I enjoyed this post, thanks! Your fashion judgments are all 100% correct, but please come back and say something about the Ariana Grande puff piece! It really shouldn't go unscathed, IMHO.
I remember vowing never to watch the Oscars again in 1986 when I was angry that The Color Purple won - I was in High School and fancied myself a purist who was outraged by what I thought was Spielburg's cloying and inauthentic interpretation of the novel. I don't know if I would still feel that way, but I didn't ever go back to the Oscars. I've never cared about the fashion, haven't seen a movie in a theater since, I believe, 2008 (The Dark Knight.) I have no idea who has won the Oscars for the last twenty years and haven't seen any of the films. Not Barbie, not Oppenheimer. Not Poor Things.
I'm at the point where I barely know who the directors are and even fewer of the actors. And I don't care. I can't even bring myself to hate watch, so I am "second hand hate-watching." Thank you for that!
Love the piece, Ben! We, too, for the first time in several years decided to watch it from start to finish, and maybe because it started at seven (old people go to bed earlier than young people). I think it went faster than other years, and I only cringed at acceptance speeches. And are you right -- Zendaya took my breath away. And someone please explain Billie Eilish to me.
What about the bloody hand pins worn by a few of these noble souls from Hollywood venerating the death by lynching of two Israeli Jews who got lost driving in the West Bank about 25 years ago. Not venerating them. Venerating their killers. The whole Oscar thing should be shut down for this alone.
I enjoyed this post, thanks! Your fashion judgments are all 100% correct, but please come back and say something about the Ariana Grande puff piece! It really shouldn't go unscathed, IMHO.
Yes!! Completely out of touch. I criticized both parties during the Native American performance, which didn’t feel great..
I’m also getting to the point where the “Oscar buzz” has me resenting a great movie as I’m watching it for the first time.
I laughed out loud at the Will Ferrell SNL reference. I remember enjoying those skits a lot. I didn't watch the Oscars, so nothing to say about that.
I remember vowing never to watch the Oscars again in 1986 when I was angry that The Color Purple won - I was in High School and fancied myself a purist who was outraged by what I thought was Spielburg's cloying and inauthentic interpretation of the novel. I don't know if I would still feel that way, but I didn't ever go back to the Oscars. I've never cared about the fashion, haven't seen a movie in a theater since, I believe, 2008 (The Dark Knight.) I have no idea who has won the Oscars for the last twenty years and haven't seen any of the films. Not Barbie, not Oppenheimer. Not Poor Things.
I'm at the point where I barely know who the directors are and even fewer of the actors. And I don't care. I can't even bring myself to hate watch, so I am "second hand hate-watching." Thank you for that!
Didn't watch it Ben. Was at a Peter Framton concert. Thanks for letting me know what went on.
Good review! It saved me from hate-watching it!
Thank you! So glad I didn't miss anything.
Love the piece, Ben! We, too, for the first time in several years decided to watch it from start to finish, and maybe because it started at seven (old people go to bed earlier than young people). I think it went faster than other years, and I only cringed at acceptance speeches. And are you right -- Zendaya took my breath away. And someone please explain Billie Eilish to me.
Agree - time for the ‘Barbie Movie’ to go into the trash bin of history- what a mangled & weird narrative
What about the bloody hand pins worn by a few of these noble souls from Hollywood venerating the death by lynching of two Israeli Jews who got lost driving in the West Bank about 25 years ago. Not venerating them. Venerating their killers. The whole Oscar thing should be shut down for this alone.
By 'Dwayne Wade' do you mean that football player? Why was he at the Oscars? And didn't you misspell his name by spelling it correctly?