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Oscars 2007: To Watch or Not to Watch

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Marge_Innavera:
I work on Sunday nights, an overnight shift, and would love to be in Bay City but will be watching along with you - not on a big screen, unfortunately, but I'll have my trusty portable DVD player with me.   ;D

Last week I was in L.A. for a reunion of school friends, and we went to the Kodak/Graumann's complex as part of our sightseeing. Very interesting but I hated even going near the Oscars venue as they now have a bank of signs with years and the Best Picture choice for that year listed. The first thing you see getting on the down escalator is 2005 CRASH BEST PICTURE.  Ugh.


I didn't watch the Oscars last year as I had a very bad feeling about it, and I suspect it will be a long time before I watch them again.  If I want to look at funny bloopers and ostentatious outfits, there are other venues.  So I voted "boycotting" even though I'm working - if I had the night off, I still wouldn't watch.

Marge_Innavera:

--- Quote from: Sheriff Roland on February 04, 2007, 11:36:41 am ---It's humour & I can laugh at the humour of the first ever successful gay comedy [ Will and Grace ] in tv history. That it got repetitive in it's humour was part a it's charm.
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You know, Will and Grace reminds me so much of the first mainstream sitcoms with black characters. They were generally comic characters and appeared to have no sex lives to speak of but at least they were there and they weren't necessarily playing servant characters and/or buffoons. And ditto the "groundbreaking" shows about single women like That Girl.   IMO Will and Grace is limited and will be dated in a few years but it was a necessary step.

What's going to be the huge breakthrough in media, though, is when gay couples start to appear regularly in commercials. That's when we can assume there's a seismic change in the making.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on February 16, 2007, 12:38:14 pm ---What's going to be the huge breakthrough in media, though, is when gay couples start to appear regularly in commercials. That's when we can assume there's a seismic change in the making.
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That's right. Gay couples and interracial couples -- the last two TV-commercial taboo. I think I've actually seen both, but only an ambiguous, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it shot as part of a montage (mostly of more "traditional" couples) for some hipsterish product.

Might be my imagination, though. Has anybody else seen this? This is way OT, but I'm curious. I should probably start a new thread, but I'm not sure there's enough to say about it.

The real breakthrough will be when gay or interracial couples are in typical "Honey, what's for dinner tonight?" commercials.

Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: latjoreme on February 25, 2007, 12:35:12 pm ---That's right. Gay couples and interracial couples -- the last two TV-commercial taboo. I think I've actually seen both, but only an ambiguous, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it shot as part of a montage (mostly of more "traditional" couples) for some hipsterish product.

Might be my imagination, though. Has anybody else seen this? This is way OT, but I'm curious. I should probably start a new thread, but I'm not sure there's enough to say about it.

The real breakthrough will be when gay or interracial couples are in typical "Honey, what's for dinner tonight?" commercials.

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Maybe you should really start a new thread?
Self-evident I haven't seen the commercial you're talking about. But I have seen Ennis and Jack used for advertisements twice. Yep! It were advertisements in magazines, but I don't know if there were any tv commercials with our boys.

The ads were for a car, a van or minivan from VW, the Touran. The general idea behind it was to promote a minivan not to the typical minivan buyers, in particular families, but to other target groups. They did a whole series of ads along that line, Ennis and Jack were only one example.

Our boys were seen from behind on the hill were the "ain't queer" conversation takes place. Jack lying on the ground, Ennis still standing with the rifle in his hand. You know the shot. The slogan/caption was: It's not necessary to have children in order to drive a Touran.

What a joy to see this ad  :D! This ad was also attached to the BBM DVD in Germany, I'll get my husband scanning it at his office and will show it to you.

I also saw a kind of "commercial" in a photo studio, were I had my picture taken. They always have examples of their work hanging on the walls and mostly they have albums you can skip though. The photographer were I was, had those albums in different categories: families, groups of adulds (friends, coworkers, etc.), siblings, couples and so on. In the album with couples there was a gay couple, too.

So the taboo is broken here. But still it's so rare that it caught my attention (well, Ennis and Jack would have caught my attention in any way  :)).

Arad-3:
I watched the Oscars.  I wouldn't boycott it over BBM not winning cause there are allot of other movies I like.   But this year I really watched it cause  Ellen was hosting and I just love her. And I wanted to see if Al Gore's won for his eyeopening  documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" Which he did and I was very pleased.

I found the whole show very drab and boring. I hate to say this cause I love her but I don't think Ellen brought any life to it at all.  The most fun I had during it was my daughter and I made a list and tried to name all the 79 Academy winning movies. We got 39 of them right. That was fun!

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