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Why would Jessica Alba be there? She can’t act in anything unless she’s showing off her body which only means being there for her would be poinltess. I thought this years oscars wasn’t as bad as you made it out to be. Sorry to bring race into this but as an african american viewer, I couldn’t help but to be proud in finally seeing this particular award show celebrate more minorities. I loved seeing Beyonce and the rest of the dreamsgirls up there performing, it just did me proud.

I agree about the “Marty” thing. I’ve seen Good Fellas several times, too. Can I start going around the house referring to Deniro as Bobby like were friends?

People still give a shit about me?

And another thing…everyone on this board calling Scorcese “Marty”. Please…

Dude….your critique of the show was even worse than the show itself.

Oscar…here is how you can get better:

1) Keep Ellen as host for at least a couple more years. She was funnier than Chris Rock, and more modern and hip than a fossil like Billy Crystal. You’ve got a winner there….keep it.
2) Skip all the clip montages, except for the dead people. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY cares about those things, no matter what famous director “directs” them. We’re talking 10-12 minutes of time here.
3) Was it necessary for all the “best costume” nominees to be right there on stage? You alloted way more time than necessary on this “piss and snack break” award.
4) Don’t be afraid to start the music on the “honarary Oscar” award receiver. We simply can’t allow another repeat of the Italian dude / Clint Eastwood debacle. Zzzzzzz.
5) give out a good handful of awards at a pre-show or something…like the Grammies. Again, NOBODY, cares about “Best Documentary Short Film”.
6) In fact, the awards could probably be squeezed into 2 hours. An opening monologue, a few songs, the big awards, then call it a night!

This is the stupidest article I’ve ever read.

I liked the Oscars. Ellen did a great job. Better than Steve Martin or Letterman, anyway…

If i have to get anymore al gore crammed down my throat, i will puke. I want to hit the guy when he comes up there with his smug smile. I bet he is thinking “i lost the election because i suck as a human, but i will win the people over when i tell them i discovered global warming. i also coined the phrase, pardon my french. I am al gore, and i am super serial.” go home, loser.

Omg, I’m SO over Sheffield. He used to be clever - and my fave RS writer - now he’s just annoying. And no mention of Ellen or j.Hud? Nothing short of a hate crime.

That being said, winning an Oscar isn’t as career-defining as we think - The greatest Director EVER, Michael Powell, never won for some incredible films (Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, AMOLAD…), so who cares?

Does anyone remember a GOOD Oscar telecast? I didn’t think so! It’s become so common to rag on this show that ANYTHING new is bound to be slammed - Want them just to pass out the statues and nothing else? They used to do that, you know - in fact, it was a private affair at one point - Maybe they should go back to that - But then what would we have to look forward to…complaining about???

Oscars were fine…

Ellen was casual/funny(Her getting Spielberg to snap a pix of her and Eastwood was sweet!)
The “Departed” deserved all its wins(Think DiCaprio should have won Best Actor-Wahlberg-Best supporting Actor)…
Al Gore was great, witty and relevant(The Doc movie and song earned their top honors). Loved his acceptance speech…Cute.
Scorsese deserved his Oscar and how cool to have Spielberg/Lucas/Coppola handing the Golden One over to him…

Ellen was Great and she even dared to get Political…’Bout Time.

This was a Better Oscars because there was a tiny bit of Free Speech so it wasn’t the Boring Same Ole/Same Ole thank everyone under-the-sun “Speech”-they had a little freedom/ more free speech-tired of Censorship…

Withersp oon/C ruz/Paltrow looked the Best. Ben Afleck was Very Nice, too! Diaz deserves better than bland and boring –Timberlake…Diaz(talent & looks)- Rid of the albatross(Timberlake)…

More Clooney, more Cool(speaking of Nice)..
“Pans L” was Boring and Over-rated.

