It so weird seeing all of award season basically 6 weeks after it all ended but thats whats happening. Very odd, knowing what i am seeing got awards & accolades galore & therefore i already have an opinion on it. So im back at the Dome for Nomadland. I am really looking forward to this.

Not sold out the front row had no one in. I lowered the average age, guessing everyone in my age bracket has disney plus which i will be getting for loki in a couple of weeks. I actually got a sofa this time to see this so i could properly spread out. My fit bit actually thought i had fallen asleep i was os calm & comfortable in the film.

Trailers were the same as they had been all week. So nothing to report. However i love the BT EE advert for the super fast broadband signal mix saying your cinema will never buffer or glitch on you. Not for the product, but the fact it Tomb Raider & Alicia is looking so hit as she leaps for that plane. Bloody love that woman.

& then the film started after all of the awards & festivals it had won before we actually started… & i am wondering if i saw the same film that won best picture at the oscars this year.

I completely get why it won everything. Its artsy & its reflective & its a journey (literally & figuratively) but i just didnt connect at all with it as a whole & didnt actually enjoy it.

The people i connected to were Dave (who i spent ages sitting there going who the hell are you i know you & then went ahhhh Ultimatum you put 2 bullets in the back of Bourne at the end) & Swankie. I connected to Swankie i think because she wasnt actually an actress, shes a Nomad & was actually telling her life story & her adventures. It was really inspiring & sweet. & then just as you got to know characters & there life story they upped & left or she upped & left. I guess thats the point that theres no constant or stability but to try & tell a coherent story it didnt work.

I wasnt expecting there to be epic drama, you know i was expecting something slowly paced but once wed had that first fire & her tier had gone i looked at my watch thinking id been watching for an hour & it was like 23min in. There was no tone shift at all or anymore purpose of life lessons to gain after that point. & it just then became very repetitive.

Frances is good in this but actually she does very little acting in it if im honest, shes just there to react & doesnt actually nail it. Vanessa gave a much more compelling performance, in oscar standards.

I did learn a lot about nomads, but i learnt alot more about working at Amazon at Christmas & thanks giving than i did to be a nomad.

I have an affinity with a cactus now it was zoomed in on so many times. Dont get me wrong it looked bloody special but the 4th time it was like oh cactus is back. I mean the film was beautifully shot, with some stunning landscapes but they were a little over killed if im honest an hour in id had enough. Give me an actual story film not just a nice post card.

& then it ended. She went back to go & do something & see something without ruining it for & i though right this is it she actually now going to go & have an adventure or go write a few more wrongs & it ended… before she could do that. I just sat there like what thats it, thats the film. I hadnt emotionally connected or actually watched a coherent story for a film. I felt disappointed.

So im sorry academy that isnt an enjoyable film. I like the craft with in it but a film needs more of a story than that to be best picture. There was more of a story in the Artist & no one bloody spoke in that & it had a dog as a lead. Sorry i didnt connect or get the hype & im very disappointed in it.

When you have more affinity with a tree you saw in the world according to Goldbluhm than the lead actress theres a problem with your film