WATCHED: Thurs. May 29, 2014
Today's Date: Wed. August 06, 2014
Time: 10:00PM
( First off the movie was so amazing that I wound up watching it twice, once with my best friend Ariana, and the second time with my sister Dez and her daughter.)
Maleficent was such a fantastic movie, it was a pure joy to experience this movie. Miss Angelina Jolie's (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001401/?ref_=nv_sr_1) performance was mesmerizing from beginning to end. In fact the whole movie was an enthralling experience in general. Honestly this movie is way better than it's counterpart Sleeping Beauty (1959):(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053285/?ref_=nv_sr_3). But that's just my opinion, I don't know about anyone else.
The entire back story of how Maleficent became "malevolent" made a lot of sense, it was very logical. The writers of this screenplay were dead on with her back story. In the original animated version there wasn't a whole lot of explanation as to why Maleficent was vindictive towards the King but in this movie you understand and feel for her character: the love, the betrayals, the revenge, and the rise back to greatness was just phenomenal. Hopefully the audiences appreciated the writers of this movie and of the book because it had taken quite a long time to figure out why Maleficent was so "Dark" in nature.
The rest of the cast were superb as well. Elle Fanning's portrayal of Aurora was very sweet and a bit naive, but what teenager of sixteen isn't. Sam Riley who portrays Diaval was a fantastic sidekick to Maleficent's villainess ways for he was the voice of reason for her. Which is what a good friend should always be: LOYAL and OUTSPOKEN.
If Angelina Jolie is nominated for the 2015 Academy Awards and wins for Best Actress, nobody would be surprised. Her performance was that spectacular. Johnny Depp in fact was nominated for Best Actor in A Leading Role as Captain Jack Sparrow in 2004, although he did not win he was the first ever actor to be nominated for portraying a live action Disney character.
If in fact Angelina does win next year's Best Actress in A Leading Role for her performance as Maleficent it will indeed go down in cinematic history as like the greatest achievement for Disney having such a fine actress as Angelina Jolie winning an oscar for a Disney movie in acting and not just for stuff like : Best Song, Best Animation, Best Picture, etc. There should be one for acting and hopefully Angelina will be the first.
Rating: *****
