really just a weird weird show
the in memoriam felt super disrespectful, particularly in a year where not only hollywood lost a lot of people but everybody did. the person introducing it was just so ridiculously overdramatic. then there were glaring omissions and not even giving anyone a chance to applaud for icons like christopher plummer. I also understand how having an upbeat song can also be a way to mourn but this just wasn't it.
you can never criticize a hopkins award win, since he's amazing always but that was the most anticlimactic ending to an oscars I've ever seen.
for 80% of the show, everybody was super serious to the point of being dour, and then we got that really wacky song game and the scripted glenn close stuff. made for the memes basically.
frances mcdormand telling everybody to go watch movies in the theater shoulder to shoulder and then howling at the moon has some really gross energy to it.
nothing here really made me feel good except harrison ford's blade runner gag and him being surprisingly good at pronouncing names.
while you slept, the world changed