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Originally posted by leagleaze
Can someone tell me, WTF was with Beyonce singing everything?
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So she could get a wardrobe workout, of course.
Pictures from the red carpet.
OK, when Beyonce sang the Phantom of the Opera song, was the idea of that get up that the chandelier from the end of the first act fell on her head? 'Cause I've got dinner plates smaller than her earrings. The best dress she had on all night was the black velvet she wore on the runway. And, incidentally, Josh Brolin has a damn good voice - if he had a bit of Beyonce's musical style he could really do something with that. That said, their voices blended more nicely than I would have guessed, and the dress she wore during that duet made her look twice as wide as him.
Spike Lee could have pulled the rest off if he lost the idiotic fez.
Robin Williams looked like a clown. Since he is a clown (literally), that's OK. Johnny Depp also looked like a clown, and that's not OK. His chicky, Frenchy what's her name, looked better (i.e.: less horrible) than I've seen her look in years.
Jamie Foxx needs a good slap for (i) recyling the same speech 50 times and (ii) wearing whatever the hell awful get up he was wearing. He's not a college basketball player about to go pro, he shouldn't dress like one. His daughter was pretty cute, though.
Jeremy Irons in a mandarin collar shirt? He looked like a dufus.
Now, Don Cheadle looked good. I also quite liked his wife's dress - interesting, and it looked great on her. He should have won best actor, IMHO.
Mike Meyers's hair. I just don't know what to say. I think I'm so used to seeing him in costumes that I see everything as a costume, and this was his beatles costume. And I've come to assume that the Austin Powers color is his real hair color, and it's not, it's darker, which I then automatically think of as a dark wig. But, if you look at his hair objectively, the haircut actually does flatter him - made his face almost handsome. So I don't know what to think.
I still don't know what to think of Clive Owen's tie. I'm sort of irrationally inclined to like it.
I thought Chris Rock looked great. (I like velevet suits, what can I say. ) His atelier, Puffy Da Da or whatever he's called this year, did not look as good. The seaming over the arms of his jacket was a good idea that didn't work. Nice to know he gave his best stuff to his customers, eh?
I still can't quite bring myself to really like Hilary Swank's dress. I like it in the abstract, a lot, God knows she had the figure for it, but something was weird about the shoulder seams that made it look like it was on backwards (I know the collar was doing that anyway, but the fucked up shoulder seaming made it look like it wasn't on purpose). And, she needed to warm up the lipstick. She looked like a corpse with the purplish undertones in that nude. Softer hair would have helped, 'cause she's so bony and severe anyway, but simply a bit of a peachy nude would have been sufficient to save the look. Best thing to happen to Guy LaRoche in years, though.
Selma Hayek looked lovely but her dress was as boring and conventional as an insurance brokerage convention. Yawn. And get your hair out of your eyes.
Gisele's dress. Well, she can pull it off. Those empire dresses looked better on the Dior runway, though.
I wasn't impressed with the Maria Full of Grace actress's dress. It flattered her figure, at least.
What the fuck happened to Melanie Griffiths? She had a head transplant. And Antonio should sue her surgeon, because her upper lip is so fat it looks like he's been beating her like a drum.
Thank god for the old men. They still know what black tie is supposed to look like. Compared to the other horrors, I'll even forgive Clint the green tie.
Italian chick who won for best art direction for the Aviator had the best dress on of the night, bar none. Of course, because she's just some nobody with actual talent and dress sense, I can't find a picture. And what was up with the fucking insulting "you're just some ugly person up for some technical award, so we're going to stuff you in the back row, and no one wants to see your ugly unimportant ass on stage or wait for you to wander up there so we're just going to present your award in the aisle" bullshit? Fuck that. Let me repeat: fuck that. Those are the people who actually make the movies, assholes. Show some fucking humility in the face of actual craft, skill and ability.
Charlotte Johannsen may get my nod for second best dressed. The bodice of that dress was fabulous. Kirsten Dunst also looked really, really good. Nice to see some real boobs out there.
Halle berry looked great. Not a show stoppingly brilliant gown, but it was lovely, not boring, and looked great on her.
Zhang Ziyi also had on a mercifully unboring and very pretty dress. Who says black is basic?
Annette Benning, that's who. Her dress was black, boring and matronly. Blah.
Laura Liney's dress was really good, but something didn't work - her hair or makeup, not sure. It needed to be softer.
Natalie Portman's dress was very interesting and lovely, but the color was so blah. Blah, blah, neutral blah. I don't like this taupe thing.
Drew Barrymore looked surprisingly good with auburn hair, but her dress was boring. Pretty, but boring. Brooch on the back didn't save it.
Kate Blanchet's dress was wonderful. It would have looked better on her were she brunette, but it was an amazing dress nevertheless.
Star Jones is a fucking joke.
Renee Z's dress was good in the abstract (and it did look excellent on stage, if not on the carpet), but it was pulled so tight she had back fat. SHE had back fat. I'm shocked she didn't pass out. Did anyone else notice how hilariously mini she was standing next to the Stock Oscar Carrying Glamazon after presenting her award? The SOCG was about a foot taller than her, and looked like she outweighed RZ by 50 pounds, all of it curves. I have to admit I sort of like her better as a brunette, though.
Emmy Rossum's dress didn't appear to fit at all. Renee Z. did this look better.
Maggie Gyllenhal's dress just didn't work.
Charlize Theron looked 200% better than she did last year. Gwynneth Paltrow looked good, too, though the dress didn't have a smooth transition from waist through hips. Why do they all get those dresses cut so fucking tight?
Kate Winslett's at least fit her. Pretty but boring, except for the color. The color is almost enough to rescue the boring conventionality of the rest of the dress.
I actually liked Prince's suit. Pity he didn't learn to pronounce anyone's name.
why does Julia Roberts walk like a linebacker?
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