The Oscar nominees were announced to day. As I did last year, my goal is to see all the movies nominated. Again, that means 10 movies in less than a month.
Prior to the nominations, I had seen "Toy Story 3" and "Inception", and had enjoyed both of them. That left eight for me to see...in less than a month.
Last year, it was much easier to see all the movies since I was working at the shop and didn't have to get up before the sun. This year, I'm getting up around 5 and going to bed around 9:30; and if you know me well, you know the 9:30 is WAY early!!
Knowing how much fun it was to watch all of the movies and more or less see all the nominees, operation "See Them All 2011" began.
Sean and I watched "The Social Network" and "Winter's Bone". Let me just say "wow" and "wow" in two different tones.
The "wow" for "The Social Network" is for how how dry the CEO of Facebook appears to be. He seemed to come across, to me, as rather, I can't even think of a word to describe him. Kind of dry, uncaring, hard. It was interesting to see how it kind of evolved, but makes one wonder about just how much credit Mark Zuckerberg should get. That's just my opinion.
The "wow" for "Winter's Bone" is for knowing that the things that take place in this movie do actually take place. The female lead, Jennifer Lawrence was fantastic. However, there were parts that made me catch my breath so much so that I called mom to tell her I didn't think she should watch it. Her answer to that was "I'm a big girl".
I went with my friend Tina to see "Black Swan". Ok, let me just say that I'm SUPER happy this was not a movie I saw with my parents!!! I've never seen any movie past an "R" rated one and part of me feels like I did after watching it. Don't get me wrong, Natalie Portman does a GREAT job and I can see why she has been nominated and gotten the awards she has, but I wish I had done some research to prepare me for the movie. Again, I'm glad I didn't see it with my parents and I don't think anyone else should either.
That leaves; "127 Hours", "The Fighter", "The King's Speech", "The Kids Are All Right" and "True Grit" left for me to see. I'm honestly pretty excited to see all of them with the possible exception of "127 Hours", so I'll save that one for last.
