So at my friend’s birthday party we watched some of the Oscars as well as some clips from Filmmaking Frenzy. The later a contest to do five minute remakes of movies to promote the new film Be Kind Rewind. I’ve heard mixed things about but will see if given an easy opportunity.
The contest winner, Beastmaster, for Filmmaking frenzy wasn’t that great in our view. The party was bored about half-way through. Die Hard was better but it was hard to hear the dialog. Another finalist, the Princess Bride, was excellent. Better than I would have expected, the sheer amount of fandom for that movie would make it too easy to just reference crowd pleasers and nothing else.
On the Oscars. I thought Jon Stewart did pretty well and was glad he brought the female singer for Once back on stage after she was cut off. That and the binocular/periscope montage was hilarious. That said, the writers strike is over, why were there so many other montages. Okay, it’s the 80th anniversary, I don’t care, stop showing us strings of 15 people giving out or getting old awards. I think I’ll resume my habit of not watching the Oscars, but it can be fun at a party.
Princess Bride was great (Oops, I watched it at work).
-bill
Posted by: Heuristics Inc. | February 25, 2008 at 05:13 PM