Liza Minelli.
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The Oscars are just not the same without Habsburg.
Quote from: Valmy on March 02, 2014, 07:09:13 PM
The Oscars are just not the same without Habsburg.
I miss the Habsies :weep:
The 2014 Oscars ended on 16 January for me, when the Madoka Magica movie failed to get nominated for best animated feature :cry:
In about two hours Ellen will go to her dressing room and find Liza Minelli with a half-drunk quart of vodka and a switchblade.
John Gielgud was so right about her.
When the fuck did people start wearing notch lapel tuxedos en masse? It's a fucking travesty.
I'm confused on the repeated posts about Liza Minelli. None of this seems noteworthy or a departure from her typical behavior. :P
I love Anne Hathaway's dress!
I hate Anne Hathaway's speech :bleeding: :weep:
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 08:41:57 PM
When the fuck did people start wearing notch lapel tuxedos en masse? It's a fucking travesty.
Dude, have you considered Transcendental Meditation?
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 08:41:57 PM
When the fuck did people start wearing notch lapel tuxedos en masse? It's a fucking travesty.
I wouldn't have gone with Jared Leto's white dinner jacket, but the burgundy tie and pocket square make it work.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 08:47:17 PM
I wouldn't have gone with Jared Leto's white dinner jacket, but the burgundy tie and pocket square make it work.
But I definitely wouldn't have gone with the ad hoc Ukraine and Venezuela solidarity remark. :lol:
I like Jared Leto. Can't help but feel he could make a little bit more of an effort. Always looks a bit dirty.
And a message for the 'dreamers' in Ukraine and Venezuela. 'We are here'. That'll be a relief.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 08:47:17 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 08:41:57 PM
When the fuck did people start wearing notch lapel tuxedos en masse? It's a fucking travesty.
I wouldn't have gone with Jared Leto's white dinner jacket, but the burgundy tie and pocket square make it work.
I'm actually a big fan of white dinner jackets. It's got a Casablanca/Bryan Ferry in peak Roxy Music vibe.
Amy Adams looks fucking fantastic. God she's fucking wonderful. :wub:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 08:48:35 PM
But I definitely wouldn't have gone with the ad hoc Ukraine and Venezuela solidarity remark. :lol:
Hell he got Ukraine, Venezuela, AIDS victims and single mothers. Impressive really.
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 02, 2014, 08:50:37 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 08:48:35 PM
But I definitely wouldn't have gone with the ad hoc Ukraine and Venezuela solidarity remark. :lol:
Hell he got Ukraine, Venezuela, AIDS victims and single mothers. Impressive really.
Loses points on global warming.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 08:53:15 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 02, 2014, 08:50:37 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 08:48:35 PM
But I definitely wouldn't have gone with the ad hoc Ukraine and Venezuela solidarity remark. :lol:
Hell he got Ukraine, Venezuela, AIDS victims and single mothers. Impressive really.
Loses points on global warming.
Yeah and, given his role, trans-issues :lol: :(
Just going to leave this here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/bowls/25885158
Chris Hemsworth really pulling off that slightly campy Victorian darker-than-burgundy and black tux.
Oh my God. Margot Rabbie as a brunette. Fuuuuuck.
Steve Coogan went DB! :yeah:
Portia de Rossi looks like the ridiculous lacework tablecloth on my grandparent's table when they were Mission Presidents in Birmingham, England.
This is basically an award for dressing people in period dramas. If a Brit doesn't win this I'll be livid.
I think that may be 'Jackass presents...' only nomination tonight :(
When is the Blue Tux thing going to phase out? It's really being overplayed.
Both those winners should probably have spoken before the tribute to AIDS victims.
'It's an honour to present your story.'
'Thank you, and hello Alex and Mary.'
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 09:05:55 PM
When is the Blue Tux thing going to phase out? It's really being overplayed.
I'm not keen on it. Also I hated Bradley Cooper/Gerard Butler at Wimbledon.
I'm also hoping this is the last Oscars where all the Tuxedos are 2009 Brooklyn tight. It's not flattering or elegant.
I don't think Channing Tatum's done enough to be an Oscars presenter yet. I loved 21 Jump Street....But...
It'll happen.
McConnaughey's wearing a white tux and a waistcoat :bleeding:
I'm watching True Detective but his tuxedo is also super shrunk.
