Oscars / Jumper

We usually get together with the movie group for the Oscars and watch the ceremony. This year, due to the writer’s strike, it was a bit montage-heavy as they had prepared a bunch of montages in case the actors didn’t attend. Every year we have our picks of who will win. Since I tend to vote with my heart instead of trying to guess how the academy will vote, I don’t often win. This year, I came in fourth in our group with 9 correct out of 24 categories. For our group, that was close – the winner only had 13 correct this year.
Normally we try to see a bunch of the nominated films. This year we hadn’t seen many of them. The only ones we had seen were Happy Feet, POTC3, Enchanted, and Transformers – none of which were in the major categories.

That said, we did see Jumper last night. It was pretty good – a nice fluff teen action film but there wasn’t really much behind it. The cast was solid – Hayden Christiansen, Samuel Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell, AnnaSophia Robb, and Diane Lane but the story was pretty weak. The action held up though – a fun watch but not really much to it. AnnaSophia continues to provide a strong performance and it was nice to see Jamie Bell again. We remember him as Billy Elliot and he pretty much steals this film.

When Heath Leger died, we were wondering which actor would be able to step into his roles. Either Hayden or Jamie should be able to do that handily. We were also thinking Shia Leboeuf could handle it.