Point came for you to be Glenn Close to me. – Sloan So there’s this chick, working at a hotel, pretending to be bloke. She meets another chick, pretending to be a bloke. She gets jealous of the other chick, as she has a wife. She pursues romance without reveal her gender. It’s okay. Glenn Close doesn’t make a convincing dude, but the other lady is worse at that. I’d rather just watch Andrew In Drag. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHqMvojZKSw&w=480&h=274]
Apparently there’s a thing called “eco-terrorism.” Apparently in the early 2000s, a bunch of hippies in the pacific northwest, thought it would be awesome to burn shit. This documentary is about a bunch of these assholes who think the way to affect change is to burn shit. They’re morons. A group of them were arrested years later, and this documentary covers them. The main terrorist is not remorseful of what he’s done, and doesn’t seem to see the gravity of his crimes. Perhaps the liberal use of “terrorist” by the US Government is overkill, but my god, these people really have no idea of the impact of what they did,… Read More »Oscarpalooza – If A Tree Falls
Apparently in 1993, in the United States, three young boys were murdered. Shortly afterward, three teenagers were arrested, tried, and convicted of these murders. One of whom was sentenced to lethal injection1. Back then, apparently an HBO documentary was made, and questioned the trial, and the guilt of the teenagers. It got a lot of attention. Then they made a follow up. I didn’t see either of these films, but since the third one was nominated for an Oscar, here we go… 17 years later, they’re still in prison. They’ve been appealing and appealing to no end. The same judge is still overseeing, and he won’t reopen the case. It goes on… Read More »Oscarpalooza – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Ugh. This is a documentary about American soldiers in Afghanistan. I’ve heard some stories that don’t leave me with a high impression of US soldiers, and this documentary did little to help that. This soldier was shot a few days before his tour of duty ended. The film documents his time in Afghanistan and his time recovering at home with his wife. He’s a psychopath. He proudly proclaims that the reason he joined the US Marines was that he wanted to kill people. He also claims that the recruiters told him that was the best reason. Personally if I were a recruiting officer for my country’s forces, I would have… Read More »Oscarpalooza – Hell And Back Again
I’d love to have insight into this film, but I don’t. I decided to watch it after getting rather upset, and hoped it would distract me, it didn’t. I had trouble following the plot and no desire to invest the energy into paying attention.
Monsieur Lazhar is nominated for Best Foreign Language film. In my country, it’s a domestic language. It was even made in my country. It’s the Canadian entry to to The Oscars. Last year, Canada’s entry was a film called Incendies. Both these films are about immigrants in Montreal. Both these films are depressing. However, beyond that, both these films are completely different. In a Montreal elementary school, a student is heading to class ahead of his classmates, finds the door locked, peaks in to find his teacher’s corpse hanging from the ceiling. Not a happy start. I hope to never work with elementary teachers who would do that to their… Read More »Oscarpalooza – Monsieur Lazhar
Watching his father die, and live his last years out of the closet, Ewan McGregor plays a man who sees love for the first time through his septuagenarian father’s eyes. As a child he was close to his mother, and saw her loneliness, this shaped his life view, and how he experienced love. After his father dies of cancer, he meets an actress at a party, and his mentality and attitudes towards his own future and how he lets others into his life. It has Christopher Plummer being FABULOUS as a gay and out man in his seventies. It also has this line, “Jewish girls are not pretty. They can be interesting… Read More »Oscarpalooza – Beginners
I’ve seen films about the silent era before, but never before have I seen a film so wonderfully done, nor have I seen a silent film about the silent era. The Artist is an absolutely fantastic love story about a rising star and a falling star. I honestly don’t think I should say anymore except go watch it. Now.
Can you call a film about a man with a dying wife who discovers that his wife was cheating on him a fun film? Well, it was. It was an interesting film about Clooney coming to terms with his wife’s indiscretions and learning to be a father for the first time. In addition, there’s some B plot about his family owning property and selling it. It’s an okay film, fun, entertaining, but in no way Oscar-worthy. There was nothing in this film screaming “FANTASTIC” at me, so I assume other people saw different things in the film than I did. Either way, worth the watch.
What the fuck was I thinking? A cheesy Spielberg film, about a horse that goes to war? Why did I even bother? Oh yeah… Benedict Cumberbatch. After watching two seasons (aka six episodes) of the BBC’s Sherlock, how could I resist a film starring the wonderful and sarcastic and funny Sherlock Holmes… er, Benedict Cumberbatch. This film goes to prove that no matter how good your actors are, you need a good script, and the script for War Horse is fucking terrible. I can’t remember the last time I disliked a film so much that I had to turn it off. War Horse, you won that prize.