[+ a bonus Oscars wrap-up]
Last week the response was fairly positive. Did it remain so or did the creative license at the end ruin it for folk?
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And if you didn't watch Oliver, what did you think of the Oscars? I thought they were fun at the beginning and end, but that hour in the middle with all the tech awards was a major dead zone. blah. And much as I adore Kate Winslet and she's a fave literary heroine onscreen (did you hear her shout out EBC faves Emma Thompson AND Peter Jackson?) I thought her speech was upstaged by Sean Penn's truly gracious and far-reaching words.
I felt the conclusion was very strong. Definitely something I will rewatch. Again I think it comes down to the casting. Tom Hardy, Sophie Okenedo and Morven Christie each had interesting believable interpretations of the characters. I got a little sick of the orphanage shananigans but then again it was late and I was tired. Again the music was wonderfully jaunty.
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Kate Winslet is gracious, gorgeous, and darn near perfect in a sweetly flawed kind of way. But, you're right. Sean Penn rocked the Oscars. All those pro-Prop 8-ers out there should, once again, be miserably ashamed of themselves. Jesus, being the nice, tolerant guy that I bet he was, would be so very disappointed. For all we know, maybe he preferred men. (Uh, oh - here come the Bible thumpers to stone me to death. I just hope they do it with some primo Columbian hash!)
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