First of all in Malawi, DSTV we got the red carpet part live but the actual award ceremony was a day late. Also I did not care for watching it live as I have a busy schedule so I tried to record it. However there was a recording conflict with 'The Walking Dead'. Since I felt the Oscars lately have become racially biased, I prioritized TWD. l already found the twist ending or La La mess or Moonlight mix-up while watching 'The Daily Show With Trevor Noah'. However as Trevor pointed out that when white people made mistakes in the past it took years before they corrected them but here it was immediate.
I watched it on the 6th March and just finished it in fact. I decided to quickly review it while it was still fresh in my head. Ryan Gosling sang a song from La La Land to start the night of. Jimmy Kimmel was okay. There were some hits and some misses. The joking of Trump and his tweets was great. Bringing up the feud with him and Matt Damon was kind of mean-spirited but the riffing of 'We bought a Zoo' was actually funny. The mean tweets Oscar edition I cringed at but I loved Robert De Niro's response. The Hollywood tour was a nice thing to do. The candy, cookie and do nut drop was silly.
Surprisingly the awards were spread around a diverse, well deserving group instead of the occurrence of the infamous whitewash. I might even say that the awards were fair this time round. Viola Davies' speech was moving.
Which finally brings me to the ending La La Land cast and crew could have gone home with the award none the wiser but it was amended right there onstage while they were giving speeches thanking whoever made it happen as a guy with a headset was whispering something into everybody's ears. But I already knew what. One of the crew members was giving his speech and says 'but we did not win 'Moonlight did''. He had reassure the audience that it was no joke and that there has been a mix-up.
In the end it could have been perfect but boring or completely awful. However it turned out to be an improvement over the recent ceremonies also with a controversial, interesting sensational twist ending.
I watched it on the 6th March and just finished it in fact. I decided to quickly review it while it was still fresh in my head. Ryan Gosling sang a song from La La Land to start the night of. Jimmy Kimmel was okay. There were some hits and some misses. The joking of Trump and his tweets was great. Bringing up the feud with him and Matt Damon was kind of mean-spirited but the riffing of 'We bought a Zoo' was actually funny. The mean tweets Oscar edition I cringed at but I loved Robert De Niro's response. The Hollywood tour was a nice thing to do. The candy, cookie and do nut drop was silly.
Surprisingly the awards were spread around a diverse, well deserving group instead of the occurrence of the infamous whitewash. I might even say that the awards were fair this time round. Viola Davies' speech was moving.
Which finally brings me to the ending La La Land cast and crew could have gone home with the award none the wiser but it was amended right there onstage while they were giving speeches thanking whoever made it happen as a guy with a headset was whispering something into everybody's ears. But I already knew what. One of the crew members was giving his speech and says 'but we did not win 'Moonlight did''. He had reassure the audience that it was no joke and that there has been a mix-up.
In the end it could have been perfect but boring or completely awful. However it turned out to be an improvement over the recent ceremonies also with a controversial, interesting sensational twist ending.