It turns out @JamesFranco is a hosting genius

It turns out James Franco is a hosting genius!

"People were genuinely and often passionately upset with James Franco’s lackadaisical approach to the his hosting duties. So, maybe Franco did fail miserably as a host of the Academy Awards, but what he has demonstrated is that people do care about this Institution. We may mock it mercilessly, and we may feign indifference, but goddamnit, it’s not within a smug celebrity’s right to intentionally ruin our fun. Our fun should ruined organically, and not through determined laziness. Indeed, by approaching his hosting stint with the same detached listlessness that many of us pretend to have about the Academy Awards themselves, Franco has inadvertently stumbled upon a revelation: We do care. The Oscars do matter. Maybe the awards don’t. And maybe to many the movies don’t, either. But when it comes to sitting for four hours in front of the television to watch a 'self-congratulatory circle jerk,' we care more than many of us are willing to let on, enough to get outraged when the host shits on the Oscars. That’s our job, and that motherfucker James Franco took all the fun out of it.

If Franco’s intent was to hold up a mirror to the rest of us and show us how ugly we look when he pretend not to care, he accomplished that."