Watched The Color Purple and Zone of Interest. Unimpressed with both.
I've never actually seen the musical The Color Purple, so maybe that's how it is, but it felt like they didn't actually include the entire songs. It's like watching a musician biopic, except it actually was a move, and actually was a musical. This felt like they did a worse remake of the movie, and included a little bit of music. What music there was, was good enough. But this felt 100% like a musical/movie that did not need to be made.
Zone of Interest is apparently "based" on a book, in the loosest of definitions. I thought it would be this interesting look at the dual nature of a war criminal with a home life. Instead, it was just mostly about his home life. If you were going to do that, the whole movie should have been about the wife, then the Holocaust of it all simply being the background, would have been different.
BEST PICTURE
- The Holdovers
- Barbie
- Maestro
- Past Lives
- Zone of Interest
BEST ACTOR
- Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
- Colman Domingo, Rustin
- Bradley Cooper, Maestro
BEST ACTRESS
- Annette Bening, Nyad
- Carey Mulligan, Maestro
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
- Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
- America Ferrera, Barbie
- Jodie Foster, Nyad
I'm assuming you didn't see Oppenheimer, because your order of several of these lists would be very different. Oppy's going to win Best Picture, Robert Downey Jr. is going to win Supporting Actor in a ridiculously loaded field.
Since we moved to where a movie theater is a mile down the road from us, we've seen more of the Academy Award nominees this year than we ever have.
Said theater also has the worst popcorn I've ever eaten under any pretenses. Even worse than some of the awful bar popcorn I've eaten at the Big Ten and Newt's over the years, and that's saying something.
I thought Barbie was a perfect airplane movie. We watched it on the way down to Florida back in January.
Saw the Holdovers on a whim. Loved it. Randolph is going to win Supporting Actress and deservedly so. If anyone is going to beat Cilian Murphy, it's going to be Giamatti.
As Oscar bait goes, Maestro is egregiously so to the point it made Green Book look like chicken scratch. Bradley Cooper is trying too hard. He should take the same advice cardinals get when running for pope.
We saw Wonka back in January, and while I didn't think it was anything to write home about, it got us interested in Timothy Chalamet, which got us through Dune, and now we're looking forward to seeing Dune 2 soon.