I think there should probably be an English proficiency test before you're allowed to give a speech.
And Denmark takes it! Helium wins best live action short. :yeah:
Probably not the night to wear a blazer made of your nan's sofa <_<
That's a surprise.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 08:50:30 PM
I'm actually a big fan of white dinner jackets. It's got a Casablanca/Bryan Ferry in peak Roxy Music vibe.
But this is California in winter, and an evening awards ceremony no less, not New Members Night at the BHCC or martinis and baccarat at the Monte Carlo.
Shameful. :mad:
ANGELA LANSBURY!
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 09:11:44 PM
I'm also hoping this is the last Oscars where all the Tuxedos are 2009 Brooklyn tight. It's not flattering or elegant.
Tailored Fit and Slim Fitting is all the designer rage these days, with their high buttons and tapered legs.
The rest of us, well, it's still going to be 1979 Toughskins in Husky size. :mad:
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 02, 2014, 09:46:21 PM
ANGELA LANSBURY!
Piss on her. Fucking up
Seelöwe with her museum bullshit. Fuck that.
But we were robbed in best documentary and best foreign film. :weep:
I'm glad Paolo Sorrentino's won an Oscar. Not convinced it should have been for the Great Beauty.
Ellen in the white suit is a little Droogy.
Edit: Oh U2....Fuck this, I'm going for a Twix.
Wait, is that Wallace?
I'm not convinced selfies are still funny.
Also not convinced by Hemsworth's jacket :x
Not funny, but gotta display that Samsung somehow.
I'm glad there wasn't a surprise. Wonderful win :)
Jennifer Lawrence's hair looks amazing tonight. :wub:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 10:36:43 PM
Jennifer Lawrence's hair looks amazing tonight. :wub:
She's also the only person I saw actually starting to eat the pizza :wub:
Edit: Also Liza lost out in the selfie too :(
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Hemsworth and Theron looked like Aryan race posterboys for the repopulation of earth after some catastrophe.
Benedict Cumberbatch has reptilian eyes, and blinks them accordingly. Creepy.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 10:36:43 PM
Jennifer Lawrence's hair looks amazing tonight. :wub:
How was her tits?
Shouldn't that be how were her tits?
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 10:50:17 PM
Shouldn't that be how were her tits?
Slava, watch it.
Westboro Baptist Church will just give up and disband after this Oscars.
I can appreciate Hollywood wanting to say goodbye to all the high-profile deaths and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in particular, but was Bette Midler and "Wind Beneath My Wings" really the only way to do it?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 11:04:37 PM
I can appreciate Hollywood wanting to say goodbye to all the high-profile deaths and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in particular, but was Bette Midler and "Wind Beneath My Wings" really the only way to do it?
TCM's In Memoriams are always a lot better in my opinion. 2013's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gXi67ueD0
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 02, 2014, 11:03:52 PM
Westboro Baptist Church will just give up and disband after this Oscars.
Please tell me it's a disaster? I really hate Ellen.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 11:09:28 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 02, 2014, 11:03:52 PM
Westboro Baptist Church will just give up and disband after this Oscars.
Please tell me it's a disaster? I really hate Ellen.
No it's just a lot gayer than normal. Pink doing a Wizard of Oz tribute, Liza, Bette Midler :lol:
:w00t: Let it go :w00t:
Edit: I always forget about Goldie Hawn.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 11:04:37 PM
I can appreciate Hollywood wanting to say goodbye to all the high-profile deaths and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in particular, but was Bette Midler and "Wind Beneath My Wings" really the only way to do it?
I'm just glad they took time to remember the AC who died just last week.
Angelina Jolie is barely an actress.
Poor Leo :(
Alright, alright, alright.
The fuck was Will Smith wearing? His fucking shirt was unbottoned.
I like how many people brought their mums.
I liked how Bill Murray mentioned Harold Ramis. I liked Harold Ramis.
And just when 11Bravo thought Black History Month was over, he's going to have to hear more about black people whine about slavery.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 03, 2014, 12:02:21 AM
The fuck was Will Smith wearing? His fucking shirt was unbottoned.
How can every opinion you hold be so wrong? So wrong.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 10:36:43 PM
Jennifer Lawrence's hair looks amazing tonight. :wub:
:yuk: That's like spooging over Denise Crosby to me. Pass.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 03, 2014, 07:01:29 AM
And just when 11Bravo thought Black History Month was over, he's going to have to hear more about black people whine about slavery.
