Looking through the Oscars Best Picture nominations this year, I'm surprised to notice that I watched almost all the mentioned movies. As for the ones I haven't watched yet, I profoundly feel that I'll never do. It happened with Twelve Years a Slave, even when I knew it will win. It was one of those slipped Infos the night before the ceremony, which wasn't a coincidence and it wasn't a good movie either. I shall not watch Belfast, CODA, and West Side Story because I don't resonate with any of … [Read more...]
The Big Short – Another Wall Street Movie
The Big Short is another movie on the Best Pictures nominees list this year. I am a very big admirer of all the guys involved with it, actors, the director, the book's author, etc, but I feel that I have to mention a few things from the beginning. This is not The Wolf of Wall Street, this is not some biography, this is a movie largely based on real facts with some more than large suppositions and invented characters. Nor them, nor the figures are appropriate, or even close to … [Read more...]