85th Academy Award ceremony's flaw's

This year's Academy awards were so entertaining and funny, that for one night I decided to look past it's most obvious Snubs. But after reviewing the results  I decided to really speak my mind and say what was needed to be said. For one thing, best animated picture going to visually impressive but bland in story "Brave", when instead it should have gone to a visually impressive and clever story of Wreck-it-Ralph or even frankenwenie, both have very original ideas and stunning animation techniques and I would have loved to see one of those two win.

Next there is the snubs of the best movies of the year The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers and The Hobbit   , Skyfall I believe did very well winning best song and sound editing and was nominated for three other awards. But as for the dark knight rises, my favorite film of the year, it wasn't even nominated. Avengers I think could have been nominated for costume and sound editing. The hobbit could well have won for best visual effects(thank you Gollem) and production design. Thankfully that went to Life of Pi, I was blown away by the visuals and designs, but I could tell when it was CGI, like the tiger.

One thing I am glad for is the best supporting actress going to Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence for best actress, Anne had lost practically most of her muscle mass and her hair to play a heartbreaking role of Fantine as well as sing the most beautiful song in the film. Lawrence is usually portrayed as a no-nonsense woman, but now she can play a high functioning sociopath with infrequent outbursts of rage and lunacy. 

Adele won best original song with Skyfall, becoming the first Bond song to win an oscar. The other hit's  "Nobody does it better", "Live and let die" and "For your eyes only" are very good, the first two being my personal favorites, and were nominated for best original song. Paul McCarthy came back in 2001 with Vanilla Sky.

And Now the big one, Argo for Best Picture. What The F**K. Pardon my faux pas, but this film was only OK, not amazing. the story was interesting, based on the mission used by the CIA in using a fake film to remove six hostages from a now very hostile Iran. The acting was good as far as the nominations went, but the ending was predictable and there were many reported historical inaccuracies as well as the fact that Ben Afleck cast himself in a role that should have been played by someone of a Mexican ethinacy.
In my opinion either Life of Pi, Les Miserables or Lincoln should have won. The first two mainly because they took some bigger risks of including question's of faith in Pi and bringing a very difficult musical to portray on stage onto the silver screen(cinema). The last one mainly because of a sense of media and critical coverage so convinced by the success of the film they were assured there estimation's would be right.

And that's my two cent's on the subject, I hope you enjoyed, Please comment if you have an opinion you would like to express.

The theme for my Blog

I have finally chosen a theme to do may blog on. Each online reviewer has theme, some settle for the topic at hand, but I am going to use Cult followings as my main theme. Film's, for the longest time, have left a deep impression on people. Whether the film be good or bad, there is some thing in the back of our mind that will help us decide. the film can be a guilty pleasure, a film so bad you have to enjoy it or so over hyped you would despise it(eg. Twilight). But usually a franchise will develop a cult, for the film they crave so much will have flaw's or plot holes that the devoted fan's must root out and explain. Some of the largest media cult following's in the world include The Evil Dead Trilogy, The Rocky horror picture show, Fight club, star trek, etc. my first review will be Wednesday with "the Evil Dead   

The Wiz

This one I found recently. Apparently, in 1975 there was a release of The Wizard of Oz for the stage, only this show had some major changes. Instead of a the classic song's like 'we're off to see the wizard' or 'If I only had a heart', we are instead treated with 'Ease on down the road' and 'Brand new day' and the cast is now all black. This was a major turn in theater and Broadway. The show was a major hit with audiences and critics alike and won many award's in the Tony awards, including Best Musical and a Drama desk award for 'Outstanding Musical'. In 1978, the film right's to the show was bought by Motown, the legendary american RnB record label and was released by Universal. What we got was a very interesting film, to say the least.

What differ's from the show in this film is that instead of taking place in Kansas, it take's place in New York with Dorothy(played by Diana Ross) being swept off to the land of Oz, a sort of scitzo version of New York. So, instead of a scarecrow of straw we are given one made of garbage(Michael Jackson) , a tin man based on an amusement park piece of animatronics(Nipsy Russel) and a lion based on a library statue(Ted Ross). I find this a clever adaption of the Wiz by making it take place in New York, although I would have liked it to be more faithful to the stage show. Other changes include changing the Witch of the north to Miss One(number obsessed), flying monkey's no longer flying or monkey's and multiple song's added or replaced with some new one's. In fact the Wiz himself gets no song's when he did in fact have three song's in the show. The story is more or less the same, so I won't bore with the details. We can thank Joel Schumacher for it's strange, yet interesting story line.

Let's see, I dislike some of the change's and the fact that some of my favorite song's where removed(all the song's were my favorite). I do believe that Diana was a bit of a miscast, but now I cannot un-see her in the role, her singing saved her. Richard Pryor did a good Wiz, although they made Nipsy sing, so they could have given him a song or two. Also the main issue I had was how dark in lighting and story it was, but I think that was the idea to make all hope and good seem lost, only for darkness to be triumphed over at the end.

But what was good is really good. The song's, singing and choreography was stellar, the costumes were very good, the effect's were good for it's time and for the most part the acting is pretty good. It was able to rely on it's reputation of the show and not eat off the classic musical by using nostalgia. Overall a strange, but enjoyable film. It's a guilty pleasure i'll freely admit to. It's got me planning for a remake anyway.

Script Fix

The Dark knight Rises
Along with my review of this movie, I am also going to give my opinion on how it can be fixed. There are many aspects I can change , while a good movie has its flaws like most movies. So here is how I'll do it.

1. Swap the stories of the Dark knight(DK) and the Dark knight rises(DKR). The second movie will have Bane and Talia avenging Ra's al Ghul's death as this is connected to Batman Begins(BB)
2.  Aaron Eckhart should play Harvey Dent Deputy Commissioner  (played by Matthew Modine) who then runs for office as district attorney in the DKR. This is then completed when Joker make's him go insane and dies at the end. 
3. Instead of showing Batman in 'The Bat', just show 'The Bat' flying away. This will make the it more realistic to think that he escaped the explosion.
4. More gadgets, less voice. Enough said.
5. After the "Disappearance" of batman, the joker rises to take advantage of this absence. This will cause batman to come out of retirement after faking his death at the end of the second movie. 
6. Bane's plan is to merely show what a lie can change in a city by releasing the inmates arrested under the law of liar's before finally destroying the city that has too much corruption and destruction. 

These are some of the thing's that I would change to make it less confusing or stop making haters find ways to make this movie less than it is.