So lately, I've been wanting to watch a whole bunch of Oscar-acknowledged movies that have had some real good reviews. With my [more or less] discovery of the Red Box, I have decided to establish my own independent Ebert & Roeper kind of shin-dig. All that said, here are the movies I've covered so far:
IN THE OSCARS:
1) The Changeling:(rated R?) Angelina Jolie is amazing in this movie; most people know her as the very attractive, bad-ass woman with the big guns, but here you get to see her more sensitive motherly side. This movie's about a single mom (Christine Collins) living in LA in the nineteen....60's if I remember right, with her little boy named Walter. One day he goes missing and 5 months after she reports to the police, the FBI bring her back the wrong boy to close the case and remain on good terms with the public. It has a whole lot of suspense and twists, and I was really satisfied with the ending. (5 stars)
2) Rachel Getting Married: (rated R) Anne Hathaway plays a recovering alcoholic and drug addict (Kimberly) who is trying to get past the fact that she accidentally drowned her little brother while she was high. This movie takes place during the time her sister Rachel is getting married and she was released from rehab. During preparations for the wedding, she has to deal with the tensions with her and her family. Realistic. (5 stars)
3) Australia: (idk what rating, haha) Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman two Australians playing Australians (well Hugh Jackman anyway) in a movie called Australia...ain't that a little nutty? I thought it was pretty good, although it didn't really make sense to me, and the recurring "Over the Rainbow" theme was a little...eh. It's about this English woman who comes to Australia to take over her husband's cattle ranch, but her cattle business is being jeopardized by this cattle-monarch sleaze who's trying to put her out of business. On the way she meets this bizarre indigenous Australian kid (an aboriginal) who's half white and half black (in "laymen's terms, a "creamy") and claims he's some sort of magic man and can "sing people to him." Good effort, but I wasn't really convinced. (3/5)
OTHER:
1) Schindler's List: It made me cry like a beezy. Well, not really, I watched it with my friends so that kind of took away from the core-meaning of the movie (I found out how good I was with a German accent xDD), but all the same, it's an incredible , heart-breaking depiction of the Holocaust, then again, it's how it happened, line for line. Spielberg had outdone himself. (5 stars. Shalom!)
STILL NEED TO WATCH:
1) The Boy In The Striped Pajamas: This is also another movie on the Holocaust.
2) The Reader: Kate Winslet won best actress for this movie
3) Slumdog Millionaire: ...need I say more?
