Posted in Best Picture Project, Netflix, Review, tagged Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer, Meryl Streep on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oh God, don’t watch this movie unless you’re prepared to cry — especially if you’re a guy.
Ted Kramer is a career-minded businessman who’s obsessed with promotions and “bringing home the bacon”, while Joanne Kramer is an unsatisfied housewife who feels like her life is going nowhere. The film starts on “one of the five [...]
Posted in Action, Best Picture Project, Drama, Review, tagged Lord of the Rings on March 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Goodness, that’s an awful lot of colons.
I kind of view this award as a gimme. The LOTR films are kind of one big film in and of themselves, and I feel like the Academy kind of said, “Okay, you made three really good films, but we’ll wait until you’re all wrapped up to [...]
Posted in Best Picture Project, Drama, tagged Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, The Godfather on March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For most people in my age range, from 20 to about 30, The Godfather is a quintessential element of American film. It’s really hard for me to picture movies without The Godfather somewhere in the background, and I’m not sure why.
Most people my age automatically associate Marlon Brando with this movie in particular, not [...]
Posted in Best Picture Project on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
While watching the Academy Awards this year, I noticed that quite a few of the Best Picture winners were movies I had actually never seen. Most of the movies from the ’70s onwards I’ve seen, but many of the movies that won previously I had never seen or had seen bits and [...]
