Oscar: Not being a good sport to YouTube
Mar. 1st, 2007 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderbraidsA few days ago, I complained about how lots of YouTubers ILLEGALLY post whole episodes of their favorites shows (yeah, Winx is there, too). Technically, short clips are also iffy, but I can understand putting those up.
Which brings me to the whole dealie with the Academy deciding to tell YouTube to take down the short Oscar clips everyone's put up, making viewers go to the Oscar.com site for a highlight reel, consisting entirely of acceptance speech moments. Guess what? No one's watching acceptance speeches (except maybe Scorsese's). They're all going to watch Ellen's monologues, the Dreamgirls songs, and Ferell/Black/Reilly's song.
Why can't Oscar just step up themselves and start their own channel so we can see what we want? It wouldn't hurt...
In other Oscar highlights (Star Movies aired the ceremony on Wednesday, and started it at 8pm, so I got an extra hour):
1. Sid Gannis talking about the Academy in 60 seconds.
2. Ellen and Pilobilus' Snakes on a Plane gag.
3. The Morricone montage ("Should have worn my glasses"... and Dirty Harry even translates!) and foreign films montage. What, no love for Asian films that aren't titled Rashomon or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
4. The last thing I see before going to bed: The 2nd Devil Wears Prada reference of the night, with the shadows. (The first time with Meryl Streep was not too shabby either.)
5. Jerry Seinfeld! Academy, please let him host next year.
Which brings me to the whole dealie with the Academy deciding to tell YouTube to take down the short Oscar clips everyone's put up, making viewers go to the Oscar.com site for a highlight reel, consisting entirely of acceptance speech moments. Guess what? No one's watching acceptance speeches (except maybe Scorsese's). They're all going to watch Ellen's monologues, the Dreamgirls songs, and Ferell/Black/Reilly's song.
Why can't Oscar just step up themselves and start their own channel so we can see what we want? It wouldn't hurt...
In other Oscar highlights (Star Movies aired the ceremony on Wednesday, and started it at 8pm, so I got an extra hour):
1. Sid Gannis talking about the Academy in 60 seconds.
2. Ellen and Pilobilus' Snakes on a Plane gag.
3. The Morricone montage ("Should have worn my glasses"... and Dirty Harry even translates!) and foreign films montage. What, no love for Asian films that aren't titled Rashomon or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
4. The last thing I see before going to bed: The 2nd Devil Wears Prada reference of the night, with the shadows. (The first time with Meryl Streep was not too shabby either.)
5. Jerry Seinfeld! Academy, please let him host next year.
