What the Beck???
Bucket List Update
Academy Award Nominated Movies
2002 The
Pianist
starring: Adrien Brody, Emilia
Fox, Michael Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Maureen Lipman, Frank Finlay
plot – A Jewish pianist gets separated
from his family in Warsaw
and survives by using his wits through the German
invasion.
This was a really good movie. This man was an artist, and figured
out how to live, when many Jews were immediately put to death.
2003 Master
and Commander
starring: Russell Crowe, Paul
Bettany, James D’Arcy, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin, Max Pirkis
plot – The Captain of the H.M.S. Surprise are ordered to capture
a French ship near South America. Capt.
Jack Aubrey will face all odds to complete
his mission.
This was a pretty good movie. Russell Crowe is wonderful in the
role of the Captain.
2003 Mystic
River
starring: Sean Penn, Tim
Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence Fishburne, Laura Linney
plot – This is the story of three neighborhood friends who have
to deal with the death of one of their daughters.
Sean Penn plays a rough ex-con whose daughter
is killed. Tim Robbins plays the friend who sees
the girl last, and Kevin Bacon is the friend who is
the cop investigating the crime.
This was a really good movie. Three old friends look and deal with this crime in
different ways. Accusations fly, but the truth must be discovered.
2005 Capote
starring: Allie
Mickelson, Kelci Stephenson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Craig Archibald, Catherine Keener
plot – Truman Capote reads about a
murder in the paper and decides
to write about it. He and his best friend, Harper Lee, go to the town and search for information
about the people and the crime. Truman bonds
with one of the accused.
I couldn’t wait to see this movie, because To Kill a Mockingbird
is my favorite book and was written by Harper Lee. This story shows insight into
the type of man Truman Capote was, and tells this story in an interesting way.
2005 Good
Night and Good Luck
starring: David Strathairn,
Jeff Daniels, Alex Borstein, Rose Abdoo, Dianne Reeves
plot – This is the story of how CBS
newsman, Edward R. Murrow, exposes Senator Joseph McCarthy and the horrible things he accused Americans of doing. Senator
McCarthy seemed to see communists everywhere.
David Strathairn is fabulous in the role of Edward R. Murrow. This
was a real eye opener for me. In my history classes, I had heard of Senator McCarthy and his witch-hunt for communists, but I didn’t understand the methodology or the lies he told
to hunt these people down.
2001 The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
starring: Alan Howard, Noel
Appleby, Sean Astin, Sala Baker, Sean Bean, Cate
Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd
plot – One Ring has been
found and the forces are hunting for it. Frodo
has it and is now in the Legend. He is now the Ringbearer.
This was the second Lord of the Rings movies that I have seen
recently. This one seemed better than the first one I saw, possibly because I
now had some background info.
2003 The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
starring: Noel Appleby, Ali
Astin, Sean Astin, David Aston, John Bach, Sean
Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy
Boyd
plot – This was the last in Peter Jackson’s trilogy. This movie shows
that last battle between good and evil fighting
to rule the Middle-Earth.
This was yet another Lord of the Rings movie. All I can say is
that I am done watching this movie series and am relieved.
2006 Letters
from Iwo Jima
starring: Ken Watanabe,
Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido
Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi
Yamaguchi, Eijiro Ozaki, Nae
plot – The story of the
Japanese troops who were stuck on an
island and eventually died there during WWII.
This was a subtitled movie. That is just painful, and the story is
a war movie on top of it. Lord,
help me!! I am glad I got through
this one.
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