MOVIES FOR THE SOUL

The Oscar's are a few weeks away but here are the nominations for the 2011 Oscar's 


Best Picture
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone


Best Director
"Black Swan" Darren Aronofsky
"The Fighter" David O. Russell
"The King's Speech" Tom Hooper
"The Social Network" David Fincher
"True Grit" Joel Coen and Ethan Coen


Best Actor
Javier Bardem in "Biutiful"
Jeff Bridges in "True Grit"
Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network"
Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"
James Franco in "127 Hours"


Best Actress
Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right"
Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole"
Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone"
Natalie Portman in "Black Swan"
Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine"


Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale in "The Fighter"
John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone"
Jeremy Renner in "The Town"
Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids Are All Right"
Geoffrey Rush in "The King's Speech"


Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams in "The Fighter"
Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech"
Melissa Leo in "The Fighter"
Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit"
Jacki Weaver in "Animal Kingdom"


Best Animated Feature Film
"How to Train Your Dragon" Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
"The Illusionist" Sylvain Chomet
"Toy Story 3" Lee Unkrich


Foreign Language Film
"Biutiful" Mexico
"Dogtooth" Greece
"In a Better World" Denmark
"Incendies" Canada
"Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)" Algeria


Best Original Screenplay
"Another Year" Written by Mike Leigh
"The Fighter" Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson;
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
"Inception" Written by Christopher Nolan
"The Kids Are All Right" Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
"The King's Speech" Screenplay by David Seidler


Best Adapted Screenplay
"127 Hours" Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
"The Social Network" Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
"Toy Story 3" Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
"True Grit" Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"Winter's Bone" Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

So Beauty and the Beast the first animated movie and first disny animated movie to be nominated for best picture has hit Blu Ray. Disney has re release this movie as the 2nd in their Diamond Blu Ray collection. The movie for the first time is in HD but this version has some things about it that makes it fall flat

Fist of all the Movie has been converted to HD(which is what blu ray is) but in doing so it loses what the 2002 dvd had. The 2002 dvd was the first time the movie has been restored from the original film. The 2002 dvd the movie was brighter and colors were vivider and the ballroom scene looked beautiful. Now for the Blu Ray re release of the movie, the movie was once again restored and converted to HD. In doing so the Blu Ray version loses itS color(not sure if it was my tv or the way I had my blu ray player connected but I saw the this version had a lot of darker colors in some scenes). The blu ray version of the movie look as if it did when it first came out in the early 1990s the movie colors were dark in some scenes all the vividness and beauty that the dvd version brought was gone, the ballroom scene look as it did in the early 1990s version dark. Seeing as color is suppose to pop on a blu ray, where was the color that the 2002 dvd version brought us? other then that the main menu on the blu ray is confusing unless you read the map that comes with the Blu Ray your going to get lost trying to find all of the bonus stuff. The blu ray has all new bonus stuff made just for this edition plus all the bonus stuff that was in the 2002 dvd.

The Blue Ray Come is a combo pack and comes with 3 disc the 1st disc is the Blu Ray it has the movie in HD and blu ray bonus stuff, the 2nd disc is another blu ray which has all the bonus stuff from the 2002 dvd release and the 3rd disc is the dvd version of the movie(which I have yet to see). So now my rating system: I give this blu ray release of Beauty and the Beast at B-, why? well it is a great release(seeing it in the first time in HD) but it has confusing menus, the film is very dark in color in some scenes and it also has a beautiful cover that comes with a slip cover and sparkles if you hold it just right in the light.

So should you upgrade from the 2002 dvd to the blu ray? Yes all disney movies should be bought in blu ray.

Here are the different home release version of Beauty and the Beast:

From left to right the original early 1990s VHS tape, the 2002 dvd and the blu ray

it was 10 years ago since scream 3 came out since them horror movies have changed now scream 4 is about to come out I cant want Wonder who is gonna die first?

This weekend I will be seen the new movie Salt it should be good a girl that is being framed and has people think shes a spy. well I will have a review of the movie up after I get home from seeing it

I  found these on the internet these classic shows are being made into movies as you read this post


I Dream Of Jennie


Gilligan's Island


grew up with these classic t.v shows and cant wait to see the movie version, also I hear that these will be made into movie


Barbie(lol)


Monopoly(yes the game bored)


The Smurfs(the teaser trailer is online now)


Well cant wait to see how these turn out

Such a good movie i loved it made me cry at the end you have to see if you have not its on dvd

The other day i was watching a moving movie called Precious. This movie is about what one teenage girl had to go through with her mom. All the abuse that this brave young girl had to face and deal with from rape to being hit almost every day by her own mother. This movie shows that many kids around the world have to face kind of the same thing everyday. Some make it through and become brave strong adults, while other are not lucky and end up getting killed or commenting suicide.

For these kids that have to face the kind of things that the young girl faced in the movie, they are the heroes that are fighting a battle that some will win and some will lose. If the person reading this or someone they know is going through what Precious went through in the movie, remember that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope don't give up. Don't lose the battle win the war, show them that nothing can bring you down. That you are strong and will one day not take this abuse no more. Show them all by making your life better.