The thing about awards shows is that basically they’re all boring as shit. They try to spice them up, but in the end I’d rather just read who won and see the skits and maybe look up a few acceptance speeches on YouTube, because in the end I don’t care about 95% of what’s going on. There is no single awards show that has everything I care about in one nice package, although the Golden Globes comes close.
The GGs have no skits, no host, just friends giving friends awards, which is a nice atmosphere to peek in on, but even with the combination of movies and tv, I can’t be bothered to listen to what most people are saying, because I’m watching to see if my favourite shows/movies win, and if they don’t I don’t care anymore. I have no stake in these awards, so it’s not thrilling to bet for one or another, and inevitably there’s going to be some disappointment.
As for the more specific shows, namely the Oscars and the Emmys, they’re both too long-winded and self-important/self-congratulatory/self-indulgent/self-gratifying with their host and skits and whatnot. They’re trying to make it fun for everyone, but we’re not here to see this or that person do this or that lame skit or sketch or speech, we’re here to see some fucking awards go out.
I would immediately respect any body that can condense an awards show into an hour or so, because it would prove that people are there to honour the winners, not pimp their own shit.
Like the Oscars this year, where each actor/actress nominee had their own personal celebrity brown-noser to make them seem all like incredible people while making themselves look like incredible people, and I’m sure it made the actors uncomfortable to be waxed poetic upon by some old Oscar-winner, especially when what was said was either badly written or badly performed, or both, or just the fact that the person doing it was either way not into it or way not appropriate to be doing it. Like Adrian Brody doing it for that old guy nobody knows and said “If you Google [this old man], you’ll find he’s been in over 60 films in the last 25 years.” What a fucking compliment that is, that Adrian Fucking Brody had to Google you because he doesn’t even know who you are. That’s inappropriate casting.
But beyond that, whenever they have two people present they have to try to make it funny, and it’s always shit, and even if it is funny it’s not worth it, I’d rather they just walk out and be either serious or jovial but simply read out the nominees, announce and congratulate the winner, and leave more time for them to speak, because they’re the ones who deserve the time on stage, not the fucking presenters. And it’s especially bad when the presenter is clearly better than the recipient. That’s awkward. They should have thought of that.
DFTBA
The GGs have no skits, no host, just friends giving friends awards, which is a nice atmosphere to peek in on, but even with the combination of movies and tv, I can’t be bothered to listen to what most people are saying, because I’m watching to see if my favourite shows/movies win, and if they don’t I don’t care anymore. I have no stake in these awards, so it’s not thrilling to bet for one or another, and inevitably there’s going to be some disappointment.
As for the more specific shows, namely the Oscars and the Emmys, they’re both too long-winded and self-important/self-congratulatory/self-indulgent/self-gratifying with their host and skits and whatnot. They’re trying to make it fun for everyone, but we’re not here to see this or that person do this or that lame skit or sketch or speech, we’re here to see some fucking awards go out.
I would immediately respect any body that can condense an awards show into an hour or so, because it would prove that people are there to honour the winners, not pimp their own shit.
Like the Oscars this year, where each actor/actress nominee had their own personal celebrity brown-noser to make them seem all like incredible people while making themselves look like incredible people, and I’m sure it made the actors uncomfortable to be waxed poetic upon by some old Oscar-winner, especially when what was said was either badly written or badly performed, or both, or just the fact that the person doing it was either way not into it or way not appropriate to be doing it. Like Adrian Brody doing it for that old guy nobody knows and said “If you Google [this old man], you’ll find he’s been in over 60 films in the last 25 years.” What a fucking compliment that is, that Adrian Fucking Brody had to Google you because he doesn’t even know who you are. That’s inappropriate casting.
But beyond that, whenever they have two people present they have to try to make it funny, and it’s always shit, and even if it is funny it’s not worth it, I’d rather they just walk out and be either serious or jovial but simply read out the nominees, announce and congratulate the winner, and leave more time for them to speak, because they’re the ones who deserve the time on stage, not the fucking presenters. And it’s especially bad when the presenter is clearly better than the recipient. That’s awkward. They should have thought of that.
DFTBA
