I disagree for the most part. I walked into the theatre expecting a more than average action movie and that’s pretty much what I got.

Although, I hate to go in and expect a twist. I think those are gimmicky and lazy (looking your way M. Night) so I’m one who tries not to guess what the outcome is and I let the filmmakers unfold the story how they want. It’s like Source Code from last week. I didn’t try to figure out who the bomber was because that takes you out of the story and ruins the experience as a whole because at that point you are clearly a viewer watching a movie opposed to someone indulging in a story. And on top of that, I didn’t think it was even a twist at the end of Hanna. I thought it was more the story of a sheltered girl with a gift who was thrown into the world to try and experience new things that she didn’t have any basis of understanding. The fact that she was an aborted experiment for super soldiers is a minor detail in the entirety of the story.

So yeah, I liked it. But Eric Bana looked real dumb tackling that guy at the end. I was expected a bad-ass Ong-Bak elbow to face, but he just kind of rolled around for a few seconds. Oh well, minor annoyance.

Best Picture
The Social Network

Best Actor
Colin Firth–The King’s Speech

Best Actress
Natalie Portman–Black Swan

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale–The Fighter

Best Supporting Actress
Melissa Leo–The Fighter

Best Director
David Fincher–The Social Network

Best Original Screenplay
The King’s Speech

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network

Best Foreign Film
Biutiful (Mexico)

Best Animated Film
Toy Story 3

Art Direction
Dyas (Production Design); Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)-Inception

Cinematography
Roger Deakins-True Grit

Costume Design
Jenny Beavan-The King’s Speech

Documentary Feature
Inside Job

Film Editing
Jon Harris-127 Hours

Sound Editing
Richard King-Inception

Sound Mixing
Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick-Inception

Visual Effects
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb-Inception

Hollywood Homicide, please.

The Last Airbender, please.

Forest Gump, please.

Waiting…, please.

The Soldiers will be Small