Roots was enough white guilt for me.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 03, 2014, 09:49:55 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 03, 2014, 07:01:29 AM
And just when 11Bravo thought Black History Month was over, he's going to have to hear more about black people whine about slavery.
Roots was enough white guilt for me.
I know this is a joke, but I don't get this concept at all. Should people in Nigeria feel bad for being descended from the dudes who sold them into slavery? Unless you are 200 years old I don't see the guilt. But sure enough whenever you so much as say something like 'slavery was bad and conquering whole continents is something people should not do anymore mmmkay' people start whining about white guilt as if there is any agenda here beyond saying things that are blatantly obvious.
Calm down spaz.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 03, 2014, 10:04:07 AM
Calm down spaz.
Not upset just bored. Stupid midterms.
http://youtu.be/7LyqBb6HBSk (NSFW)
I'm not a big fan of Ellen but I liked her as MC. She's funny and upbeat, and accustomed to performing in front of live crowds. Unlike when they had Franco and Hathaway as MC's for one of the events a couple years ago, maybe it was the Oscars. Not just any actor/actress is up to the job just because they're an actor, though some can do it.
I entirely endorse Hadley Freeman's message here:
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/mar/03/creative-oscars-tuxedo-douchebags-mens-fashion-black-tie
QuoteCan you get creative with your Oscars tuxedo without looking like a douchebag?
Men's fashion can be pretty boring. But unless you're Tinie Tempah, it's best to stick to classic black tie
Hadley Freeman
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The Guardian, Monday 3 March 2014 15.05 GMT
Is it ever possible for men to get "creative" with black tie and not look like douchebags?
Guy, via Twitter
I like how you put "creative" in hesitant quote marks, Guy, because that strongly suggests that you know the answer to this question already and that answer is "no". Now, I wouldn't go so far as to call them "douchebags", but attempts to experiment with the tux are either, at best, a bit silly, or, at worst, downright teeth-grating. Basically, any time a man tries to break out of the black-and-white prison, he ends up with what we in the fashion business call "a strong look", which is a euphemism for either "a terrible look" or "basically a costume that you're going to have to justify wearing all evening". I'll get to why so many men do, nonetheless, attempt this breakout, but first I shall describe they how they attempt it at all.
Probably the most popular "creative" black tie take is to wear a velvet tux. Hipsterish types such as James Franco are fond of this because they think it makes them look a bit retro, when it actually just makes them look as if they're dressing up as Dean Martin for Halloween. British celebrities, including Eddie Redmayne and Tinie Tempah, tend to carry off the velvet tux a little better, partly because they usually go for a more classic as opposed to a skinny cut (American men in velvet tuxes think "ratpack", British men in velvet tuxes think "Oscar Wilde"), but mainly because Tempah would look good in a wooden barrel with braces, so he is not a particularly useful guide here.
The velvet tux was a 70s classic but it wasn't until the 80s that men decided to get properly jazzy with the tux. Ruffled shirts, single button jackets, cummerbunds: they all jazzhands-ed around the tux with abandon. Think of Tom Hanks turning up to his office party in a glittery all-white tux in Big and you'll get a vague idea of the decade, with only a dash of exaggeration.
Attempts at creativity flourished in the 90s and were somehow, briefly, respected. Think back on Griffin Mill (played by Tim Robbins), the dynamic studio exec in Robert Altman's The Player, who goes to industry events in the ol' reverse tux (black shirt, white jacket), which was seen then as a sign of daring creativity, as opposed to how it looks now, which is like something Alan Hansen might wear to the Match of the Day Christmas party. It was also in the 90s that men started adding details to their tuxes, details such as – dear Lord, no, think of the children! – paisley cummerbunds. Still, we shouldn't expect too much of that decade seeing as that was the era some women went momentarily insane and took to wearing dresses over their trousers.
And what, pray tell, have all these attempts at creativity taught us, dear readers? They've taught us that, in the case of the tux, and only in the case of the tux, creativity sucks. It never works. The beauty of the tux is its simplicity and as soon as you start jazz-handsing around with it, everything just goes to pot. Personally, I don't even like it when men try to get all fancy and wear a white bow tie instead of a black one because a black tie against a white shirt is such a lovely combination that it seems downright wasteful to throw away the opportunity to sport it.
