Not really a review today more along the lines of a few things I wanted to point out that I have seen in the world of movies this week.
1. http://flixchatter.wordpress.com/ is one of the coolest movie blogs that I have seen recently. I don’t know much about the blog but I stumbled across a really cool article that was linked on IMDB about movie accents. I would highly suggest checking it out.
2. I am not sure how I feel about having 10 Best Picture Nominees this year. I have seen about half of the films nominated at this point (Up, Inglorious Basterds, District 9, Avatar, The Hurt Locker) and I want to see the majority of the remaining films. I just think that having to many nominations takes away a little from the prestige of being a best picture nominee. If I were to choose right now and only based off of the films that I have seen I would choose Inglorious Basterds. My reason is that it was a serious achievement in film-making. The acting, direction and technical parts of the film were all spot on and the film was easily Tarantinos best! Being on the watch for more coverage of the Oscar to come here at “The Bottle City of Reed!”
3. I am extremely annoyed at the new trend that everything new coming out of Hollywood now is supposedly going to now be in 3D. I can appreciate Avatar as a phenomenal technical achievement and I think you should see it in 3D but I do not think that just because Avatar was one of the most successful movies of all time that every new movie has to be 3D. To explore the world best 3D worked I don’t know if it will translate as well to other films and I don’t know if I would even want it to. I would rather filmmakers to concentrate on quality storylines and high quality images (like IMAX). In addition I hate that people want 3D technology to enter the home. I have enough of an argument against the implementation of this technology that I will save that for a future entry.
4. I have wanted to get into LOST for the past few years and this year I finally did when my wife purchased the first 5 seasons for me this Christmas. We have got through the first 4 seasons but tonight is the start of the 6th and last season. I wish we were caught up but I am just going to have to watch out for spoilers on Facebook and the different forums that I visit.
Hope you had fun with my random thought! Now it is time to go watch Zombieland!
Again please check out http://flixchatter.wordpress.com/ it is a cool site!
Later!
Adam
I’m not sure what I would pick for Best Picture, as I have not seen all of the ones you mentioned, and haven’t seen the five others either. I agree on the 3D stuff. It is cool for some things, but I don’t want to watch everything in 3D. I’d rather it just be an attraction for the theater to. I don’t really care about having it in the home for movies, games, and TV. It might be fun for a novelty in the home, but I just can’t picture wanting to put on a pair of 3D glasses every time I want to sit down for a movie, game, or TV show at home.