No Viewers for Oscar Show

Perhaps we, the tv viewer, would have been better off if they had cancelled the Academy Awards as rumored during the writer's strike instead of what can be described as "underwhelming" at best?



Why does the show suck?

The best songs are lame and rarely translate to anything worth watching. Drop it from the show and shave at least a half hour off the broadcast.

Get rid of the technical awards and crafts. Who really cares about makeup and hair, costume design, art design, sound editing, film editing? After all, these are below the line categories and the Oscars is truly about the above the line: Actors, Writers, Directors and Producers. Lump these below the line awards with the special technical geek awards that are held separately.

Give the documentary and short film categories the boot.

How about nominating some blockbuster films that actually make money for a change like Transformers, Harry Potter instead of this art house crap that gets put on the discount rack at Blockbuster?

How about a best action movie category or better still, best comedy?

Finally, the show writing is not funny. There were 30 credited writers on the Oscar show but you would have never known it. Host John Stewart was flying solo and dropping bombs left and right. Mondo thinks next year let's have the show without the writers so we can see if there's any difference.