March 2, 2005

• So the Oscars has pass and Million Dollar Baby won the “big”
  awards.  I personally was rooting for the Aviator, but with all
  the momentum that M$B has been getting just weeks into the Oscars, I suppose it
  isn’t surprising for this to have happened. Congrats to the marketing
  team there.

  Chris Rock, while underused, did a decent enough job as
  host of the show. Billy Crystal still does the better job I would
  think, but Chris Rock’s jokes were funny although sometimes odd for the
  show he is in. I definitely could live without all the political jokes he put in too.

  In doing a followup to what I wrote about the apparent negativity towards the Oscars,
  the reactions coming from people, internet message boards, and even
  radio talk shows, is that they do not like the Academy Awards for
  certain reasons. These are the reasons that those people feel about the
  Oscars…

  1) They want the Oscars to cut out the technical awards (or the “small”
  awards), because they do not want to see somebody up there they don’t
  know – how shallow a reaction is that? You mean to tell me that you
  only want to see celebrities up there on stage? You have to realize
  that the people behind the scenes deserve just as much recognition for
  their hard work, and the Oscars is a chance for them to get their
  spotlight for once.

  2) The Oscars is long and boring – I suppose if they cut out all the small awards, then it will be short enough and more lively? Give me
  a break.

  3) The people doesn’t vote for the awards, so who cares? – and if the people got the chance to vote for the awards, we would get something like “White Chicks” going for best movie of the year, or “Hilary Duff”
  for best actress. That would be sooo wrong. As flawed as the Academy
  are in their choices at times, they are still more educated and more
  qualified to vote about movies than the common joe. That’s why The People’s Choice Awards exist folks, but for some reason you guys aren’t watching that are you?

  4) Nobody’s seen the best picture nominations, why should we care?
  - Well, people should go to the theaters and check out why these movies
  were nominated.  Maybe it was because they deserved to have gotten
  nominated? I’ve personally seen at least four out of five of those best movie nominations and I can see
  why they were nominated. Why is it that people think that only the big
  blockbuster
  movies should be qualified for recognition? Once again, just shallow of
  them to think so.

  5) We already have a big TV event in the Superbowl, why do we need the Oscars to draw in big numbers too?
  - First off, the Superbowl gets the biggest numbers in TV audiences
  every year, and it’s so big that no other show can get near it. 
  The Oscars this year; while getting it’s largest numbers of TV audience
  in five years, doesn’t come close to Superbowl numbers. Are Football
  fans the only people that gets a big show to watch on TV? How
  incredibly shallow and greedy is that?

  Once again, the Oscars were created for the movie industry and the
  movie enthusiasts.  If you’re not one of those two, then I can
  understand not being interested with the Academy Awards, but don’t toss
  in negative reasons as to why everybody shouldn’t watch the show.

  • 12:14 pm
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