Oscars 2017 - Big F

It was flat from the very beginning! The fail started with the mic-throw by Timberlake. Should've clonked Kimmel to liven it up! :mrgreen:


Big F for FLAT

Big F for FAKE WIN

Big F for FAIL

The ending was awesome.

Karma can be a beautiful bitch, eh? LOL

Are those things ever any good?

Erod said:

The ending was awesome.

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I wouldn't know. I stopped watching after the best make-up, or a few minutes after that.

Watching Kimmel was like watching a zombie on downers.

It wasn't the Best Picture mix-up that made it a big fail. I looked forward to the opening segment.

It's the worst Oscars I've ever seen. Too dark. And dismal.

Not that I complain that there were suddenly too many people of colors that won - but it makes me wonder if it was set-up to be that way after having been accused of being racist last year.

If the Oscars can be manipulated to hand out trophies for whatever reason they deem worthwhile - it's no stretch to figure that yeah, Meryl Streep is indeed, over-rated!

This might be heresy - but I would cut all the song and dance numbers and outright schtick (like the terrible bus tour folks with their inane selfie sticks that I wanted to shove right up their ....) and simply have an awards show. In the first hour they had presented three awards. That is ridiculous.

tosca1 said:

Not that I complain that there were suddenly too many people of colors that won - but it makes me wonder if it was set-up to be that way after having been accused of being racist last year.

If the Oscars can be manipulated to hand out trophies for whatever reason they deem worthwhile - it's no stretch to figure that yeah, Meryl Streep is indeed, over-rated!

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The rules were changed making it faster and easier to get into the Academy to be eligible to vote. Previously there were lots of folks from the Fifties and Sixties voting who no longer were in the film business while people in the biz were not Academy members and could not vote. This was changed last year so that the membership of the Academy better reflecting the actual people making films today.

https://www.oscars.org/news/academy-takes-historic-action-increase-diversity

And since there were few minorities in the film industry in the Fifties and Sixties when whites dominated - and its different today - the change in nominees and awards reflected that change.

I have not watched any "awards" shows in,, Well I don't know how long... In fact..Let me test your memories.. The last "awards" show I remember watching Alice Cooper walked out on stage to present some award with a woman presenter,

She said.. Alice, would you please read the finalists names?

He said No!

Then he proceeded to tear her close off, Security ran out and he decked a couple of those guys.. Then he broke into his song "Go To Hell"

Now that was entertainment..

djl

It has become clear through several explanations that the accounting firm has TWO sets of envelopes in suitcases at either end of the stage to allow entrances from the wings. So somebody gave the second Best Actress envelope to Beatty by mistake and that is what caused the entire SNAFU.

Erod said:

The ending was awesome.

Karma can be a beautiful bitch, eh? LOL

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So I hear. Maybe the only interesting thing that has happened at an 'Oscars ceremony' in many years.

Films not longer matter. It is series, whether seen on TV or Netflix or on bought box sets, which attracts the talent. Let Hollywood cling on making idiot 'action movies for the less discerning teenagers.

I have not watched in years but I did this time, because I have seen a bunch of the movies for a change, and because I predicted that the that these clods could not resist throwing an anti rebellion/anti American fit. I am glad I did, this was deliciously entertaining, I had a great time.

Caught the mix up on the news regarding "best film".

Heard that La La Land won the popular vote, but didn't get the Oscar. Darn electoral academy awards council.:lamo

I stopped watching them at about 20-25. I stopped caring about them pretty much at about 30.

Bunch of celebrities picking up awards for films they got paid millions for whilst picking up goody bags worth 100k....

But don't worry they have plenty of advice how us normal people around the world should act, behave and vote. I'm no trump fan but getting dictated to by this lot at award shows take so the biscuit.

It turns out that the mistake may have been made because Cullinan, a managing partner at the firm and one of the accountants tasked with making sure the right names get read out on Oscar night, was busy tweeting about the show instead of carefully overseeing the envelopes, according to two knowledgeable insiders. Cullinan had been congratulating winners throughout the evening. After the wrong Best Picture winner was announced, he deleted the tweets from his Twitter account. Screengrabs reveal that Cullinan tweeted four times during the broadcast, at one point talking about the red carpet and the build-up to the broadcast, and in another instance lauding Viola Davis for her Best Supporting Actress victory speech. Three minutes before the fateful hand-off, Cullinan took a photo of Emma Stone clasping the gold statue she picked up for “La La Land.”

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PWC Envelope Handler Was Tweeting Backstage Minutes Before Oscar Gaffe | Variety


Pretty much par for the course with this current crap class of elites...they routinely fail do do their day jobs very well, having found other stuff that they would rather do.

haymarket said:

It has become clear through several explanations that the accounting firm has TWO sets of envelopes in suitcases at either end of the stage to allow entrances from the wings. So somebody gave the second Best Actress envelope to Beatty by mistake and that is what caused the entire SNAFU.

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One thing is for sure: Steve Harvey feels better! :lol:

Higgins86 said:

Bunch of celebrities picking up awards for films they got paid millions for whilst picking up goody bags worth 100k....

But don't worry they have plenty of advice how us normal people around the world should act, behave and vote. I'm no trump fan but getting dictated to by this lot at award shows take so the biscuit.

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Bunch of overrated primadonnas.

Entertain me, don't lecture me!

haymarket said:

It has become clear through several explanations that the accounting firm has TWO sets of envelopes in suitcases at either end of the stage to allow entrances from the wings. So somebody gave the second Best Actress envelope to Beatty by mistake :shock: and that is what caused the entire SNAFU.

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The "somebody" had to be a Russian mole. I mean, what better way to take the wind out of Hollywood's anti-Trump sails than to screw up its biggest party of the year? :lol:

Okay, here's my review of it from what little I'd seen:


Kimmel's jokes were as flat as a pancake on the freeway. He wanted to make fun and mock Trump, and yet he lacked the courage to really have a go at him. He didn't have the guts to be fearless.

He should've chosen a different subject - something, or someone he can really sink his teeth into. That's why he's called, TOOTHLESS!

Oscars 2017: What we learned from Jimmy Kimmel’s toothless opening monologue



This year, the Academy Awards gained some much-needed diversity when it came to its nominees, but lost the incendiary touch that Rock lent to the proceedings. Instead, we got Jimmy Kimmel, America’s obnoxious older brother just home from freshman year, who treated Hollywood and the world to a set of Borscht Belt yuks and de-fanged Trump jokes.



Instead, audiences were treated to about 10 minutes of gentle celebrity ribbing (”Mel, you look great, I think the Scientology is really working”); hammy Hollywood-is-phony standbys (Hollywood “doesn’t discriminate based on what countries people come from, we discriminate based on age and weight”); and the lightest dancing around of Donald Trump since Jimmy Fallon flatlined at the Golden Globes (“I want to say thank you to President Trump. Remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?”).

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Furthermore, not only were his jokes flat....they're quite stale too!
How many Trump jokes can we eat without wanting to puke? Everybody's doing Trump jokes on late night shows for so long now - and Kimmel's bitterness dampened what's already stale at the Oscars!

How many times are we gonna see entertainment shows being hijacked for political statement? From the Superbowl, to the Globes....and wherever there are people gathered? This Oscars had zero originality!

It was a dark Oscars, to boot!

Everybody who copy-cat playing politics, and did a drive-by shoot at the Presidency at the Oscars had turned it into a bitter angst-laden night - which was supposed to be an awards night, for crying out loud! The opera about the crying clown comes to mind.

For a night that's supposed to be celebrating movies - what we got were political sour grapes in a very thick bubble.



It's an epic fail!