Last movie you watched......

Lawrence was alright. She obviously had a lot of fun with the role, but she wasn't as real as Adams or Bale. They both nailed big without doing caricature.

 

I'm not good at accents so I'll defer to you on this. Next time I watch it, I'll see if I can figure it out.
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Margot Robbie was solid

 

Well, I do live in Idaho. In the last town I lived, the privately owned theater wouldn't show certain R-rated fare. Adults can be trusted to decide for ourselves what it too raunchy and what isn't.

 

Now You See Me ...

Really enjoyable.
I love movies with a good plot twist. Throughout the movie I kept hoping they were going to get caught, because I really didn't like Jesse Eisenberg's character.
And at the end it worked out for me.

 

Seriously, dude? Some people haven't seen the movie.

 

Saw Labor Day tonight.
While it was clearly released at the wrong time of the year - late August would have made more sense, it wasn't bad.
Once you suspend your belief that a lonely and vulnerable woman would be willing to uproot herself and teenage son to move away with a convicted murderer after just three days, it's actually a quite enjoyable movie.

 

Short Term 12 and The Spectacular Now on back-to-back nights. Both, ahem, spectacular. Larson, Woodley and Miles Teller really gave emotional, involved performances, and I really liked John Gallagher Jr.'s role.

 

Watched "Rush" last night with Chris Hemsworth and loved it. It's about the rivalry between F1 racers Niki Lauda and James Hunt in the 1970s. I didn't know going in that it was based on a true story.

It's the best looking movie Ron Howard has ever made. I saw some reviews that said it's his best movie, and they're not far off. Apollo 13 is still his best movie (with A Beautiful Mind close behind), but he's never made a better looking film (Backdraft is probably second to Rush in this regard).

Nobody saw it, but it was really enjoyable.

 

Because of all the praise it received, I'm surprised it didn't get nominated for an Oscar. But I'm not surprised. Since Rocky won for best picture in 1976, sports movies rarely receive Oscar nods and especially a movie about auto racing.
Sports movies since Rocky that even got noticed by the Oscars were Breaking Away, Chariots of Fire, The Natural, Bull Durham, Raging Bull, Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, Jerry Maguire, Seabiscuit, Cinderella Man (also Ron Howard and a vastly overrated film), Ali, Moneyball, Million Dollar Baby, Invictus, The Blindside, The Fighter and The Wrestler (if you consider pro wrestling a sport).
Basically, if you made a football, baseball or boxing movie, your chances are better than a movie involving other sports. I have yet to see Rush, but it's on my list of movies to see. And, again, I was shocked it was snubbed completely by the Oscars. You would've thought it would have received something like a sound editing nomination at the very least.

 

Oscar nominated documentary "The Act of Killing" is on Netflix. It's a tough watch and totally blows my faith in humanity, but a great movie. The military-supported gangsters, who killed half-a-million communists in the 60's, get to direct a movie re-creating their acts. They're big "Scarface" fans and find wire to be the most efficient way of killing a communist.

 

Even though you haven't seen it, you nailed it on sound editing. Could have gotten a nod for cinematography as well.

Sports movies do OK in the Oscars (your list is pretty good evidence of that), though. I can't think of many off the top of my head that deserved recognition but didn't receive any.

 

Miracle is the first one that comes to mind. The list I posted includes movies that just received a nomination, even if it was a technical nomination, like makeup or editing, not necessarily actors and best picture. But it is what it is. Happy Gilmore should've been nominated. haha