Inception

                 So, update on my quest to actually know what I'm talking about when I make posts about the Oscars. So far I have seen seven of the ten films nominated for best picture. All that remains are True Grit, The Kid's are All Right, and...sigh... The King's Speech. I only haven't seen True Grit yet because I'm planning to see it with friends on Monday or Tuesday. The King's Speech is a film I've been avoiding for all the reasons I've detailed in various other posts, and I just watched the trailer for The Kids Are All Right and it looks like the kind of movie I have less than no interest in watching. However in the interest of being fair I will go and watch every movie nominated for best picture, as well as the films that have actors and actresses nominated for those relevant awards. So let's get this show on the road. This review is for one of my favorite movies this year, Christopher Nolan's Inception.

The Social Network

             I recently wrote a piece about my Oscar picks and why I think The King's Speech shouldn't win best picture. I felt kind of odd while writing it because I had to say after every movie I talked about that I hadn't actually seen the movie yet. Well, I've decided to change that. I have now seen six of the ten best picture nominee's and I plan to see all of them. I'm going to write an official review for every film, as well as a final list putting the nominees in order of my personal preference. This is the first of the best picture reviews and I thought I'd start off with the movie I think will win best picture: The Social Network

It's Oscar Season.

So far I have seen four of the ten Best Picture nominees. All four were excellent films and certainly deserve to be honoured in the best picture category. As you may or may not know there are three main flavours of best picture nominee. Front runners, spoilers, and it's an honour to be nominated. Our front-runners this year are the documentary known as How to Make a Best Picture Winner a.k.a. The King's Speech and the young upstart The Social Network which is about this new fangled internet thing that most of the members of the academy don't understand. As you may have gathered I'm slightly bitter about this whole thing.

Fallout Fan Film, Fantastic!

You see what I did there? All the words in the title start with F. Anyway, Check out this great fan film based on the video game series fallout. For anyone unaware, Fallout is an RPG set in a wasteland after a nuclear war. I'm impressed with how great this looks. All the scenary and costumes are note perfect. Like most fan-films the acting is a little iffy, and it's a little on the sillier side, but all in all this is a great piece of film-making.



P.S. I will also be posting this on my other blog, Reality in a box http://www.alexinabox.blogspot.com/. On that blog I post all kinds of non-film related stuff about my other interests like music and gaming. Go check it out!

(Insert Time of Day Here) Of the Dead

George Romero is a clever guy. For those of you not in the know, George Romero is the inventor of modern zombies. Note that he didn't invent zombies themselves, they've been around for awhile in the Voodoo religion, but rather wrote the book on what a film zombie should do. His film Night of the Living Dead is a step-by-step guide to making a perfect zombie film. Don't bother explaining why zombies attack, they just do. Have a small group of characters board up in some sort of building, then wait for inter-personal relations to break down...and Voila! You have made an excellent zombie film. The question is however, is it his best work? Romero has made six zombie movies, known as the 'Of the Dead' movies. The two most commonly referenced as his best work, and the genera's best are Night of the Living Dead and Romero's second film Dawn of the Dead. But which is superior?

The One That Got Away

Everyone has this. A movie that went into your local theater that you thought you might want to see. And then you don't. Then comes the end of the year and you realize that was the movie that you HAD to see this year. And you missed it. Well, this year for me that movie was The Social Network. Cue Trailer -

Ten Movies I'm pumped for in 2011!

I think the title says it all. Here we go:

#10 - Sherlock Holmes 2

Normally, the problem with sequals is that their story fails to live up to the story of the original. Luckily for Sherlock Holmes, living up to the original story shouldn't be a problem. The two problems with the first Sherlock were the slightly boring story and the honestly unthreatening boring villain. With Proffesor Moriarty coming into play the villain part is already solved, so all they need to do to make this a perfect sequel is a good story that will give the characters a bit more to do than be witty at each other. (Though in the last film, the characters alone were enough for me to leave the theater impressed.)

Top 5 New Movies I saw this year

I saw a lot of movies this year. However, most of them were old movies. I hardly saw any movies in theaters, and honestly, that's pretty normal. My theater only has two screens, and doesn't usually get movies until well after they debut in big cities. I first saw four of the five movies on this list on dvd, only one was seen in a theater. Unfortunately I haven't seen most of the big Oscar contender dramas this year, so they aren't on the list. But anyway, here we go:

Off of Hiatus.

Back again, this time for real. Finishing this semester soon so I'll have more free time, totally pumped to go out and watch more movies. There are going to be two new lists today, and I'm going to be posting loads of stuff. Lots to do!