I just got back from seeing Million Dollar Baby, too. My dad was laughing at me afterwards because
I was such a slobbering mess from the end of the title fight to the end of the movie. I haven't cried that hard or that long at a film since Return of the King, and before then, I don't remember when.
Excellent film, and the nominees are well-deserved.
I think I'll try and see Sideways and also possibly Hotel Rwanda next weekend, but it looks like Finding Neverland is going to be impossible to find still playing in the area. I do like to try and see as many of the Best Picture noms before the Oscars, and as many of the other big films as well. I've only seen Aviator, M$B, and Ray so far.
Tilda Swinton lovers should check out Jarman's
Caravaggio
. As should anyone who wants buckets of Sean Bean homoerotic tableaux.
Jim, that
whooshing
sound you heard was that of dozens of Buffistas rushing to their bunks.
Damn. Netflix doesn't have Caravaggio. And IMDb is telling me it's not on dvd at all, on tape only in UK format. Damndamn.
Facets says it's out of print. Though I think I've seen it in my video store.
ETA: My video store does have it on DVD.
So what movies have surprised you guys recently? I was really surprised by "Road Trip." I was dreading it as it rose to the top of our Netflix queue, but I figured I owed it to Patrick to give it a fair chance, given the number of depressing, bad, or depressingly bad movies I've made him sit through. Turns out that, in spite of the presence of Tom Green, it's not that much of a gross-out movie, and parts of it were really funny.
Super Troopers, which I expected to be dumb and not funny.
It was nothing at all like the previews indicated, so while it's pretty dumb, it was also really funny. (I'd thought it would be a dumb movie about stupid characters, but instead, it was a dumb movie about characters who, for the most part, had at least half a brain.)
I was expecting Finding Neverland to be horribly maudlin, and it held back in a pleasant way. And Million Dollar Baby had a lighter touch than I was expecting.
Well, Amelie surprised me because when I went to play it, the disk was too scratched to work, and so I had to send it back to Netflix. But that's not the kind of surprise you meant, I'm sure.
