The early ratings for last night's Oscars indicate that the telecast may have racked up its best numbers since 2007, according to Deadline. Which is good news for Seth MacFarlane, especially�if you ignore that the biggest viewership increase came after The Walking Dead�ended on AMC and that six of the nine Best Picture nominees had done more than $100 million at the box office. �Otherwise, what do you really remember �for last night's telecast besides Jennifer Lawrence's face plant, the Jaws play-off theme (which was funny exactly once) �and the steamed look on Ben Affleck's mug when he came out on stage after MacFarlane's Gigli remark?
And that brings me to my first Oscars recap observation:
1. Was everybody in the Dolby Theater on Ablixa?� Beginning with the show's weirdly cold opening, the telecast was devoid of the emotional highs and lows, pomp and circumstance that the Oscars used to have and haven't had for a few years. During the Movieline liveblog, I wondered if Harvey Weinstein had gotten Trazodone added to the Academy Awards gift bag, but I now think the Side Effects antidepressant reference is more appropriate, which is exactly what the Oscars telecast was: exceedingly appropriate. Even MacFarlane's most out-there insults seemed even-keeled. New York Magazine slammed MacFarlane for being sexist, but I thought his bigger sins were being mediocre and cold. It's as if the digital revolution didn't just rewrite the way the film industry makes and releases movies, it reduced the way Hollywood generates excitement into a kind of binary code. �Everything's either a 1 or a 0. That's �what last night felt like, and the only time I felt some…
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