Perhaps everyone is like me and they don’t really go onto a tumblr blog as everything for the most part is found on your dashboard.
Thus is would not surprise me if people did not know that I have changed my design for this website.

Usually I’m not one to show off but hey I worked hard on this new design that I would really like to show it off to you.

So here it is being lovely and new and clean and so much better than my first attempt at a tumblr theme from scratch.

I hope you enjoyed this update but when you see me again there will be a review on the avengers included!

   Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaLpieSNIfk (warning I think it spoils a bit)

This movie happens to be one of those great reasons why you shouldn’t listen to people of the Internet when masses state that a film is either too scary for words or that it’s too gory. Thought while I think about this it could very well be that I’m perhaps a little desensitized to horror’s that I find it hard to take the mass’s word on things like gore and scare factors.

In any case today we are looking at a indie sci-fi horror film known as the Divide.

The basic plot line is that we follow the lives of a few survivors of a nuclear war hiding in a bunker under their apartment building with those ranging from weak can’t do shit to idiots who think they are all that and to a single reasonable character who is not the lead.

The lead is a woman named Eva who has escaped with her fiancé Sam who is perhaps not the biggest man that had ever lived in fact I’m fairly sure it is Eva who wears the pants in that relationship. For the most part she is the only one with common sense while we watch everyone else slowly descend to insanity due to a bit of cabin feather and the impending doom that awaits outside.

As I have said before I have this secret crush on movies about character descending into madness and this film claimed to have an awful lot of it.
I made the mistake to have a look at the imdb boards before watching the film or even trailer so I went into this thinking that I was going to be spending most of my time hiding under the covers waiting for the screaming to stop as there was nothing but comments on the gore and some disturbing scenes that involved rape.

Let’s just say it’s really not that bad…

From the get go it’s not the most realistic film that ever lived to tell it’s tale, at the start actors are running all around an apartment building looking directly at a nuclear blast at times and yet none of them have a single sight error at a later point.

The characters themselves… I don’t believe I’ve ever vocally raged so much during a film before. They are in the nicest of terms all twats in one-way or another.
The worst part was at point in the film where the not so crazy group gets a gun and the guy holding it has a moment where he can kill these idiots that needed no hesitation in shooting at that point in time (clearly insane by now) and yet shoots one of his own friends because he flips out a little.
I’ve never been happier to see someone die in a film before.

I constantly stopped to question every move and thought made by the characters finding it harder to believe their motives were that of an actual human. The only one I understood was Mickey and he then gets knocked out and duct taped to a chair because he was ‘holding back’ on their supplies.
Let’s ignore the fact that he was feeding them and making sure they were not going over board with the very limited food that they had, no he must be just keeping it all to himself. Guys be tripping balls.

There was this one part that made me look away and that was when the group of guys decide to torcher Mickey via cutting off his finger to get the combination of the locker that held all of the supplies but this is because I can’t stand slow torcher, it’s fine when there is a confetti of blood and guts flying about a room because to me that’s fake but watching someone have a limb torn off slowly I can’t watch.

Sadly that was the only part that made me look away and that was over the halfway point.

The piano piece that played during the film was beautiful and fitted every scene that it made an appearance, other than that music was very minimal in fact I only remember the single piano piece.

The ending was the best part of the movie, sad and I kind of wanted to slap Eva but still the best part. Realizing that it was her or no one at all and leaving her idiot of a fiancé behind to burn.

Overall it’s a clever movie but struggles to keep me interested in the characters due to them being just frustrating and weak, it’s not that gory there are much worse out there but it’s an interesting watch for those who can stomach the occasional disfigured faces.

Watch: Interesting premises, badass ending, lead heroine who isn’t weak, watching people go slowly crazy

Don’t Watch: Blood, rape scene’s, frustrating characters, cabin fever, if you rage easily.

Confession:

Honestly I don’t like to review overly popular films, I don’t like the idea of being personally attacked because my opinion happens to not go along with the crowd (which is rare and yet at the same time not so much). You see when you get a film made of a best selling novel that you yourself didn’t really enjoy all that much it sets off warning signals in your head and I’ve been at witness to a few unjustified attacks to film critics and reviewers alike because they have disagreed.

