Recently, I've seen four of the movies nominated for best picture. Overall, I'm surprised at the lack of quality in these movies, primarily in terms of a story line.
I probably shouldn't have said that I saw four movies because I only saw the first 30 - 45 minutes of two, as the movies were pretty bad. "American Hustle" put me to sleep; the characters seemed to have come from comic books. "Capt. Phillips" was equally boring, but I did not go to sleep. I just shut it off after a half-hour. I quickly tired of the very average navy men and the inability to read the translations of the Somalis as the font was tiny and, often, white letters appeared on a white background.
I missed the first 20 minutes of "August: Osage County" but stayed until the end. Why I stayed - and stayed awake - I'm not really sure. I knew the movie was about a dysfunctional family. But the dysfunction in this family was simply unreal; perhaps, it occurs in one of a couple of million families. Amongst the members of this family, they committed the seven deadly sins with very little motivation that I could understand. As for the ending, who knows?
Fortunately, there was one really good movie: "Philomena". This was the only one that had a strong story line. While it told a story that was new to me, it was an understandable story. It had a beginning, middle and end - all of which were integrated. And, it was not a simple, easily forgettable story. It caused me to do some research on the subject and to think about the movie a couple of weeks after seeing it.
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