When Avatar came up to big screen I really thought it was gonna be Avatar’s year but I was surprised that Hurt Locker won. Anyway I liked both films but not much. There are films that I didn’t yet watch so I can’t say that Hurt Locker was the best one or not.

Couple of things I want to add; I was so happy when Sandra Bullock won; somehow I like her a lot, sometimes her movies (usually) so cheesy but she can manage to get you watch. Anyway, I think she deserved it with this movie. Christoph Waltz was soooo good in Inglorious Basterds. Even I was scared in the beginning of movie when he was questioning the farmer.

Anyway here is a complete list of winners

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo’Nique, Precious

Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal

Adapted Screenplay: Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher

Animated Film: Up

Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina)

Original Score: Michael Giacchino, Up

Original Song: “The Weary Kind,” Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)

Art Direction: Avatar

Cinematography: Avatar, Mauro Fiore

Costume Design: The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell

Makeup: Star Trek

Film Editing: The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Documentary Feature: The Cove

Documentary Short Subject: Music by Prudence

Animated Short Film: Logorama

Live Action Short Film: The New Tenants

Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker

Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker

Visual Effects: Avatar

Governors Award: Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman and Gordon Willis

source: www.imdb.com

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I know this is the case when you read the book before you watch the movie but I really think it couldn’t have been more, and with a better director I could even see Oscar in the future because with a story like this all you can go with is the actors and actors were good, especially Viggo Mortensen.

If you red the book I wouldn’t recommend you to watch it, if not watch it and I would like to hear your opinions. Anyway, that’s all I wanted to say.

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Ok, shoulder pads and baggy, high cut pants were really bad but as far as the music goes I loved those 80’s rock bands, with their hairs and make up better than mine… They filled the arenas and made good music; now the newer bands I don’t get the same feeling I used to have in 80’s; maybe I just got old. Cheesy ha?

Some of those 80’s bands are trying to make a come back but the music taste of the new generation is really different than before and I feel sad seeing those bands not being able to make it back.

Anyway, recently I came upon a website that put together 1000 favorite song of the last 30 years and wanted to share with you. This is for you pop lovers;

http://www.welkestijl.nl/

Enjoy…

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There are lots of things to talk about, but instead of talking just watch it; their lives the glorious days and then the days living in a trash house and fallen dreams and being dependent of each other, a mother’s miserable behavior of keeping down her daughter and dying as far from the glorious days as anyone can be.

I felt sorry for these women; how they were not helped when they clearly needed help and I’m not talking about cleaning the house. They could have been leading a different life.

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So I thought I can write the upcoming movies to help you plan your time;

Surrogates

Opening: September 25th.

Directed by Jonathan Mostow

Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike

In the near future, humans live in isolation and only interact through robotic bodies that serve as surrogates. When several humans are murdered when their surrogates are destroyed, a cop (Bruce Willis) investigates the crimes through his own surrogate. After a near fatal encounter, the cop’s surrogate is destroyed and forces him to bring his human form out of isolation and unravel a conspiracy behind the crimes.

Fame

Opening: September 25th

Directed by Kevin Tancharoen

Cast: Naturi Naughton, Kay Banabaker, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullaly

This movie is based upon the 1980 film which follows NYC talent attending the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, (Known today as Fiorello H. Laguardia H.S.) students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. In 1936, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia founded the High School of Music & Art in order to provide a facility where the most gifted and talented public school students of New York City could pursue their talents in art or music, while also completing a full academic program of instruction. In 1948, the School of Performing Arts was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama.

Pandorum

Opening: September 25th

Directed by Christian Alvart

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet

Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly – and horrifically – realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It’s pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can’t remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft’s shocking, deadly secrets are revealed…and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

Coco avant Chanel

Opening: September 25th

Directed by Anne Fontaine

Cast: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola

Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She’s both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats. When she falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel further opportunities open up, though life becomes ever more complicated.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Opening: September 25th

Directed by John Krasinski

Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Ben Shenkman, Timothy Hutton

After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university Sara Quinn is left looking for answers as to what went wrong. Directing all her energies into her anthropological dissertation, Sara conducts a series of interviews with men in an effort to uncover the secret thoughts that drive their behavior. She thinks she can remedy both her heartache and her academic challenges with a new research project and begins conducting a series of interviews with men. As she records the astonishing and disquieting experiences of various subjects, Sara discovers much more about men and herself than she bargained for.

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Rank		Title	Weekend	Gross
1		District 9 (2009)	$37.4M	$37.4M
2		G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)	$22.3M	$98.6M
3		The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)	$18.6M	$18.6M
4		Julie & Julia(2009)	$12.1M	$43.3M
5		G-Force (2009)	$6.92M	$99.1M
6		The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)	$5.64M	$5.64M
7		Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	$5.14M	$284M
8		The Ugly Truth (2009)	$4.45M	$77.5M
9		Gake no ue no Ponvo(2008)	$3.59M	$3.59M
10		Funny People (2009)	$3.01M	$47.9M

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