I swear…some people… First of all Leo is an amazing actor, and I’m not just saying that because he is sooo pretty. That was the best Oscar show I’ve ever seen-how can you hate it with Will Ferell and Jack fuckin Black singing a duet together about how the comedic clowns never win the Oscar? And although I thought it was pointless for B and J-Hud to perform their Dreamgirls songs without Jaimme and Eddie (WTF by the way?!) their performances were still fabulous. Ellen was an amazing and funny host and Scorsese cleaned up shop- I thought it was pretty damn good.
P.S. Go Green ya pessimistic haters :p

the media always trashes the oscars (and rightfully so because usually they are boring)…

however this year was very original and entertaining. the video montage to start it. then ellen (who i was skeptical going in about) was very funny. the dancers added some cool originality. the song that will ferrel sang was hilarious. robert downy jr and steve carrells intro’s were hilarious as well. The Departed (which rolling stone said deserved it but the academy wouldn’t have the balls to vote for won).

The worst part was the nominations. Pan’s Labyrinth shoulda been nominated for best picture as well as the best movie of the year CHILDREN OF MEN. Babel was good but was overrated (and not as good as ammorres perros). The Departed was the best, though, of the movies that were nominated for best film.

I agree the Oscars were awful. However, this “review” is worse. I didn’t think it was possible, but after reading this “review” I’ve come to realize there is something more life wasting than watching a 4 hour awards show. Rob Sheffield it must be a lot of fun writing for Rolling Stone at the age of 15, very impressive.

Go Wonderwall! U remind me why conservatives have fucked up this country as well as society!
As for Rob Sheffield, he’s just pissed because he couldn’t be at the Oscars scoring with some hot Hollywood chicks! Punk!

wonderwall, you are one ignorant bafoon.

Am I the only one who thinks Ellen was good? She’s not unfunny. Just because she is a lesbian doesnt mean she is a “talentless hag”. Your hate against lesbians has you blind, W0nderwall. She made the entire audience laugh. And it wasn’t fake laughter either. Did you see Jack Nicholson while she was talking about him? He was laughing his ass off!

In my opinion she was a pretty good host. Probably not the best ever, but still decent.

Do you know what the worst thing about the Oscars this year?? This top 10 list…ugh

Probably the worst thing about the oscars?? This top 10 list…..

i agree,the worst ceremony ever.
..the only parts i liked was spielberg-lucas &ford giving the award to marty.
and
jerry seinfeld was hilarious
that is how you host a ceremony
he should host it next year.
ellen should never host anything…
EVER again.

Last nights Oscars was one of the best ever. If you don’t think they were any good why the hell would you waste a big chunk of your life watching them?

WORST. OSCARS. EVER.

I’m glad this guy made fun of it. What a waste of time.

I love Jon Stewart!

hahahaha americans are so gay,
who actually cares

Martin Scorsese finally got his long-overdue Oscar. That was worth sitting through the rest of the show. That and Helen Mirren.

Ellen WAS entertaining. I don’t watch her much at all, but she was good last night. I think a lot of people automatically just think it’ll suck because of preconceived notions about Ellen. Give people a chance. At the very least, she was more entertaining than Jerry Seinfeld.
1. Pan’s Labyrinth was too plentiful in wins.
2. Eddie Murphy should have been part of the Dreamgirls performance.
3. Will Smith does keep getting robbed.
4. Dreamgirls performance = great but too long.

Yeup.

As bad as you say the Oscars were, they were FAR better than this review. Forget whether or not people agree with your opinions or not, dude, you’re not funny at all. Seriously.

yeh, it was pretty boring…

Reznor blew up the oscars

helen mirren is so hot

Start with the obvious: the oscars are an overlong, self-indulgent display of hollywood arrogance.

Move on to the contradiction: most of the audience, presenters and winners are liberals. They’re afraid of getting Dixie-Chick’d, so they make tedious, repetitive, carefully-worded-so-as-not-to- offend-middle -America mini-speeches instead of honest statements.

