Well hasn't it been a long time. Over 2 months to be exact, since our last blog post. We have both been very busy, both currently in the middle of crucial exams and any spare time we have we feel we should be revising, not blogging. Even film watching has slowed down recently, having only watched 8 films in the past 2 months *cries*. BUT, soon we will have a long summer to spend our days doing nothing but watching films, so we apologise for our absence to all our faithful readers (lol).
I have a lot to discuss, but the main point of this post is to talk about our 5th Awards which took place on 3rd May. This season took the longest to complete (5 months) and was the season with the most polarity when it came to the films themselves - many were excellent, many were awful, there were actually very few that were just average. To celebrate our 250th film Rosie and I went out for a lovely greasy Chinese meal in town which was followed up by watching two classic films - Taxi Driver (1976) and The Lion King (1992). Taxi Driver was an impressive and interesting watch, slightly dated, but with great themes and performances and a slick score. The Lion King was just as sad and stunning as ever, and it was the first time both of us had watched it since we were very young. Both films didn't let us down at all.
The nominees and winners of each award can be found here.
And now for my review of the winners/season in general. Rosie and I fought hard over the winners, perhaps more so than usual - for Best Film, we both loved all four nominees, however I favoured The Green Mile, she favoured Captain Phillips. We both resolved to let our other favourite Dallas Buyers Club win. Oz the Great and Powerful was a unanimous verdict for Worst Film, however I would like to give a special mention to Only God Forgives for being pretentiously bad. Another award where the decision was easy was Scariest film - although When the Lights Went out and Stigmata were both creepy, the only horror this season that truly scared the shit out of us was [REC]. For both Best Male and Best Female, any 4 of the nominees could have won as they were all amazing, perhaps with the exception (for me) of Jennifer Garner in Dallas Buyers Club. The Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded for the second time, this time to Tom Hanks for his work in 6 Rollie films. BIG LOVE TO TOMMY HANKS. Amazing films that didn't win awards include The Green Mile, Her, Life in a Day, Like Father Like Son and In a Better World.
Since the last awards the Oscars has been and gone, and we have watched 6 of the 9 nominees for Best Picture (we are going to watch a seventh, Nebraska, tonight). One nominee, Gravity, was watched last season, and 12 Years a Slave, Her, The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club and Captain Phillips were watched this season. I would personally rank them in this order:
- Dallas Buyers Club- Her
- Captain Phillips
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Gravity
- 12 Years A Slave
Rosie would rank them in this order:
- Her
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Captain Phillips
- Gravity
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- 12 Years A Slave
They were all amazing, but we both felt that 12 Years a Slave wasn't as worthy winner of the Best Film award than the other ones we had seen. We look forward to seeing the remaining nominees in the future.
Here's to the next 50 films!
Ollie