I love Jon Stewart. The Daily Show is one of the most fun shows on Television and he is tremendous as the host. However...... His opening monologue simply sucked ass. I hate when they try and make fun of the stars at the start. It is pretty tired. Creativity would be nice, and Jon showed a lack of what makes him so good every night. It was almost like he was afraid to attack. I personally was looking forward to him giving fake Oscar News all night... a little take on his show... Tabloid fodderish. But.. it was mostly Jon Stewart trying to be Billy Crystal.... and the world is SICK TO DEATH of Billy Crystal and an imitation we simply don't need.
Barbara Walter's special was great this year... I have NO idea why they would move it from the front of the Oscar Broadcast to the Wednesday before... It was in the perfect spot... breaking up the Red Carpet interview parade with some real in depth interviews made the production have more of a professional feel. I really missed it being directly before.
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