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And the Oscar Goes To…
Yesterday I watched “Black Swan” completing my veiewing of all of this years Best Picture Nominees for the Oscar’s. This is my little review of all these movies:
1. Inception: For me the best one by far… The concept is amazing. It is amazingly built, the photography, the VFX, and the soundtrack is so immersive! The only movie that you come out of the cinema a different way from when you came in. With and mind-teasing end that make you appreciate the power of cinema.
2. The Social Network: My second choice if Inception can’t be the winner. The rhythm of the movie is great and the character is really well created. (I’m not judging if the story is 100% true, which we know it’s not.)
3. Black Swan: Very interesting thriller. A great atmosphere and contrast is created between beautiful Ballet images and eery metamorphosis and paranoia. For me the thing that made it loose some strength was the predictability of the end…
4. The Fighter: Great movie, interesting, entertaining and based on true events. That makes it really cool to see the boxing strategies that the protagonist really used. Christian Bale, one of my favorite actors, is great in his low-life-fallen-star role as Mark Whalberg’s brother.
5. The Kids Are All Right: this movie was a suprise for me. I went on to watch it just because I wanted to watch all of them before I could write this post. Really entertaining story about a Lesbian couple with two kids (one from each mother) but with the same sperm donnor.
6. The King’s Speech: I’m really surprised to see how this movie is the clear favorite of the oscars… 12 oscar nominations… wow… but for me It’s just a good movie, a very well done and narrated one but not the Best. Colin Firth is sublime in this movie and Geoffrey Rush is an enormous actor.
7. True Grit: The Coen brothers do some movies that I don’t enjoy at all and others I love. This wasn’t the case. It was nice (although I’m not a Western kind of guy) and Jeff Bridges did a great role. It’s a good movie, but I don’t think I’ll see it again.
8. Toy Story 3: Who doesn’t enjoy Toy Story! Specially if you are my age and it brings you so many memories of when you first saw Toy Story back in the day. But apart from that I don’t think that it should be competing for this oscar. I think it’s nice to ackwnoledge the tremendous work put on by the people at Pixar, and animation in general, to bring us this amazing 3D movie but I don’t think it’s the BEST MOTION PICTURE OF 2010…
9. 127 Hours: OK. Makes you think what you would do in that situation and all that Jazz, it makes you realize how fragile humans are and at the same time how strong we can be in the right situations… but apart from that for me it’s like Buried: an experiment.
10. Winter’s Bone: The cinderella of this years nominees a movie which I think shouldn’t have taken the place of Ben Affleck’s “The Town” maybe… The main actress Jennifer Lawrence was pretty believable so we got to extoll that.
So that’s pretty much it! Let the Best Motion Picture win!
