My wife and I fast forwarded through the first two hours on Hulu, just stopping for the musical bits. The opening bit was pretty good, once things got rolling & it wasn't Seth awkwardly reading jokes off a teleprompter. I'm still torn on Kirk showing up. I'm sure it was something Seth wrote when he realized he had all the power, but each skit he showed went on WAY too long, just like Family Guy does a lot. We get it, singing about boobs is funny, we got that after the first verse, you didn't have to perform the whole song complete with chorus (though the last part about Kate Winslet was pretty good).
My wife loved seeing Daniel Radcliffe & Joseph Gordon Levitt, two of her crushes, sing & dance together. Having Jennifer Hudson sing between Catherine Zeta-Jones & the cast of Les Mis shows why more movie musicals should hire SINGERS first and actors second, though the sampling of Les Mis wasn't as terrible as I had imagined (except for Russell Crowe).
The Bond piece was OK, Halle Berry should have been the last person up there presenting when I'm sure you've got at least 2 Bonds in the audience. Missing the opportunity to have all 5 up there makes me sad, though Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger was pretty awesome.
We got to Adele singing Skyfall just before we had to leave, say whatever you want about her, we think she's a great singer.
Tonight I'm sure we'll fast forward through the last hour.
Post #624339
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- doubleofive
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- Oscars 2013
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- 27-Feb-2013, 7:51 AM