For me the best part was Bill Maher absolutely EVISCERATING religion. I can't remember the exact phrasing but it was something like "Your silly little gods cause too much pain." My boyfriend and I, both staunch atheists, looked at each other and began clapping.
Ah, Sean Penn. Oddly enough you're really scolding not just the Mormons and white Catholics, but millions of anti-gay marriage African-Americans and Hispanics who rushed to support Obama.
That Franco and Rogen skit was the most abominable shit I have ever seen. Who the hell greenlighted that and why isn't he on his way to the unemployment office right now?
You know, the gayest thing about the whole damn thing really has nothing at all to do w/ actual homosexuality... if, that is, we define 'gay' in the culturally popular way it's used among straight people as an insult to one another. Under that definition this series of verbal bj's was as hot, slobbery, booooooooring as hell, and G-A-Y as it has ever been (while retaining it's vapidness and top-of-the-game irrelevance).
Can we all just take a vote on two 'propositions' that I'll nominate for consideration below?? We'll call 'em nine and ten, just to make em easy to remember:
Prop 9> We collectively agree that anyone employed in the self-sucking, incestuous, masturbatory, sociopathic, over-pampered, and over-funded film business is henceforth legally banned from any and all sorts of conduct, speech, or other expressions which, whether intended or accidental, in any way praise, aggrandize, slobber over, acknowledge the accomplishemnts of, or otherwise express satisfaction or even approval of themselves OR ANY OTHER person place or thing employed by the industry, due to the fact that being served whole grain bagels with imported pink south asian lemon rind essence butter from virgin midget organic tibetan cattle, while being emotionally fanned over by a staff of sycophants all day and being famous and rich... is award in itself and you giving yourselves or those among you such attention, actors though you may think you are, somehow fails to convince us that you have souls, brains, or any room for anything within your psyche(s) besides ego.
Please indicate that you either: A) Agree or B) Are an asshole [read: just getting home from the after-orgy]
Prop 10> In the event of the passage of the above, we as a society will consider the possibility of thinking about allowing Hollywood to earn it's annual rainbow party back if the following condition is met: it begins to make films that do not suck as opposed to the two decade long process that currently passes for making movies in which an idea as empty as the atmosphere of Mars that made money in the 80's when people were still figuring out what cable was is re-packaged w/ ever-lazier, less talented staff who gobble up the repackaged ideas again, after which begins the digestion of the ideas and then the shitting them out as really bad, fecally bad, films... then gobbling up the shat-out idea again, shitting it out again, eating it up again, then vomiting that shit up... and calling it a movie. In the unlikely even that this process of regurgitation/psuedo-excuse-for-employment ceases to be horrible, we do hereby agree to consider the possible expiration of prop 9 no earlier than 1000 years from the opening date of the first good movie the film industry manages.
Please indicate whether you: A) Agree, or B) Are considering getting some auditing done as a way to really 'key yourself out'.
Why can't we all just admit that the whole damn thing is a bunch of over-compensatory d-bags pretending to be what they weren't in high school: socially acceptable... then demonstrating their inability to perform their 'craft' of make-believe by the annual futile attempt to make America believe that they all fuck!ng love each other so much they jizz themselves every time they see each other when it's so obvious that not one single person in the room either has a soul, or doesn't want to murder every other person in the room.
Let's just label them the lame group of dickheads they all are, yank their community redneck beauty pageant, and move the hell on!!! Their puffy trailer-park-girl dresses, nuevo riche tackiness, and obnoxious sense of entitlement in the face of all of them combined not having enough brain cells collectively as to be sufficient in number so that one could ball em all up and plug a gnat's asshole without leaving a fart-gap, is just, taken together, making me kinda nauseous.
Once again, we get a perfect demonstration as to why so many people hate hollywood; people like sean penn and dustin lance black just can't resist shoving it down our throats how smart and good they are and how evil and stupid "the other ones" are; just once, sean, show a little humility -- consider the fact that you may not be the smartest kid in the class.
@jonasgrumby: a perfect demonstration as to why so many people hate hollywood
Well, some people hate puppies too.
An interesting comment from someone who's spending all this attention on an industry-awards show. Possibly you can't have something "shoved down your throat" unless you first open wide and pucker up.
