Month: February 2009
2009 Oscar Predictions Revised
At the point of the original post I had not seen some of the nominees. I have since seen The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire. Here is my new list. Performance by an actor in a leading role Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) (WRONG) Performance by an actor in a supporting role Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax) (WRONG) Performance by an actress in a leading role Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) (CORRECT) Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax) (WRONG) Best animated feature film of the year “Bolt” (Walt Disney) Chris Williams and Byron Howard (WRONG) Achievement in art direction “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Peter Lando (WRONG) Achievement in cinematography “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) Chris Menges and Roger Deakins (WRONG) Achievement in costume design “Australia” (20th Century Fox) Catherine Martin (WRONG) Achievement in directing “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) Danny Boyle (CORRECT) Achievement in film editing “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) Chris Dickens (CORRECT) Achievement in makeup “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan (WRONG) Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) “WALL-E” (Walt Disney) Thomas Newman (WRONG) Achievement…
Razzies Predictions
With all the comments I have been receiving lately about how bad my Oscar picks are I’m now going to post my Razzies picks. Worst Movie The Hottie and The Nottie Regent Releasing/Purple Pictures My fist choice was going to be The Happening but any Paris Hilton movie is guaranteed to be the Worst ever. And director that sees talent in Paris has no talent at making a movie, or is highly bribable.. Worst Actor Mark Wahlberg THE HAPPENING and MAX PAYNE Worst Actress Paris Hilton THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE Worst Supporting Actor Verne Troyer THE LOVE GURU and Uwe Boll’s POSTAL Worst Supporting Actress Paris Hilton REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA Worst Screen Couple Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore HOTTIE & THE NOTTIE Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel Speed Racer Worst Director Tom Putnam THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE Worst Screenplay The Happening Written By M. Night Shyamalan Worst Career Achievement (Special Category!) Uwe Boll (Germany’s Answer to Ed Wood)
Good Bye, Facebook!
After being an early adopter of Facebook it is now time to move on. Within 14 days my account will be totally deleated forever. Just like the prior Social Netwoks I used to belong to Yahoo! 360, MySpace, MSN Spaces… The new terms of service that gives Facebook rights to all the content you link to is what I found objectionable. Fear not if you are looking to follow me you can always view me here. Or follow @cefm on Twitter, flixster, last.fm. There is a list on the left of many options.
Slamming Empire Theatres
Okay, so instead of a review of a movie I’m going to post about the whole getting into the theatre. This is payback for not showing the new release “New in Town.” 1. Congestion at Entrance. First off the last renovation to the theater was based on the time when probably 70% of the transactions were cash based. Now that this is not the case there is a large congestion at the point by the arcade. I mean there are several ad-hock lines for the automated machines and the REALLY LONG cash line. It practically is impassable to get past it especially if you are going to the concessions and getting you tickets there. To make it worse the on sight that informs you of this is the one that is in the way and makes the situation worse on a busy Friday/Saturday. And move that sign further near the foot of the ramp. 2. Focus in the Cinemas. About 20% of the movies that I see are so out of focus that it bothers me at times, like most people would not notice but to a trained eye like mine it does get annoying during some presentations. 3. The…
Is the was digital revoluton really a revoluton?
This is a topic I usually don’t get into here on my Blog, nor do I get this deep into a topic ether but I was listening to TWiT 180, and they were discussing a migration from blogs to Twitter. This got me thinking of the term revolution that gets applied to new technologies all the time. In a non-physics (my head hurts) interpretation a revolution is when something or a group of people become so outdated and useless that by force and necessity need to be replaced. The Internet revolution was not a forced or possibly necessary revolution it is merely a change in preference. It is not like the upper class and the peasants of the 1700’s France. The digital and non digital worlds can and do co-exist. TV and YouTube can coexist. It is all in preferences not a Revolution. Therefore, Twitter will not replace the Blog. Then again I do have the capability to re-post all my Twitter tweets here but I tend to see Twitter as like facebook.com but without all the annoying apps. In fact my Facebook front page is all I really use.