And it’s not decent attacks, I’d be understanding if the community in film reviewers were more open to opinion simply stating: “Well I don’t agree with your review but I do see that some of your points are indeed valid perhaps you would like to look more into this area here to help you add to the pros instead of the cons”

But no a lot of the fandom community is terrifying and puts me on edge. In the end it’s just comments like:
Omg you didn’t understand anything go kill yourself OR Seriously shut up you don’t know what your talking about.

And while I may not always agree with a review and I’ve seen some nasty ones on 500 days of Summer it’s not hard to look at a review and see that they do have a point most of the time, yes 500 days of Summer is a little boring, yes the characters are a little annoying and unrealistic at times.

In the end I’m just going to bite the bullet and let you know what I thought about the Hunger Games, the truth of what I thought and ask that if you don’t like what I have to say then that is perfectly 100% ok with me because you dear reader are allowed your own say just refrain from telling me to kill myself and maybe tell me what you enjoyed of the film J

TL;DR

       Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNxb28j5C1w&ob=av3e

This film has been hyped up to the land of no return promising nothing but great things for both fans of the books and newcomers alike. Personally I think that whom ever it is behind the promotion of this film will become the most sought after as soon as people realize that the difference in this film and the promises given are two completely different things.

Let’s just say next time one should not take up the challenge that Stephen King set for them in saying he’d like to see them attempt a PG-13 rating because for those of you who don’t know what the book is about it is a about teenagers killing each other.
Teenagers killing each other is not a PG film come on Harry freaking Potter was M in the later films and millions still went ahead to view that it wasn’t going to kill you guys to actually attempt to make this a little bit more violent.

Though I suppose if I were behind the rating or the whole film I’d just make it unrated and have an actor behead another in all its gory wonder in CGI.

Moving on.

The Hunger Games is a film based of a book of the same name by Suzanne Collins and it is a popular book of which I was not the biggest fan of but that shouldn’t state that you will think my review will be purposely negative because of that fact. From the moment I finished the book I thought that this would do better in a different media, film to be exact, then it did as a book because I didn’t enjoy only learning about Katniss when there were so many other more interesting characters plus sometimes I would rather someone show me what is going on with beautiful CGI then read it (I’m a terrible bookie).

The basic story is that we follow the life of Katniss Everdeen who lives in district 12 of a total of 12 and today is the day that the top dogs pick one boy and girl from the ages of 12 to 18 to attended the games known as the Hunger Games. These games as you have guessed is where the contenders fight to the death until one is left standing and yes I still have no idea why 12 districts haven’t realized that they are like ants spate useless but together amazing and can do anything.
Anyway Katniss’s younger sister Prim is really unlucky having her name drawn out of the thousands but before she can make it to the stage to accept this honor Katniss jumps on out and takes her place.
This is a story of Katniss’s fight to survive, a hell of a lot of useless stretched out training montages, and a love triangle I’m a little unsure one member is aware of being apart of.

Look I’m just going to say it quickly and painlessly again otherwise it’s going to keep coming up on this review until you rage quite my website. This movie would have been 100x’s better if it had a higher rating, you can’t do crap with a PG film, and again this is a film about people killing each other the author didn’t let that stop her when she wrote it why they hell should the film guys let it.

I will also not compare this to Battle Royale or Twilight which I’ve seen a few reviewers doing recently… no matter how much I want to.

The cinema photography for the first half of the film was stunning and beyond beautiful, the colours and the attention to detail with out drawing from the main focus was executed brilliantly. No one can tell them that they don’t know how to make a film look visually appealing.

That being said as soon as we get into the action it looks like they’ve attempted to create a hand held camera shake effect and I can’t stress this enough but don’t change your style mid way through, you can’t just have a perfectly tripod shot film and then snap to another style when you feel like it. It would be like if Harry Potter suddenly went to first person a third of the way in because J.K Rolling thought it would work better.
It would have worked better if the shaky cam was used a little less but instead it just felt like I was jumping between two different movies, which is kind of correct in a way because the second half feels very distant from the first.

