The joke about The Last Duel was ridiculous and equally confusing, considering it's a 20th/Disney movie and this is on ABC (meaning the skit about The Last Duel had to be approved by someone at ABC).Simultaneously the most engrossing Oscars in years in terms of raw entertainment value but also a mortifying display of unprofessionalism and disrespect to filmmaking as an artform (insulting Last Duel because "no one watched it?" Seriously?). Also weird and blatant Disney synergy abounds; shouting out White Men Can't Jump felt odd until I remembered Hulu is doing a remake this year. And Let it Go? Honestly.
As for Let It Go... They were playing music nominated by the Academy all night. The show ended on "Can't Stop The Feeling", which is a song from a Dreamworks movie that didn't even win in it's year. Sure there was a lot of Disney synergy, which is to be expected on ABC at this point, but I also just think they were trying to make The Oscars "cool".
What i'm more baffled by was how they supposedly cut an hour out of what was a 4 hour show to make it a 3 hour show and it still clocked in at around 3 hours and 40 minutes. Was it more entertaining than usual? Yes. Will the ratings likely be higher than the toilet they've been sinking to? Yes. Did having three hosts work? Not always, but I think overall it did.
However, there's still gotta be some fat that they can trim to get it down to 3 hours flat and even then I think it's too long. I thought the "We Don't Talk About Bruno" performance really fluffed out the show as it was an underwhelming remixed performance and it was only a small portion of the song. I get why they did it - they wanted to lure people in to watch the show. But it wasn't even nominated as Disney didn't submit it for best original song.
I would like to make sure it's pointed out that it's unofficial awards, to have fan engagement. It is hilarious that the award that everyone thought was a slam dunk for NWH had the worst of all Cinderella's ever made ahead of it.The "Fan Favorite" Oscar that were engineered to give Marvel a prize going to, in ascending order, Johnny Depp, Camilla Cabello and Zack Snyder was hilarious though.
What it does do potentially though is give Snyder and Cabello room for better negotiating in the future because she can point to the following that she brings to the table, and Snyder can do the same as he went 2 for 2.
Also, yeeeeshhh:
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