On 2/27/12, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 26, 10:08 pm, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So I guess the Academy hired the same audio engineer for this year's >> > telecast as last year. >> > >> > That crackling static is driving me NUTS. >> >> Why did they have a funeral for cinema tonight? Did filmmaking die >> when Kodak went bankrupt, too? >> > > I'm not sure what you mean. The live audience seemed to really be digging > the show. I have always thought Crystal, other than his first two gigs, has > been highly overrated as a host. Tonight he gave us exactly what we should > have been expecting, so I don't think there is any point in criticizing him > - though I think some people may be wondering why they didn't just ask > Chris Rock to host the show, as he was the funniest guy on the stage.
Obviously I can't speak for anyone in the audience at the ex-Kodak theatre, but to me it really felt like they were mourning the end of cinema. All of the reminiscing about seeing, and the exhortation to go see films at the big screen (Remember the first time you went to see a movie? The Cirque du Soleil acrobatics of seeing a movie at a theatre.) was relentless enough to suggest the fear of massive theatre closings because of Netflix, DVDs, piracy, etc. That is what I meant by the feeling of a wake. It really didn't help that by coincidence that two of the big films were period pieces set in the 20s and 60s respectively. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
