Yes, we’re doing it again. Join us this Sunday, February 26th for The Bonus View‘s second annual Oscars Live-Blog! With last-minute replacement Billy Crystal hosting for the 74th time, not to mention a huge assortment of behind-the-scenes fiascoes with the production, the ceremony itself promises to be yet another overlong, self-important and generally boring slog, if not an outright clusterfrack. We will do our best here to liven up the proceedings by making fun of them and giving away lots of free Blu-ray goodies! Don’t miss out!
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Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and video disc reviewer from Laserdisc to DVD and beyond. He's previously written for DVDFile.com, DVDTalk.com and Home Theater magazine. These days, he wastes most of his free time managing this blog and writing the occasional Blu-ray review for High-Def Digest.
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The Academy missed out on huge opportunity. They could’ve got The Muppets to host the show. Instead we got Billy Crystal’s corpse. When will all these old-fogey Academy members finally kick the bucket?
The Muppets hosting the Oscars would have been awesome in an incalculable number of ways!!!
Right? It could’ve happened too. Disney/The Muppets had a campaign going for getting the Muppets on the Oscars. Imagine the Academy really trying to connect with a younger audience and having The Muppets host with someone like Neil Patrick Harris. How could that not ultimately beat any other possible idea?
Muppets on screen or no, it’s a safe bet that the spirit of Statler and Waldorf will run rampant on the Bonus View’s live blog.
What if we still didn’t receive our prize from the Golden Globe live blog? =(
Anthony, I will look into this for you right away.
I seem to have gotten my eyeTV thingamabob working again, so hopefully I’ll be able to participate! Not that I’ll be able to keep up with the lightning fast google skills of some folks.
I used to be a huge Oscar fan. It was the Super Bowl to me. Huge party, prizes. Good time. Something happened this year. I was working on the predictions for my Oscar website and I decided to include the Harvey Weinstein factor into the Best Picture pick. I stopped cold and realized that I’m not talking the artistic merits of films. I am parsing a film’s marketing strategy and how it lines up the the Academy Awards calendar. It made me really sad, I gotta say. We shouldn’t have to make a “will win” and a “should win” list, but we do, because the Academy gets it wrong so often. Anyway, I’m just not that excited about them anymore. I’ll watch, but keeping out the Muppets and The Dictator is not helping. I hope you all enjoy it. It really should be a fun night.
Come watch with us. It’ll be fun no matter what.