Oscar Predictions...

Image borrowed from Screenrant.

This is my first time blogging about the Oscars. In previous years I’ve sat back and waited for the results to turn up on the morning news, but this year I thought it was time to take a stab and guess who might win some of the awards.

There is no doubt that The Kings Speech will sweep the board, but there is some hope for Inception and True Grit.

I’ve made my predictions with a mix of guesses and people who I think should win.

Anyway, please find my predictions below:
Best Film - The Kings Speech
Actor in a leading role - Colin Firth (or Jeff Bridges)
Actor in a supporting role - Geoffrey Rush
Actress in a leading role - Natalie Portman
Actress in a supporting Role - Hailee Steinfeld (or Helena Bonham Carter)
Animated - Toy Story 3
Art Direction - Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design); Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration), Inception
Cinematography - Danny Cohen, The Kings Speech
Costume Design - Jenny Beavan, The Kings Speech
Directing - Tom Hooper, The Kings Speech
Documentary Feature - Exit Through the Gift Shop
Documentary Short Subject - No Idea so going to say Sun Come Up
Film Editing - Tariq Anwar, The Kings Speech
Foreign Language Film - Biutiful
Make Up - Adrien Morot, Barny’s Version
Music (Original Score) - Hans Zimmer, Inception
Music (Original Song)- We Belong Together" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman Toy Story 3
Short Film (Animated) - Day & Night
Short Film (Live Action) - Another guess - Wish 143 as I heard an interview about it the other day.
Sound Editing - Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague, Tron Legacy
Sound Mixing - Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick, Inception
Visual Effects - Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips, Alice in Wonderland
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - The Social Network, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Writing (Original) - The King’s Speech, screenplay by David Seidler

What do you think? Do you agree or disagree?

If you want to see some predictions from some great bloggers, check out these guys:
HeyUGuys:http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2011/02/27/2011-oscar-predictions/
Kelly Aylse @ The Film Obsession:http://the-film-obsession.blogspot.com/2011/02/kellys-oscar-award-predictions.html
Diegetic Sound:http://www.diegeticsound.com/2011/02/oscar-picks-2011.html
Eternity of Dream:http://eternityofdream.blogspot.com/2011/02/ultimate-oscar-predictions.html

What happened to fun?

The other evening while I sat there waiting for Never Let Me Go to start (review coming soon) the trailer for Sucker Punch came on. The girl next to me told her friends that it looked rubbish...but I sat back and thought, wow this looks good!


A film about a group of girls trying to escape from their reality buy living in this dream world, battling dragons and soldiers with massive guns and skimpy outfits, what is there not to love about it?

Which got me to thinking. How depressing the last couple of months have been in movie land?

Ok, ok before you start. The Kings Speech was amazing, I cried and laughed, but still it was a serious film. True Grit had a great story and acting, but it was still hard going. Chatting to friends and reading reviews revealed that Black Swan is another scary and depressing piece. Never Let Me Go made me feel quite emtpy inside!

I know there has been a few films that have tired to lighten the mood, but with little success. I mean, I really didn't want to (and thank god I didn't have to) sit through The Dilemma and I didn't get around to seeing Morning Glory, which might have lifted the mood.

I mean, This is one of the darkest points of the year. Most of us who haven't been able to escape the grey and cold UK are suffering from S.A.D. And I know we are in awards season, with the Golden Globes, BAFTA's and the Oscars praising some truly great masterpieces, can we not have some fun please?

After seeing the trailer for Bad Teacher today, I saw that there was light at the end of this tunnel. This film is going to amazing, with Cameron Diaz back to her best since The Sweetest Thing, I think.
Also, more than The Hangover 2, I'm really looking forward to Bridesmaids, which could be amazing.

With this in mind, I'm thinking, "roll on Spring and Summer!" Bring us some films to make us laugh! It's time for the fun times (and films) to begin!

Review - True Grit

True grit is a great film, a good story, some supurb acting and amazing cinematography. I'm not usually a big fan of westerns in general, but this one was great. Either am I a big fan of the Cohen brothers after their last couple of films which I found really hard to get into. But, they got it right with True Grit!

After seeing Jeff bridges in tron, it's nice yonder him do some propper acting and play an amazing character. Matt Damon was great too, he usualy seems a little dead behind the eyes, but you can really see his talent in these films. Hailee Steinfield should be proud for such doing a great job for her first major Hollywood picture!

Even though I did enjoy the film, I'm not sure of it is really as good as the King's Speech, which had me laughing and crying throughout, so not convinced that it lives up to it's Oscar hype.

Anyway, a great film that makes me want to go and watch some westerns!

4 stars

Review - Remember Me.

To be honest, I’m still trying to decide why I wanted to see this film. The trailers made it look ok and I mean, I do love the the Twilight films...mmm

Anyway, I’m going to state it now that I wasn’t a great fan of this film:
1. It took me about 25mins to get into, I know that isn’t as long as Last Kiss, but still, that is a while.
2. Robert Pattinson acting was a little off. He seemed like he was trying sooo hard not to be Edward Cullen. His character cracked in parts of the film and the soppy, strong, frown-y vampire teenager just came out.
3. Pierce Brosnan seemed to have a very wierd accent.
4. What was with the story? It seemed to be a love story, showing connections that ended up with the lead character getting killed in the Twin Towers disaster, which I was not expecting. The basis seemed to be that it was all about being remembered as a person. But a person who touches others, but doesn't do anything significant. There was lots of little story lines, that were never that, deeply explored and just sat there.
5. What is it with films trying to make out that all students are quirky, closeted, sulky individuals who have no sense of life.

In conclusion, I really wasn’t a fan of this film. It was trying to hard to be something and ended up being nothing at all.

I give it 0.5 stars.