tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44982976612146121572012-03-03T00:57:10.937+02:00----------- About movies mainly ... and here and there a few other things ------------ (check the Motto for more info)Emihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16962547801747879413noreply@blogger.comBlogger801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498297661214612157.post-32069806395957097582012-03-03T00:23:00.002+02:002012-03-03T00:57:10.947+02:00

Beware ... I'm gonna have a loooong intro :) so have patience with me this time, this movie deserves it ... I've chosen it due to lots of reasons (well .. three) 1. I didn't get to see anything this week, and I don't know if I will so I had to search my memory for something older. And I remembered I mentioned this when I was writing not so long ago about the Oscar nominees for cinematography,

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Finally we got this year too at the last entry in the Oscar series, and I hope I'll finish to write in fast enough to still have sense to read it before the awards :) (I'm gettin' slow with this "live" writing lately ... even if I usually do it on the run). Considering the expectations had regarding my available time and the 8 postings on 9 categories I made (including the current one) I can

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Like I was saying, I don't have the time to spend on other categories (and actually not to fill the list of unseen movies to get an opinion about all the nominees), so I'll jump straight to the directing."Midnight in Paris" - Woody Allen - I'll be franc (no pun intended): zero chances. The movie is ok, we have some bits of originality as idea with the integrated time traveling, but that's more

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Although I'm generally disappointed by the last year's movies, I still have to admit that there are a few sections which individually taken (and exclusively) for what they are offering, do not leave room for negative opinion. And the cinematography it's actually pretty much yearly sufficiently high to put you in doubt about any prediction. "The Artist" - Guillaume Schiffman - is again the "

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There is said that at the Oscars the award for film editing announced the final one for best movie. I have no idea where I heard that, and I don't really believe it (a clear example: last year wasn't like this .. and still .. this year sounds more plausible). But let's check out the nominees ..."The Artist" is I guess the best placed here. First, it's something different from the rest because the

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This week I intend to do a posting marathon (at least compared to the usual rate of one/week) despite the fact that it's the last thing on a long list I really must get done (yeah, obviously I'm complaining again at the start of the entry, I'll do that forever - or at least until I'll get my pension and retire, live with it :p). To get faster to the subject anyway .. today art direction aka

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This is another category where I had to check twice to be sure I'm not having hallucinations about what's on the list. The thing is that considering what it got here we have a more easier result to foresee, being already quite predictable even before the nomination process. And like specially set to support it we have three of five OSTs this tear which have more or less a French first half of the

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I wanted to post on Tuesday this entry, but I didn't have the time so I'll get a more "dense" weekend = I'll probably be back on Sunday with what we have for soundtracks this year. But until there, let's get back to the "pure sound". To summarized what is what, "editing" implies pretty much everything related to preprocessing, effects, ADR (dubbing over the initial recording), etc and "mixing" to

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Ok .. I'm back. Unfortunately, I don't have much time on my hands, but enough to start my pass through few of this years' categories with the VFX one. So, let's take the nominees one by one as they're officially anounced (= alphabetical):It's been a while since the last "Harry Potter" came out in cinemas. Sufficient enough to cause me the same trouble I've always had with this series (too long

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Like I said a couple of days ago, I'm back with the nominations for this year's Oscars. I won't spend time on babbling about the reasons I'm dedicating February for this topic (= next weeks I'll detail some of the categories below, not to many because I don't have the time). I brought arguments last year, so if somebody wants a reason .. search my blog. I could do the same for BAFTA but by chance

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Since February is close = soon I'll (try to ..) switch to Oscar mode, I said (as usually ..) to try to take some advance on seeing some title on the possible nominees list. Especially considering (again as usually ..) that I have plenty of work to do in the month to come and I don't see how I'll still manage to do a posting marathon, so again I assume I'll cut a bit from the categories I'll focus

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I've chosen this poster with a purpose. Two reasons: 1. it's pretty much as .. "dry" as the movie 2. the other main version has upfront exactly the "weakest link" from all the cast. And the cast is in my opinion one of the few reasons for which "A Dangerous Method" doesn't sink into mediocrity ...I won't spend time telling stories, describing a subject that it's pretty loose. Not that I expected

