Post-Oscar Thoughts

WAS IT ME OR....

Wasn't that opening pretty cool?

Yeah I know we all hate him, but isn't that Michael Bay/Verizon commercial kind of funny?

Didn't you miss Billy Crystal acting out scenes from all the Best Picture nominees?

…And wouldn't he have had a lot of good material for that this year?

Didn't you just know Jon Stewart would start off joking about the writer's strike?

Wasn't it impressive he was somehow able to wring a Hillary Clinton joke out of Julie's Christie's performance in Away From Her?


Were you not the least bit surprised to see Jack Nicholson seated where he was?

Were you also looking at your watch counting down the minutes until Stewart joked about all the women Nicholson's slept with?

Wasn't Stewart's monologue really good?

Weren't Anne Hathaway's reactions to Steve Carell great?

Were you a little disappointed to discover it was still impossible to avoid Miley Cyrus, even at The Academy Awards?

…and isn't her voice REALLY annoying?

Are you getting as sick of Katherine Heigl as I am?

Isn't it surreal, but pretty cool, to see The Rock presenting an Academy Award?

Do all the songs nominated for "Best Original Song" ALWAYS sound much sillier when they're actually performed on the show?

Doesn't Amy Adams have a surprisingly good singing voice?

And how many A-List actresses would actually go out and perform the nominated song(s) in their film...TWICE!?

Wasn't it incredibly difficult to remember who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar last year?

And what does that say about Alan Arkin's performance in Little Miss Sunshine?

Wasn't there legitimate doubt and suspense as to who would win Best Supporting Actress?

…and isn't there every year in that category?

Isn't Tilda Swinton kind of scary looking?

Wasn't it awesome that she mentioned George Clooney's performance in Batman and Robin in her acceptance speech?

Isn't it great that NO ONE will let him forget about it?

Doesn't it say a lot about him (mostly positive) that he's the first to laugh at himself for it?

Will DVD sales of that movie increase now?

Did we really need to be reminded of the nightmare that was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Oscar win?

Didn't Hal Holbrook and Tom Wilkinson look the most impressive at in those 30-second clips for Best Supporting Actor even though neither had a real shot at winning?

Was everyone relieved they GOT AT LEAST ONE RIGHT on their Oscar scorecard when Bardem won?

Wasn't it weird seeing Bardem WITHOUT that "Dora The Explorer" haircut?

Was I the ONLY PERSON who didn't find Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill's Halle Berry/Judi Dench routine funny?

…and wasn't it nearly at the maturity level of David Letterman's Oprah/Uma debacle?

Have you ever seen anyone shake as much as Marion Cotillard after her name was announced?

Was she the only person in more shock that she won than we were?

Even though she's probably deserving, don't you get the impression that years from now NO ONE will remember who was named Best Actress this year?

Should we call that The ROBERTO BEGNINI SYNDROME?

…and doesn't that, in retrospect, make it a boring and uneventful choice?

Doesn't Jessica Alba look a million times BETTER pregnant?

Do they always have the hottest actresses hand out awards at the Scientific and Technical Awards luncheon as a cruel joke?

Doesn't it seem wrong that Owen Wilson is given the dubious honor of handing out the shittiest awards every year?

Is there a TALLER woman on Earth than Nicole Kidman?

Did anyone know who that Honorary Oscar recipient was?

…and didn't they do him no favors at all with such an abbreviated, half-hearted video package?

Did The Bourne Ultimatum clean up in the technical categories or what?

Weren't Josh Brolin and James MacEvoy surprisingly funny, without trying to be?

Didn't that Best Picture montage point out some really undeserving winners?

Did you cringe when they landed on How Green Was My Valley? for 1941?

Doesn't Rocky seem like a pretty stupid choice for Best Picture now? (sorry, but it does)

Didn't the whole package highlight the Academy's bias toward epic period films?

…and did that get the cast of Atonement's hopes up?

Is Amy Adams officially this show's MVP?

Didn't Kristen Chenoweth do a terrific job with that song?

Wasn't "Falling Slowly" from Once BY FAR the best choice for Original Song?

…and the only one that sounded like a real song, not a Broadway showtune?

Weren't you thrilled that Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won? (and I haven't even seen the film!)

Wasn't it the only victory (besides Cotillard's) that had a special feeling to it?

Wasn't Stewart calling Hansard "arrogant" hilarious?

Wasn't it cool that he had Irglova come back on and give her acceptance speech?

…and wasn't it great that she responded by giving one of the few speeches of genuine substance?

Was there any doubt who was winning the death applause-o-meter this year?

Will they ever finally get the clue that it isn't a popularity contest and turn off the audio in the theater during that montage?

Um…where was Brad Renfro?!

How sad and shocking is it that Bob Clark passed away this year?

Isn't A Christmas Story one of the best films to NOT be nominated for Best Picture?

Wouldn't it have been a better choice than a lot of the films featured in that Best Picture montage?

Isn't "cinematography" a pretty difficult word to pronounce?

Can't Cameron Diaz pronounce it any damn way she pleases looking like that?

How many worst dressed lists will Diablo Cody make?

Isn't that some pretty mean ink on her arm?

Wasn't her acceptance speech surprisingly (disappointingly) restrained?

Didn't Ellen Page look like a deer caught in headlights the entire night?

…and wouldn't you if you had that much hype thrown at you these past couple of months?

Isn't it probably BETTER FOR HER that she didn't win?

Is there a better public speaker than Daniel Day-Lewis?

Must it be great to make a movie once every five years and win a Best Actor Oscar?

Were Joel and Ethan Coen not the least bit surprised they won?

Wasn't that a quick 5 hours?