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Kapol Poland. Feb 28 2011 06:19. Posts 4696 | | |
I am a movie fan, thus I couldn't have missed this year's Oscars (didn't watch it live, because of the time difference, though).
I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised that The Social Network didn't win the Best Picture. Despite all the positive reviews on the film, I found it not as good as most of the other nominees this year. I loved Inception and greatly enjoyed True Grit and Black Swan. As for the winner, The King's Speech, I feel that the prize is deserved, mainly due to very good acting by all three main characters (applause for Colin Firth - a truly great, Oscar worthy, performance) and a fresh, well written script (who would have thought that a history of a stammering king can be so interesting?).
Natalie Portman played her role very well in the Black Swan and I couldn't see anyone else being the winner, although I'd like to honor Michelle Williams for her role in Blue Valentine. She was also very good.
Supporting roles: The Fighter took both and, for me, the Academy made the right decision. Both performances are powerful, convincing and realistic.
There was absolutely no doubt that Toy Story 3 will take the Best Animated Picture award (how could it not - it was nominated for the Best Picture). As for Best Foreign Language film, I haven't seen the winner yet, so I can't elaborate on this one.
It is said that the biggest loser of this year's Academy Awards is True Grit. Ten chances and no win. I wouldn't say this is a big surprise. Although the movie itself is very good in almost every aspect, it is brilliant almost nowhere. The competition was simply better. I wish the Coen brothers more luck next time. They are extremely talented and nearly all of their films are hits, so I'm looking forward to Gambit, which is due to release in 2012.
All in all, I think the year 2010 abounded in several good films and was better for movie fans than the previous one. Hopefully 2011 can top that.
P.S. I saw Blue Valentine yesterday and Ryan Gosling really should have been nominated instead of Jesse Eisenberg or James Franco (haven't watched Biutiful). In this movie he proves that he is a great actor, even though he's still relatively young. I'm sure we'll hear about him in the future.
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TheHuHu3 United States. Feb 28 2011 06:46. Posts 5544 | | |
I agree with all the winners this year, Colin Firth really did fucking own the screen in The King's Speech but so did Jeff Bridge's in True Grit, who is obviously the 2nd best up there this year.
I'm happy Christian Bale won this Oscar right before filming The Dark Knight Rises, hopefully it'll just give him that extra boost to play Bruce Wayne even better . |
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whamm! Albania. Feb 28 2011 06:57. Posts 11625 | | |
christian bale in the fighter was an insanely convincing degen/meth junkie, his performances are unreal |
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Kapol Poland. Feb 28 2011 08:58. Posts 4696 | | |
Yea, I agree Jeff Bridges was great as well. |
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