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I got a bad flu and I'm about to go on a smth like 17 hours trip (= end of vacation, goin' back to work) which I hope I'll survive, so I'll try to be short to catch at least two hours of sleep before. Long ago, I've seen "In Bruges". What's the connection with "The Guard" ? Well .. the directors are brothers, Brendan Gleeson is a main character in both, and we have the same dark humor. Sounds

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.. or, to have the full titles: "A Game of Shadows" vs. "Ghost Protocol". Why "vs." ? Well, because these had simultaneous release, because though different both are blockbuster action movies, because "the main villain" wants pretty much the same thing, because both are sequels, and .. because it sounds good as a blog post title :p .In the "Sherlock Holmes" sequel we have a story, or better said

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Ok .. I know .. "Real Steel" doesn't sound that good for the current period, but the title is misleading. Even if the movie was released in October, I say that it's quite fit for the winter holidays. Reason for I've actually chosen it as the subject (well .. I actually didn't have many recently seen options to choose from). From start I have to say that the rating in the end is quite objective.

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I have the luck from time to time to find a movie that fits perfectly to my mood when I see it .. because if I would watch it at another moment, I won't probably be very impressed. That's what happened with "Chocolat" when I've seen for the first time. And the second ... And even the third (yes, somehow I managed to watch that movie at least three times). But before "Chocolat" was "Babette's

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Unfortunately I don't have anything left to preview, and I have to fall back to something seen a bit longer ago since this week I didn't have time for movies. But since "a bit longer ago" wasn't that long ago and "Repo Men" is a Sci-Fi that surprised me positively, I fortunately have a subject. I would have preferred though something more accessible because I must start by saying that you have to

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I'm getting directly into the subject because I don't have much time for writing. I suppose that everybody heard about Tarzan. However I don't know who heard about John Carter. What's the catch ? Both were created by the same author - Edgar Rice Burroughs - being featured on the cover of a significant number of books (individually, not together, obviously - the first is lost in Africa, the other

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I like when I get to this period of the year. I'm even thinking to do this in more detail = with more titles, and more often = every season, not only at the beginning of Winter and Spring. Besides the "Oscar month" these are the only entries where I don't really need to desperately try to find a reasonable movie to see so I'll have something to write that won't transform the blog intro something

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I had a deadline this week and I decided to see something with a solid potential to recommend, considering that I didn't have time for more than a movie. The most accessible option I got was the current title, a bit older, but with a promising rating on IMDb. On top of that the directing is by Wong Kar Wai, one of the most appreciated names in the Asian cinema. However ...For me, the movie failed

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"Drive", as seen by IMDb is the best movie that came out this year. Based on the theory that the titles mentioned there in top 250 worth a look I can confirm it's not lost time (but for the best movie of 2011 up to now I'm a bit reserved ...). As a genre is somewhere between a noir film and a thriller. The story is simple ...... And it's centered over a short period of time from the life of a guy

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Some time ago I've seen a trailer for a movie called "The Double". I didn't see the movie (I don't even know if it already had a wide release) but I'm afraid it doesn't make any sense to do it anymore ... Actually, I'm wondering if it wasn't postponed to allow them to redo/extend the ending. Because in the two-three minutes of the trailer you have pretty much everything: the intrigue, the action,

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I don't have much time today so I'll dive directly into the subject. "The Warrior's Way" is a pretty strange mix between a western and ... "Ninja Assassin" about which I was writing not so long ago. In other words the main idea is pretty similar = we have an assassin who one days gets fed up with his "job", the clan's code of honor, fidelity vows and such stuff and just flees away ... obviously

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The difference from usual zombie movies is that here you don't have anymore the horror part = in this case "the infection" leads shortly to "(cough) .. I think I'm sick .. (double cough) .. I've seen flying U45XWS9C6QT2 .. MMmmm... me dizzy .. (triple cough) .. sAkJDS9mas .. bye bye, cruel world" without any other violent manifestations caused specifically by the disease. For who has already

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John Brennan: So, the life in times of Don Quixote, what is it about?Female College Student: That someone's belief in virtue is more important than virtue itself?John Brennan: Yes... that's in there. But what is it about? Could it be how rational thought destroys your soul? Could it be about the triumph of irrationality and the power that is in that? You know, we spend a lot of time trying to