@HallieMarie: LOL, sorry, sorry, sorry! I should've def labeled my post NSFUIABM, to have saved you the valuable nano-seconds it took to key in those 6 characters!! You could've been using those instants learning more non-words with to further degrade your actual literacy!!! Again I apologize!!
[BTW, NSFUIABM = a new bullshit word I just invented meaning 'Not Safe For Uptight Illiterate Asshole Blog Mafiosas' FYI XOXO, A.]
@Andy Robertson: Proof read and am correcting the error 'with to further degrade... ' [read: with which to further degrade...], in the hopes that it just melts your damn blackberry-pureed brains right out your ear holes... love you, mean it. xoxo
@jonasgrumby: A message to you and all other haters: we no longer give a shit if you hate us or not. We are just taking whats ours and kicking your butts. Don't like it? Move to Iran.
@Andy Robertson: Asking for acceptance of all people and universal rights isn't egotistical, especially when coming from Black. This is an issue that many people feel extremely strongly about, and of course everyone on both sides thinks that they're right and the other is wrong. You should just as vociferously be calling John McCain an egomaniac for speaking about his views.
Both of those men won an award for making a movie about a prominent openly gay politician. Neither of their comments were out of the blue, and I thought they were very tastefully done.
This whole thing sounds like a mea culpa for the year Crash won and Brokeback got, erm, stiffed, all because the Scientologists in the Academy weren't (and aren't) down with The Gays. Coincidentally, someone's idiotic "religion" (a dolled-up pyramid scheme) got ridiculed.
No wonder the ratings for this keep going down. I'm forced to hear about politics all day long - the one time I'd like to escape is at the movies and now they just want to bring it back and throw it in my face.
Why they can't entertain me without having to give a speech about prop 8 is beyond me.
@EmersonErmine: Because it's not all about you and your entertainment. Besides, you should lay off the chips and soda and eat more vegetables. It's good for you.
@EmersonErmine: I felt the same way when Schindler'st List won all those awards. It was "Auschwitz" this and "Treblinka" that, all night long. Ugh! Enough all ready!
You're wrong about the former acting winners paying tribute to the acting nominees. It was a good idea and handled well, and came across as classy rather than bar mitzvah-maudlin. It was a sincere and earnest gesture, which takes balls in that town. I liked it.
It was one of the few things that actually demonstrated the alleged theme of the night, which was celebrating rather than watching a horse race or a bad game show. It also demonstrated, for once, that it really is an honor just being nominated.
Or it was all concocted as a way to keep Mickey Rourke from getting violent when he lost. One of those.
They're turning up at an awards presentation to promote their industry.
You, on the other hand, are taking time out of your day to offer your opinion that this particular industry's awards presentation should be done differently.
@yourfriendandneighbor: I'm with you. Then the receiving actress has to do that "hands in prayer position going from my nose toward the stage" gesture. Enough already.
@HallieMarie: I hated it as well. The awards show itself is an over-the-top celebration that I enjoy. It was too self-congratulatory for me. A clip from each nominated performance would have been plenty, IMO.
@OrneryBabe: The whole point of the Oscars is that actors and filmmakers get to be self-congratulatory once a year. It's really not the Academy's fault that 50 other award shows have popped up since theirs began, which I think is the real problem. There are too many other shows jockeying trying to piggyback on the Oscars' media exposure.
But since this is still the first and the biggest deal in Hollywood, decrying it for being self-congratulatory seems kind of silly to me.
@TheSometimesWhy: And don't forget Sarah Jessica Parker neglecting to mention Matthew Broderick at some awards show one year (Golden Globes?), to the point that she had to address it when she won the following year.
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Yay inaccurate generalizations are fun!
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But Stiller failed to be funny, completely--and his Phoenix imitation gag had already been done, much better, at the Spirit awards.
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Intentional hilarity!
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Can we all just take a vote on two 'propositions' that I'll nominate for consideration below?? We'll call 'em nine and ten, just to make em easy to remember:
Prop 9> We collectively agree that anyone employed in the self-sucking, incestuous, masturbatory, sociopathic, over-pampered, and over-funded film business is henceforth legally banned from any and all sorts of conduct, speech, or other expressions which, whether intended or accidental, in any way praise, aggrandize, slobber over, acknowledge the accomplishemnts of, or otherwise express satisfaction or even approval of themselves OR ANY OTHER person place or thing employed by the industry, due to the fact that being served whole grain bagels with imported pink south asian lemon rind essence butter from virgin midget organic tibetan cattle, while being emotionally fanned over by a staff of sycophants all day and being famous and rich... is award in itself and you giving yourselves or those among you such attention, actors though you may think you are, somehow fails to convince us that you have souls, brains, or any room for anything within your psyche(s) besides ego.
