Oscars tonight!

cllinda
cllinda Member Posts: 153
edited February 2020 in General Cancer
How do you feel about the Oscars? Do you watch? Have you seen any of the movies? Or do you not bother?
Seven years ago, I had landed in the hospital and was watching the Oscars between nurse and doctor visits. Didn't get much out of it that night. But it's in my memory of my cancer journey.
We have seen 7 of the 9 movies this year and we think 1917 will walk away with quite a few. What's your predictions?

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  • GregP_WN
    GregP_WN Member Posts: 742
    edited February 2020
    For some reason, I just don't have the patience to sit down and watch a movie. However, I can sit in my chair and watch LIVE PD all night long. I don't know, but anyway, we don't watch too much of the awards shows anymore.
  • NeckCancer
    NeckCancer Member Posts: 20
    edited February 2020
    I don't watch too much of the awards shows anymore either. I like to watch DIY shows on fixing up around the house, so I usually look for something like that.
  • andreacha
    andreacha Member Posts: 196
    edited February 2020
    For the last several years I don't go to the movies much. The last one was with Tom Hanks when he played Mr. Rogers. I watched about 20 minutes of the runway arrivals and I had had enough.
  • meyati
    meyati Member Posts: 308
    edited February 2020
    Greg, you must be my son!! My son watches all of the PD shows--Did you ever see that Body Cam show? It's called BODY CAM. This is the 2nd season. They show a whole lot from Albuquerque.

    First season--episode 6--They show the videos from an APD officer that's driving over 60 in a built up area firing his automatic rifle through his windshield. Thug decided to kill police officers and deputies. He didn't kill any, but he put a lot of them in the hospital for a long time. He played dead with a female deputy, then he shot her legs up and stole her patrol car. That what the APD officer was trying to stop.

    Yesterday morning- 2 drug dealers were driving downtown shooting at each other-they wrecked into a third car, and that car was filled with meth and heroin. My coonhounds are on my bed waiting for me. I.
  • ChicagoSandy
    ChicagoSandy Member Posts: 111
    Our neighborhood restaurant/wine bar holds an annual Oscars party, to which we've been going for >10yrs. They do a cocktail menu & buffet of foods related to the nominees, and a contest to see who can pick the most awards. (Prize is bragging rights--signing the inflatable "Oscar" Mayer Wiener--and 2 bottles of wine). I've come close, but my husband has won twice. Tonight, I was part of a 10-way tie...for second place. (Don't worry--we walk there, so no danger of DUI).

    It, and their "friends & family" Super Bowl party, help me remember I have a life to live beyond my medical appoinments. (That, and the annual Chicago Bar Assn parody musical and the occasional coffeehouse & festival gig like the one we did Fri. night, remind me of the fact that I am more than my various ailments).

    I don't watch the Grammys any more--and I'm a NARAS member (haven't sent in my ballot for tthe last 3 yrs.). I stopped the year after our CD made the first ballot (never expected to get to the final nominations) when they began consolidating the folk music categories--first eliminating the distinction between trad & contemporary folk, then rolling it and all American ethnic acoustic into "roots" and Americana--which includes a lot of rock and alt-country acts. I might start watching again now that Billie Eilish (whom I don't particularly like) cleaned up this year--which proves that the major labels may have broken their stranglehold on the industry.
  • Dltmoll
    Dltmoll Member Posts: 71
    edited February 2020
    I watched. I watch the Oscar's, Emmys, and Tony's. More often than not disappointed in the Best Picture winners, but I do find it entertaining.
  • cllinda
    cllinda Member Posts: 153
    edited February 2020
    I was disappointed with Parasite winning Best Movie. Our local Regal cinemas had the movies for the last ten days in a special package. The cost is $35 and you can see all the movies in the theater as many times as you want. My husband saw 1917 three times and I saw it twice. I was happy that Little Women got the Oscars for costume design.
  • ChicagoSandy
    ChicagoSandy Member Posts: 111
    "Parasite" (and its director) likely benefited from "1917," "Once Upon..." and "Ford vs. Ferrari" splitting the Best Picture vote, and Tarantino & Mendes splitting Best Director. Nice to see a foreign language film winning BP for the first time, but it should've happened last year with "Roma."

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