Why do conservatives and middle Americans watch the oscars at all if they disagree so much with hollywood politics in the first place? Why are the oscars from liberal hollywood so important to you?

Scorsese winning diminishes his stature. He’s now in the same category as Kevin Costner (Dances with No Talent), Sam Mendes (who?) and John G. Avildson (Rocky) instead of the hallowed company of Altman, Kubrick and Hitchcock (legendary directors who never won.)

The oscars are awards for awards’ sake. I have never seen many movies that have won best picture. I am not obligated to. My movie making choices have nothing to do with who won or didn’t win an oscar. Neither do the choices of most people. I’d be just as happy if Scorsese never won or if a black man had never won a best actor. Those kinds of things don’t register with me when I pick a movie to watch.

On what basis do you say “Forest Whitaker deserved to win”? That’s phony hollywood industry speak, designed to keep the movie on your mind when normally, on it’s own merits, it wouldn’t be. You want to be seen as someone who likes the “better” oscar-winning movies than the uncouth populist movies. It’s a matter of improving your shallow sense of self-worth by backing the winning team instead of the team you really want to support.

South Park spoofed the hubris of the Sundance crowd, showing a movie of gay cowboys eating pudding as an example of the kind of thing a festival and awards crowd force themselves to enjoy. Then comes Brokeback Mountain, a boring love story of two gay cowboys who might as well have spent the whole movie eating pudding, since that would have been better than what we got. I’m going against official, enforced, industry moviespeak by saying Brokeback Mountain sucked, but it did. I’m honest: I don’t force myself to like movies because it would be heresy to say I didn’t like it, because it won an award or is the hip movie to discuss on the internet and talk shows. Think for yourself.

That bitch from Dreamgirls is overrated. They just wanted the chubby girl who got rejected by American Idol her little cookie. Fuck Dreamgirls, absolute garbage. The Departed was finally the most deserving film to be nominated and win.

Bad list of reasons, dude. Off the mark. Every year the Oscars loses a little more credibility. Last year, Brokeback was by far the best movie in every way, but loses anyway. This year, while Departed was a terrific movie, it was not “Best Picture”. That goes to Babel. Eddie Murphy overlooked for Alan Arkin??? He died 10 minutes into the movie, after making a bunch of ridiculous, profane-ridden comments to a little girl. Nice. This is Oscar material??? Was it any different than his pre and post-Oscar demeanor???? Finally, how is it that one of the best pictures of the year, Pan’s Labyrinth, not only doesn’t get nominated for Best Picture, but loses in the concillation Foreign Film category? None of it makes a bit of fucking sense… I may just tune out next year.

The Oscars are a painful bore. Look at the earliest Oscar ceremonies and you’ll see all different films nominated. Now all we get is overblown artistes’ and their repetitive dumb dramas. Every now and then something else shows up, but you’d think they could at least offer a variety of different winners now and then.

camerons diaz’s fake tan was so annoying i wanted to scrape it off. ellen wasnt funny. the only silhouette thing that i liked was the departed, and how the fuck could melissa ethridge win. as dissapointing as it was depressing. the only good thing about it was that marty finally won.

Best part about the Oscars? I didn’t have to put up with that surly twat w0nderwall. His/her poor spouse/mommy.

ATLEAST THE OSCARS HAD SOME TALK BOUT GLOBAL WARMING! GO AL GORE FOR BEING THE SPOKESMAN FOR GLOBAL WARMING AT THE OSCARS! who cares what rolling stone THINKS

We find most of these comments way out of line. The only thing we agreed with was the fact that the Oscars were too long. Forrest Whittaker certainly did deserve that Oscar and Helen Mirren, also. The only person that we felt shouldn’t have gotten it was Alan Arkin. Either Eddie Murphy or Mark Wahlberg deserved it much more.
Jennifer Hudson gave a spectacular performance in DREAM GIRLS and the person who referred to her as a “fat slut” needs glasses and a little taste.
When one with no talent or intellect criticizes they don’t know what they are talking about.
As for Ellen, she was Ellen, low key and extremely funny. A different take on the Ocars than either Billy Crystal or Johnny Carson for that matter.