Please indicate that you either: A) Agree or B) Are an asshole [read: just getting home from the after-orgy]
Prop 10> In the event of the passage of the above, we as a society will consider the possibility of thinking about allowing Hollywood to earn it's annual rainbow party back if the following condition is met: it begins to make films that do not suck as opposed to the two decade long process that currently passes for making movies in which an idea as empty as the atmosphere of Mars that made money in the 80's when people were still figuring out what cable was is re-packaged w/ ever-lazier, less talented staff who gobble up the repackaged ideas again, after which begins the digestion of the ideas and then the shitting them out as really bad, fecally bad, films... then gobbling up the shat-out idea again, shitting it out again, eating it up again, then vomiting that shit up... and calling it a movie. In the unlikely even that this process of regurgitation/psuedo-excuse-for-employment ceases to be horrible, we do hereby agree to consider the possible expiration of prop 9 no earlier than 1000 years from the opening date of the first good movie the film industry manages.
Please indicate whether you: A) Agree, or B) Are considering getting some auditing done as a way to really 'key yourself out'.
Why can't we all just admit that the whole damn thing is a bunch of over-compensatory d-bags pretending to be what they weren't in high school: socially acceptable... then demonstrating their inability to perform their 'craft' of make-believe by the annual futile attempt to make America believe that they all fuck!ng love each other so much they jizz themselves every time they see each other when it's so obvious that not one single person in the room either has a soul, or doesn't want to murder every other person in the room.
Let's just label them the lame group of dickheads they all are, yank their community redneck beauty pageant, and move the hell on!!! Their puffy trailer-park-girl dresses, nuevo riche tackiness, and obnoxious sense of entitlement in the face of all of them combined not having enough brain cells collectively as to be sufficient in number so that one could ball em all up and plug a gnat's asshole without leaving a fart-gap, is just, taken together, making me kinda nauseous.
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Well, some people hate puppies too.
An interesting comment from someone who's spending all this attention on an industry-awards show. Possibly you can't have something "shoved down your throat" unless you first open wide and pucker up.
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TL; DR.
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[BTW, NSFUIABM = a new bullshit word I just invented meaning 'Not Safe For Uptight Illiterate Asshole Blog Mafiosas' FYI XOXO, A.]
P.S.> Go Twitter yourself, moron.
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Both of those men won an award for making a movie about a prominent openly gay politician. Neither of their comments were out of the blue, and I thought they were very tastefully done.
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Eh. It's a comment, not a blog post. Moving on....
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Note also how Penn failed to thank his gorgeous wife of however many insufferable years- robin wright penn? Odd.
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So who knows.
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Works for me.
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Why they can't entertain me without having to give a speech about prop 8 is beyond me.
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Right, because movies are nothing but a mindless "escape". Especially Oscar-nominated movies.
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It was one of the few things that actually demonstrated the alleged theme of the night, which was celebrating rather than watching a horse race or a bad game show. It also demonstrated, for once, that it really is an honor just being nominated.
Or it was all concocted as a way to keep Mickey Rourke from getting violent when he lost. One of those.
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I thought it stretched out waaaaay too long, every single time. I would have preferred the ten-second clips.
And the incessant back-patting got old quickly.
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IMHO, at first it appeared 'gimmicky' and felt like a mash-up of Top Chef's and Project Runway's (curse you Harvey Weinstein!) Judges Table.
But then Sophia appeared, and the swooning began.
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They're turning up at an awards presentation to promote their industry.
You, on the other hand, are taking time out of your day to offer your opinion that this particular industry's awards presentation should be done differently.
So who's taking things too seriously, again?
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But since this is still the first and the biggest deal in Hollywood, decrying it for being self-congratulatory seems kind of silly to me.
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She no longer has a proper name--she is now and forever just "Sean Penn's mother", by her own admission.
We won't even deal with Sean's failure to mention Robin Wright Penn...
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