Thursday, February 25, 2010
| Author:
Joseph Thankachan
The nominees for the best animated feature film this year are:
And the Oscar goes to:
UP
For a beautiful story of love, making dreams come true and care. It is such a good movie that it has made into the best picture category this year. This one’s got substance, brings dreams to reality, a good comic drama, good direction, good screenplay and decorated with good scenes. If only the animated characters were replaced with real physical ones Up would have been a serious threat to the likes of Avatar and others. There is this 5 min something sequence of events where the entire life of the main lead flashes before us, and I tell you I have never seen such creativity before. It is simply superb in its direction and story-telling. It has been the best animated movie I have seen in a while. Coraline doesn’t come closer to it anywhere, yes The Princess and the Frog is definitely a good watch. But Up is way above the league with a story of a simple man chasing his dreams, in the course he meets a kiddo and how things change around him is wonderful to watch.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
| Author:
Joseph Thankachan
The Nominees for the Actress in a Leading Role are:
And the Oscar goes to: Sandra Bullock
For her brilliant role in the Blind Side. She deserves this award after she delivered the best role ever in her life. She’s done a fantastic role as a mother who adopts a Black American teen and gives him shelter in her house, moulds his life and creates a success out of him. As Leigh Anne Tuohy in the Blind Side she adds substance to her role, being of a high class genre she portrays care, respect, assertiveness, love and joy with panache. There is one scene where the young Michael Oher is unable to perform in the practice match, Leigh motivates him to perform in a rather unconventional way. Sandra makes the Blind Side special. You can read the review of the Blind Side here. Amongst others, Carey Mulligan is the one closest to her after bagging the BAFTA awards. If I was given the say, no matter what I would have always given it to the evergreen Meryll Streep, she afterall has n outstanding record of 16 nominations puff!!!!). She did a good job in Julie and Julia but I prefer her other roles over this, the most recent was “Its Complicated”. Anyways Meryll Maam you can wait this year, Sandra is by all probabilities going to scoop this one. Maybe next time.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
| Author:
Joseph Thankachan
The Nominees for the Actor in a Supporting Role are:
And the award goes to: Christoph Waltz
For his brilliant role of Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds. What a performance!!!!! Christoph singlehandedly overshadowed the roles of a certain Brad Pitt and other some some actors in the movie. He plays the role of a cold blooded detective cum decorated officer in Hitler’s army who with an evil / innocent smile hunts down Hitlers adversaries. He’s loathesome, the way he detects or sniffs out yea sniffs out the adversaries and murders them in cold blood is admirable. Where was this man? There are 2 scenes where his brilliance is simply manifested
a) he in a conversation with a farmer at his house drinking milk hunts down the Jews hiding underground, here you witness a brilliant Christoph conversing, laughing and suddenly showing another him
b) again a normal tete-a-tete with one of the theatre actress (who apparently is his well known accomplice but an undercover agent conspiring to kill Hitler) which starts off as a congenial one turns into a cold blooded murder of the lady
I was not impressed with Matt Damon in his role in Invictus. Others I wish not to comment.
Christoph is by all means going to win the Oscar in this category, and has swept off all the other awards including the BAFTA and the Golden Globes.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
| Author:
Joseph Thankachan
The nominations for the Best Picture are:
And the Award goes to: Avatar:
For the extraordinary technology revolution that it brought into film making. Cameron spend about 15 years thinking and executing this project what he came up with was a breathtaking visual treat for all movie goers; Avatar has been “the movie” of the year, eagerly awaited since the start of the year, it has been nominated in 9 categories: * Best picture
* Directing
* Art direction
* Cinematography
* Film editing
* Original score
* Sound editing
* Sound mixing
* Visual effects
I had a very difficult time choosing between Avatar, Hurt Locker and The Inglourious Basterds, what I was bowled over was the technology behind it. Avatar is not a story that is gripping as the Hurt Locker or as beautifully made as the “Inglourious Basterds”, it’s simple and yet sophisticated, blends a future concept with today’s reality. Having said this The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds may make it to the podium ahead of Avatar.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
| Author:
Joseph Thankachan
The Oscars are just a few days away, who will walk away with the prestigious 82nd Academy Awards is a simple guess more or less this time (well in most of the categories). The verdict is more or less out with the Golden Globes and the Bafta awardees set to continue their reign in the Academy Awards. The previous years was good for Hollywood; it witnessed a technology and film making revolution with Avatar, highest ever box office engrosser Avatar again, history cinematographed the Hollywood way in Inglorious Basterds, a heart rending truth and reality in the Hurt Locker and some really powerful stories like the Blind Side, which gained people’s interest in US and worldwide alike. This year the contest seems to be headed the Cameron way, Cameron and his ex-wife Kathryn are set to sweep the Oscars, and it’s going to be hard to predict beforehand who’s gonna win what. If the Golden Globes were a predictment of Oscars with Avatar sweeping the Gloden Globes the Bafta did a 360 with Hurt Locker winning the maximum. Well the technical awards are all set to be in Avatar’s pocket without any contention, the major categories which include the Best Picture and the Best Director are a bit dicey to predict with certainty. I think the Best Actress is a simple choice, it would be a calamity if Sandra doesn’t win it this time for her role in the Blind Side, Best Supporting Actress is again presumed to go to Mo’Nique for her role in Precious and the most loved act this year i.e. the role by Christoph Waltz in Inglourius Basterds on which I m ready to bet my life earnings (thts a few dollars none the less) would win the Best Supporting Actor. In a couple of days I’ll spend my time reviewing few movies in select categories which I think will walk away with the golden man this year, and if they don’t consider it as a Human error.
