Oscar Winning Movies

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

2012 - Argo: "If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus"


2012 Best Picture

Premiered October 4, 2012 in Beverly Hills

Budget $44.5 Million

Gross $136 Million

Watching The Artist took us full circle and made us feel that our journey should end there. However, there was one movie left. We felt like Argo was a compelling movie with a edge of your seat type of plot but we struggled because 2012 had so many great movies and we thought that it should not have won. For the record, Lincoln is a better movie than Argo. This is not a knock against Argo, it is just a statement that Lincoln is an outstanding movie. Nevertheless, Argo shines a light (even though a historically inacurate one) on a messy time in U.S. History. Overall, this is a suspenseful movie that leave you wanting to cheer.

Callie
Favorite: It was an intriguing story. It was a cool bit of history to see.
Least Favorite: At the end of the movie it was still hard to tell who was who. 

Joel
Favorite: Ben Affleck did a nice job as the lead and as the director. At times, he carried the movie.
Least Favorite: The cinematography did not break anything new to the industry even thought that there were some opportunities to do so. 

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