The Oscars may not be on Comedy Central, but it’s troubling to me how the highlight of the comedy was Melissa Leo, Best Supporting Actress winner, dropping the f-bomb.
Every year I try to watch the Academy Awards, and I personally find the comedic part to be very important part during the three hours I have watch people I don’t know being awarded.
Last year’s Oscar show was not that great, but I at least the hosts, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, were funny.
Anne Hathaway is beautiful and we all grew up watching her in “The Princess Diaries,” but she really isn’t funny, unless she’s in a nude scene (which she mentioned multiple times throughout the Oscars).
It’s hard to peg co-host, James Franco. Yes, he is extremely gorgeous and I felt light headed when I found out he was playing James Dean in a movie, but could he at least have not acted so stiff up there on the stage?
Atrocious hosts aside, I did find the opening movie montage with Hathaway and Franco appearing in the nominated films and “Back to the Future.”
Besides this, the only thing I laughed at was Leo and Kirk Douglas’s jokes over Leo’s use of the f-word, but what I find most troubling is that I found a 94-year-old man, Douglas, who had just recovered from a stroke, to have been more entertaining than everybody else.
“The King’s Speech” and my personal favorite film, seemed to be the most awarded film of the night as well as “Inception,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and “the Social Network.”
While there were multiple winners, “Winter’s Bone,” “True Grit” (which I personally thought should have won Hailee Steinfeld an Oscar for best supporting actress) and “127 Hours” got robbed. I thought “127 Hours” had the most original song but the award was snatched by “Toy Story 3’s” “We Belong Together.”
In the end, 24 awards were given while those who did not win at least had the satisfaction that they were nominated.
This year was not have been a total failure. I went to bed happy that Colin Firth had won best actor, Hathaway’s mishap while announcing Sandra Bullock on stage “Flub! Drink at home” and thinking that Kirk Douglas was the man.
