Here are my last minute predictions for tonight's Academy Award's. Plus who I think should win.
BEST PICTURE:
The nominees:
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Who Will Win: Argo
Who Should Win: Life of Pi
BEST DIRECTOR:
Michael Heneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Who Will Win: Steven Spielberg
Who Should Win: Ang Lee
BEST ACTOR:
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Who Will Win: Daniel Day-Lewis
Who Should Win: Daniel Day-Lewis
BEST ACTRESS:
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuel Riva, Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Who Will Win: Jennifer Lawrence
Who Should Win: Naomi Watts
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Who Will Win: Robert De Niro
Who Should Win: Robert De Niro
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Who Will Win: Anne Hathaway
Who Should Win: Helen Hunt (though I haven't seen Les Miz yet)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Who Will Win: Argo
Who Should Win: Life of Pi
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Amour
Django Unchained
Flight
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Who Will Win: Django Unchained
Who Should Win: Flight
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck it Ralph
Who Will Win: Wreck it Ralph
Who Should Win: Brave
BEST FOREIGN FILM:
Amour
Kon-Tiki
No
A Royal Affair
War Witch
Who Will Win: Amour
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Who Will Win: Life of Pi
Who Will Win: Life of Pi
BEST FILM EDITING:
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Who Will Win: Argo
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Who Will Win: Anna Karenina
Who Should Win: The Hobbit
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Mirror Mirror
Snow White and the Huntsman
Who Will Win: Anna Karenina
BEST MAKEUP:
Hitchcock
The Hobbit
Les Miserables
Who Will Win: Les Miserables
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Anna Karenina
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Who Will Win: Skyfall
Who Should Win: Lincoln
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
Before My Time from the movie Chasing Ice
Everybody Needs a Best Friend from Ted
Pi's Lullaby from Life of Pi
Skyfall from Skyfall
Suddenly from Les Miserables
Who Will Win: Skyfall
Who Should Win: Skyfall (though I loved Everybody Needs a Best Friend as well)
BEST SOUND MIXING:
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
Who Will Win: Les Miserables
BEST SOUND EDITING:
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Who Will Win: Zero Dark Thirty
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Avengers
The Hobbit
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
Who Will Win: Life of Pi
Who Should Win: Life of Pi
And briefly the documentary and short categories:
Best Documentary Feature
Who Will Win: Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary Short
Who Will Win: Inocente
Best Animated Short
Who Will Win: Paperman
Best Live Action Short
Who Will Win: Henry
I know next to nothing about these categories so they are basically just complete guesses. A shot in the dark.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
A Good Day to Die Hard review
I hope this movie doesn't kill the Die Hard franchise, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Unfortunately, the movie is pretty much as bad as the critics are saying. It breaks my heart to say this, but this movie really did just flat out suck. Seriously, can I erase the 90+ minutes of the movie from my memory so that the term bad Die Hard movie doesn't exist?
If you thought Live Free or Die Hard was laughably cartoonish, wait until you see this movie. This movie makes all of the other DH movies look like documentaries by comparison. Now, the movie doesn't start out all that bad. There is a car chase early in the movie on the streets of Moscow that, while utterly preposterous even by Die Hard standards, was still pretty entertaining. Heck, the hotel room scene wasn't that bad either. It was kind of cool. This movie didn't officially loose me until me get to Chernobyl. And then it becomes utter shit.
John Moore's direction is extremely lousy. We are talking amateur hour here. The beginning of this movie contains WAY too many zoom ins and outs. It's as if Moore was given a camcorder for the first time and he over does the zoom in and outs. It gets so incredibly aggravating. And then during the climax in Chernobyl, he over uses slow motion. And that got so damn annoying that I was starting to miss the zooms.
Then we have the movie's pitiful attempt at creating some father/son drama and shit about how John was never there for his kids because he was always working. BOO-FUCKING-HOO! None of this stuff works. It feels completely phony. It is so badly written.
But perhaps the most disappointing thing of all in this movie is John McClane himself, and most notably Bruce Willis. I can't believe I'm saying this, but McClane actually comes off as kind of annoying a lot of times. This is not the likeable, affable and badass John McClane from previous films. He's constantly bitching about how he's on vacation. Oh, I get it that it's suppose to come off as funny. It's not. And Bruce Willis is practically sleep walking through this entire movie. His performance is completely phoned in. He puts no energy into the movie whatsoever. It almost feels as if like he just doesn't give a damn anymore. Ugh.
This may be the single most disappointing movie I have EVER seen! It's jaw-dropping how awful this movie gets. And the very last scene just made me want to roll my eyes. This is not a Die Hard movie. This is a very bad parody of a Die Hard movie! At 97 minutes in length, this is easily the shortest of all the Die Hard movies. But it FEELS like the longest by a landslide.
Grade: C-
If you thought Live Free or Die Hard was laughably cartoonish, wait until you see this movie. This movie makes all of the other DH movies look like documentaries by comparison. Now, the movie doesn't start out all that bad. There is a car chase early in the movie on the streets of Moscow that, while utterly preposterous even by Die Hard standards, was still pretty entertaining. Heck, the hotel room scene wasn't that bad either. It was kind of cool. This movie didn't officially loose me until me get to Chernobyl. And then it becomes utter shit.
John Moore's direction is extremely lousy. We are talking amateur hour here. The beginning of this movie contains WAY too many zoom ins and outs. It's as if Moore was given a camcorder for the first time and he over does the zoom in and outs. It gets so incredibly aggravating. And then during the climax in Chernobyl, he over uses slow motion. And that got so damn annoying that I was starting to miss the zooms.
Then we have the movie's pitiful attempt at creating some father/son drama and shit about how John was never there for his kids because he was always working. BOO-FUCKING-HOO! None of this stuff works. It feels completely phony. It is so badly written.
But perhaps the most disappointing thing of all in this movie is John McClane himself, and most notably Bruce Willis. I can't believe I'm saying this, but McClane actually comes off as kind of annoying a lot of times. This is not the likeable, affable and badass John McClane from previous films. He's constantly bitching about how he's on vacation. Oh, I get it that it's suppose to come off as funny. It's not. And Bruce Willis is practically sleep walking through this entire movie. His performance is completely phoned in. He puts no energy into the movie whatsoever. It almost feels as if like he just doesn't give a damn anymore. Ugh.
This may be the single most disappointing movie I have EVER seen! It's jaw-dropping how awful this movie gets. And the very last scene just made me want to roll my eyes. This is not a Die Hard movie. This is a very bad parody of a Die Hard movie! At 97 minutes in length, this is easily the shortest of all the Die Hard movies. But it FEELS like the longest by a landslide.
Grade: C-
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