So I Watched The Oscars
Mar. 3rd, 2014 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyI didn't mean to. Twitter made me do it. Well, Twitter and my desire to see Idina Menzel perform "Let It Go" live.* And I purport not to care about the Oscars, but hey, hell YEAH Frozen! Female writer/director, Disney movie about sisterly love, two strong female protagonists, and goddamn that SONG.
Also, it was really cool that 12 Years A Slave won overall even though I'll probably never bring myself to watch it,** and like the entire rest of the world I now have a crush on Lupita Nyong'o.
But mostly it kind of made me sad, seeing so many people with their faces stapled and stuffed until they just look kind of ridiculous. There's a terror there, a terror of losing what you think makes you valuable, a desperation to continue being loved the only way you know how, that's kind of heartbreaking. And the whole show was pretty empty overall, save for a few genuine moments from first-time winners (and Harrison Ford, who was all about the pizza but needed a napkin). So yeah, don't think I'll be watching it next year even WITH the lure of Rifftrax livetweeting it.
Important Fashion Observation: What's with all the plunging necklines that make the dresses look like they're falling off people's shoulders? The fashions were actually rather pretty except for that.
*And while I mostly feel rather bad for John Travolta, props to the lightspeed response of the internet in creating multiple Twitter accounts for "Adele Dazeem" mere minutes after he garbled out that mysterious name.
**I can watch horror and sci-fi all day, but depictions of Real Life Historical Atrocities upset me too much. But I'm aware that I am extremely lucky that I can avoid upsetting things if I so choose, and want to make it so that the rest of humanity can do the same, so I guess the movies still do their job?
Also, it was really cool that 12 Years A Slave won overall even though I'll probably never bring myself to watch it,** and like the entire rest of the world I now have a crush on Lupita Nyong'o.
But mostly it kind of made me sad, seeing so many people with their faces stapled and stuffed until they just look kind of ridiculous. There's a terror there, a terror of losing what you think makes you valuable, a desperation to continue being loved the only way you know how, that's kind of heartbreaking. And the whole show was pretty empty overall, save for a few genuine moments from first-time winners (and Harrison Ford, who was all about the pizza but needed a napkin). So yeah, don't think I'll be watching it next year even WITH the lure of Rifftrax livetweeting it.
Important Fashion Observation: What's with all the plunging necklines that make the dresses look like they're falling off people's shoulders? The fashions were actually rather pretty except for that.
*And while I mostly feel rather bad for John Travolta, props to the lightspeed response of the internet in creating multiple Twitter accounts for "Adele Dazeem" mere minutes after he garbled out that mysterious name.
**I can watch horror and sci-fi all day, but depictions of Real Life Historical Atrocities upset me too much. But I'm aware that I am extremely lucky that I can avoid upsetting things if I so choose, and want to make it so that the rest of humanity can do the same, so I guess the movies still do their job?
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Date: 2014-03-04 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-05 12:22 pm (UTC)I personally do not give two shits about any of it either.
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Date: 2014-03-10 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-10 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-10 08:34 pm (UTC)And I'd say there's probably a pretty good chance that someone is watching Frozen! It's sort of obnoxiously everywhere at the moment. Er, sorry about that. ;)
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Date: 2014-03-10 09:16 pm (UTC)