The article critiques the Academy Awards as a mix of theatrical flair and genuine celebration of Hollywood, noting this year's nominees were largely uninspired. The telecast lived up to expectations as lackluster, offering a few laughs and surprises but no strong emotional takeaways. Conan O'Brien's hosting was highlighted positively, injecting charm despite the overall event's curious and meandering elements. While notable moments, like a James Bond tribute, were mentioned, they often veered into the absurd, reflecting more on the state of the Oscars than the achievements in cinema.
The Academy Awards are goofy. A combination of theater-kid pageantry overload and an earnest celebration of Hollywood, or maybe just of the people working in Hollywood.
This year's slate of nominees featured very few truly great movies, but also very few truly bad ones. So a lukewarm Oscars telecast is exactly what everyone should've expected.
The show got off to a promising start... Conan O'Brien has the right mix of intellectual silliness and old showbiz song-and-dance panache.
Outside of Conan's parts, most of the night was curious, sometimes hilarious in unintentional ways, like the strange, overlong James Bond tribute.
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