The actors I personally think are brilliant the only thing that I wasn’t sure on was that Katniss has a fairly light tan where I’d always seen her as a well tanned girl due to her constantly being outside hunting all the time.

The chemistry between the actors was well done and Jennifer plays a great Katniss and holy crap my heart stopped beating for a second when she stands up for her sister and they have that small moment.

The main problem is the chemistry between actors are only shown for small snippets at a time and while those small moments tug at the heart strings it’s not enough to really feel for a lot of the characters like Gale for example.

Through out the film I’m constantly asking Why? I’ve read the books and I know the answers but as viewing this as someone who has not read the books I notice from the get go that very little is explained or shown,  I feel as if they just didn’t bother to think about those who haven’t read the books yet where all they do is throw random things in your face and hope you’ll work it out sooner or later.
What I get from the movie is basically people are being badass’s and making kids fight to the death but there is little more to go off from that.

If you haven’t read the books I honestly would not bother with this movie if you’re the kind of person who asks questions.

Also this film drags like crazy, I mean it was bad in the book but this is horrible, the training montages are way drawn out and completely inaccurate to the novel. Also I still struggle to understand why it is important to make the contenders pretty or give them training before they throw them into a pit of doom to pick each other off one by one. By the time they get in the area its pretty clear instinct takes over not the training or well groomed hair.

I grew sick of the Katniss and Peeta awkward looks at each other after the third time but they kept on going with it.

When we get into the area the film kicks into hyper speed and then it’s just kind of over… For a movie that’s over two hours that’s a little worrying.

The shaky cam makes it almost too hard to watch at times, its like tumble tumble tumble oh look that person is dead you can tell because that guys weapon now has blood on it.

I love how they made this film PG basically to avoid the gore they only show a character raise a weapon or grab a hold of another character and then cut back to Katniss watching in horror and then cut back to a body on the ground.

Though I really enjoyed the shots between the commentators in the games letting you know little snippets of information such as the tracker jacks though the effected by venom shots were more nauseous then interesting.

Rue’s death was emotional yes but I couldn’t help going mentally: THAT IS NOT HOW IT HAPPENED rage face here. It basically made Katniss a little more of a hero then she was which she didn’t need any help with, for a moment I thought they were just going to let her live anyway because they had a moment of doubt on if they wanted to kill of the character, hell the way the spear did get her had me pondering on the abilities to keep her alive it didn’t sink in that deep and it got her in the side meaning it could have just been a deep cut and had not yet harmed her insides.
Look guys have a look at this made by fans, it is so much better then this, personally I’d edit my DVD to cut that bit out and put theirs in.

But when her district rebels like that I had to hold back tears thankful that these characters finally worked out for a little while that they could fight back and win, in the sense of starting something not so much winning that battle.

Peeta’s camouflage was just awesome and scared the shit out of me when I noticed him there but that whole part in the cave was just really really boring ok, if I had a skip function I would have used it and still been able to work out what had gone on.

Music was amazing, I’m going to get that soundtrack as soon as I can, I can’t help but find comfort in the soundtracks of films even if that film was just horrible (not talking about this film).

The end was pathetic as far as endings go and I’m still confused as to why they even need a winner when they are just showing the districts just who is in charge around here, having a champion just raises unneeded hope which falls on dead ears, it wasn’t that great in the book but they found a way to just make it worse, watching this film made me raise my personal rating of the book from a two star to a three.

Look overall the movie was OK it wasn’t god sent nor was it worth a single star as far as ratings go it was just alright and honestly not worth an 8.10 on imdb as far as film go, maybe a 6 or a 7 but not 8. I wouldn’t go to the cinema to see it again but it was interesting enough to keep me entertained and I’d happily watch it again on DVD at a friend’s house later.

Harry Potter got away with more in the first movie and that’s a little sad for a movie that is again about people killing one another.

Watch: If you’re a ‘fan’ of the books, if you enjoy a love triangle, if you like a deep story with out the blood and gore.

