Some Variety readers post-Oscar comments... I think everyone finally realized what a bad film American Hustle truly is…maybe David O Russell will stop making Jennifer Lawrence play roles that are too old for her and kill their upcoming third collaboration, coz after this embarrassment, no one will watch his movie with her anymore, or any of his movie for that matter. He is a one-trick pony with zero originality. What a crock of bologna, “American Hustle” sucked. No one in it looked the part. Jennifer Lawrence a great actress looked totally out of place. To my knowledge the Academy voters are not made up of just old white men. Plus if it was up to old white men, I doubt if they would have cared about a film like “12 Years A Slave, “The Wolf Of Wall Street” is more their speed. Jennifer Lawrence...this is reminiscent of the height of the Julia Roberts craze I was embarrassed for the Academy. The entire world looks to this event as the epitome of movie glamour and the best we can offer up is a bland daytime tv host? Gushing about twitter, selfies, pizza- it was all quite depressing. I was better dressed than her and I was in my living room. Did Samsung and Papa Johns pay for Variety’s glowing review of Ellen hosting the Oscars. The pizza bit was blatantly contrived including the pizza boy. The selfie bit was an embarrassment to the dignity of the actors who again were all aware of the moment including Samsung. It was definitely acting for Ellen but no award for the job. The folksy humility made me cringe. Robin Williams was not asked to present an award? He has proven over three decades what a good actor and comedian should be. He would not have embarassed the moments the way Ellen did in bringing pizzas or collecting tip $$ or trying to close the show before the Best Picture award. OOPS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *On a sidenote-Comic/Actor Andy Kaufman, who died 30 ys. ago, was the first comic that I ever saw do the lets bring or take the audience snacks bit. In Kaufmans case it was often milk & cookies. After shows, his willing audience members would file into buses for a late night cookie/milk rendezvous. It fit in with his loopy persona back then.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:03:22 +0000
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