Oscars tonight!!

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This is the first year I have seen most of the nominated films.. 7 out of 8... Whiplash is the only one I haven't.

We watched Birdman last night... It was ok.. better than Boyhood, but I still can't understand why people think it will beat out some of the others.. I'd give it only 3 Silver Stars.. I enjoyed The Theory or Everything, The Imagination Game, and American Sniper way way more.. and I don't know WHY UNbroken was totally ignored.. that was really a good movie..
 

Wife just read me the nominated films and we've haven't seen any of them. We are recording it, so we can fast-forward thru the commercials.
 
I think I will enjoy the Oscars more now that I have seen the films... To watch them without is like watching a two highschool football teams that you have never heard of. OK... but not as exciting.
 
I enjoy movies but watching hours of overpaid actors self congratulating each other is as thrilling to me as watching open heart surgery would be. Ain't gonna do it.
 
AZ Jim said:
I enjoy movies but watching hours of overpaid actors self congratulating each other is as thrilling to me as watching open heart surgery would be. Ain't gonna do it.
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Me either, even if they do have them on live here it wouldn't start until about 1am.
 
After all my blowing about the Oscars, my wife would like to watch them and since I strive for marital harmony, I will join her. Who knows maybe Jen Lawrence will show up drunk again and do something interesting. PS I have a large screen back here in my office too but no, harmony comes first.:)
 
Well all my shows went off and ABC is the station for my local news, so guess what I'm looking at now. Looks like they're only now just announcing some winners for actors. Dangit, shouldn't this be over b now, it's after 11:30 pm.
 
We weren't able to stay up.. why does it have to be on so late.. BUT.. I was glad to hear this morning that Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor.. He was incredible in the Theory of Everything. Birdman won Best Picture as expected... although having seen all the films.. I really don't understand it.. It was hard to follow and kind of weird.
 
I watched about half before going to bed, I thought it was somewhat sedate and serious, excluding the underwear scene, which was totally over the top, even the gowns were beautiful and classy, only saw one that showed a little too much skin and that was Jennifer Lopez's.
 
RadishRose said:
It's the last thing I'd want to watch
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me too, Radish, I would rather watch paint dry. there will be the usual actor/actress sobbing and long over emotional thank you's. you would think, that having been nominated, they would all have prepared a very short and suitable thank you speech, but no, they come over all silly at the last minute.It makes me cringe.
 
Granddaughter and I saw the "The Theory of Everything" yesterday.
I cried throughout the entire movie, then we discussed it for several hours.
At home the granddaughter looked up the background on the internet, while I put labels on the two books we had bought: " A brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking (1988), and a book written by his first wife (which had been used for the movie script).
The actor portraying Steven Hawking was brilliant and deserved the Oscar for best actor (Eddie Redmayne).
 

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