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YAZM ... Yet Another Zombie Movie :) Well .. sort of ... = I include into "zombie movie" pretty much everything that's horror/SF involving hordes of "infected" people (dead, undead, alive, whatever). "Pontypool" is anyway something different from anything I've seen before ... First of all I should say that we have here an indie production which apparently found a pretty original way to lower the

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I'm very very tired after four days of walking through other places than my usual residence so I'm not in the very best shape for writing. Fortunately "Devil" is not a movie that takes to much time, at least not with the subject, because if I would say too much I would also spoil too much from what you get to see. IMDb designates it as Horror, Mistery, Thriller (the usual alphabetic order). I

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Not very long ago I was praising the SciFi channel mini-series (or newer .. SyFy). It seems that I finally got into something that it's on the opposite side and I don't even know if I should spend the time writing about it .. "Tin Man" (by the way, if somebody sees the movie and has a solid argument for the chosen title, please give me a message). Still ... Still, the critics were relatively

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I'm going to be more short today - 1. I don't actually have much to write about "The Lincoln Lawyer" 2. the eternal "time tends to be = 0" lack of "resources" . So, we have a thriller, which is adapted after a book, which book I didn't read, but which I think it's better than the movie ... Well, it's not a bad movie, but it could have been much better. Because of this, probably the best part is

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I took a little time to think on how to rate "Ninja Assassin" (although probably that's the least meaningful part of an entry). Eventually I decided to restrain myself and opted for what's written in the end. Just to be sure nobody will think that I'm drunk in case I would have given a higher rating. Although it still might happen if I'm thinking on the last week's movie. But comparing here, just

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I've seen so many movies having a quite similar subject with the one I'm writing about, that I honestly didn't remember if not this one is also among them. So, I was a bit undecided if to see it or not because even though I have a series of movies about which I know for sure I watched but I don't recall much from them, I'm trying to avoid seeing again when I have another choice. Obviously due

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I'll start with the impresion I've been left after seeing the movie in the today's entry. Or better said the impression the impression I've had and the movie made stronger. It's about the fact that if you try to do an average of the value of the mini-series and TV series in the last 10 years you'll get definitely something better than the same for the big screen movies (talking about production

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Because my vacation it's soon to be over (damn, that was fast ...) I'm starting again to lack the time for writing. And today I should really take my time and focus on this. Not to say that I'm also struck by a lack of inspiration these days. So ... I'm saying that I should take all the time needed because I'm writing about something that really deserves the minutes spent on it, about something

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I think I'm getting old ... Either this, or my "head wheels" are not running very well again (to put it elegantly) ... Or both. The result is that from all the movies I've watched lately (quite a lot compared to my normal weekly rate), I've chosen for today probably the most lame title considering its value/rating. And this due to a total subjective criteria of a semi-nostalgic feeling for a

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I told myself to write a bit earlier this week because I don't see any reason for delaying the entry. No matter what other movie I'm gonna see the topic will be the same :) I was waiting for this one since .. I don't remember when ... and when it was released I managed to "synchronize" so "well" that I missed it in the two towns I were at that time. Well, finally I solved "the problem", and

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I was thinking this morning to write in this entry about the last Harry Potter. But I told myself to wait until the evening to add one more movie on the list of the ones I've seen this week (which I think is a record for this year = I'm finally in vacation .. at least theoretically). The result is that after watching "Super 8" I've changed the topic title as it can be observed, although I can't

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I know I'm saying this too often, but this time I really have an acute seizure of the general chronic time crisis, so I don't know how much I'll be on topic in what's next because I don't have many minutes allocated for writing. I've chosen a horror for this week, because (with the exception of the last preview series) it's been a while I think since my last entry on the genre. "The Crazies" is a

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It happened that this week I saw "The Eagle", movie directed by the same guy that did the 2009 version of "State of Play" which I was almost bashing :) last week. I didn't pay much attention to the directing part then because the script was the most catastrophic part of the movie. So I didn't knew who is Kevin Macdonald, and what he had done before. Consequently I couldn't link him with "The

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It's probably not a very good idea to compare a TV mini series with a big screen movie, but considering that today I don't have any other better subject, this is exactly what I'm going to do. "State of Play" is a thriller, let's say .. a political one, released by BBC as a pretty successful (at least in UK) mini series in 2003. In 2009 Universal came up with the American version, which again as

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I've been terribly busy with other stuff since my last posting up till now, but fortunately I managed to see a couple of movies (actually .. exactly two), and the one about I'm writing probably deserves better than the half of hour I'm able to spend telling about it. "Defendor" is a fake super hero movie belonging to a genre that seems quite successfully in the last two years with three titles.

