The Oscars

You wasted so much time on Jimmy Kimmel being painfully unfunny. He has the LEAST amount of charisma as any Oscar host ever. His jokes are nothing but references to Oscar movies with no substance or comedic timing. Why the hell has he been invited back so many times. The show worked SO well without a host at all. Every time Jimmy Kimmel goes on stage, the pacing of the show grinds to a screeching halt.

You wasted so much time with a bunch of stupid skits that nobody wanted. "Wow look it's Jimmy Kimmel in a popular movie. How original. It's not like I've seen that exact same joke in every mediocre Oscar year".

You wasted SO MUCH TIME on random montages. This one is really bizarre. Because the films included in the montages are from completely different years, completely different genres, and most of them are Disney owned properties. This adds nothing to the Oscars, it's clearly just completely unnecessary padding.

You wasted all of this time, and you STILL cut off half of the acceptance speeches.

And on top of all that, you made a joke about cutting off the visual effects artists. Even though they fix Hollywood's broken movies, get paid pennies, and often go out of business for doing so.

The Oscars is a joke and nobody cares. Just shorten the damn thing. Give out every award. Cut out the hosts. Make the Oscars a celebration of art, rather than a 3 hour long Hollywood circle jerk.

. . . of this year's Academy Awards program. There were songs. There were dances. Celebrity cameos. Jokes galore. Some of the Favorites won. Some of the Dark Horses triumphed. Half of the ten Best Picture nominees reaped a total of zero shiny statuettes between them. The remaining quintet garnered 14 top prizes, with one lucky Mega Ball winner grabbing 7 of them, and another streaming service entry notching a quartet of trophies. Who cares if a few--or even most--of the glitterati in attendance wouldn't be caught dead in an actual movie theater, despite their frequent hypocritical tributes to flicks which had drawn in the Paying Public to see "movies like they were meant to be seen." Most of we normal, regular people also would prefer to stream the latest films--or view them on free "screen-er" discs--in the comfort of our own homes, if this were an affordable option available to us. To argue otherwise would smack of "sour grapes."

Sticking to the tradition of watching the oscars the day after it airs, this installment was actually quite good. Most (if not, all) of these films that either got nominated or won were most deserving, as the films I did see out of the bunch were exceptional films. Most of the speeches were great (most notably everyone that won for best picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once) and I found the musical performances more entertaining than past Oscar ceremonies. My only gripe is that when the winners would be on their way upstage, the announcer who's giving information about the said winners was just way too quiet, and was barraged with background music, so I wasn't ever able to hear what she was saying. Jimmy Kimmel nailed it as the presenter though, making a few Will Smith jokes that seriously made me laugh out loud, and we got an appearance from cocaine bear, so honestly, win. This oscars was a win IMO, and am excited to watch these movies that were either nominated or won.

. . . is only a presenter, and NOT a nominee, after his star turn as "Keith Gill" in DUMB MONEY. I think this awards "snub" can be attributed to P. D.'s lack of conditioning, and by inference, lukewarm commitment to this role. In Real Life, Keith ran a 4:03 mile. Having personally witnessed workouts by a 3:57 four-lap dude, as well as another racer who clocked a 1:50 half in high school, I was NOT impressed or convinced by DUMB MONEY's frequent--failed--attempts to portray Keith doing interval training on his local track. My 3:57 one-time teammate would push himself through three laps under three minutes during workouts. Then, after a 60-second break, he would see how much faster than one minute he could run a fourth lap. Mr. 1:50 would run sets of a dozen training quarters, during which a younger teammate would race him all-out the final 220. None of this comes through during DUMB MONEY's scenes at the track. This is where Paul falls far short of RAGING BULL.

Haven't missed an "Oscars" telecast in many years and I must say the "95th" Academy Awards went off without a slap and Jimmy Kimmel was very funny and super as the host! True to form the show ran over and a little long the music with Lady Gaga and the moving memorial tribute by Lenny Kravitz was moving and touching. Plus the funny "Cocaine Bear" skit had you asking yourself did director and actress Elizabeth Banks trip over the bear!? Finally after many years of work Jamie Lee Curtis(my favorite scream queen 1978's "Halloween") won an Oscar a surprise for best supporting actress, yet she deserved one finally as she was respected by her peers and she gave an emotional and moving speech even thanking late acting parents legends Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis! Jamie you all won together! And then Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh win respectively for best supporting actor and best actress as both finally got their due proving that comebacks are possible and that they were not past their primes. And you guessed it "Everything, Everywhere, all at Once" wins best picture as the imaginative, transformation, dimensional, film mixed with comedy and action wrapped all in love and in the moment was to much for the academy to ignore(7 total wins for the film). In a surprise somewhat upset win it in a comeback for Brendan Fraser as he upset Austin Butler for best actor as voters went with an overweight shut in man struggling with connection over legendary Elvis, I myself liked Austin and the "Elvis" performance better, yet Fraser had a character that showed courage, and will power so it's okay that Brendan won best actor. Overall good well done show as the third time was a charm for Jimmy and it was nice to see Hollywood honor the winners who all had come backs.