10. All five hundred jokes about how fast you have to read your speech, get it done fast, bitchez, stop complaining
9. beyonce and Jennifer hudson singing a christmas medley
8. George Lucas’ neck, the second coming of Jabba.
7. Celine Dion needs to die so no one can ever see an expression on her face ever again, or her pretentious shitty voice, or her caterpillar eyebrows, there should be a separate category for her alone.
6. Youtube and myspace jokes entering the oscars
5. Creepy Bald Jack
4. Beyonce having a better seat than Clint and Steven Spielberg
3. beginning with stupid interview clips like an identity theft commercial
2. Fucking copping out with Scorcese, he copied a Japanese movie, shot for shot, NO JOKE, if the show is going to be about giving people awards because its time, what about…
1. The inevitable presence of Peter O Toole in next years memorium, ASSHOLES, give it to LAWRENCE OF FUCKING ARABIA, before he turns into saharan dust.

Rob, take this to heart.
You are a moron. The last, i dunno, six oscars at least were one disaster after another. Unfunny Jon Stewart, unfunnier Whoopi, and Chris rock getting in a fight with Sean Penn… yeah those were the days. Simply because they didn’t hand out the oscars to them in their seats and make it only an hour long doesn’t make it tedious. It was nice to see some actual class. Go watch a fucking porno Rob and stop wasting people’s time.

It was actually the best Oscars in years. Last year pissed me off so bad, Brokeback really was robbed.

Ryan Gosling should have won this year, but I wanted O’Toole to win. I feel bad for him.

Someone explain to me why Little Miss Sunshine is a better film than Borat. Borat made me laugh more and harder (which was the main goal of both films), drove home a much stronger message (there are way more fucked up people in America than I thought), is a much more original film (bringing a fictional character into real life), and was much more of an “underdog” than Little Miss Sunshine, which keeps getting that label; Borat was scheduled to open in thousands of theatres nationwide but the studio scaled it down to only 835 because a poll revealed that under 25% of the country had even heard the world “Borat.” Well apparently that was bullshit, because the film opened to nearly all 4 star reviews (certainly many more than LMS got) and destroyed the expected blockbusters Santa Clause 3 and Flushed Away at the box office, and stayed at the top of the box office until Happy Feet knocked it off 3 weeks later.

And can’t we at least give Sacha Baron Cohen a nomination for Best Actor? Not only did he have the much-more challenging task of actually convincing hundreds of people he actually WAS Borat (do you think Forest Whitaker could fool even 2 people into thinking he was actually an African dictator in real life), he had to base large portions of his lines off of what his interviewees said, responses he wasn’t able to predict. And just to top it off, he spent months touring around the world, IN CHARACTER, promoting the movie.

Even though it didn’t gross the most money or get the most awards, I don’t think there is any doubt that Borat will be the most- and best-remembered film of 2006.

Marty is morphing into his mother from that scene in GoodFellas where they have dinner and borrow the knife to chop up Billy Bats…looks and sounds just like her.

those are TERRIBLE reasons… great ceremony this year

And man is Al Gore fat. The dude needs to drop 35 Lbs.

• Ellen was NOT funny.
• Biel looked so hot it blew the doors off the place (Diaz looked sorry and washed up - Timberlake couldn’t have made a better exchange)
• Downy Jr. was self effacing and perfect
• Pan’s labyrinth won way too much
• The little girl shoulda won supporting actress, not that fat slut

Wonderwall-I’m sorry Lucas has not won an oscar for a reason. Tech awards are all his movies deserve.

People need to lighten up… It was the damn oscars…Jeez

Way boring. except for Helen Mirren.

there were no movies worth going to see so I felt the oscars wouldn’t be worth watching . First time in all the years I actually didn’t watch the oscars.