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I usually avoid writing about series ... actually since quite some time I don't really have what to write about because I don't have the time to watch any. But to get back to my first sentence, the reason for I'm avoiding writing about series is that I don't know how "valid" my writing will be on the next season. So, if I write, I prefer doing it after the series end. And after the series end, it

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I thought I should write about a TV mini-series this week, since I didn't talk about anything on this production area on my blog. Especially considering this is pretty much everything I've seen in the last two weeks. And on top of that, I had quite high expectations from it, because it has a Golden Globe, was quite appreciated at Cannes and scored also 94 on Metacritic.The movie has three parts,

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Considering the lack of sleep I have at this hour, I said it would be a good idea to hurry a bit with the entry for this week. I was skeptical about watching "The Tempest" part because of the IMDb rating and part because long long ago I had an attempt at reading "The Tempest" by Shakespeare which failed due to loss of interest after a few pages. Well, that was long long long ago ... First of all

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I really should focus on other stuff these days, so without any other introduction I'll slip directly into the fall preview, more exactly starting with part of the September movie line-up. Actually, to add some more extra days for the summer I said myself that it would be a good idea to begin with a "light" movie, so to speak. If last year we had (during the same time if I remember correctly) "

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Due to the fact that these days I have more important stuff to do than watching movies, I decided for the summer-fall movie preview entries for this and the next week. I'm doing this every six months but I actually was thinking to drop the habit because it happened that many of the titles mentioned in this entries proved to be unworthy even for reading their tag line after they were released. So,

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I didn't have many options for today because I'm a bit "out of service" due to some eye problem (which I hope it will solve by itself next week ...). Getting to the point, not very long ago I was writing about "Enigma". "Fatherland" is an adaptation based on the same author, Robert Harris, pretty much keeping the same feeling of a mix between drama and thriller based on 2nd WW history facts (well

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Did u ever watch the sunrise on the New Year's Eve ? When pretty much everybody sleeps, you can see almost no one outside, a light cold wind blows, it's quite quiet around and usually doesn't even snow just to keep the silence. No, it hasn't anything to do with the movie. Well, not directly related ... and probably not for everybody. However, for me it was pretty much the same as feeling. I

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Generally, I try to write about movies that are from lightly to strongly deserving to be recommended. There are exceptions when I don't have the time to see something to fit into this. Today however, I'm gonna make an exception from the exceptions and although I could find a much better (talking about movie value) title to focus on, I've chosen the current one deliberately for an

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"Source Code" is the movie that has probably the most idiotic title from all I've seen in the last 10 years - and that's for not exaggerating and saying since when I watched the first movie (is that bad, that I think it's the first time when I actually prefer the Romanian "translation": "Identity Transfer"). And to add a bit more to that, the trailer follows closely on the stupidity level.

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Did it ever happen to you to see a movie exactly when you needed it ? And I'm not referring only to lighten up your day, but a bit more than that. If you know what I mean, you know what I mean :), if you don't .. maybe you'll find out one day ;) ( or maybe not if you're not as weird as me in mood changing :) ) Getting back to the initial question, for me it happens once in a while to see a movie

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Welcome to the corn mafia world .. a bit exaggerated, but that's pretty much the impression you get after the first 10 minutes of the movie. Movie which is based on the real case of ADM, one of the biggest cereal processors worldwide. As a genre I don't know exactly where to fit the movie - it seems like a drama with a serious quantity of satire/dry humor and of course with sufficient documentary

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"I would turn into a bridge for 500 years and endure the wind and rain"It probably sounds as melancholic as a soaked cat meowing in the rain, but this is one of the few good lines in the first half of the script from the movie I'm writing about today. Nevertheless .. I'm still writing, because there is a second half of the movie (or maybe because I'm in the same mood with the cat mentioned above

