Oscar Pros and Cons
CONS
- The Oscar fashion show (awkward)
- Playing off multiple winners after only one speaker
- The sound effects choir (neat but a pointless waste of time...give that time to let the winners speak!)
- Not enough Ellen!
- Children of Men losing Cinematography (quite possibly the most groundbreaking camerawork of the decade)
- America in Film (WTF?)
- Chris Connelly's sickeningly smarmy backstage commentary
- MARTIN SCORSESE!!!!!
- The Foreign Language Film Montage
- The opening interviews with nominees by Errol Morris
- Ellen's Al Gore joke (America DID vote for him!)
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Abigail Breslin and Jaden Smith
- The Will Ferrell/Jack Black lament for comedy (hilarious!)
- Ennio Morricone's honorary Oscar acceptance speech (yes, I cried a little)
- The Al Gore/Leonardo DiCaprio bit
- Ellen gets Martin Scorsese to read her script
- Ellen gets Steven Spielberg to take a picture of her with Clint Eastwood for her MySpace, then has him take it again because it isn't centered
- Meryl Streep gamely playing along with the Anne Hathaway/Emily Blunt "Devil Wears Prada" bit by giving them an unflinchingly icy stare when they realize they "forgot her latte"
- The more laid back atmosphere
- The Dreamgirls musical medley
- Tom Hanks' priceless reaction to Chris Connelly's sickeningly smarmy backstage commentary ("You BET Chris, more FUN!")
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