82nd Oscars - Telecast
Kirsten Stewart said the last time Horror was honored at the Oscars was The Exorcist in 1973, and then the first clip in the montage was Jaws, winner of 4 Oscars at the 1975 Oscars
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I happened to like most of the montage. But, I'm also a horror fan.
And The Shining got so much screen time compared to the other films. Not such a bad thing, IMO...hell, you even saw my site's logo backdrop in one of the scenes...so, I'm cool with it.
And The Shining got so much screen time compared to the other films. Not such a bad thing, IMO...hell, you even saw my site's logo backdrop in one of the scenes...so, I'm cool with it.
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We've been pausing this show quite a bit, so we're about 30mins behind the rest of you, but what was with the tribute to horror? I've love horror movies - it's maybe my favourite genre - but was it not a bit off-kilter showing a montage of R rated movies (with emphasis on their R rated-ness) during an Oscar telecast? Not to mention that it was a shit montage...
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Not, so far, the total trainwreck I was expecting/hoping/fearing. The big production number at the beginning was a disaster, but Martin and Baldwin had a funny opening act.
The Horror movie tribute felt like vintage Gil Cates, made even sillier by the fact that they had Kristen Stewart say that The Exorcist was the last Horror movie "on the Oscar stage" or something, when the montage showed several Oscar-winning (and nominated) Horror films that are not as old as The Exorcist.
ETA: Obviously, I wrote the top paragraph before the embarrassing dance montage. Is it too difficult to just play the music over a short montage from the movie? Really? It sounds simple enough, and people can get some sense of how the scores fit into the context of their films.
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The Horror movie tribute felt like vintage Gil Cates, made even sillier by the fact that they had Kristen Stewart say that The Exorcist was the last Horror movie "on the Oscar stage" or something, when the montage showed several Oscar-winning (and nominated) Horror films that are not as old as The Exorcist.
ETA: Obviously, I wrote the top paragraph before the embarrassing dance montage. Is it too difficult to just play the music over a short montage from the movie? Really? It sounds simple enough, and people can get some sense of how the scores fit into the context of their films.
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So far, two participants I'd never heard of Amanda Something and Somebody Pine. Oh well, I'd venture that Adam Shankman has never heard of Rainer Werner Fassbinder or Alain Resnais.
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