Let's just admit it--I didn't do half-bad with my Oscar predictions. Not to toot my own horn, but I got all but three right and those three were only because of my lack of confidence in the Academy to choose correctly (I've been burned so badly in the past--can we say Crash?!) But I was quite pleased with Kate Winslet's win over Meryl Streep and Slumdog's win for best picture.
Overall, the 2009 Academy Awards proved to be a decent awards ceremony with Hugh Jackman doing a good job of entertaining us (and Ben Stiller's imitation of a listless and disinterested Joaquin Pheonix putting me in stiches!) I did not like the former award winners discussing the nominee performances--what happened to clips? Also, during the tribute to those lost in the last year, why was the camera so far back from the screen? Couldn't even read who the people were!
So--what's next on the list of excitement for this cinephile and resident comic-book movie dork? Well, of course, Watchmen! I have the day set aside to go and see this movie in the IMAX and cannot wait. Read the book--and you should, too--and loved it. The effects look to be great and in line with the trend that I have begun to recognize in the latest comic book films: the alienated and imperfect hero. See The Dark Knight, Iron Man (whose Johnny Stark, although not made completely apparent in the first film but surely it will become so in the second, is an alcoholic) and the upcoming Watchmen whose heroes are not necessarily super but rather bitter and, well, imperfect. I hope that we have not seen the end of the heroic and loveable comic-book superhero film...However, I enjoy the more realistic trend that these films are taking on and in turn the elevation of this genre to much more respected (although not at this year's Oscars, unfortunately) heights.
Next up, however? Changeling and Body of Lies. Reviews of these two future Bedtime films coming soon!
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