Sure, but the acting was much better in the Fighter. I think it made up the numbers in a few categories (it was a poor year), but it was fully deserving of the two it won.

Loved Shutter Island. But I have to say that Inception really was something else, I remember going to the loo in The Royal festival Hall after the film finished and I felt like I could have been dreaming. Also, Shutter Island seems a bit... telegraphed on second viewing.

Inception was incredible, I think it might well have cleaned up had it been released later in the year.

The acting in The Fighter was Good Acting, not good acting. That's how I felt about it.

Maybe I was just in a bad mood when I saw it because I seem to have the lowest opinion of it going around (not just on here either).

Heh, funnily enough that's how I always feel about DiCaprio

I thought Melissa Leo was well deserving, myself. Christian Bale was, well.... Probably slightly better than Geoffrey Rush (both pretty good performances). Haven't seen any of the other films to comment.

I tend to agree with you, overall, about the Fighter, I just thought it was a fairly good film with a couple of really good acting performances, telling a fairly generic story. It didn't disappoint me as much as 127 hours.

I enjoyed 127 Hours once I mentally filed it as a Danny Boyle film. It's just a massive Boyle-fest.

asajoseph wrote:

Inception was incredible, I think it might well have cleaned up had it been released later in the year.

Disagree with you that Shutter Island was only 'decent', but completely agree about Inception. Simply an awe-inspiring film.

Going to the cinema for the first time in a while tomorrow, anyone have something to recommend?

Outside of the oscar movies, Rango came out today and is supposed to be exceptional and I would recommend Confessions if you are lucky enough to have it screening near you.

Confessions sounds interesting, will try and watch that eventually. True Grit and The Adjustment Bureau look good too.

I thought Adjustment Bureau looked good, but everything I've heard about it suggests it's rubbish. Been told by a new different friends that Just Go With It is very funny/good too.

Have any of you seen a film called "Rec."?

I was told that it was genuinely terrifying

I've heard that said about so many films that are not remotely scary but this is supposed to be the real thing.

Rec was recommended to me but I'm yet to see it. Another I need to get round to watching!

Went to see adjustment bureau tonight. Load of tosh.

"City of Ember". I had the preconception that it was a crappy kids' film for some reason but it was an excellent piece of retrofuturistic sci-fi. Loved the way they'd actually handcrafted most of the world rather than just smearing everything with CGI effects. Felt a little bit like del Toro but even more like Jeunet's "City of the Lost Children".

Damn Klaus: I was a heartbeat away from selecting that on the hotel TV system instead of Losers the other night. And Losers was C-R-A-P.

Rec is pretty good. But there's a lot of hysterical screaming from one- admittedly attractive- woman. Gets a little annoying, The Innocents is far scarier.

Ron Burgundy wrote:

asajoseph wrote:

Inception was incredible, I think it might well have cleaned up had it been released later in the year.

Disagree with you that Shutter Island was only 'decent', but completely agree about Inception. Simply an awe-inspiring film.

It's probably because I'm the only person in the world who just doesn't get the DiCaprio hype - as Burnwinter put it in relation to the Fighter, rather well I thought, it's always Acting with a capital 'A' with him. OTT gurning at the camera doesn't quite cut it for me. Not that he's that bad, and if anything he's got better - there was a period where I found him completely unwatchable. But I tend to find that he gets roles in great films, rather than make films great himself.

Shutter Island was decent (not poor), but you could just see the twist coming a million miles off (they practically give it to you in the trailer for chrissakes!), and it felt like you'd just seen all the themes a hundred times before.

Anyway, I don't know why I'm arguing about it, so much of it is a matter of opinion and taste that there's nothing wrong or right about any of it. I guess I can just understand why the Fighter got a couple of Oscars and Shutter Island got nothing.

RocktheCasbah wrote:

Rec is pretty good. But there's a lot of hysterical screaming from one- admittedly attractive- woman. Gets a little annoying, The Innocents is far scarier.

Thanks, will check them both out then.