Red Carpet Letdown

I'll start by saying that the one major improvement was the Martin and Baldwin combo as hosts. Yeah, it wasn't Chris Rock or Jon Stewart, but it was entertaining. With that being said...

Why did they mess around with everything else?

They cut the live performances of Best Song Nominees and after they had already announced the winner, then combined them all into one deal. Half the songs you haven't heard before. Let's hear them before someone is declared a winner. If you want people to watch, make it fun for them.

I know the little people don't matter at the Oscars. That it's all about the actual actors, but this new format of cutting things short so former winners can come out and yap about how great the nominees are is... boring, fake, and awkward.

They let Colin Farrell come out and talk about Jeremy Renner for like five minutes. It was gross and hard to watch. He tried to wrap things up by saying "yeah... and... good luck... man..." or something like that, while his face said "you have no chance to win, enjoy the after party."

Just show the clips.

And Tom Hanks, Mr. Two Time Winner, slow down. He ran out on stage, read the nominees for "Best Picture", no pause, no clips, apparently no time left in the show, and said "the winner is" and it's over. They spend forever and a day on the actors and when it comes to "Best Picture", the award they wait until the end of the show to give out - they rush it. Tom, everyone in the audience has extra Xanax in their pocket. Take one.

The biggest disappointment of the night was the "In Memoriam" montage.

They left two people out (that we know of so far). They left out Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur. A former Charlie's Angel and a Golden Girl. That is embarrassing. They let Cameron Diaz hand out an award (and have a speaking line), but a movie she was in, based off a TV show made famous by Farrah Fawcett... Isn't there someone on staff still playing hybrid forms of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?

And now there's a huge push to get Betty White, another Golden Girl, to host SNL. Wouldn't someone find the link. Don't they have people hired to do this? Isn't there a list somewhere of those in the Hollywood Family who've past on? Or would it have run too long for James Taylor's song performance?

Maybe they should have spent more time double checking that, instead of creating the "Horror Movie Tribute."

It will never be a perfect system, but they reformatted the show for a ratings boost. The complaint is that it's too long.

No one ever complains the Super Bowl is too long. Make the show more interesting. Don't cut the good parts... the real parts... to substitute in lame crap that some intern thought was a rad idea.

And next year, if you want buzz leading up to the show to gain viewers, stick to your gut and hire the host you really wanted.