Wrapping up my Oscar re-cap, here are my cringe-worthy and/or vomit inducing moments (obv Seth MacFarlane fits in there everywhere too)
1. K Stew. Honestly, wash your hair, stand up straight, pull-out if you're injured, and stop being the worst most insufferable person ever.
2. Anne Hathaway's speech--especially the beginning, "it came true," and the end, her limp attempt at a social comment that her performance in a musical would have any effect on prostitution--give me a break!
3. Ted and Mark Wahlberg--that weird Jewish bit/slur (?) and the allusion to the Roman Polanski rape at Jack Nicholson's house--seriously? terrible taste.
4. Catherine Zeta Jones lipsync--I mean, who's idea was it to have J Hud follow her? Brutal. If you're going to force us to sit through musical performances at the Oscars, at least make them live!
5. The Jaws music playing people off, especially when it cut that man off who tried to talk about the Special FX company going bankrupt etc--bad taste.
6. Whatever Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy tried and failed to do. Seriously, what the fuck was that?
7. Renee Zellweger's squinty face and teetering body and general alienness!
8. Argo winning best picture, but I mean, that was inevitable and I'm already too bored to talk about it!
And one last one for good measure...
Disastrous sweaty hideous Quentin!
1. K Stew. Honestly, wash your hair, stand up straight, pull-out if you're injured, and stop being the worst most insufferable person ever.
2. Anne Hathaway's speech--especially the beginning, "it came true," and the end, her limp attempt at a social comment that her performance in a musical would have any effect on prostitution--give me a break!
3. Ted and Mark Wahlberg--that weird Jewish bit/slur (?) and the allusion to the Roman Polanski rape at Jack Nicholson's house--seriously? terrible taste.
And one last one for good measure...
Disastrous sweaty hideous Quentin!
Thumbs all way up! Spot on. The Rudd thing: I think there was a tech glitch and they were ad libbing, with no success.
ReplyDeletehey astrid,
ReplyDeletei usually love all the progressive and pop related things you post, but i'm pretty surprised about the way you've written about women above (k.stew and renee in particular). it strikes me as out of character for you. i don't think that because we are feminist, other women are beyond reproach. but i do think that unless the critiques of other women are based specifically on their actions(rather than based on their looks or general likeability) those criticisms are regressive.
malaika