Gold-Plated Boredom

Movies and today's group of actors and actresses are so bad that most people don't bother with movies as much as they used to do. Most of them are only in Hollyweird because they are the children of famous people - they don't have any real talent. Broadway theatre takes acting because you only get once chance to get it right. In a movie they can stop and do 57 takes until they get it right. Not to mention all the acting and speech coaches helping them talk, people holding up cards to feed them their lines, hair stylists, make-up artists, people feeding them catered food and professional wardrobe and photographers making them look their absolute best. With all that support, ANYONE could act !! Movies today don't take much acting or intelligence which is evident when they give their acceptance speeches. Some of these people can't talk coherently without a script and embarass themselves when they try. No thanks, I'd rather watch the History channel.

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The truth is that very few people in this era of serious economic and social issues have the time or interest in who wins prizes for movie-making. They need to get the show boiled down to the awards we care to watch which could fit neatly into a half hour...

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Is it any wonder that the movies are failing to arouse interest; that they are dragging the theater and movie distribution industries down with them? Consider the tawdry content available this year, the best film, to my mind, was Juno. Consider that it was also an Independent Film dealing with a subject that many wouldn???t consider fit for public discussion, produced for just over seven million dollars, less than Daniel Day-Lewis???s salary for there will be blood.
Consider also the general lack of good content and plausible reality, in There Will be Blood, Lewis offers a portrayal so far below his stellar capacity it is disgusting, Clooney should have gotten that Oscar, but worse than Lewis???s acting was the film???s script. Does anyone really think that a person in 1900 in Eastern California could actually behave in the manner Plainview did? Now jump forward to the near past, does anyone think that a psychopathic hit man could stalk the streets of a small western town in say Nevada, Arizona or New Mexico; Perhaps Oklahoma or Texas? Not just no, but hell no! Between the Law Enforcement Types and the Armed Private Citizens, there are quite a few of them out there, he???d be shot to doll rags.
Now I???m waiting for some dummy to bludgeon another person to death with a freakin??? bowling pin; and for his public defender to attempt to excuse the crime by saying, ???He saw it in a Movie!??? ???Too Much Blood??? would have been a more fitting title, excepting Juno and too few others; nothing was worth paying money to see. Hollywood needs to rid itself of the old newspaper ethic, ???If it bleeds, it leads!??? We want plausible plots, great acting, much less blood and an end to violence for violence???s sake!

I do not know an adult that thinks movies made in the past 5-10 years are better than those made in the 90's and 80's. Movies ceased to be art and became content. Combine that with the media stalking celeberties just to relish in there downfall and you have a pretty apathetic public. There is nothing to get excited about anymore even though this year probally had the best movies in a decade. The public has found new means of entertaining themselves without relying on the insular world of Hollywood. I would much rather have another documentry like SICKO, or Inconveint Truth be made than the latest hollywood thriller to eat up more of our time and dollars; offering nothing in return but a dulled mind.

I enjoyed this year's Oscar show better than most. I liked the old clips and Stewart was funny. Lots of stars and thakfully short acceptance speeches.

Stewart's joke about watching Lawrence of Arabia on an IPhone was very funny.
The Hally Berry / Dame Judi Dench bit? Letterman never looked so good by comparison.

the show was great short and simple not people thanking everyone and everyone and crying. john stewart was great. i hope in the future that it will be more like this years, the movies were great as weill as the music.

i thought it was nice and simple and about the good movies of the year. i hope its like that every year to come. i don't want to see people crying and thanking everyone and everyone. make it simple, john stewart was great.

Tired of all the complaints. The Oscars are like anything else - if you're not a fan, don't watch them. Easy. Also, if you want to get more out of it, you might have to actually watch some of the films. All of the above posts, going on and on about how much they hated the show, are obviously not intelligent enough to a)understand Jon Stewart's sense of humor, or b) go and see movies other than "blockbusters" like Xmen, Spider Man 3, Pirates of the Carribean 87, etc. I think Jon Stewart did a great job. I still love watching the Oscars, and always will.

The ceremony was boring this year. I think Jon Stewart is hilarious, but I don't think hosting the Oscars is for him. All the winners are extremely talented actors and deserved to be recognized by the Academy. I laugh at how seriously some people take fashion. It is not life and death. The men all wear the same thing and the women are always scrutinized beyond belief! I love our society sometimes. Hopefully the show will make some changes for next year. I still enjoy watching movies, none the less.

Maybe the Oscar Awards were boring, but at least we didn't have to suffer through a "Kayne West " tribute to his suffering and quest for more than camera time. The Oscar recipients seemed very mindful of the time constraints and the fool Kayne West made of himself at the Grammy Awards.

I see this show going to cable like the Miss America pagent. Utter waste of airspace. Let's drop the filler. Go directly to giving out the awards then they'd have time for a complete list of all past hosts and deceased. Why skip anyone? Not necessary. No host needed. The announcer can announce the actors presenting. They can do jokes if they must. Seth Rogan as presenter? Good grief. I agree the lineup was brutally weak. Looks like Hollywood is just as watered down as the rest of society. Right to cable next year. PLEASE!

The Ocars were so boring this year. The first 14 minutes was nothing but jibber jabber. Give the stars more time to talk. They are the ones we want to hear from anyway. Maybe the writers were out too long and they haven't got back in the groove yet. I turned it off after 40 minutes. I kept thinking it would get more interesting, but it was not.

This years Oscars were the most boring ever! I turned the show off after the first 40 minutes. The first 14 minutes was nothing but jibber-jabber. Cut that out and let the stars talk longer. We would rather hear and see them. Maybe the writers were off too long and haven't gotten back int he groove yet.

I wouldn't call it boring, but alot of good films were left out. And it didn't have the lead off from the golden globes.

Thanks to Marion Cotillard, the Best Actress, who brought a real moment of enthusiasm to the event. She was so surprised she looked like she'd been Tazered. Very unpretentious and sweet.....