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I've thought that after last's week experience, maybe I should find something better this time. The result is going back way to 1980 :) considering this is the most high rated movie I've had as an option to see these days. Well, what can I say after watching it ... It's not a bad movie for sure, but I really think that I would have preferred something else ... Let me start with the subject before

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Unfortunately, even if I wished having another topic this week, I didn't have the time to see something else, and I also have some other stuff to solve on my head to be able to do a memory search for an older better movie ... Anyway, I should have on my blog from time to time something for the "better avoid it" category too, don't I ? :) ... "Centurion" wants to be something between epic, history

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How to start ... it's the most "shocky" movie I've seen lately. I'm probably repeating myself when saying that I'm not really a fan of the Australian cinema. Something doesn't work ... don't know ... The only exception up to this moment was "Balibo", but that one has the historical basis that matters the most. Well, the second exception for me seems to be "Red Hill". As starting point we have our

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I was almost about to skip posting this considering the time restrictions I have, but I decided to do it (it will probably the record delay from my Romanian blog version that I managed to write somewhere between Saturday and Sunday). So .. for the last's week blog entry :), I'm probably also not having the best sync considering that Mel Gibson isn't probably the most appreciated character these

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Considering its lately peak of success I said myself to stay on british movie territory this week with a title that's a bit older. "Enigma" is something close to a spy story during World War 2, but to be more exact as a general feeling it's like a mix between drama, thriller and romance in a rhythm that resembles a bit "The English Patient" = it might seem to have some overlengths when you watch

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I still disagree with the Academy's last year decision of expanding the nominee number for best picture from 5 to 10. It's simply marketing and nothing more. It's obvious that you can remove some titles when considering this category without worrying that they actually had chances to win. Even so, there is a good part. If for last year I still wonder how did they manage to find enough movies to

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I think that would be better to get directly to the first nomination than rambling the usual intro nonsense for the entry. Because it's an excellent example of what good directing means - Darren Aronofsky - "Black Swan". This movie can be resumed in three words - "symphony of madness" - and to complete the analogy the composer of the tune is the director. From my point of view is definitely the

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I was thinking to jump completely over this section. Usually I'm not very accurate with the predictions here (but this year is easy :-p). The reason for that it's quite simple. I don't read the scripts because I don't have enough time (by the way, generally these are surprisingly short ... but even so ..). And from the script to the final screen version there is a (sometimes long) way, and things

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Like I said last time this one is the aspect that might save or bury a film's cinematography, and with it most of the final visual aspect of the entire production. If the cinematography gives the movie the visual feeling = warm, cold, open, closed, etc, the editing is the the technical category which gives probably the most of the general feeling of the movie. And yes, in this is comprised also

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Unlike last time, I really like writing about cinematography. It's obviously the aspect that gives the most to the visual feeling of a movie (well, sometimes helped ot buried by the editing, but about that next time). So, let me go quickly into the subject :) until I'm not getting again too long ( and out of the subject :) ) in the intro.. Matthew Libatique for "Black Swan" - is the

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Generally I don't like writing about actors because unlike other categories here I don't have much else than subjective appreciations. And that's a very good reason to be shorter today, especially given the hour when I'm writing and the lack of time :) This year I preferred talking about supporting actors because for the leading ones the things are pretty settled (and besides that, here I managed

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As I said last time, I'm still staying on the audio area and I'll try today to go through the score nominations. And because my intros are usually too long & boring I'll just cut directly into the subject ...John Powell got his first nomination this year, for "How to Train Your Dragon". This is during a career that started (for big screen) since '97 with "Face/Off". And I think that "Face/Off"

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Up to last year I was very proud with myself 'cause since I don't know how long ago I was able to predict the winners for at least one of the two sound categories - sound editing & sound mixing (especially since not many people know even the difference between these two). Well .. as I said, up to last year .. when I somehow managed to miss them both. So, this time I'll try to add some more

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I'm not really in the mood for writing ... It seems I have to deal with some older liver issues these days (no, it's not excess vodka) and I probably should be sleeping at this hour (in case it's not obvious this intro should work also as a disclaimer on this entry's quality :-p). But, I pretty much made the plan on how many nomination categories I can cover this year. Somehow either I did

