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Oscars 2019
Feb. 24th, 2019 11:44 pmRandom thoughts:
* Adam Lambert is not a bad interpreter of Queen's music. He's not bad at all. And yet, Q+AL doesn't feel right to me, and it probably never will. (Audience seemed to enjoy it, though.)
* Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler should be the hosts next year. But they probably don't need the grief.
* Black Panther won for costumes, score and production design, all well deserved. Michael B. Jordan should have at least been nominated.
* If Fey, Rudolph, and Poehler pass, can John Mulaney and Awkwafina host? They were adorable.
* Awright! Into the Spiderverse won best animated feature! It took huge swings, and connected almost every time. A landmark animated movie.
* For all the jokes people make about Mexican movies, Mexican directors have dominated the Oscars for most of the decade.
* Does anybody else want a Spike Lee/Barbara Streisand collaboration? (Samuel L. Jackson is a disgraced ex-cop turned Baptist minister; Mandy Patinkin is the cantor of an Orthodox Jewish synagogue. They fight crime.)
* I feel I watched all of "A Star Is Born" with that one song. I heard Sam Elliott kicked ass, but does anything in that movie top "Shallow"?
* Olivia Colman! Woooooo! I'm ambivalent about The Favourite in general, but Colman's performance makes it work.
What's especially satisfying is that it's NOT your typical Colman performance, where she's this unstoppable force of nature, and you'd better get the hell out of her way. Her Anne is extremely fragile and vulnerable while still being regal--and it's that vulnerability combined with her power that's a trap for the other characters. Very interesting.
* Sorry, Glenn. Love you. Next time?
* Even though I know Bale was better, I can live with Rami Malek. I guess.
* Green Book: the Driving Miss Daisy of 2018. Yeesh.
Some truly baffling choices mixed in with truly welcome and surprising ones. "Are you not entertained?!"
Yes, I was.
* Adam Lambert is not a bad interpreter of Queen's music. He's not bad at all. And yet, Q+AL doesn't feel right to me, and it probably never will. (Audience seemed to enjoy it, though.)
* Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler should be the hosts next year. But they probably don't need the grief.
* Black Panther won for costumes, score and production design, all well deserved. Michael B. Jordan should have at least been nominated.
* If Fey, Rudolph, and Poehler pass, can John Mulaney and Awkwafina host? They were adorable.
* Awright! Into the Spiderverse won best animated feature! It took huge swings, and connected almost every time. A landmark animated movie.
* For all the jokes people make about Mexican movies, Mexican directors have dominated the Oscars for most of the decade.
* Does anybody else want a Spike Lee/Barbara Streisand collaboration? (Samuel L. Jackson is a disgraced ex-cop turned Baptist minister; Mandy Patinkin is the cantor of an Orthodox Jewish synagogue. They fight crime.)
* I feel I watched all of "A Star Is Born" with that one song. I heard Sam Elliott kicked ass, but does anything in that movie top "Shallow"?
* Olivia Colman! Woooooo! I'm ambivalent about The Favourite in general, but Colman's performance makes it work.
What's especially satisfying is that it's NOT your typical Colman performance, where she's this unstoppable force of nature, and you'd better get the hell out of her way. Her Anne is extremely fragile and vulnerable while still being regal--and it's that vulnerability combined with her power that's a trap for the other characters. Very interesting.
* Sorry, Glenn. Love you. Next time?
* Even though I know Bale was better, I can live with Rami Malek. I guess.
* Green Book: the Driving Miss Daisy of 2018. Yeesh.
Some truly baffling choices mixed in with truly welcome and surprising ones. "Are you not entertained?!"
Yes, I was.
