Thursday, October 29, 2015
Let's talk about movies: That time of the season
Let's talk about movies: That time of the season: Well as it is every year, all the movies geared towards the oscars are being released now and I'll say this, so far I seen six really go...
That time of the season
Well as it is every year, all the movies geared towards the oscars are being released now and I'll say this, so far I seen six really good films. I not saying that there hasn't been some great ones already released because there have been quite a few such as Dope, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Straight Outta Compton, The Gift, Kingsman and Mr. Holmes just to name a few. My friend Chris and I were discussing why the studios always release the oscar movies at the end of the year and not throughout the year and the reality is when they are released at the end of the year it's fresher in the academies mind.
The six films I was referring to earlier are The Martian, Sicario, 99 Homes, The Walk, Steve Jobs and Bridge of Spies. Each one of the films offered a rich and compelling story that makes going to the movies everything I hope it is when the lights go down.
I forgot to include another movie I saw recently which was Pawn Sacrifice, Toby Maguire and Liev Schreiber are great playing Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. It's just more proof how compelling these movies are during this time of the season.
At work recently I had a discussion about the movie Black Mass which came out a little over a month ago and one of my co-workers was saying that Johnny Depp was going to win the oscar for best actor this year.
Well after seeing the movie I can tell you that this is not true, I'm not even sure he'll be nominated, yes he does finally do some acting rather than play a character. Of course I know he's acting even when he plays those characters and he does bring a certain menace playing Whitey Bulger but overall the movie is good not great which I was hoping for. Now a movie like Steve Jobs is where you can see some great acting because obviously Michael Fassbender looks nothing like Steve Jobs but just watching that performance I got sucked in, plus that ensemble, all give such great performances.
We're not even at the end of the year so there's quite a few more movies coming out that will probably be in my top twenty list for the year and I can't wait, bring them on!
I'm going to go off topic now and as you know with a prior blog it's my wish to do a movie marathon and I guess I would also like to get a movie club started as well, I can't help but think how much fun it would be to talk about movies and maybe learn about some I've yet to see. So if anyone is interested in being apart of such an endeavor maybe we can figure out a place to meet or even just watch movies at the theater.
In regards to the marathon I figure maybe I'll have to consider kick starter to help with funding, I'm going to have to do my research.
Well until next time, keep watching movies because you know I will.
The six films I was referring to earlier are The Martian, Sicario, 99 Homes, The Walk, Steve Jobs and Bridge of Spies. Each one of the films offered a rich and compelling story that makes going to the movies everything I hope it is when the lights go down.
I forgot to include another movie I saw recently which was Pawn Sacrifice, Toby Maguire and Liev Schreiber are great playing Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. It's just more proof how compelling these movies are during this time of the season.
At work recently I had a discussion about the movie Black Mass which came out a little over a month ago and one of my co-workers was saying that Johnny Depp was going to win the oscar for best actor this year.
Well after seeing the movie I can tell you that this is not true, I'm not even sure he'll be nominated, yes he does finally do some acting rather than play a character. Of course I know he's acting even when he plays those characters and he does bring a certain menace playing Whitey Bulger but overall the movie is good not great which I was hoping for. Now a movie like Steve Jobs is where you can see some great acting because obviously Michael Fassbender looks nothing like Steve Jobs but just watching that performance I got sucked in, plus that ensemble, all give such great performances.
We're not even at the end of the year so there's quite a few more movies coming out that will probably be in my top twenty list for the year and I can't wait, bring them on!
I'm going to go off topic now and as you know with a prior blog it's my wish to do a movie marathon and I guess I would also like to get a movie club started as well, I can't help but think how much fun it would be to talk about movies and maybe learn about some I've yet to see. So if anyone is interested in being apart of such an endeavor maybe we can figure out a place to meet or even just watch movies at the theater.
In regards to the marathon I figure maybe I'll have to consider kick starter to help with funding, I'm going to have to do my research.
Well until next time, keep watching movies because you know I will.
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