Watched some of the Oscars[tm] show, tonight...

[capri0mni]

The only movie I'd seen out of the whole bunch was Happy Feet. But based on the clips they showed, the movies that looked really interesting were the "animated short films."

So here's my idea for my next life: have a pre-oscar viewing party to get together with friends and watch all the "shorts" nominations in one marathon: The animated films, the live-action fiction, and the Documentary short subject.

What do you think?

I think that would be fun, myself...

nearly 4 am. am toddling off to bed now, honest.

Comments

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I would like to see all the animated shorts. I would also like to see the live-action short that won- Palestinians and Israelis in West Side Story? Brilliant!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

And on Weekend Edition, Sunday the host did an interview with the filmmaker who did one of the nominated documentaries: Two Hands. That one sounded really good, too...

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

So, it's not at all legal, and it'll be interesting to see if it maintains til next year — oscartorrents.com — they were collecting bittorrent info for as many of the nominated movies as possible.

I got 2 of the animated shorts from them and could've gotten more stuff…

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't have dialup. Also, I'm a fuddy when it comes to stuff that's illegal.

But, while we were in the theater waiting for Happy Feet to start, we were inundated with about half an hour of non-stop commericials. I felt insulted, and couldn't help thinking that I might as well have been watching at home, on TV.

I know the theaters want to make as much money as they can, but, at least for the month or two before the Oscars, I'd love it if they went back to the old-fashioned habit of showing the nominated shorts before the feature -- and then, do small commericial breaks between them. If the theater advertised that they were doing this, I bet they'd get a higher ratio of eyeballs to advertisements, anyway, and could probably charge more for the ads they do show...

...oh, if only I ran the world!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I mean, I only have dialup... my brain couldn't decide how to phrase that before my hands started moving...