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Re: Oscars?
Not too many surprises with the award winners.
I liked Anne Hathaway as a host, James Franco not so much. He didn't seem into it at all.
Natalie Portman is such a cute pregnant lady.
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I thought that James Franco bombed, honestly. I liked the opening video fairly well, and I loved the musical segment, but I think he looked stoned the entire time. Anne Hathaway carried the show I think, but even at that, she didn't blow me away. For some reason, I felt like a lot of the award winners, and even people being interviewed on the red carpet seemed so inarticulate. There were moments that were painful.
Also, I love Kirk Douglas, and I love that he presented, but after it started to get long, it started to get a little awkward. I wasn't really surprised at all by any of the award winners. Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Picture were a sure thing. I wish I would have done a ballot this year!
Oh, and I am sorry, but there was an abundance of ugly dresses I thought.
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I thought they were ok, and didn't last forever, which was nice.
I liked Anne Hathaway and her many costume changes. James Franco seemed really uncomfortable.
I loved Reese Witherspoon's dress, and Sandra Bullocks. I wasn't a huge fan of Natalie Portman's. I thought it looked like all of the other dresses she wore to other awards shows this year. There has got to be another way to dress a pregnant lady for an awards show.
I think it's great how Robert Downey Jr. is willing to make fun of himself. Maybe Charlie Sheen will be there in 10 years, making fun of himself.
And DH and I tied in our annual competition to see who can pick the most Oscar winners. We watch every year, and he usually wins.
I didn't see any dresses and say, "Oh, I LOVE that." I was pretty "Meh" about all of them. And I didn't love most of the hair (especially Reese Witherspoon's and Scarlett Johanssons")
I am crushing something fierce on Colin Firth. I think he is very quickly climbing the ranks on my favorite actors list.
James Franco was a weirdo aloof goober who should never have been asked to do that. Was he stoned?? I can think of 100 people who would have been better. Anne did as well as she could I think but like PP said, I wasn't blown away.
I could have done without all the trips back in time they did.
I want to see The King's Speech again.
Who invited Celine Dion??
I agree that none of the dresses were overly stunning to me. There were some I liked.
I did like Annette Benning's dress ...
Liked Amy Adams too, I'm a huge fan of that color on her:
Also, did anyone else think that Gwyneth Paltrow's singing was horrible? I didn't see the movie she sang in, but I've always been a fan of her acting and was excited to hear her sing. Very disappointing. I didn't like her as a singer. At all.
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She has done a better job at other awards shows but last night she bombed. I also thought Mandy Moore didn't sound that great.
The Kirk Douglas part made me a little squirmy. I get why they did it...it was just a bit long and uncomfy because I couldn't understand a lot of what he said. I'm just glad he was able to pronounce the winner's name well enough that she knew who she was!! (And how awkward was her speech??)
I didn't get a lot of the bits that the presenters were trying to do: Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, Roberty Downey and Jude Law..... I just did not find them funny.
The autotuned singing movie bits were stu-pid! And random. Lots of stuff they did seemed random. They could easily get that show done in way less time.
Hmm. The more I critique it all the more I realize I did NOT like most of it!
I wasn't too impressed about much last night. I thought the hosting was horrible! I am pretty sure James Franco was high, and Anne Hathaway annoyed me almost every time she spoke! Some of her dresses were horrible, like this one....
Best dressed for me: Hailee Stenfeld, Michelle Williams, (I love her hair too, so flattering on her!), Halle Berry and Amy Adams (minus her necklace)
Worst: Cate Blanchette, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Hudson, Reese Witherspoon, and Melissa Leo
Mandy Moore did sound horrible....actually all the songs were pretty bad, IMO.
I loved the guy who won for the best action short, with the big hair....best speech of the night!
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I think they both were terrible hosts, but I liked James Franco a little better, if only because he reminded me of Daniel Disario from Freaks & Geeks. Unfortunately, that's probably not a big compliment to his hosting.
I LOVED the dress that the winner of the best foreign language film wore. And Helen Mirren's dress, but I always love what she wears.
I turned it off after best animated movie. It was ackward and boring.
I didn't watch the red carpet, but I reviewed the dresses in a Yahoo gallery this morning. Nicole Kidmans dress was ugly and Reese Withersppon looked like she was wearing a bad prom dress from 1999. I really liked Mila Kunis dress, the color was really pretty on her.
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DH loved that dress! Haha. I wonder what the material looked like in person. It looks like something that wouldn't photograph well but might be pretty in person.
I HATED her hair where it looked like she had a big braid wrapped around her head.
When did Tom Hanks get so old?
DH asked if that dress was made out of plastic. :P I also hated the dresses worn by Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Melissa Leo, Annette Benning, Rhea Durham, Virginia Madsen, Florence Welch, and Maria Menunos. Wow. That is a LONG list.
I think the only ones that I really loved were Halle Berry and Hillary Swank....and a couple of the ones that Anne Hathaway wore, but I lost count after like 6 dress changes.
2.3.11: Started TTC
2.8.12:Initial b/w - Normal
3.7.12:HSG - Normal
3.8.12:S/A - Normal
Cycle #12/Month #15 - 50mg.Clomid CD5-CD9 - BFN
4.24.12: RE appointment - DX Unexplained IF
7.12 - 9.12: TTA
10.12 - 1.13: TTC Naturally
February 2013 - IUI #1 w/100 mg Clomid - 5 mil.post-wash: BFFN
March 2013 - IUI #2 w/100 mg Clomid & Trigger - ?? MY BLOG