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Since it's award season I thought I'd start watching some of the runners and riders. Over the last couple of days I saw...
Inception (2010)
I liked this a lot - maybe not as much as some of the critics I've heard, but it was certainly entertaining and pretty original. Good acting too.
8/10
The King's Speech (2010)
Excellent. Superb acting, engaging story and good casting (Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill? Who'da thunk it'd work?). This has the potential to clean up at the oscars. Highly recommended.
9/10
127 Hours (2010)
I wanted to like this because I like Danny Boyle and I like James Franco, but I found it disappointing. Franco is excellent and well worthy of an oscar nomination, but Boyle's direction is shite in this. I understand a film about a guy stuck down a hole could be boring if directed wrong so Boyle decides to liven it up with all kinds of tricks, but he failed. The build up to the arm removal should have been slower and longer to crank up the suspense, instead we have a too loud soundtrack and cuts every few seconds which do the opposite. This potentially could have been excellent with a different director and a more fitting soundtrack.
6/10
Over the weekend I'll be watching Toy Story 3, True Grit and possibly one or two others. I'm determined to try and see all the nominees this time round.
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