Oscars

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2012)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. WOW!! Watched it 3 times today. After all the simple layer movies over recent years, how refreshing to see such intricate and layered plots mesh seamlessly but subtly coercing the viewer to put forth the effort to really pay attention.
For me, I'd have to back 10 years since I saw a movie this good (A Beautiful Mind). The snubbing of it for Best Picture at the Oscars vs. The Artist is as outrageous as Apocalypse Now in 1980. The snubbing of Rooney Mara vs. Meryl Streep in Iron Lady is as outrageous as snubbing Crowe for Denzel in 2002. Granted Denzel is great, but not against Crowe on that day. Granted Meryl is an all time great, but Iron Lady can't compete with a new type of character never seen before in cinema, and made very believable by Mara. This has happened before when movies are made specifically to win someone an Oscar, i.e.- Streep in Iron Lady, Denzel in Training Day, and Nicholson in As Good as It Gets vs. Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights which is a very similar scenario in which a never before seen character is made believable by a young actor. Between Best Picture and Best Actress snubs, this rivals the snub of Hitchcock for Best Director in Psycho.