Don’t watch: if you’re a crazy fan of the books I mean know every detail and get mad when they leave out characters or plots because this movie leaves out a lot, if you don’t like the idea of kids killing one another, if you’re a little over emotional, if you don’t like nauseous camera movements.

                   Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWbdflQRw58

Hello there, long time no see I know and I am sorry for my absence which was due to a few factors of life that are rather overused when explaining why one has not had the time to update the few people online on why there has been so little in communication.

It comes down to a tie breaker of I have been very ill these past few weeks starting things off with a summer cold soon moving off into something a little more serious which had myself in bed complaining to everyone willing to listen of how much pain I was in.

It was this and that I don’t always watch movies that are ‘recent’ or popular, I attempt to watch something new during the week but sometimes there just isn’t anything out or I can’t afford to go to the cinema. Maybe I should just review the 1990’s films I watched anyway? I’m not sure we will see…

Now that we are past the annoying overused factors let’s actually start to talk about the film that I watched a few days back.

The Moth Diaries.

This is a film that is based off a book of the same name that I have never heard of until I had viewed them but it is because of the fact that I have yet to read the novel that this review will probably go down a different route to all the people who have read it and seen this film.

The film follows the life of sixteen-year-old Rebecca who has not had the greatest of life currently in witnessing the aftermath of her father’s suicide.
At first she struggled to move on in the school but was able to befriend a girl named Lucie who taught her to be happy again and due to this fact Rebecca is a little overprotective of the girl and this becomes clear just how protective she gets when a new and strange girl named Ernessa comes to the school having eyes for only Lucie’s attention.

Strange happenings begin to occur around the school including but not limited to murder… or perhaps it really is just suicide?

We follow Rebecca’s tale as she attempts to work out if what she believes and see’s is what can be called reality or perhaps she is just as mad as the people in the horror tales that she is forced to read for her English class.

I have and always will have this secret hate for vampires and one should not assume that this is because of Twilight because really my hate goes back to my high school days where we had to read and write two essays on Dracula so had I known that this film had been wrongly classified as a vampire one I probably would not have bothered with it but since I had chosen to not read a thing about it I was able to view and see that people need to learn just what a vampire movie entails.

You see the film while speculating on the possibility of Ernessa being a vampire is not what the film stands to be about. In the most basic way of putting it we are watching Rebecca’s grip with reality slip away and I rather enjoy watching those descend into madness which is something I should perhaps not be one to so quickly admit to the internet.

The idea of this film is what made me keep watching it till the end but sadly it was quite possibly the only thing that it had going for it.

Rebecca’s character is hard to like I can sympathies with her of course but her personality is just so overbearing and forceful that I found it hard to feel sorry for her at times and the relationships between all of the girls are at a mix of unbelievable to moments where you could think they would pass off as friends for example Lucie is portrayed as so forgiving and yet was willing to stop talking to her best friend of years at in a second due to childish reasons.

From what I understand of the book it is written in diary form (hence the title) and in Rebecca’s diary we find that she is not one to be trusted constantly twisting events to work in her favor and I believe that the film made an attempt to create that same effect but instead this came out to be simply confusing as we viewed this as 3^rd person forcing to believe that every event that happened was one of reality until we are shown otherwise (this is seen via Rebecca’s illusions in the library).

For example of there is a point where Rebecca and one of her friends view Ernessa walking into her room via the window appearing to have simply walked right through the glass and it is unsure whether Rebecca’s mind is telling her that her friend had indeed seen what she had or if it is one that she has again made up to make herself feel better this is never relived as her friend is later found that night dead on the ground of the building appearing to have fallen from the window herself.

I spent a long period of this film believing that perhaps Rebecca was the cause of all of the deaths and the film appears to have supported the theory for a while but I am unsure why none of the other characters seemed to have picked up on the vibe I am Rebecca was always the first to the scene of the crime why does no one question this until the end? Or is it simply because they feel sorry for her because she had a ruff childhood?
Oh that girl who has found the past three dead girls there is no reason to worry about her she’s just had a hard life.

