The Academy awards are this Sunday. I used to watch them. Made a big thing of it, too. We would have our friends over, make ballots for everyone to fill out and make themed food to serve up. And drink, of course, cause that’s the only way to make it entertaining. Since having the children, I have not been able to get into it as much. I can’t go see the movies. I used to see all the movies. Multiple movies each weekend. (Even sneaking in from time to time, or everytime. Just sayin, we may or may not have planned a schedule to maximize our movie viewing) Call it a trade-off, cause now I am lucky to go see a kids movie. My youngest has yet to understand the art of sitting and watching a movie. Needless to say, I have a hard time getting into the Oscars since I don’t know anything about the movies being nominated.
Trying to keep up with all the news is a task, also. They have a host, they don’t have a host. They are cutting out some awards for the show length, no, wait, they are doing them during the commercial break, hold on, they’re gonna be aired later, no, NVM, we’re gonna show them anyway. I know the host gig is hard. It’s a thankless job and no one will be happy with the job you do no matter what. Most likely because of this day and age. The old, golden-age movie days had more theatrical performances and it worked. No one has that kind of attention span anymore. Vine ruined that. You have 6 seconds to entertain someone or you have lost them.
Still, I miss getting together with friends are collecting the ballots, cheering or booing when the winners were announced, the occasional chuckle when something funny actually happened, watching the In Memorium segment saying “that was this year” every other person. I was never that great at picking the winners. Too many Hollywood politics. But drinking and eating cocktail weinies made up for it. Since Bohemian Rhapsody was the only one I saw, that’s the one I’ll be rooting for. If I had to pick another, I would say Green Book. It did well at the Globes and it sounds like a good movie. I’ll get around to that one at some point.
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