Movies after Midnight

School ends in May, so I’ll get back to my movie watching after Midnight in a months time!

That is when Game of Thrones isn’t occupying my life. 

Which brings me to my next topic!!!

I have another writer joining me, WanderinGrinder. 

Who knows whatever the fuck that means, but my guess is that it has something to do with either baseball, maryjanejuana, or the fact that when he was young he was found in deep forrest and as the legend goes he only eats nuts and has developed the ability grind them between his index finger and thumb. 

So all 7 followers please welcome, the waderingrinder. Feed him nuts if you get the chance, he loves em. 

Best Picture

My Heart Says - Life of Pi (One that has a chance - Silver Linings)

My Money Says - Argo

I just don’t think Argo was Best Picture, but it looks like that’s just me. 

Best Actor

My Heart Says - Joaquin Phoenix

My Money Says - Daniel Day. 

I’m happy either way this works out, but Joaquin really did something that he’s not getting any recognition for so I’ll give it to him. DDL killed it though, pun intended. 

Best Actress

My Heart Says - Jennifer Lawrence

My Money Says - Jennifer Lawrence

She’s my woman. Jessica Chastain could win, but J-Law will be sexy no matter what. 

Best Supporting Actor

My Heart Says - Christoph/Phillip Seymour Hoffman

My Money Says - Tommy Lee Jones

I think his weight will pull him with the W on this one, but it could be anyone’s game, De Niro included. Just Django and Master were two of my favorites of the year. 

Best Supporting Actress

My Heart Says - Helen Hunt

My Money Says - Anne H. 

Helen would be an awesome upset here, her performance was amazing, but seems Anne is stone cold lock. 

Cinematography

My Heart Says - Life of Pi

My Money Says - Life of Pi

Could go to Skyfall or Lincoln but Claudio really created the most beautiful look of any film this year. 

Directing

My Heart Says - Ang Lee. 

My Money Says - David O. Russel

This could go to these guys, with Speilberg as the dark horse (I know right!) but in the end it’s anyone’s game, each has a different aspect highlighted in their work, so this will be interesting. 

Writing Adapted & Original

My Heart Says - Adapted: Silver Linings Original: Moonrise/Django

My Money Says - Adapted: Lincoln Original: Django

I want Django to get it! Also Moonrise deserved wayyyy more than this one nomination this year. 

If I didn’t have to work today (and the last week straight), I’d be making Gifs and Writing Shizz all day up until the moment. Alas, I’m a slave and someone thought it was a good idea to have their anniversary on Oscar night. WTF right!

So I’m going to spit out some predictions, One from the heart and then the one that will win. 

Starting with all the little awards. 

Visual Effects

My Heart Says - Life of Pi 

My Money Says - Life of Pi

The only other option could be Hobbit, which would only be semi surprising, but the technicality of Pi should win it quite a few awards tonight. When you think Visual Achievement I think no further than Pi.

Sound Mixing & Editing (Two Categories)

My Heart Says - Skyfall for both

My Money Says - Skyfall for Editing Les Mis for Mixing

But really, these are COMPLETE guesses. 

I can’t speak to short films because I haven’t seen them

but one has guacamole, so 

My stomach says - Fresh Guacamole. yum. 

Music! Original Score & Original Song

My Heart Says - Score: Lincoln Song: Skyfall

My Money Says - Same.

I mean it’s John Williams and Adele. How could it be anything else. 

Make-Up!

My Heart Says - Hobbit 

My Money Says - Probably Les Mis. 

The Academy always throws the real *Upsets into this category so that’s why Les Mis will probably/randomly walk away with this one. Plus Jackman did have some sick burns throughout the movie. 

Foreign Language

My Heart Says - Amour

My Money Says - Same. 

I really want to see No, and had I maybe I would’ve chosen that, but Amour has it sewn up… so I’ve heard. 

Film Editing

My Heart Says - Argo

My Money Says - Argo (Zero Dark)

Suspense is made through editing… At least that’s what my professors say, and Argo had an insane amount of suspense so I’ll give it’s due here. 

Production Design

My Heart Says - Anna Karenina

My Money Says - Anna Karenina

If you haven’t seen it, the set is absolutely amazing. It’s a stage yet much, much more. 

Documentary Short & Feature

My Heart Says - Short: Inocente Feature: Searching For SugarMan

My Money Says - Same

I’ve only seen these two out of all these films so, naturally my only choices. I’ve heard good things about How to Survive, and Kings Point though. 

Costume Design

My Heart Says - I can’t believe Mirror Mirror is nominated. (Anna Karenina)

My Money Says - Anna Karenina

Argo and Les Mis, could also come away with this one, but once again Mirror Mirror? Shouldn’t you have to be a good movie to be nominated?

Animated Feature

My Heart Says - Frakenweenie

My Money Says - Wreck it Ralph

Brave could take it, but to be honest both Brave and Wreck it underwhelmed me, making Frakenweenie by far the best of the five. 

Now to the real stuff, in a new post. 

When the first reviews came out for Hobbit, I was definitely upset. I didn’t want to hear that it was average. I was literally expecting to be taken back to middle earth… In 48 fps! 

So when I saw it I was nervous. Thought it would be too jumpy so I didn’t see it in IMAX, (huge mistake) but still stuck with the 3D. Needless to say it was all the that I wanted. I mean, how could you do something wrong when after these three movies the screenplays will be longer than the actual book they’re adapted from. 