The ending of the film is what really ruined everything for me, we close off with nothing but evidence to support the theory of Ernessa being a vampire and this frustrates me because up until the final points of the film there is an equal amount of evidence on both sides and then we have a increase of the vampire side then it simply ends…

Personally I rather the Rebecca was bat shit crazy theory over the vampire one but I believe the film would have ended off better leaving the open ending allowing the viewer to work out for themselves just how correct Rebecca’s viewing of her reality was.

The film as I said had this amazing idea holding so much potential for something great but instead we simply have this confusing but extremely beautiful film with little closure or really anything.

Nonetheless I still believe that this film is worth a watch more so if you have yet to read the book because from the sounds of it this film butchers up the novel something awful.

Watch: Beautiful characters, stunning colour and shots, interesting prospect

Don’t Watch: Frustrating lead, unbelievable relationships, confusing film direction.

That’s right today we got to witness the 84th Oscars which were magical and someday I will be there even if that someway is that I am the broom lady… anyway I thought we could use this post to show off the winners and the films/people I thought should have won!

Actor in a Leading Role

•     Demián Bichir in “A Better Life”
•     George Clooney in “The Descendants”
•     Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”
•     Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
•     Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”

Agree thought I have yet to watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but Dujardin was perfect in just about every way!

Actor in a Supporting Role

•     Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn”
•     Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
•     Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
•     Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
•     Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”

I haven’t seen Beginners so I’m unable to fully agree with the choice besides the fact that Plummer is a brilliant actor but I personally think that Max just blew me away in his part of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

Actress in a Leading Role

•     Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
•     Viola Davis in “The Help”
•     Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
•     Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
•     Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”

Seriously if they didn’t give this to Meryl Streep I was probably going to eat my own shoe.

Actress in a Supporting Role

•     Bérénice Bejo in “The Artist”
•     Jessica Chastain in “The Help”
•     Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids”
•     Janet McTeer in “Albert Nobbs”
•     Octavia Spencer in “The Help”

Bridesmaids was funny and McCarthy is awesome but Spencer in the Help was just mind blowingly good.

Animated Feature Film

• “A Cat in Paris” Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
•     “Chico & Rita” Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
•     “Kung Fu Panda 2” Jennifer Yuh Nelson
•     “Puss in Boots” Chris Miller
•     “Rango” Gore Verbinski

A Cat in Paris was just good ok like go and watch that film right now I watched Rango and just didn’t find it that great also why is Kung Fu Panda 2 up there?

Art Direction

•     “The Artist” 
Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
•     “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” 
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
•     “Hugo” 
Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
•     “Midnight in Paris” 
Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
•     “War Horse” 
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

I’m a Harry Potter fan through and through but let’s face it Hugo was just so well done that it almost brings tears to the eyes.

Cinematography

•     “The Artist” Guillaume Schiffman
•     “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Jeff Cronenweth
•     “Hugo” Robert Richardson
•     “The Tree of Life” Emmanuel Lubezki
•     “War Horse” Janusz Kaminski

And once again couldn’t agree more, Hugo was just so well done!

Costume Design

•     “Anonymous” Lisy Christl
•     “The Artist” Mark Bridges
•     “Hugo” Sandy Powell
•     “Jane Eyre” Michael O’Connor
•     “W.E.” Arianne Phillips

I thought the Artist was great and they must be jumping for joy because they won like all of the awards like ever but I thought that Jane Eyre’s costume design was perfect.

Directing

•     “The Artist” Michel Hazanavicius
•     “The Descendants” Alexander Payne
•     “Hugo” Martin Scorsese
•     “Midnight in Paris” Woody Allen
•     “The Tree of Life” Terrence Malick

Yeah again thought the Artist was fab and all but Hugo was amazing and I’m super surprised that it wasn’t the film to win all of the awards.

Documentary (Feature)

•     “Hell and Back Again” 
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
•     “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” 
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
•     “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” 
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
•     “Pina” 
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
•     “Undefeated” 
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

I haven’t seen any of these so well done the winner!

Documentary (Short Subject)

•     “The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement” 
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
•     “God Is the Bigger Elvis” 
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
•     “Incident in New Baghdad” 
James Spione
•     “Saving Face” 
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
•     “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom” 
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Same as above BUT I do watch Doco’s and rather like them it just so happens that I’ve yet to come across these.

