Oscar movie weekend

Oh how the lazy have caught up to all the Oscar worthy buzz. My fiance' and I (with some much appreciated help from Netflix) have finally caught up with the rest of the country and had an Oscar movie weekend. After weeks of avoiding blogs and tuning out friends and coworkers, we have finally sen three of the tops films of last year. The menu consisted of: The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire, and The Wrestler. And action...
Well first of all, my fiance' was totaly obsessed with watching The Reader. Not so good on our first try, the disc had blemishes on it and was unable to play in the DVD player, the PS2 or the computer... so back it went to be replaced by a better copy. Great way to start out a movie weekend.
The restart consisted of Slumdog Millionaire, which we would reccommend not watching while you eat at least for the first parts of the film. The portrayal of the slums of Mumbai (Bombay) India, are quite vivid and stomach wrenching. Despite the film's obvious charm and appeal dealing with three lives interwoven by the circumstances surrounding growing up in a slum. I found the movie to be very good and would go see it again... or if it were to get lost in the mail or accidently downloaded from iTunes. Even my fiance' agreed it was a very good movie, and after the incident with The Reader, I was glad she was happy.
Next on the list while waiting for a better copy of The Reader, was Mickey Rorke in The Wrestler. Great movie for guys. Of course that means that my fiance' got up and found something else to do halfway through the movie. If you've ever been a fan of wrestling or know someone who is, this is a good movie to watch. It follows the life and fading career of a wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who peaked in the 1980's and still competes 20 years later. Mickey Rorke does a great job in the film and I would go see it again... all be it alone. I still really don't know what the move "Ram Jam" was supposed to be... it looked like he jumps off the top rope and head butts people. Original and painful I'm sure.
Finally, a great version of The Reader arrives on Saturday and we are able to sit down to what can be politely called a German slutty film. I believe the main characters only had clothes for half of the movie. Despite this, the storyline was actually good, and I seemed to want things to work out for everyone in the end. It's about a young boy getting mixed up with an older woman, and this older woman ends up going to work for the Nazis as a prison guard at a concentration camp during WW2. Of course the couple was fated to meet again as the young boy is now a young man studying law and ends up watching her trail in court. Crazy thing is... she can't read... at all. Great movie, will probably end up owning it if my fiance' gets her way. By the way, the young boy looked an awful lot like that guy from C.S. Lewis' The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe as well as Prince Caspian, but I am told it is not the same guy... there is treachery afoot.