It made it into my top ten for a number of reasons, with probably the greatest reason for the movie’s success Mr. Sir Knight God Ian Mckellan. Gandalf the Grey is just too much awesome to contain. I can’t wait to get the DVD or Rip and make gif after gif of some Gandalf action. Without spoiling anything, the action to be found in The Hobbit was albeit slow in the beginning but those are the caveats of extending a book the way Jackson is doing. Martin Freeman did a good job as Bilbo too, he’s a surprisingly good actor, I’ll always love Hitchiker’s Guide. 

I loved the movie and I’m looking forward to Jackson doing the next two especially…. dragons.  

What Ben Affleck could be saying when Argo whens Best Picture? 

Argo snuck into my top 10 because I preferred it over Zero Dark Thirty, and quite a few other movies. It was a great movie don’t get me wrong. I do love the love Ben is getting, and I do like thinking about the sweet love he gives Jennifer Garner. After they got married Ben Affleck went up in my book! 

Back to the movie. As Roger Ebert put it, Argo is a movie’s movie. It has a good tight narrative, it’s based on a true story, it’s got a great cast, and the suspense is killing me! It was a great movie’s movie. My only slight problem that pushed it down my list was that it built and built and built like a roller coaster climbing and clicking hundreds of feet up, and after snakes and twists and one loop de loop it just ends. No drop or action scene, very sensationalized with the climax being an airport scene and guy making sound effects with his mouth.

My problem is with the fact that though Argo was extremely suspenseful and kept my attention I felt it was trying to be more than it was. I just felt looking back that the suspense didn’t pay off the way I wanted it too. I don’t know if I’m crazy but, hey, at least it made my top ten! 

Number #9 coming soon

Now that we’re in the unlucky year of the 13’ (But the unlucky cancels out because it’s year of the snake also) 

Some things I’m going to do. 

1. Most anticipated movies of 2012 and how they lived up to the hype
2. Top 10 (I had started writing this but Tumblr didn’t save it when I got to 5.Fuckmeright)
3. Honorable Mentions
4. Oscar Season Predictions
5. Anything… please just do anything!

To write more…………..



about movies.  

Because it’s wedding movie season! 

With the Oscars in February, Golden Globe noms out, critics choice… pick an award show and there’s hype! So because you just don’t know who to trust out there, I can tell you. Trust me. Nobody reads me and nobody pays me so you can trust you’re going to get an unbiased newscast. Think of me as Jeff Daniels from the Newsroom , but slightly less awesome. 

I’m going to (unsuccessfully try) to do a post a every day or two reviewing a movie on the oscar hype as well as a random one. Got plans for rescuers down under movie after midnight. OK! Might even hear from other editors. 

I love my parents. 

There are many reasons I love them, most of them having to do with keeping me alive and not being parents like this guy, but there is one reason in particular that I particularly love about them. 

They bought every movie channel. Showtime/HBO/IFC/AMC/STARZ… (so on so forth) everything! The thing about these channels is you can just sit there and keep watching movie after movie after movie… after movie. 

Those movies happened to be (in order) The Lorax (On Demand), Our Idiot Brother (Showtime), Kaboom (Showtime) , Romancing the Stone (Starz), and right now Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (AMC). I didn’t want to write a full movie review for each of these so instead I’ll just pick the one I started at the midnight hour, Romancing the Stone.

I’m not sure I knew what to expect going into this film, I was thinking more Princess Bride, but alas I was mistaken. In a good way! Romance is an adult adventure movie with plenty of action love and Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Michael Douglas’ Hair. 

This movie had so many good parts. Whether they’re in a cargo plane burning marijuana for warmth, wrestling alligators, knife fights, you name it and this movie might’ve had it (i.e. Michael Douglas’ hair) Not to mention Kathleen Turner looking smokin in 1984. There were so many parts of this movie that made it worth watching, and it just got progressively crazier. 

This ending scene is one of the best endings I’ve even seen in a movie. It escalated quickly and finished strong, leaving me overall feeling satisfied by the film. I just want to take a moment to talk about Michael Douglas and how handsome and handsomely badass he was in this movie. He re-inspired the Michael inside me. 

This film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and then you can see how it was so good. The funny thing though is this is was the first big movie he directed. He went on to do all the Back to the Futures, and many Tom Hanks films. WILSON! All him! Overall I thought the movie was good! I’ve been meaning to watch this movie for a long time but I’ve never had the time. It was funny and a tiny bit lewd which really made me like it all the more. In the end it turned out to be a great pre-make of Princess Bride. Which is completely fine with me. 

8 out of ten treasure maps. 

I will be adding two possibly three writers to my staff of me. I will give out all the information I can on these three gentlemen. (They’re Males!) Of course they probably won’t post on here for a little while because they’re as lazy as I am. If you, random reader (let’s face it probably nobody) would also like to write for movies after midnight send me a message and we’ll get the ball rolling. 

The format is you…. write. In any style. About movies… after midnight. If you don’t like staying up late (bitch*cough) you can watch any movie as long as it surpasses midnight. 

(Note: These are not the actual names they will use but what i think they deserve)

Glasses Cloudinheadboy - he wears glasses and you can often find his head in the clouds 

Afro Raptorrunner - He has, an afro and when running full speed, resembles a raptor. 

White Noticeablystout - He is white and some people notice his stoutness.

Hopefully they’ll all be on to introduce themselves soon, unless of course they break a pinky promise. and you don’t break a pinkie promise

By - Bignose Mustachewearer