81st Academy Awards - It's Slumdogs night!

Ah, Jessica Biel looks beautiful (her hair does it for me there), even if the dress was terrible.

Banjo wrote:
CosmoKramer wrote:
Banjo wrote:These feeds are getting really erratic. Thankfully it's just cut out on that bitch Beacham.

What did she actually say?

No idea. It cut out on her.

What did she say about Jackman earlier?

CosmoKramer wrote:Why not just make 10 more knobish and make 10 the highest?

But his knobbishness goes up to 11.

Getting Stephanie Beacham to comment on the Oscars is like asking Jamie Pollock to comment on the World Cup.

This Pineapple Express bit is really good. :lol:

strawberry float this, BBC won't update and streams are erratic; I'm going to bed.

Banjo wrote:This Pineapple Express bit is really good.

Indeed. James Franco should do more comedy, as he's not been great is most of his serious roles.

Corazon de Leon

Must have been a massive moment for that German chap. Four years on a fourteen minute film. Well done to him.

And I liked the Pineapple Express bit, I'm a fan of the film and I love Rogen and Apatow.

Having never watched the Oscars before, I hadn't realised it was such a ridiculous affair! :lol:

Suffice to say, I was not expecting to hear Jackman sing...

Now I wait to hear Beacham's pointless bitchy comment.

Come on Heath Ledger!

Admittedly, part of me wants him to win because of his untimely death (and being overlooked for Brokeback), but it was also a great performance.

Parksey wrote:Come on Heath Ledger!

Admittedly, part of me wants him to win because of his untimely death (and being overlooked for Brokeback), but it was also a great performance.

Same. Thank god it was a terrific performance, otherwise I would've been outraged that they'd give the award to a lackluster performance.

Corazon de Leon

Impressive. That was a gimme, although I am glad that he won it.

I wonder if Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie really were that moved by Ledger's family's speech. An audience of actors with cameras on them, and you never know what's a true response.

Very glad he won, even if I think it would have been a much tighter contest if he'd still been alive (if he'd even been nominated, as TDK was locked out of all the other major awards). Josh Brolin or Michael Shannon would probably have pipped him.

I wasn't too fond of everyone was going on about how all his films were great, he appeared in an awfully large amount of dross. He had great unrealised potential that was witnessed in Brokeback Mountain and TDK but to champion all his work is quite the overstatement.

Banjo wrote:I wasn't too fond of everyone was going on about how all his films were great, he appeared in an awfully large amount of dross. He had great unrealised potential that was witnessed in Brokeback Mountain and TDK but to champion all his work is quite the overstatement.

Yeah, he wasn't blemish free. I remember watching Sin Eater and thought it was mediocre at best.

But, overall, his catalogue of work and his range of roles was quite something for a 28 year old, even if some of the quality was variable. Brokeback and TDK will always be, far and away, his peak though. Once his death is years old, then I don't think people will look back at, say, The Patriot or Ned Kelly much.

Who knows how he would have progressed had he lived? He could have been a multi-Oscar winner, or might have faded into osbcurity. It's limitless (and slightly pointless) to speculate.

Corazon de Leon

That guy presenting the documentary award was clearly very bitter about not being nominated. And of course Stephanie Beacham loved him. :lol:

Parksey wrote:
Banjo wrote:I wasn't too fond of everyone was going on about how all his films were great, he appeared in an awfully large amount of dross. He had great unrealised potential that was witnessed in Brokeback Mountain and TDK but to champion all his work is quite the overstatement.

Yeah, he wasn't blemish free. I remember watching Sin Eater and thought it was mediocre at best.

But, overall, his catalogue of work and his range of roles was quite something for a 28 year old, even if some of the quality was variable.

Who knows how he would have progressed had he lived? He could have been a multi-Oscar winner, or might have faded into osbcurity. It's limitless (and slightly pointless) to speculate.

That's what made his death tragic to me, there was great hope for him in the future, he was only just beginning to star in truly excellent roles.

Corazon de Leon

Another gimme, but I genuinely think that of those 3 films, Iron Man was the best looking one.

Corazon wrote:Another gimme, but I genuinely think that of those 3 films, Iron Man was the best looking one.

I'm a fan of all three of those, but I thought Button looked absolutely gorgeous.

The scene where they are boating in the Keys and the Apollo mission launches. Magic.

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