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97th Annual Ronalds film awards

I'd like to recognize Jessica Chastain for something, although she's given good performances in so many movies this year I'm not sure which one I would single out.
 
The Oscars nominated her for THE HELP. I saw her in THE DEBT. She came close to a Best Actress nom here, but not quite. But I did give one to her older character counterpart (see below) even though she is essentially unseen in the entire middle section of her movie.

2011 Ronald-nominated for Best Actress:

Maria Bello, BEAUTIFUL BOY
Viola Davis, THE HELP
Catherine Keener, TRUST
Bailee Madison, DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
Helen Mirren, THE DEBT
Saoirse Ronan, HANNA
Meryl Streep, THE IRON LADY
Tilda Swinton, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Michelle Williams, MEEK'S CUTOFF
Robin Wright, THE CONSPIRATOR

Streep won this again, three years after getting it for DOUBT.
 
I haven't seen The Help. I'm not crazy about another movie about a white person solving racism. Mirren was good (as usual) in The Debt, even if I wasn't crazy about the movie. The only other one I've seen on your list is Hannah, which was enjoyable, but didn't blow me away. Competent and artful action movies are so rare that the critics will embrace any that are lucky enough to be made.

I'd also suggest nominating Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur, although the really excellent performance in that movie came from Peter Mullan. His may have been the best leading actor performance I've seen all year.
 
From what I've heard, TYRANNOSAUR is a drama and not sci-fi. Peter Mullan also directs on occasion. I think he appeared in at least one HARRY POTTER.....and definitely co-starred with David Caruso in a strange horror film called SESSION 9.

Going back to his directing, I saw his MAGDALENE SISTERS movie. I probably should've nominated Nora Jane Noone for it. It slipped my mind, I think. Still, a couple of years later I Best-Supported-Actress-nommed her for THE DESCENT. She resembles a gritty Liza Minnelli.

As you can see, it's a vast stream of consciousness. :cool:
 
Tyrannosaur is definitely a drama -- and one that's not afraid to go to pretty dark places. The title is actually a reference to Jurassic Park, believe it or not. Definitely worth seeing.

I posted a provisional top ten of the year list a few weeks ago, but here's my revised version:

1. Tree of Life
2. We Need To Talk About Kevin
3. Drive
4. Tyrannosaur
5. Tabloid
6. Source Code
7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
8. In Darkness
9. The Muppets
10. Crazy Stupid Love
 
Very nice. I should rank my ten BP nominees by number also in the near future. I hope whoever else reads this will pitch in with their ten or five candidates. After all, we have spare burritos here.

Harvey, on your next reply please specify how JURASSIC PARK was referenced. It'll be the Sunday spoiler.

American audiences are so spoon-fed lately, many of them have walked out of TREE OF LIFE screenings demanding refunds for being intellectually challenged. Yes, I am an American. But it's true: the British do it a hell of a lot smarter. So lots of my favorite nominations go to overseas productions like HANNA and KILLER ELITE, or American films in the TAG program (MARGIN CALL).

I saw DRIVE partially for Carey Mulligan and Ron Perlman. I particularly liked the original music in its trailer. Perlman had a better role than usual. He also popped up this year in SEASON OF THE WITCH, CONAN and other forgettables.

I'm not sure the ''Rosemary's Baby'' look works for Carey Mulligan. but I did feel she spent an inordinate amount of time staring at Ryan Gosling when they could let her ACT......like she did so well in AN EDUCATION and NEVER LET ME GO. Most women are accessories in action movies in the end.

In the end, I nominated DRIVE for Best Sound. Partially for the sudden burst of action mid-way through the film.

SOURCE CODE and RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES were the remaining films I saw in this group. I nominated SOURCE for Best Cinematography and Sound. APES fared better. It was nominated for Best Sound, Visual Effects, Editing, Cinematography, Musical Score, Supporting Actor John Lithgow, Actor Andy Serkis, Director Rupert Wyatt, and Best Picture. It won two of the categories: Best Visual Effects (slam-dunk) and Serkis for Best Actor in the best CGI performance of all time.
 
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In Tyrannosaur, Peter Mullan's character has a deceased wife. He explains in a story that she was so obese that whenever she would walk it made ripples appear in a glass of water like the T-Rex footsteps in Jurassic Park. At least, that's the version that's in my memory.
 
So far we've covered the 2011 Ronald-noms for Best Picture, Actress and Supporting Actor. Which category would you (plural) like to see the ten finalists in next? Or would you rather see the WORST Picture, Actress or Supporting Actor contenders for symmetry? (There is no Worst Documentary category....nor Best or Worst Song. But there are Best and Worsts for Screenplay, Musical Score, Art Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Visual Effects and Sound.)
Category-wise, it's three down and 26 to go.:cool:

We can also go historical as needed and jump to the past, since there are plenty of nominees from 1915-2010 as well.
 
I gave Worst Picture to MEEK'S CUTOFF for its horribly ''withheld'' ending with absolutely no resolution......a pointless variation of LIMBO's ending. Meanwhile, this year, the new thriller THE GREY withheld its ending visually but still had an impressively satisfying resolution.

Below are the nine other nominees out-worsted by MEEK:

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Final Destination 5
Footloose
Hobo With a Shotgun (intentionally bad, I admit)
Paranormal Activity 3
Rubber
Scream 4
The Smurfs
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

It was a tough competition. Yet ironically the most promising of the ten still managed to be the worst. A couple of weeks before I posted these picks, Quentin Tarantino also listed MEEK as one of 2011's worst. I don't know if it was for similar reasons.....
 
Sorry. Term paper proposals have been killing me. I haven't seen any of the proposed "Worst Picture" nominees (nor the winner).

Of the films I did manage to see...The Change-Up was one of the worst comedies I've seen in a long time. Green Hornet was nearly as bad. I awarded The Hangover: Part II a C- when I saw it, but I can't think of a single reason why I would have graded it so highly now.

I'm sure there are others, but I have to get some more work done this weekend.
 
That's okay. I've only seen five-and-a-half of these actual ten films. The other four-and-a-half were so obviously bad, no actual watching was necessary. I only saw the first half of TRANSFORMERS and trust me, it was more than enough.

I never gave up hope there'd come a reply. All good things.....
we even need to break from the web every now and then.

Since you mentioned GREEN HORNET, that'll segue into my next postings for the ten Worst Actor contenders tonight or tomorrow....
 
Here are the nine contenders ChiaPet LaBeefyboof beat for Worst Actor (for TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON)

Jack Black, KUNG FU PANDA 2
Nicolas Cage, SEASON OF THE WITCH
Harrison Ford, COWBOYS AND ALIENS (that title alone did a
great job of instantly boring me)
Ruther Hauer, HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN
Jonah Hill, THE SITTER
Seth Rogen, THE GREEN HORNET (In his dreams. The
Hibernating Sloth, I could see.)
Adam Sandler, JACK AND JILL
Adam Sandler, JUST GO WITH IT (Maybe we would if he'd just
make a decent movie once a century)
Kenny Wormald, FOOTLOSE (Again....who names these
people?)
 
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