THE OSCARS 2014 ACADEMY AWARD CEREMONY
"The Dallas Buyers Club" hasn't been shown in Poland yet. Neither has "The Great Beauty".
I wanted "Star Trek: Into Darkness" to win the Visual Effects but it all seems to go to "Gravity" this year. At least the Sound Mixing and Sound Editing deservedly. Cinematography less so. Not sure about Film Editing. Oh, no! Even Directing?! I walked out from the movie! Remember!
Kenyan Lupita Nyong'o the Best Supporting Actress - it would be unjust to give the award to anyone else.
Not only is this year's show full of usual inside jokes but also a pizza delivery: "Tip him whatever you feel is right. No pressure of a billion people watching."
Paul Walker dead?! How come? Oh dear, how eponymous when a star of "The Fast And The Furious" dies in a car crash!
Where are Oscars for "The Wolf Of Wall Street"?! I'm still waiting!!! Oh no, not even for Leonardo... or the movie... The Most Overlooked Film Of The Year Award??
Sunday 2 March 2014
NIGHT FILM MARATHON - THE OSCARS NIGHT
12 YEARS A SLAVE
Watchable. A very good film which, however, doesn't rise above a regular slave film. It does its best to show varying points of view and attitudes of both slaves and their owners, just like the original book by Solomon Northup did, but on the whole it's a brutal account of atrocities everyone associates with slavery already. Brad Pitt doesn't sound even remotely Canadian in his cameo unfortunately. It's worth noticing, that although the film is predominantly black, including the director, it comes out shortly after revelations about Cleveland abductions and several cases involving enslaving white women worldwide.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Recommended. Whatever I said about the film previously, still holds true after the second watching. I loved every minute of it from the beginning to the end. It deserves Oscars in all the five categories it has been nominated for, especially for Leonardo di Caprio as the lead actor.
PHILOMENA
Recommended. A moving story of the evil brought about by those who believed their moral standards applied to everyone. The third true story nominated this year. And rightly so.
GRAVITY 3D
Walked out. Couldn't stand that bore again. While the music and sound categories deserve Academy Awards, it's too little to sit through something so deprived of emotions.
12 YEARS A SLAVE
Watchable. A very good film which, however, doesn't rise above a regular slave film. It does its best to show varying points of view and attitudes of both slaves and their owners, just like the original book by Solomon Northup did, but on the whole it's a brutal account of atrocities everyone associates with slavery already. Brad Pitt doesn't sound even remotely Canadian in his cameo unfortunately. It's worth noticing, that although the film is predominantly black, including the director, it comes out shortly after revelations about Cleveland abductions and several cases involving enslaving white women worldwide.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Recommended. Whatever I said about the film previously, still holds true after the second watching. I loved every minute of it from the beginning to the end. It deserves Oscars in all the five categories it has been nominated for, especially for Leonardo di Caprio as the lead actor.
PHILOMENA
Recommended. A moving story of the evil brought about by those who believed their moral standards applied to everyone. The third true story nominated this year. And rightly so.
GRAVITY 3D
Walked out. Couldn't stand that bore again. While the music and sound categories deserve Academy Awards, it's too little to sit through something so deprived of emotions.
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