Countdown to Oscar night is underway and wow – TEN??!! This year the Academy in its infinite wisdom or rather a knee jerk reaction to last year’s uproar over the omission of The Dark Knight from the nominee list has nominated TEN that’s right TEN movies in the Best Picture category. Lest they overlook anybody or any film whether it’s REALLY deserving or not, to be in that vaulted category. Think about Up in the Air and then think about A Gentleman’s Agreement, In the Heat of the Night and All Quiet on the Western Front. Compare if you will Blind Side to All About Eve, Rebecca or Midnight Cowboy. Believe if you will that Up was nominated but ET never was! A Serious Man or Ghandi or Marty?? An Education in the same class as Gone With the Wind, How Green Was My Valley and On the Waterfront? Having just watched The Hurt Locker which was extraordinarily realistic and thankfully lacking in major amounts of computer generated special effects and really was intense – it was not quite Mutiny on the Bounty, Lawrence of Arabia or From Here to Eternity. And then there was The Godfather, Schindler’s List and Casablanca!!!! For all of our advanced steps in technology which allow a director to have an indigenous people fly on blue banshees, I think we’re going backwards in the overall caliber and quality of movies today. Re: the title of this blog – out of the TEN, I’ve seen six and hence………
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Inglourious Basterds
Countdown to the Academy Awards. With 7 days left I have seen 7 of the 10 films; the latest was Inglorious Basterds. I thought Hurt Locker was intense, and this was similarly nerve-wracking. A little too violent for me -you know scalping scenes tend to be bloody! Brad Pitt was the big basterd and he was okay but this certainly was no stretch for him and you notice he was NOT nominated for an Oscar. The accent/voice he was obviously directed to use, was horrific. And talk about a stretch – did any one of the characters or anyone in the audience actually think his character was going to be able to pull off a believable Italian? Sounding like that? That being said, I can’t imagine this movie winning Best Picture, BUT I am sure that Christopher Waltz will dance away (pun intended) with the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Now that character was really the biggest basterd of all. Portraying a viciously exacting and and clever SS Colonel, he was outstanding! God it was so easy to hate him..
The probability of seeing the remaining three; Precious, Up, and The Blind Side are slim to none. However, I am hoping to catch Crazy Heart before Sunday because I do want to see Jeff Bridges in this role. Check in later this week if you’re interested to hear my predictions.
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