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Who wants an Oscar?

Bobiţa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:13:17 +0000

I’ve seen the recently oscar-ized *millionaire* movie. The generous act of calling it to attention made me feel like I wanted to go and see it but, on the basic principle “Don’t count your Oscars before they hatched”, I didn’t expect a real cinematic performance. It was good, though. I’d say it was very well put together. The person, who cut & pasted scenes knew exactly what to do and did it well, or well enough to obtain a motion picture with personality.  The subject of the movie? Unrealistic!!! With a capital U and three exclamation marks. The tough reality of an Indian suburban life was extrapolated to give more credibility to the fiction (to be read “nonsense”). It just didn’t work, as at some point you feel the movie slowly swerves off of the road and what’s happening on the screen appears to be from another story.  

Small talk

- I understand a kid would jump in a latrine to get the desired autograph of a life time; I just can’t understand how he comes out wearing a poop mask, perfectly contoured around his eyes and mouth, giving you the feeling that the only thing missing to make this picture perfect would be two fresh cucumber slices applied over the eyes.  

- I wonder, ”Where did the kid learn Shakespeare’s language so well?”, because I didn’t see him really attending school or having a tutor. Smart kid, no doubt, but the unreasonableness stands out like a white sewing on a black shoe.

- Now, this is something, I’m sure, every contestant at “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” would like to experience – a break between the question and the moment they need to give the answer. Not too long, just a little time, enough for a visit to the bathroom, a coffee or a phone call, to see how mom’s been doing lately…

The curiously long case of Benjamin Button

Bobiţa — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:46:00 +0000

I didn’t see the Oscar Ceremony because I was at the movies last night. I saw “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Pretty good, I’d say. I give it about three stars, if anyone asks me. Good plot, interesting idea, well done special effects, a little too long (was it because of that clock running backwards, I wonder?). I liked it and I’ll file it under the I’D NEVER SEE IT AGAIN BUT IT IS WORTH SEEING IT cathegory. Now, I also understand the parallel between Button and mister Forest Gump from the movie of the same name.

Note: I stole the title from my husband’s blog, because I liked it. He also thinks that the sequel will be “Benjamin Button 3″ as the first … two happened last night.

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Oooops, we forgot to laugh!

Bobiţa — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:57:07 +0000

I went to the theatre to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop; “I’m sorry, I did a bad thing and I won’t do it again!“. I don’t know what really urged me to see this movie. It must have been the promise of the comedy of the year or the sweet memory of that convivial Kevin James from King of Queens, but my eyebrow lifted in disapproval after the first five minutes, even though I had handfuls of popcorn richly coated in butter, the generator of cinematic pleasure.

Bebeloi tried to laugh a few times so we didn’t declare the evening totally compromised, while I was there praying that, at least this time, a minute would have less than 60 seconds.

Mall Cop is to my, of course, unproficient opinion, such a flimsy, lightweight story, it makes me surprised it was even released. What I mean is that, when it comes about movies, the American consumer takes everything very seriously, their expectations are high and there is no place for errors.

In these two little years of America (they still have baby teeth), I’ve seen tons of good movies, movies that saturated my desire for value, that had outstanding acting and good directing, whether fictions or nonfictions. But this new face of Kevin James and his production have nothing to do with what was intended to be (or maybe not?) a quality moment of laughter.