The Oscars
Ya know, I kinda just don't care this year. My interests have their peaks and troughs, even the career worthy one, and I haven't felt like doing much movie going lately. I think the only movies I've seen in theaters in the past two and a half months are Frost/Nixon and Coraline. What this has highlighted for me is how counter-productively inconvenient it is to have all the Oscar contenders come out in December. Even if I had felt like it I wouldn't have been able to see everything, as things stood I was completely put-off from the task.
I'm just gonna say the obvious: If Heath Ledger were alive he would still deserve the Oscar.
(Okay, I do have more thoughts obviously)
WALL-E should be up for Best Picture, Best Animated is an ghetto and Frost/Nixon is overrated. I do really wanna see Frozen River. Changeling should not win Best Cinematography and if it does I'm gonna hunt down Eastwood and paint him a bright shade of blue; if Changeling is any indication he'll really fucking hate that. Lastly I actually don't think Dark Knight should win Best Editing; I do think it's a nearly perfect movie but my reasons for qualifying it as "nearly" lie solely with the editing. Lee Smith is a good editor, he's done great work with Peter Weir, and what's more he did great work for Chris Nolan on The Prestige, but he has no business cutting together fight scenes, and he introduced a continuity flaw into an otherwise flawless script through the way he handled the Harvey Dent interrogation scene.
P.S. If you wanna see good editing, or even if you don't care about editing, Netflix yourself a copy of The Pawnbroker. It's the best movie I've seen since I got to SFSU, second only perhaps to Harlen County U.S.A.
I'm just gonna say the obvious: If Heath Ledger were alive he would still deserve the Oscar.
(Okay, I do have more thoughts obviously)
WALL-E should be up for Best Picture, Best Animated is an ghetto and Frost/Nixon is overrated. I do really wanna see Frozen River. Changeling should not win Best Cinematography and if it does I'm gonna hunt down Eastwood and paint him a bright shade of blue; if Changeling is any indication he'll really fucking hate that. Lastly I actually don't think Dark Knight should win Best Editing; I do think it's a nearly perfect movie but my reasons for qualifying it as "nearly" lie solely with the editing. Lee Smith is a good editor, he's done great work with Peter Weir, and what's more he did great work for Chris Nolan on The Prestige, but he has no business cutting together fight scenes, and he introduced a continuity flaw into an otherwise flawless script through the way he handled the Harvey Dent interrogation scene.
P.S. If you wanna see good editing, or even if you don't care about editing, Netflix yourself a copy of The Pawnbroker. It's the best movie I've seen since I got to SFSU, second only perhaps to Harlen County U.S.A.