They have one year to program a decent show...and that is the best they can come up with? What has made this show so bad is that there is really no incentive to make the show better. They will still pull in the ratings, and there really has been no correlation between "bad shows" and lower ratings in the show's history. It is similar to the Super Bowl, where this year's blow out should have produced really low ratings, but didn't. Even worse is the realization that The Golden Globes is infinitely better, with better hosts and a brisker show.
How many minutes did Ellen spend in the audience? Was it worth it? Would not that time be better spent allowing Steve Martin and Angela Landsbury to accept their awards during the main show? It is really disgraceful that the honorary Oscars are pushed to another ceremony. It is like they do not really count. It certainly makes more sense to show them than the shorts awards.
Interesting how some people had their Ellen narrative written before even watching the show. It was assumed she would be "nice," and yet the Liza joke was way worse than anything Seth MacFarlane did last year. Plus, if you are going to refer to a woman as a man, you had better make sure the joke is funny, rather than a toss off line. Perhaps the worst thing about this year's show were my flashbacks to last year, thinking it was not so bad after all. And for someone who likes to banter with the audience, shouldn't Ellen be better at improvisation and impromptu one liners? Jonah Hill is one of the best at those skills, but she barely involved him. George Clooney's presence would have helped.
The "clips from the past" segments should be eliminated if they cannot come up with better montages than that. It really seems like no thought is put into them at all, except for trying to follow the lose theme that no one cares about. The Wizard of Oz tribute was lame. When the announcement was made about Judy Garland's kids attending, I wondered what they would do or say. It turns out they would do nothing, except be the butt of jokes. I did think that Pink did the best job she possibly could with that song, but she simply did not have the pipes to really do it justice.
Which brings me to those singers who can no longer sing. Bette Midler cannot sing like she used to, so why have her sing anything? That ruined one of the few positives in the show, which is the In Memoriam segment, where they eradicated the applause meter and managed to provide an almost fully updated list of names. Darlene Love...I love her enthusiasm but the singing was excruciatingly bad.
The show has all the makings of something that was thrown together in a week, rather than the months of thought and preparation that (presumably) went into it.
Here is a suggestion: ask Colbert to host the show. Unfortunately, I am guessing that they already did, and he turned down the offer because he realizes the train-wreck nature of the production.
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