Best Picture Nominee Blogging Assignment

Prewriting



Social Network



1.) Entertaining



2.) Good story



3.) Good script



True Grit



1.) Funny



2.) Adventure



3.) Revenge



Toy Story 3



1.) Good story



2.) Good ending



3.) Predicting



The King's Speech



1.) Good



2.) Funny



3.) Good acting



Inception



1.) New



2.) Dream



3.) Different



Winter's Bone



1.) Sad



2.) Dedication



3.) Proof







1. The Social Network



I liked the Social Network because it showed how one of the most popular websites was created. It also had some very funny lines such as when Mark said "It's raining outside" when the lawyer was trying to talk to him. The storyline was very good because it showed a relationship between a group of people through their ups and downs and that they didn't think that facebook would become what it is today. I thought the film's theatrical performance was very good, Jesse Eisenberg (Mark) was very funny and was a good choice to pick for the film. It seemed like he had a big mouth and new what to say on the spot and most people can't think of that kind of stuff on the spot. Another thing that I really thought was cool was that the film kept switching scenes to answer questions the lawyers asked during the interviews. You could see what the actor was saying and how the event occured when they were presented with a question. This movie is #1 on my list because it was funny, had a good performance, cinematic components and also that I could relate more because I have a facebook.



2.Inception



Inception was a good movie because it showed a different type of experience when you were watching it, it was almost like you were involved in the movie. The film's storytelling was good because it showed the story of a man that got trapped inside a dream and at the end of the movie he was saved. I liked the storyline because it wasn't as predictable as others and at the beginning of the movie when Leonardo was at the beach you wouldn't think that it had to do with the ending of the movie. During the movie you were constantly thinking about how everything was connected. The acting was good but it wasn't funny and that's why it wasn't #1, funny movies are my favorite kind of movies. I can't remember much about the acting but I really liked how when Leonardo needed to be serious in some scenes he did it well. The film also had some really cool scenery, for example when they went into a dream and they were in the snow mountains. I thought that was really cool. The main reason that I ranked this movie as #2 was because it wasn't original, the idea of dreaming and having it connect to real life was very creative unlike the other movies nominated for best picture.





3. Toy Story 3





I really liked Toy Story 3 because when I was young I loved the first two movies. I liked how all of the toys worked together to save Buzz from being reset and made to be evil. I thought that the voice actors fit each role pretty well and that there was a good storyline that was started right after Toy Story 2. I thought that Andy was a good role model for the little kids that watch the Toy Story movies because they need a good role model to look up to and Pixar did a good job with that. In a way it felt like it was the same as Toy Story 2 in the way that the toys always get lost and then find a way back some how. I wish that they had renovated it a little bit but overall I thought that it was still good enough to be #3. The picture was a big part for me, I saw the movie in IMAX and I thought that it was really cool. It seemed like this is one of the reasons that it took so long for them to make Toy Story because they wanted it to be high quality. This movie reminded me of Avatar because they both were planned (at least the last Toy Story movie was 1999) to be made earlier but James Cameron had to wait for the technology to be better and I felt like that's what pixar did also. This movie was #3 on my list because I didn't feel bored when I was watching it sometimes unlike Winter's Bone and The King's Speech and I thought that Inception and The Social Network were more relatable because Toy Story is mainly targeted at "young ones".



4. True Grit



I thought that True Grit was a good movie and I thought that it was made pretty well considering it was made by the Coen brothers. The script was one of my favorite parts about the movie and I thought that there was a lot of funny lines. I thought that Rooster had some funny scenes such as when he was firing his gun and he kept missing and when he got drunk. The actress that played Mattie was very good because she did a good job of acting brave and courageous in the movie, for example when she shot Tom Cheney she did not look scared to pull the trigger unlike most 14 year old girls. I liked the different camera angles at the beginning of the movie when the scene was being shot from the train. It felt like the film was rushed after Tom Cheney was found and the Coen brothers wanted to just finish the movie. This movie was #4 on my list because some of the scenes felt slow to me and also because it seems like the majority of western movies are about the same thing and that I couldn't understand some of the roles of characters because they didn't really specify who they were.


5. The King's Speech


I thought that The King's Speech was an ok movie. I liked some of the funny lines for example when Birdie was swearing to get his anger out. But honestly I just wasn't really entertained with the movie very much overall. I thought it was boring because it felt like the whole movie was moving really slow, especially when the doctor was teaching Birdie how to talk. I thought that the acting was very good but didn't make up for the things I didn't like about the movie and I think that this film shouldn't be a nominee for best picture. I don't remember much about the cinematography but I liked how the majority of the time the camera was focused on the microphone because that it what the movie is about. This movie was #5 on my list because I wasn't very entertained with it like some of the others and I thought that the whole royal status was ignorant because I think that one family ruling a country doesn't make much sense.


6. Winter's Bone


I didn't really like Winter's Bone. Kind of like The King's Speech it felt like nothing really happened. I thought that Winter's Bone was just a girl looking for her dad and not finding any clues and then she just happens to find her dad's hand in a lake. Some things I did like though was that the girl similiar to the girl in True Grit in the way that they both are very brave for example in Winter's Bone she wanted to serve in the military and I thought that was brave because that is odd behavior for a young girl. Again, like True Grit the acting was good but the movie just felt slow. I thought that the writing was average and nothing special because the whole movie just felt so serious. The cineamatography was a little disturbing on the boat when you could hear the sound from the chainsaw and seeing the blood in the water wasI didn't like the beginning of the movie because I wasn't into the music, the camera was slow and the setting didn't really get me hooked. I just thought that the storyline of a girl who's father disappears and that you didn't get to see him wasn't interesting. The King's Speech and Winter's Bone could be switched places because I felt like both of them were more of "adult" movies in the way that I couldn't watch the movie without getting distracted. It seemed like both of the movies didn't have much action and they weren't funny.