the home stretch?
I am trying, but it's getting tough to watch all these movies in time for the Academy Awards - it doesn't help that most of them are really depressing. But I continued undeterred and have recently seen Nightcrawler , The Judge, and Birdman . The Judge had a monster cast and was really great. I didn't know what was going to happen and the twists were interesting and kept me intrigued. Robert Downey Jr. gets snubbed a lot during awards season - he is great. Robert Duvall was good but nowhere near as good as JK Simmons in Whiplash , so I hope Duvall doesn't win. That said, I think that movie should have been nominated more - a Best Picture nod would have been nice or at least something else - it was like those older legal movies from the 50s in the way it was shot and I really enjoyed it. It felt professional and polished. Birdman was... not my kind of movie. Just like The Grand Budapest Hotel , I am not the desired audience for the film, and I'm not really sure