I only made it through about a half hour of last year's Academy Awards Show. I made it through more of the 2010 version.I guess long gone are the days I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Academy Awards. Seeing lots of movie stars, still alive, from the Golden Era. It used to seem as if you were watching something special.
Somehow the Academy Awards seems cheapened.
I like Neil Patrick Harris. I thought he was a really good host on the Emmy Awards. Or was it the Tony Awards? Whatever it was he was good. But, the opening, last night, with NPH singing a really bad song had nothing going for it. Off to a bad start.
Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin's opening bit went on and on and was intermittently funny.
The deal, at the start, of lining up everyone nominated for Best Actor and, was just weird.
Having just been appalled at how the Canadians had tackied up the Olympics Closing Ceremony, not long into watching last night I was thinking it's like an Academy Awards Show produced in Canada. It just seemed off. And not as amusing as those trying to be amusing thought they were.
And then, in the part where tribute is paid to those who died in the past year, to leave out both Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur, well that is just wrong, as is the spinning the Academy Award producers were doing today to try and excuse the mistake.
No mention of Farrah, but a long special tribute to John Hughes, including hearing from several of those he made famous, like Matthew Broderick and Macaulay Culkin. Some of those kids have not aged at all well. Ally Sheedy. What is she now? 60?
There seemed to be a lot of mistakes. The sound mix was off. At times the audience sounded quiet, as in, you knew they were clapping, but you could only hear a muffled noise.
All in all, not a good show, not good at all. Or so it seemed to me.
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