I don't know about you guys but I'm a huge movies person. Even though it's the cool thing to hate on Oscars nowadays it is still the most prestigious award (and a pretty big deal) in the circle.
I’ve seen 7 out of the 9 movies so far this year and none have really jumped out at me as clear favorites. (I, however, have NOT seen Lincoln, which was the frontrunner for a long time until Argo came along and steamrolled everyone). Argo, now deemed the favorite to win by pundits, is looking to be the first movie to win Best Picture since “Driving Miss Daisy” in 1989. While I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, I didn’t think it was the best made film out of the bunch. In fact, in terms of filmmaking, Amour and Beasts of the Southern Wild were the two best movies in my humble opinion. Zero Dark Thirty was okay in my book, I do think Chastain will walk away with the Oscars.
One movie that I really wanted to love but just couldn’t was Life of Pi. It was a beautiful film and visually orgasmic, with a powerful underlying message, but for the life of me i just found myself bored at times. To sum it up for those who have not seen it (and i do encourage to see it in theater, 3D preferably), it is a bit like Casting Away with a Tiger instead of Wilson.
Now the two blockbusters that were released on Christmas: Django and Les Mis. I don’t think either movie has any chance in hell to win but those were some fun movies. Django Unchained is pure Tarantino (and of course with himself making an absolutely horrendous cameo) and Les Mis featured great performances by Hathaway, Jackman, Redmayne, and my favorite Samantha Barks.
Is anyone doing an Oscars pool this year? Below are my picks for the winners:
Best Picture - Argo
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (even though I havent seen the film)
Best Actress - Jessica Chastain
Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin (no idea here...)
Best Supporting Actress - Amy Adams for the upset
Best Animated - Wreck-It Ralph
Cinematography - Skyfall (One time dammit for Deakins)
Director - Spielberg
Adapted Screenplay - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Original Screenplay - Moonrise Kingdom
Oops my post got cut off. It was meant to say first movie to win a Best Picture without a nomination for best director.
Jennifer Lawrence needs a trophy for something.
I thought Argo was brilliant. I might be in the minority, but I was on the edge of my seat the entire movie (despite reading the Wired article beforehand). Affleck really is a gifted director.
P.S.- I f*cked Ben Affleck.
Lincoln was okay. It seemed a little slow and dragged out though. Nevertheless, Daniel Day Lewis did a great job, as well as the rest of the cast. I feel like Life of Pi would win something just because it was so cinematically powerful and unique.
Moonrise Kingdom is so freaking good
I'm a huge movie fan too. I've seen all the best picture nominees except Amour and Beasts of the Southern Wild (which coincidentally we'll be watching in one of my classes sometime in the next few weeks). Django Unchained was probably my favorite movie of the year - it was awesome. Probably won't win anything but damn, it was fun.'
I hope Argo wins. Great movie and brilliantly directed. Lincoln was extremely well-made and well-acted but I wasn't gripped as much as I was by Argo, plus it felt so damn long. Zero Dark Thirty also felt a little too long, Life of Pi will probably win a bunch of technical awards (deservedly so) and Silver Linings Playbook was just a great, feel-good movie.
Argo should definitely take down best picture -- I've seen all the movies except Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Argo seems way ahead of the game. Anything that Ben Affleck touches, except for Gigli, turns to gold...the man is a god. No surprise all of the movies he's directed are above 95% on Rotten Tomatoes (or something else ridiculous like that).
Zero Dark Thirty was pretty good, but it definitely dragged out a lot...Chastain killed it though, and I'll be disappointed if Jennifer Lawrence wins, although I did really like Silver Linings Playbook. Speaking of SLP, Bradley Cooper was amazing...DDL is going to take it down with his Honest Abe performance, but I could see Cooper winning if Lincoln didn't exist.
Life of Pi was a really fun and powerful movie. I loved it; it's really beautiful and captivating. Ang Lee rarely disappoints. Hopefully it wins its fair share of technical awards.
EDIT: Altho it's a bit below the radar, Flight was a really solid flick, and Denzel was...well, he was Denzel. Excellent.
Deniro?? I thought he killed it
I was so surprised no best director for Affleck. It's so impressive how thrilling Argo is, despite you know how it ends. He immerses you enough that unless you force yourself, you forget. I could see it winning Best Picture but Affleck himself was a bit flat as a character. Nothing wrong, but nothing exceptional either.
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