February 27, 2012
skeetonmischa: It feels passe at this point to write a Oscar postmortem, but never the less, here it is. Looking back at the show, it felt like a long lost artifact from the 1990s. If you were to tell me that there was a year between 1997 and 1998 and that this was the award show from 199Smarch, I would believe you.  Billy Crystal, who at times looked like an elderly woman, represented this joyful naivety of the modern world. As he awkwardly shoe horned his Sammy Davis Jr impression into the opening number, Crystal represented a world without kids making GIFs of their favorite scene from The Hangover 2 the night it comes out. A world where going to the movies is an emotional event not necessarily crossing all of your fingers and toes, hoping that a baby won’t walk into Chronicle and cry the whole time.  Look at the montage sequence of the great movie moments….aside from a clip or two from the first Hangover film, a majority of those great movie moments came from 1940 through 1995. The dream of the 90s was alive and well in the Hollywood & Highland Center.  Jean Dujardin is this generation’s Roberto Benigni and in a year or two, Entertainment Weekly and various websites will add The Artist to their “I can’t believe this won an Oscar” columns/stories.   This is all I was trying to say y’all.

skeetonmischa:

It feels passe at this point to write a Oscar postmortem, but never the less, here it is. Looking back at the show, it felt like a long lost artifact from the 1990s. If you were to tell me that there was a year between 1997 and 1998 and that this was the award show from 199Smarch, I would believe you. 

Billy Crystal, who at times looked like an elderly woman, represented this joyful naivety of the modern world. As he awkwardly shoe horned his Sammy Davis Jr impression into the opening number, Crystal represented a world without kids making GIFs of their favorite scene from The Hangover 2 the night it comes out. A world where going to the movies is an emotional event not necessarily crossing all of your fingers and toes, hoping that a baby won’t walk into Chronicle and cry the whole time. 

Look at the montage sequence of the great movie moments….aside from a clip or two from the first Hangover film, a majority of those great movie moments came from 1940 through 1995. The dream of the 90s was alive and well in the Hollywood & Highland Center. 

Jean Dujardin is this generation’s Roberto Benigni and in a year or two, Entertainment Weekly and various websites will add The Artist to their “I can’t believe this won an Oscar” columns/stories.  

This is all I was trying to say y’all.

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  2. nightswimming said: so true about the Roberto Benigni bit
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