With Larry McMurtry as one of your screenwriters, I'm sure there were a whole bunch of nods to realism (all of which went over my head).
One of my co-workers was talking about the movie at lunch the other day and he kept saying "McMurtry thinks..." Apparently his son and McMurtry's grandson (James McM's son) are good friends and he had a chance to talk with Larry and James about the movie over the Xmas holiday. I can't remember any of the content of the McMurtry view on the movie (nothing was surprising about it, though), but his McMurtry impression was pretty funny. Apparently, both Larry and James mumble a lot and have a severe economy of words in conversations, just like the characters of their novels and songs, respectively.
Hey! I almost forgot to post that TCM is playing Miyazaki movies every Thursday this month, starting with Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke tonight.
Oh my god. That is HYSTERICAL!
Jon Stewart will be hosting the Oscars.
Maybe it ruins my geek-cred, but I'm leaning towards sitting on the sidelines and waiting until the smoke clears before deciding which style of next-gen DVD player to get.
I'm going to try, if only because the next-gen DVD players are reeeeally expensive. I predict that whichever one can get cheapest fastest will dominate the market in the end.
Hey! I almost forgot to post that TCM is playing Miyazaki movies every Thursday this month, starting with Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke tonight.
I'm watching them right now AIFG!
I read that the movie studios support Blu Ray (I hope I'm getting this the right way round) because it's harder to duplicate, and MS and Intel support the other one because they don't want to stand against their customers making copies of movies onto our PCs.
Which makes
no
sense. It's not like we can easily make legit copies to our hard drives now.
Just weird.
I have to ask what AIFG stands for. I've made a good faith effort to look it up or figure it out on my own. To no avail.