lamely bedight
The Oscars: I'd like to think Ang Lee's halting, horrible invocation of his movie's unintentional, so-oft-repeated-that-I-shan't-repeat-it-here catch-phrase was some deeply encoded jab at the 1998 telecast's James Cameron jackhole kingworld moment … but it was probably just an ill-advised stab at levity by a famously humorless director.
The ceremony itself was as dull as its supposed upset (for the last time: Crash is a preachy dud), although the slow-mo pimps-n-ho's-down during Hustle and Flow's best-song nom was predictably what-the-hell-were-they- thinking-oh-yeah-they-do-the-same-sucky-thing-every-year ho' hum. Thanks, TiVo, et cetera. Aristocrats.
(Oh, and this is offered without explanation to those who would understand it—you know who you are—but how "Liberty Van Zandt" did Terrence Howard look last night?)
The ceremony itself was as dull as its supposed upset (for the last time: Crash is a preachy dud), although the slow-mo pimps-n-ho's-down during Hustle and Flow's best-song nom was predictably what-the-hell-were-they- thinking-oh-yeah-they-do-the-same-sucky-thing-every-year ho' hum. Thanks, TiVo, et cetera. Aristocrats.
(Oh, and this is offered without explanation to those who would understand it—you know who you are—but how "Liberty Van Zandt" did Terrence Howard look last night?)
Comments
My favorite quip came from Defamer, who liveblogged the ceremony and said this:
"6:27pm: The presentation of Crash's Best Original Song nominee, complete with burning cars and multiculti couples dancing among the flames (of racism, we assume), is roughly 300% more subtle than the movie itself."
Posted by: tim | March 6, 2006 11:22 PM
Amen.
Posted by: R. | March 7, 2006 07:54 AM