Amazing on BluRay

Rating: 9/10 (14 April 2013)

What is the best thing about a foggy Sunday morning in L.A.? Watching "Life of Pi" on BluRay. After seeing the film in 3D last year, I personally felt as a film it deserved "Best Picture" from the Motion Picture Academy. Ang Lee won his second Oscar for "Achievement in Directing" for "Pi" but this Oscar nominated film lost to "Argo" (another great film). Ang also won for Best Director on "Brokeback Mountain" which lost it's best picture nom to "Crash". That year I attended the Oscars and half the audience got up and applauded for "Crash" while the other half (myself included) sat in protest that "Brokeback" lost. The feeling that night was the overriding evidence that homophobia was alive and well in Hollywood. But I digress. "Life of Pi" is an amazing film. The special effects with the animals is incredible (I could not tell what was real and what wasn't), and performances were amazing, especially by young Suraj Sharma as PI; he at least deserved an Oscar nomination. But again I digress. Rarely do literary books translate to the visual craft of storytelling in film but this is that wonderful exception to the rule. It's officially on my list and part of the my DVD library. Possibly Ang's best film yet.