Moneyball - Okay so this one is up for a few Academy Awards. best picture, best actor in a leading role, best actor in a supporting role, film editing, sound mixing, and writing (adapted screenplay). I am not going to pretend I know enough about the technical categories to make any commentary there...but as for the first three awards? Okay it was a somewhat interesting storyline. Seemed to be in the fashion of Clint Eastwood films - SLOW! I hardly think this will make it for best picture, the academy likes serious films but generally they don't cross over to the boring...I could be wrong. I guess we'll find out on Sunday. Also as for the two acting roles up for awards? I am not entirely sure Brad Pitt or Jonah Hill either one were acting in this film. You can't nominate Jonah for an award solely based on the fact that this is his only semi-serious not bordering on the ridiculous role - ever. Brad's character was just a normal working class guy trying to do something out of the ordinary which happens every day. So I guess if you consider that in real life Brad Pitt is a multi-millionaire and not an average everyday guy at all then okay he was acting...but that still doesn't mean his performance was anything riveting or award worthy. As far as the film itself on a non-award consideration level...what was with that random scene where he goes to pick up his daughter and sits awkwardly in the living room with his ex-wife and her new husband for 5 minutes....couldn't that have been edited out and saved us a few minutes in an already too long film? Plus if they had taken that out they could have saved some budget money and not had to pay Robin Wright for her appearance in the movie. Any woman's voice could have been used later in the film for her tide turning phone call that encouraged him to go watch the 21st game. Seriously - she did not need to be in that movie....such a weird casting choice.
Contagion - Well - the story has been done a billion times. It was an interesting movie overall but too many storylines with not enough follow up to completion on any of them. Did they even make up the money they paid all those big name actors in box office sales??? Why did any of them agree to do that movie? It was an easy paycheck I guess. Thank goodness for overly dedicated scientists that are willing to try out vaccines on themselves. Everybody wash and sanitize your hands alot while traveling - that's all I have to say about this movie.
Ghost Rider 2 - First of all I LOVE Nicolas Cage and in my mind he is probably the only actor quirky enough to pull off the cheesy character of Johnny Blaze and not make you want to punch him in the face every time he opens his mouth. I understand that the whole premise of the movie is over the top, cheesiness and camp, but without Cage it would be wholly intolerable. Other than being a pretty face I don't see Violante Placido making it into mainstream movies or high in demand for female lead characters, and thank goodness they didn't try to force too much of a relationship element between her and Nicolas Cage! If you liked the first movie you will like this one as well. If you are not a comic book fan, or don't understand the background story on Ghost Rider you will likely not enjoy this movie. Oh - and if you have ever seen The Prophecy 3: The Ascent you've pretty much already seen this movie.
This Means War - So - once again Hollywood thanks for setting women's lib back ten years....okay maybe 5. But men wonder why the nice guy never wins - this movie pretty much sets up that dynamic again perfectly. I am still wondering why because Reese Witherspoon's character certainly never gives any legitimate reason for her decision but she chooses the myoginistic, cocky, take the girl for granted, playboy character over the sincere, better looking (in my opinion) courteous, gentleman. I get so tired of Hollywood trying to make us believe that if we as women are just as amazing, beautiful and have a great personality like Reese's character we're going to turn that bad boy around - dream on! Okay so we can pretend that both those guys wouldn't have gotten totally fired for the first crazy antic they pulled on the other guy, but that whole scene where they sneak into her house to investigate her interests while she is dancing around apparently oblivious....c'mon! I would have noticed those guys in my house the first time they crawled behind a couch or jumped up against a wall. Did anyone else notice how all the information their spy teams gave them was in direct correlation to the items they had already noticed in her house? Couuldn't the script writers come up with some original information to throw in there for the teams to supply? Maybe they just got their film sequencing out of order but it was weird. Okay so I totally liked this movie but once again it's one of those rom-coms that you just have to turn off your brain and sit through it on cruise control otherwise it;s utterly perturbing. Tom Hardy = super yummy. Chris Pine = furry man
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