Beauty vs Beast: Oscar's Best Bits
Monday, March 5, 2018 at 3:30PM Jason from MNPP here, nursing my annual Oscars hangover but mostly feeling just fine about last night's winners. (The high I got off of James Ivory's Elio Shirt carried me through the whole show, honestly.) As far as a production the show had its highs (loved that cut quartz set) and its lows (really not feeling that war movie montage) but it's the two stand-out visual gags of the evening that will probably stand the test of time are the subjects of this week's "Beauty vs Beast" poll...
PREVIOUSLY We've got to give Jennifer Lawrence some credit because she actually held her own on The Film Experience against no less fierce an opponent than queen goddess mother Michelle Pfeiffer herself - Michelle still won last week's mother!-themed poll (of course) with 70% of the vote, but it would've been way worse for most mortals. Still, said Brad:
"Give me a movie where Michelle Pfeiffer taunts and tortures Jennifer Lawrence for six or more hours and I'll be happy forever."
Reader Comments (10)
These were two of the stupidest Oscar show bits in a very long time. They did not work at all and went on way too long. But playing people off, just so that you can do a joke about Helen Mirren presenting a jet ski, was unforgivably tone-deaf. (Imagine if, back in 1994/1995, David Letterman came onstage during Martin Landau's speech and cut him off so that he could do his Uma/Oprah routine.)
I mean I, along with many here at TFE, I assume, would like Armie's Hot Dog (where are the unedited short short shots?), but .... Helen Mirren... doing "The Price is Right". That was camp fabulousness!
Guestguestguest: Martin Landau WAS played off in 1994! That bit is edited out of the video on Oscar's YouTube channel, but it happened. I remember he shouted "No!" in a precursor to Vader in Revenge of the Sith...
I loved both - and frankly, it's Helen Mirren's best role in years - but you've got Armie operating a giant sausage dispender. The choice is obvious.
I loved Helen Mirren as a Barker beauty! For one thing, she's sexy as hell and I think it's great they chose her instead of a token twentysomething (and Mirren is always in on the joke).
Some folks thought the bit was lame, but they actually gave it away to the costume design winner, and it was cute when Kristin Lopez said she would love one but lives in Brooklyn.
I mean, Armie could fire off his hot dog at me any day of the week, but Helen was laugh out loud hilarious.
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This was impossible. But it seems reasonable that a proud queen like myself would only turn down Armie's hot dog for a real queen, Helen Mirren herself. And jet skiing at that!
I'm all for the campy bits at the Oscars! It breaks the seriousness and pretense of the show. More of that please!
All the Gay Population voting on Helen, right? Right?