The tuxedo is a design classic and, despite what Paul Smith believes (and has, admittedly, made a fortune by designing), I do not believe that the whole idea of a "classic with a twist" works in menswear. That is because a classic is a classic for a reason and in men's design these classics are calibrated with special precision. Think of the trench coat, for example, another classic in menswear. A traditional trench coat on a man: excellent. A trench coat made out of leather on Kanye West: an abomination.
Look, chaps, I get why you do this, I honestly do. Menswear is, in the main, sort of boring. There are only so many things most men do with the ol' trousers-and-top combination, and this is why they siphon off their frustrated fashion desires into tedious things like expensive watches and embarrassing trainers, and I do not advocate this either.
So what, you cry, is the solution? Am I condemning men to a miserable life of stymied fashion desires? Am I the Catholic church, sternly telling men to deny their natural impulses? No, I am not. What I'm saying is, men need to learn to have more fun with their day-to-day fashion, to stop fearing that pink will make onlookers doubt their masculinity, to stop believing that jeans are the only acceptable form of trousers and to cease thinking that anything more fancy than a T-shirt will make them look like David Cameron. This is a healthy way of sating their creative needs and will mean they won't then stoop to ridiculous and possibly illegal resorts, such as buying watches that work 10km under water (so useful!) and jazzing up the classics.
So that's my prescription, menfolk: have more fun in your day-to-day outfits and leave the classics be. Unless you're Tinie Tempah. You, sir, can do whatever you damn well like.
QuotePersonally, I don't even like it when men try to get all fancy and wear a white bow tie instead of a black one because a black tie against a white shirt is such a lovely combination that it seems downright wasteful to throw away the opportunity to sport it.
Amen, sister.
I don't know what half the words in Seibhy's article means.
Men drive!
Has there been any discussion of actual movies in this thread?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 10:47:25 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch has reptilian eyes, and blinks them accordingly. Creepy.
I really don't get why he is considered attractive.
Quote from: garbon on March 03, 2014, 01:17:04 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 10:47:25 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch has reptilian eyes, and blinks them accordingly. Creepy.
I really don't get why he is considered attractive.
He's as if Christian Bale and a monitor lizard had a love child.
Quote from: garbon on March 03, 2014, 01:17:04 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 10:47:25 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch has reptilian eyes, and blinks them accordingly. Creepy.
I really don't get why he is considered attractive.
I don't find him attractive, per se, but his characters are always rather... sexy.
Quote from: merithyn on March 03, 2014, 01:54:59 PM
Quote from: garbon on March 03, 2014, 01:17:04 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 10:47:25 PM
Benedict Cumberbatch has reptilian eyes, and blinks them accordingly. Creepy.
I really don't get why he is considered attractive.
I don't find him attractive, per se, but his characters are always rather... sexy.
I've never watched anything with him in it as his visage was off putting. -_-
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 03, 2014, 01:15:18 PM
Has there been any discussion of actual movies in this thread?
Here ya go!
QuoteRush Limbaugh: '12 Years A Slave' only won an Oscar because slave is a 'magic word'
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday said that the reason that the film "12 Years A Slave" won best picture was because "it had the magic word in the title: slave."
On his Monday radio show following Sunday night's 86th Academy Awards, Limbaugh said that the entire night had been "entirely" political.
"It always is, everything to the left is political," the host opined. "There was no demonstrable political preaching from anybody."
He noted that Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres had joked that "you're all racists" if "12 Years A Slave" did not win best picture.
"All good comedy must be rooted in truth," Limbaugh quipped. "There's no way that movie was not going to win! If it was the only thing that movie won, it was going to win best picture. There was no way. It didn't matter if it was good or bad — I haven't seen it — it was going to win."
"It had the magic word in the title: slave."
The magic word isn't slave. <_<
Quote from: The Brain on March 03, 2014, 05:16:54 PM
The magic word isn't slave. <_<
It's one that would come up too naturally to be used as a safe word.
Rush isn't always right, but he's right this time. :)
When I saw the list of nominees I told a buddy of mine '12 Years A Slave' would definitely win. He tried to tell me it wouldn't because Gravity was really really OSSUM. I was like "being awesome has nothing to do with it." :sleep:
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"I'm watching you Hollywood suckas!"