Film Editing

•     “The Artist” Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
•     “The Descendants” Kevin Tent
•     “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
•     “Hugo” Thelma Schoonmaker
•     “Moneyball” Christopher Tellefsen

10,000% agree!

Foreign Language Film

•     “Bullhead” Belgium
•     “Footnote” Israel
•     “In Darkness” Poland
•     “Monsieur Lazhar” Canada
•     “A Separation” Iran

Haven’t seen any of these yet and this is strange cause I’m all for foreign films.

Makeup

•     “Albert Nobbs” 
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
•     “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” 
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
•     “The Iron Lady” 
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Dude it was perfect ok and again big Harry Potter girl but the makeup just wasn’t that stunning.

Music (Original Score)

•     “The Adventures of Tintin” John Williams
•     “The Artist” Ludovic Bource
• “Hugo” Howard Shore
•     “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Alberto Iglesias
•     “War Horse” John Williams

For a movie that pretty much relied on the music to make it though the film one can understand just why it won this award.

Music (Original Song)

•     “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
•     Real in Rio” from “Rio” Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Have I ever laughed more through a film’s song before, ah probably… but not in an awful long time. The song was great and perfect and oh god please come out on DVD so I can re-watch you again and again.

Best Picture

•     “The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer
•     “The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
•     “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer
•     “The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
•     “Hugo” Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
•     “Midnight in Paris” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
•     “Moneyball” Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
•     “The Tree of Life” Nominees to be determined
•     “War Horse” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

This is really what we have all been waiting for the movie that people have announce to be the best…. and I don’t agree nor do I really disagree it’s more that I struggle to tell people the single movie that I believe to be the best, The Artist is up there but there is also Hugo and the Help that I believe could have won too so I’m unable to be of any use to you here.

Short Film (Animated)

•     “Dimanche/Sunday” Patrick Doyon
•     “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
•     “La Luna” Enrico Casarosa
•     “A Morning Stroll” Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
•     “Wild Life” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

I’ve yet to see any of these films -.-

Short Film (Live Action)

•     “Pentecost” Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
•     “Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
•     The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George
•     “Time Freak” Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
•     “Tuba Atlantic” Hallvar Witzø

Same as above… shut up ok.

Sound Editing

•     “Drive” Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
•     “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Ren Klyce
•     “Hugo” Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
•     “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
•     “War Horse” Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Wait is that the Transformers I see up there? I did not expect to see them in here… anywhere I mean no offense guys but really? Doesn’t matter anyway because Hugo did win and well deserved too!

Sound Mixing

•     “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” 
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
•     “Hugo” 
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
•     “Moneyball” 
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
•     “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” 
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
• “War Horse” 
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Don’t really know the difference between the sound editing and mixing sorry film guys out there but yay Hugo won again!

Visual Effects

•     “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” 
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
•     “Hugo” 
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
•     “Real Steel” 
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
•     “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” 
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
•     “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” 
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

So I did think that the visual Effects of Hugo were fab and all but I really liked Real Steel  I mean the robots didn’t look too fake and didn’t mess with the style of the film.

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

•     “The Descendants” Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
•     “Hugo” Screenplay by John Logan
•     “The Ides of March” Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
•     “Moneyball” Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin  Story by Stan Chervin
•     “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan

Haven’t seen the Descendants but I thought that the Ides of March was a brilliant adaption so my heart lies with that.

Writing (Original Screenplay)

•     “The Artist” Written by Michel Hazanavicius
•     “Bridesmaids” Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
•     “Margin Call” Written by J.C. Chandor
•     “Midnight in Paris” Written by Woody Allen
•     “A Separation” Written by Asghar Farhadi

I like funny movies alright and I thought that Bridesmaids was the right mix of funny and smart with out digging into things like Hangover or The Best Men in sick and twisted its kind of funny in a way. It had some clever writes on board that film!

And there you guys go my thoughts on the winners of the 84th Oscars of 2012 please be sure to let me know what you think and I’ll see you ll soon <3