Letterboxd — Your life in film

Original Score
Director
Supporting Actor - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway

Cinematography

Director
Original Screenplay
Supporting Actor - Bruce Willis
Supporting Actor - Pierce Gagnon
Cinematography
Editing

Director
Actor - Ben Affleck
Supporting Actor - Bryan Cranston

Director
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography
Scene - abortion

Actor - Jared Gilman
Actress - Kara Hayward
Supporting Actor - Edward Norton
Director
Cinematography
Editing
Scene - Camp inspection
Scene - Suzy's apartment, end

Actress - Jessica Chastain

Best Actress - Jennifer Lawrence
Best Editing
Best Original Score

Director
Supporting Actor - PSH
Cinematography

Extremely clever, painstaking amalgam of MONSTERS INC. and THE IRON GIANT; funny and elaborately (and carefully) plotted and worth your time. Though: (1) it's not ultimately as good as its inspirations (a little too much mayhem-for-the-sake-of-mayhem); and (2) is that really Sarah Silverman in the most cloying voice performance maybe ever?

Decided to give this a second chance on the plane, but it only annoyed me more -- everything from the inept attempts to imbue the action scenes with miserable motormouth humor to the "romance," which is barely even there and mistakes endless stammering for authenticity. (Compare the courtship between Peter and MJ in the Raimi film, which hardly gets more screentime but pulses with a melancholy energy that this movie wouldn't even be able to understand, much less reproduce.) And that last line should die in a fire. James Horner's score is great, though.

Musical Score