TRAVIS BYRAM'S MOVIE REVIEWS

Now that the best movies of the year have past, and "The Hurt Locker" has been crowned the best movie of 2009, we've had to wade through the romantic comedies, the kiddie movies, and the lame adult comedies to finally get through to what everyone, adult, kid or otherwise looks for in movie season: the SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS! Last year's were the winner for Worst Picture "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," the best picture nominee "Up," "The Hangover," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and many, many others. I for one am extremely glad we're in Summer Film Season, I've only seen 2 movies made in 2010, though both blockbusters in their own right, "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" & "Alice in Wonderland;" both adaptions of loved books, one more than the other. They were both great, "Alice" being the more superior, but I'm glad the time is coming near on us,

THE OSCARS: Although my favorite to win was the now highest grossing movie of all time, Avatar , but of course the Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker took it home, along with Bigelow becoming the first woman to ever win Best Director. Meanwhile, Waltz and Mo'Nique took home the supporting awards, Bridges won Best Actor, and (most deservedly) Sandra Bullock, probably the only time she'll win, won Best Actress. Screenplay-wise, The Hurt Locker also recieved Original Screenplay, while (surprisingly) Precious won Adapted Screenplay. Up won Best Animated Film, The Cove got Best Documentary, and The Secret in Their Eyes won Best Foriegn Film. What happens happens I guess, and I'm pretty excited about seeing The Hurt Locker sometime in the future, 5 or so years from now.

I just added a Part 2 to expand so the original blog wouldn't be to long. To give props to the Oscar guys, they made the nominees seriously interesting. An animated movie mixed with a few sci-fi flicks, some adult-only indies, and a war movie here and there. But if Oscar was to stick to its traditional roots, everyone knows it would be narrowed down to Basterds, Precious, Hurt Locker, Up in the Air and Avatar. But it's good to mix up the otherwise boring bag. We all know Bullock is taking Best Actress home, Bridges will be receiving Best Actor, Mo'Nique will get Best Supporting Actress, and Christoph Waltz for his impressive performance in the Best Supporting Actor category (watch the first 20 minutes of Basterds , it's chilling.) Up in the Air is going to get Adapted Screenplay, Avatar is going to win every technical award of its 9 nominations, but I gotta bad feeling The Hurt Locker is going to win Best Picture and Best Director. I'd like to add as well Freema