Bowie 45 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Did anyone actually record the entire show? Specifically the END CREDITS? I'm desperate to find out the name of the male stage usher!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 So...did anyone notice that for the first time since 1988"The Oscar goes to..."was replaced with"And the winner is..." To paraphrase Steve Martin a few years back "I think it's really nice that they no longer say 'And the winner is...'. God forbid anyone should think of this as a competition". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davros72 1 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Davros you can not like Avatar but you cannot say it was poorly acted because that is one thing that isn't true.IMHO it was poorly acted. A few people were OK but by and large, most were very wooden. Again, IMHO. Your mileage may vary. So...did anyone notice that for the first time since 1988"The Oscar goes to..."was replaced with"And the winner is..."I didn't notice that until near the end, I think maybe just Best Picture is when I noticed. And then I just figured it was Tom Hanks just going "against order". But apparently not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Not once during or after Avatar did I ever think, Wow, the acting in this is really great. It certainly wasn't horrible, but Sam Worthington was pretty robotic and none of the other actors stuck out as unusually good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I throught Michelle Rodriguez was good, in that she didn't make me want to punch her in the face like she normally does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davros72 1 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I throught Michelle Rodriguez was good, in that she didn't make me want to punch her in the face like she normally does.LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I think the actors in Avatar put a lot of heart into their characters, which goes along way towards a good, agreeable performance. And then you have Stephen Lang's Colonel Quaritch, who is a helluva lot of fun and I think the best kick ass panto villain in years.CLEAR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Lang did a fine job. Worthington was a bit of a blank slate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Lang was so good I was rooting for him. I liked Worthington more in Terminator Salvation. Sigourney was great as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I root for Quaritch too, but I kinda suspect you're half meant to anyway. I think Worthington does a good job when he's in his avatar, but he doesn't have much to work with outside of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Lang has always been a pretty underrated actor. He did a great on-fire-in-wheelchair bit in MANHUNTER as the slimy journo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Sigourney was great as always.I thought she was bafflingly awful. Obviously acting her way through every scene.Saldana deserved an Oscar nom, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QMM 4 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Obviously acting her way through every scene.As opposed to not acting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 She should buy Acting Without Acting by Jason Alexander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 The use of underlined text without there being a link should be a bannable offense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 If you watch Curb you'd get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Obviously acting her way through every scene.As opposed to not acting?"Acting obviously"? Whatever the phrase is to suggest someone is not believable or in some way reminds you that it's not real because of some sort of unnatural performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Daniel Day Lewis suffers from the syndrome. I don't think Weaver does though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Hey, it's hard to act against green-screen. Day Lewis is very actorly, but usually his roles and films are to match. God help us if There Will Be Blood or Gangs of New York were going for natuarlism. His performance in In the Name of the Father wasn't overly actorly, fitting the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 In Gangs of New York he plays Captain Hook and in There Will Be Blood he plays Orson Wells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Orson Wells? If anything I'd say it was John Huston. And I don't get Captain Hook at all...either way, I adore both performances, and both films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 I haven't seen TWWB but he was fantastic in GONY. I think he's treated a little unfairly with those two roles and the performances he's given before (MY LEFT FOOT for instance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Orson Wells?It's Daniel Day Lewis playing Orson Wells playing Charles Foster Kane! But yeah, John Huston sorta fits too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Saldana deserved an Oscar nom, though!I thought the same. I'd have had no illusions about her winning (being up against Sandra and Meryl), but she did an outstanding job. Performance-wise, she was the heart of the film.- Uni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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