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I'll start with the visual effects section, considering that for the moment is a bit more fresh in my head than the others. I actually had in mind to write a combined post including also the art direction, but I don't have enough time now for both of them. And besides that ... I think I'm gonna try to let a series of clips to "comment" more than I will (for sure it will bring more accurate info

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I'm usually reserving my blog entries in February for Oscars :). Why am I doing this ? Well, the reason is not just because the Academy Awards are well-known as the most important cinema awards, but because I actually think they are the most important along with the BAFTAs. This is due to the voting process the movies go through until getting an Oscar, process which involves thousands of members,

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If it's not already obvious, since a couple of weeks I started writing about movies that in theory should have some potential in this year's Oscar nominations. More exactly I try to optimize the usual time for one movie watched/week allocated ratio ( well .. this week I doubled it :) ) in order to cover more until the end of next month. The idea is that every year during this time, after the

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A man, a place, a problem, everything in a (almost) fixed state for 127 hours. How do you make a normal length movie out of this? This is the question I asked myself when I heard about this title. And certainly not because the 127 hours would be too much for 90 minutes but on the contrary, insignificant in this context.So, what's the context? The film is based on a real case happened in 2003 when

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Perhaps if it would be somebody to check out (in detail) every entry of my blog - implying here the older ones from the Ro version too ( case that I might find very weird, considering my "outputs" value due to the time and speed of writing :) ), that reader would probably think that I really like the western genre. And this is quite far from the truth. Somehow however I managed to see pretty much

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Retired Extremely Dangerous - that would be the expanded full title. When I first heard about the movie I thought that finally I'll have the opportunity to see an action movie with Bruce Willis in something more substantial than the figurative role in "The Expendables", the so-to-speak comedy "Cop Out" or the lamest "Die Hard" in the series = the last one. When I've seen the trailer my

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I know that I'm a bit late with a posting that was meant for before Christmas and it's also quite far from the movie premiere (which was in the spring - summer). Anyway, usually I'm not even writing in this time of year = I take a vacation for 3 weeks ... but I said to skip that "custom" this year considering things have changed a bit for me = I don't really have the latest movies on my blog

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I've never had before a horror as a blog entry before Christmas and I don't know if that's really the best option in keeping with the holidays spirit :) but this is pretty much all I have on hand as a subject. "Case 39" is a film based on the same idea as in the classic "The Omen", or in the newest (although I didn't see it yet) "Orphan". For who didn't watch those movies, as a basic info, the

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I didn't start the english version of my blog since long but from what I had up till now around here, and most certain also from the next entries of this year, this is probably the hardest film to be watched. The main reason, as the poster says, is more that it's based on real facts and less the blood & gore scenes (which aren't many). As a comparison, if you've seen "Hotel Rwanda" and you

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So.. as I said last week, I continue today with what will get released in the spring (at least according to what is announced at this moment). I will start where I left, with the month of March ...I'll begin with the movie that, at least so far, is the first one on my "to watch" list for 2011. Obviously I'm probably subjective given that it's based on a P.K. Dick writing (who is my favourite

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For two times during a year ( well actually four times = 2x2 blog entries ) I'm trying to make a short movie preview for the next period (one reason is that I don't have time to see movies every week anymore and these two I'm definitely skipping that and focusing on other stuff). I will refer to the movies chronologically by month as these are scheduled for release. This however isn't guaranteed

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I wrote some time ago about "The Ipcress File" (sorry, only in the ro-version of the blog). I didn't see the sequels (there are at least two which theoretically may prove worthy of spending some time on them). However I've watched another movie last week placed in the same period (as subject and production time), also British, and overall the same kind of spy thriller, but with a completely

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So ... as a quick intro before getting right into the subject, this is ( like the title already says :) ) a blog containing some personal thoughts about some of the movies I manage to see in the short free time I have (usually at least one/week). I don’t have any studies in any area related to cinema – that’s why it’ s called “unauthorized” :), but I like to think that after seeing quite a lot of

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” G’mork: Foolish boy. Don’t you know anything about Fantasia? It’s the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries. Atreyu: But why is Fantasia dying then? G’mork: Because people have begun to loose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the nothing grows stronger. Atreyu: What is the nothing? G’

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