To me, at least, the show was uninteresting with barely any chuckles. Ricky Gervais, hosting for his third time, limited his jokes to topics that were too easy to make fun of and boring, old news that had already blown over, or stuff that people just don't care about. One of his first jokes included to Johnny Depp, asking him if Depp had seen his film, The Tourist yet, and Johnny answered no, he had not, which probably explains a lot. The rest of the laughs didn't come from Ricky, but came instead from either the winners (Modern Family) or the presenters, including a great laugh from Seth Rogen.
The winners were fairly predictable, though some did come from out of the blue, including Woody Allen's one for Best Screenplay, I mean, over Moneyball, The Ides of March and The Descendants, seriously. And, on another note, I found it weird that Martin Scorsese won for Best Director for Hugo, but Hugo was not named Best Picture, Drama, instead that award went to The Descendants.
Speeches wise, there were some huge errors, namely Meryl Streep, who had to be bleeped out for some reason, causing her to lose some points with me, and I love her. You would also think that after more than thirty years of being in the film business, she would be able to pull off an inpromptu speech and pull it off flawlessly, but apparently not. Michelle Williams, on the other hand, delivered a beautiful speech without the use of a scrap of paper unlike some of the others, though I'll forgive those who speak English as a second language. All in all, I can't wait for the Oscars, they've got to be better than last year, and the Golden Globes need to find someone else to host them, like say maybe, Seth Rogen?
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