Last year: Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek.

This year: A whole load of ladies who didn’t come close (except Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Hudson).

Ellen was lame. Way too “TV”.
She killed the skit with the tambourine and gospel choir, as she casually walked aimlessly around.

the worst of the whole show was ellen. even whoopi’s better than her!
im very pleased with the winners. and im glad the show ran over so the best picture and director winners wouldn’t be rushed. those are the most important! go MARTY!

They did show Spielberg a lot but I also noticed Jack Nicholson was shown a lot during the golden globes. So they pick out a legend and continually show reaction shots.

Yeah, what were those weird microblips of words, or quotes that were too fast to read? Parts of reviews?

If they’re not gonna televise the tech awards, they shouldn’t really televise any. These are the guys who don’t get credit year round, and don’t have forty awards shows in one month when they pat themselves on the back and masturbate all over each other, like the actors do.

And Rob Sheffield is bitter about all the weirdest, wrong stuff. Once again, proven to be the most obnoxious, smart-alecky nerd Rolling Stone has ever hired. If you wanna hear “Irreplacable” so bad, turn on VH1 or BET any hour of the day, and don’t be annoyed that the Oscars show had a medley of songs that were nominated FOR OSCARS.

Go watch The Hills instead Rob, that show seems to be more up your alley.

Who needs Jessica Alba’s dollahs when you got Biel’s.

Ellen wasn’t funny; she never has been. Was I the only one who noticed that they’d switch to Stephen Spielberg on every 5 shots?

While predictable, I thought it was a nice touch that Marty got the Oscar from three of the most acclaimed artists in Hollywood History; he deserved to be the fourth.

The show was too rushed, and everyone (but Marty and Forrest) were cut short. Also, there’s something wrong when Pan’s Labyrinth wins more Oscars than any other film in the best foreign language film category, yet still loses. At least they gave Alan Arkin best supporting actor.

I thought the oscars were lame too, so I when I saw this list, I got a little excited. However, the list is not funny.

The best parts of the Oscars?

No Robin Williams soul brother or Baptist preacher voices…

Robert Downey Jr. giving the special effects award and comparing them to any weeknight in the ’90s

Why not have the tech awards given out earlier in the day, instead of taking up the first 2 hours and making everyone wait? The Grammys do this.

What about the boring screenplay “insight” where they read some set-up to “Little Miss Sunshine” that says “Olive leans against a post”…yawn.

It was the Oscars. Lighten Up!

Ellen was funny. The women were hot!

And though I dislike him, Al Gore was quite entertaining.

How do you think I feel watching the Oscars as a Father of a 7 year old? The only movies I saw were Pirates, and all three Animated Movies that were nominated.

Here’s 10 better reasons.
10. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Best Actor nomination was for the wrong movie.
09. Jack Nicholson wasn’t nominated at all in Best Actor or Supporting Actor.
08. Forrest Whittaker didn’t deserve the win for Best Actor.
07. The Best Actress category was a joke once again.
06. Al Gore was there.
07. Hollywood is just too dumb. How much longer until they find supporting the fight against Global Warming uncool?
05. Steven Spielberg & Francis Ford Coppola don’t deserve to be in the same room with George “motherfucker who created the greatest film series of all motherfucking time” Lucas.
04. Tipper Gore was there, and it’s funny how she has dedicated her adult and professional life into bringing down the entertainment industry (music & film).
03. Dreamgirls was overrated and you know it.
02. Will Smith has been robbed twice now, the first for Ali and now for the Pursuit of Happyness, which you stupid liberals should read carefully: Pursuit of Happyness, not the guarantee of happiness. Fucking libs.
01. They made that stupid-ass and talentless lesbian hag Ellen Degenerate as a host, who had NOTHING funny to say. Dumb bitch.

James Brown got a huuuuge section of Michael Mann’s montage. Prolly why they didn’t put ‘im in the other one, eh?

WAR MARTY SCORSESE.