Lets Show The Hype.

I was going to save this topic until later but I thought I'd thought I'd it now whilst I am in two equal minds about this.

After all the hype and award nominations I finally just finished watching The Artist and I thought it was a fantastic film that well deserves everything that it gets. It really shows how the movie world has changed these days and the struggle it took for some people to get used to the "talkies" nowadays. Even still today it was in the news recently that people complained that they wanted a refund because it was a silent movie. Which was a shame really because it is a really enjoyable film that is worth the time to watch and understand what is meant by the silence. Anyway I am going off topic a bit.

The reason I want to do this blog is because after a while of much hype and news articles I finally decided to give The Artist a chance and see what the fuss was all about. But I hate the fact that they have to shove the movie down everyones throat for people to show some mild interest and for me that ruins the experience that you would have with a movie and soon people would start to hate it and probably not see it because they are fed up of hearing about the thing. However would I have seen The Artist or even known about it if they didn't. No i probably wouldn't have, but films/programmes like The Artist deserves to be pushed because they are well worth your time.

Then they are thoose that don't deserve it. Twilight, tv shows like Glee, and celebrities like Justin Bieber. Why are these hyped so much when so many people hate them so much. Maybe it's because we have to hear about them every single day and they get people hyped and excited so much that they are rejeected by about how bad they really are. A recent example is The Royal Bodygaurd that David Jason is starring in. Everone was excited to see David Jasons return to TV with a new comedy series, then turned off when the show got so bad and felt it necessary to complain about it the next day. It's the same with Twilight, up to the movies we see photos, trailers, TV spots, all the time, then came the release and it was bad...really bad. Music wise everywhere you go, we heard singers like Glee and Bieber and most people again got pissed off about  how much it got played when it wasn't deserved.

Maybe people wouldn't mind them if they weren't in your face all the time, but because it is everyone has high expectations about them all and then feel bad about when they get disapointed if they find out they don't like it. I know wouldn't. But with things like The Hunger Games and Amazing Spiderman films due out this year, new artists being found nearly every day. It looks like the hype and disspointment will proably never end.   

Award Season-Do some deserve it and is it worth it?

The award season if underway with the Golden Globes from Sunday and the BAFTAs nominations announced yesterday. I was going to wait until the BAFTAs was over or the Oscars were announced but I saw no point. The last few years have shown me that they will just be the same anyway, which begs to the point. Why do we need so many? Why are American films invlovled in a British ceremony? Why can't we just have one award show for films and one for TV? (both individually for America and British) It begs to the question that are the actors, directors and everyone else even botherd anymore. After watching the Globes and Oscars last year you could clearly see that everyone is bored to be there and would rather leave for the bar after the fifth to eigth award has been given out. They know who's more than likely, just like us, is going to win, because they know just as many what is classified as an "Award winning film" they have seen them and been involved in them so many times before, so is there a point anymore? I'd say pretty soon, No, they won't be.

So what makes a good "Award winning film". Well the theory is it has to have a sense of autorship and a great mise-en-scene but anyone who has seen 3-10 seconds of a movie knows that this is just a bunch of BS. Without mise-en-scene the film would not exist anyway, and it would be really stupid for the actors dressing as an 1980s person for a 1930s movie. (Unless the storyline conflicted this in some way) Which leaves the old famous auteur theory. Auteurship is a director who has his own unique style in how the films they make are shown and how they are brought across. Which is kind of why the same directors are nominated for the Best Director catogory and their films are hyped all the time.

This years nominations hype films are The Artist and The Descendents. I haven't seen The Artist yet so I cannot comment on that but I have recently watched The Descendents and my view is that although the film was good and well made. There have been some films better than this to fit into the Best Film section. For instance Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Source Code, the lesser known Brotherhood and Win Win and possibly even at a push Jodie Fosters The Beaver. Even though some of them won't even fit into an "Award Winning Film" Brotherhood, Win Win and even The Beaver will do. Both were well shot, well scripted, well acted and brought out the emotion that the film was trying to achieve. So why aren't they nominated? I have no idea, the jury on who selects these things must have thought that the film were lacking in something and thought that the films that are nominated were better.            

So what about the actors? Why do the actors who are in the Best films award are in the Best Actor category. It's because in order to make the film into a Best film you need to have Best acting? Which is where the academy screws the actors in the ass. Many actors but on a fantastic performance without being in a "Best Film" sometime putting on better perfromance than them and do no get the recognition that they deserve and probably never will until they do appear in a "Best Film" thing. Don't get me wrong some of them really do deserve it, but I'm saying of the acadmey lifted their restraints a little they might see as far as some actors in comedy films perform well. Take Will Ferell for example, he was fantastic actor in Anchorman, Stanger than Fiction, Step Brothers, Elf, but he who is seriously underlooked because he is a "comedian" which is complelty unfair and biased. Many others have been screwed as well, Bruce Willis, Denzil Washington and Robin Williams to name a few.

To round off what does make a good movie? I'd say it's the one you enjoy. The more you enjoy it the better the film is. Which is why I think the award seseon is slowly turning to a big joke, there was a time that it was indeed a highly respected show, but now it's at the point where no-one hardly cares about it. Even the people who make the films don't seem that botherd anymore. We will see as time goes on.     

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to my blog guys...this is my first post so don't go mental on me if it's all wrong.

For thoose who know me will know that my aspiring future job is to become a writer so after some months of pondering whether to start a blog, I decided to start one for the new year to keep my skills sharp and intact and hopefully become better as the years go on.

I will be bringing some film reviews and other rants about news items and other stuff...and junk...and stuff. If you think I am an idiot for what I say that's fine, just know that is my opinion and I am not trying to make myself look stupid (although probably sometimes I will do)

  Anyways I hope you enjoy my blogs as I post, and I will do my best not to mess up, and bring my first main blog up soon.