Ranking The Best Picture Nominees For The Oscars

So one of the nice side benefits of perpetual unemployment, other than learning to translate which Craigslist job ads are for porn (read: ALL OF THEM), is that you've got plenty of time to catch up on movies. In a first, I've actually managed to see every Best Picture nominee that the year has had to offer, so I thought I'd drop my two cents on how they all measure up. Even with snubs to both The Master, and my own personal favorite movie of the year, this is a strong selection of films, and everything on this list is absolutely worth checking out. So enjoy, and remember: I'm not an authority on these matters, I'm the ONLY* authority on these matters!!!

Sam Woolf Jan 15, 2013 5:29 pm2014-05-11T22:40:07-05:00

8: Life of Pi

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“This movie totally makes me reevaluate my existential understan- awww look at da kitty.”

Ang Lee deserves serious praise for how true to the (seemingly unadaptable) source material he was when filming the story of a young boy lost at sea, with a fully-grown Bengal tiger as his first mate. You can’t blame him, though, if the text itself is an earnest, but muddled attempt at awe-inspiring spirituality.

Yet, where words fail, Lee’s camera doesn’t. The most visually stunning film of the year, and the first to make 3D exciting in ages, it plunks all the wonders of the ocean into an aquarium that’s far shallower than it looks. Pairing a freshman approach to big ideas with transcendent imagery, Life of Pi is Hollywood’s best accidental stoner classic since Tree of Life.

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