So, yeah, life isn't fair, and we've heard that many have gotten screwed over in Hollywood. Justice seems often elusive. Yet I just watched "Dallas Buyers Club" and see why Matthew McConaughey won the Best Actor Oscar. He transforms himself, his thoughts, everything is there on the screen. You also cannot imagine anyone else playing the part. The other part of justice is with Jared Leto, who turned in many solid performances in the late '90s and early 2000s before disappearing. He's back, wins the statuette, and could call it good. "Gravity" deserved its seven Oscars, and I pumped my fist when Spike Jonze won for "Her." That writing was flawless in every way: character, structure, evocation. The surprise was the shutout of "American Hustle."
I got to see the Oscars and man was it slow-going. Comic cameos from Will Farrell, Ben Stiller, or heck, Eddie Murphy would've livened this show up. Ellen DeGeneres tried her best, was sometimes funny, but what happened to wit from anyone else? What's with the dimly lit stage? Seth MacFarlane was himself and said he won't do it again, but he moved things along. The show also continued that terrible tradition of showing highlights of the Governor's Mansion party: this shortchanges the stars (they didn't even show Angelina Jolie, one of the honorees, at the Oscars) and speaks of a night the rest of us only glimpsed. We also hear how fun it was. Not classy, and these moments, and we're talking minutes here, should be added to the Oscars. Doesn't strike me as too much to ask.
I got to see the Oscars and man was it slow-going. Comic cameos from Will Farrell, Ben Stiller, or heck, Eddie Murphy would've livened this show up. Ellen DeGeneres tried her best, was sometimes funny, but what happened to wit from anyone else? What's with the dimly lit stage? Seth MacFarlane was himself and said he won't do it again, but he moved things along. The show also continued that terrible tradition of showing highlights of the Governor's Mansion party: this shortchanges the stars (they didn't even show Angelina Jolie, one of the honorees, at the Oscars) and speaks of a night the rest of us only glimpsed. We also hear how fun it was. Not classy, and these moments, and we're talking minutes here, should be added to the Oscars. Doesn't strike me as too much to ask.
