Immortals

Okay performances, amazing visuals, one hell of an battle scene at the end, the beautiful Freida Pinto, but lacking in the story. 

Tarsem Singh who directed The Fall, he knows visuals. Amazing production design and costume design is always expected from him. Now he is delving into CGI, and the man does he succeed here. However he has a problem in understanding what makes a good story. Tarsem, unlike Michael Bay, his films craft and visual style are impressive and he is also pretty good with actors. However he needs to find a good script some time soon. However, I do reccomend the film for the beauty in it.


Rating - 59%

Predictions for 84th Annual Academy Awards

Best Picture
The Artist
- Midnight in Paris
- War Horse
- Moneyball
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- The Descendants
- The Tree of Life

Best Director

Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
- Stephen Spielberg - War Horse
- Bennett Miller - Moneyball
- Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life
- Alexander Payne - The Descendants

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
- Jean Dujardin - The Artist
- Gary Oldman - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- George Clooney - The Descendants
- Brad Pitt - Moneyball

Best Actress
Michelle Williams - My Weekend with Marilyn
- Elizabeth Olsen - Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene
- Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
- Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Viola Davis - The Help

Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks - Drive
- Christopher Plummer - The Beginners
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Ides of March
- Nick Nolte - Warrior
- Kenneth Brannagh - My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer - The Help
- Sandra Bullock - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
-  Berenice Bejo - The Artist
- Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
- Carrie Mulligan - Shame

Best Original Screenplay
Midnight in Paris
- The Artist
- Rango
- Young Adult
- The Beginners

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- The Ides of March
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Moneyball

Best Score
The Artist
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- War Horse
- A Dangerous Method
- The Skin I Live In

Best Cinematography
The Tree of Life
- War Horse
- The Artist
- Hugo
- Harry Potter Deathly Hallows PT 2

Best Editing
The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
- War Horse
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Drive
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Best Sound Mixing
War Horse
- The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Super 8

Best Sound Editing
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Mission Impossible 4
- Super 8
- War Horse

Best Visual Effects
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Captain America
- Harry Potter Deathly Hallows PT 2
- Super 8
- The Tree of Life

Best Art Direction
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows PT 2
- Hugo
- Mignight in Paris
- The Tree of Life
- Thor

Best Costume Design
The Artist
- Captain America
- Jan Eyre
- Hugo
- Anonymous

Best Make-up
Captain America
- J. Edgar
- My Week with Marilyn

Best Animated Film
Rango
- Happy Feet 2
- Arthur Christmas
- Puss in Boots
- Tintin

Best Song
Captain America
- Rango
- Winnie the Pooh
-Albert Nobbs
-The Help

Anonymous

Surprising, that Roland Emmrich can actually pull of a beautiful looking film, with great acting, and nothing blowing up. Also there is no ridiculous running from temperature scene, or a Macintosh computer sending a virus to alien computer system. Although the idea is far fetched here too, I forget that halfway through the story. The film stars the wonderful Rhys Ifans, the lovely Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, and David Thewlis. 

The film is about Edward the Earle of Oxford trying to use plays to destroy the Cecils. However a person like Edward does not write plays he needs someone else's name to be on the scripts. So William Shakespeare eventually becomes the play-write. Who is also an illiterate actor. The film features betrayal, incest, violence, more like a Greek tragedy and less like a Shakespeare play. 

Now I have enjoyed only one Emmrich film, which was The Patriot. Like that film it has good acting and looked wonderful. Also like that film it completely rapes history. However, you will completely get rapped up in the melodrama. 

The film did great job to recreate London in the early 1600s. The costume and sets are great to look at. Possible academy award nominations for best art-direction and costume design. The actors are all great, there is no weak link here. Rhys Ifans I have always been a fan of, and really shines here. So above all I reccomend this film even with its flaws. 

rating - 79%