Saw Argo yesterday. I liked it quite a bit. No doubt it was excruciating in real life, but there came a point in the escalation of the climax where I was willing to fake an orgasm to get our of there.

I wondered what it would look like politically, but it didn't make me annoyed. The US did a bad thing, the Iranian people were taking revenge on innocents.

I was impressed by the credits and the likenesses--until it came to Antonio Mendez, to whom Affleck bore not the slightest resemblance, and wasn't even trying. Oh, and the guy played by Tate Donovan got a bit of an upgrade.

Also, there's one scene in the film that delighted me, especially as it passed unremarked within the film itself

YEP.

Charlie Kaufman raises $400,000 through Kickstarter to make a stop motion animated movie with Dan Harmon.

I saw "The Double Hour" last night on Netflix. It is a weird movie and I did not wholly know what to expect. It is Italian and Beau described it as a movie about loss, which I suppose is true but the movie (it seems to me) is more about a character study. It sets an emotional mood really well.

Without spoilers, let me say that the movie starts out (what I thought) would be a movie about romance, but that isn't precisely what the movie is about after all. There are about 2 major twists that were effective at keeping me a bit off balance and wondering what is going to happen next.

The plot isn't really so important as the effectiveness of the director in drawing a character and setting a mood, IMO. For those reasons I liked the movie.

I can't count the number of times someone told me that I need to see the movie Buck. I hesitated...no, resisted...because I generally avoid stories about people who had a childhood similar to mine.

My general, cynical response is, "I lived it. I'm not entertained by it."

Today, I discovered that all the well-meaning people who strongly urged me to see Buck were absolutely right. It was made for me to see.

So, I further the recommendation. It's a beautifully made piece about a truly valuable human.

Saw Cloud Atlas on Thursday and mostly I was taken by how bad the freaking makeup is!! Did they do that deliberately? I really wish they had just not used prosthetics at all.

Overall, I was not that impressed. I love the book and I can see how the Wachowskis probably also loved the book and wanted to share their love by making the film. But they really made it sappy and took out so much of the beautiful subtle messages of the book. I know they had to cut plot points and characters for the sake of fitting the story into a movie-length work but, in doing so, they made it so much more simplistic than the book. I'm hoping it gets more people to read the book at least.

Having grown up with horses, but not abusive childhood, despite some problems, I am interested in that movies, bonny! I'd not heard of it.

My friend really wants me to go with her to see Cloud Atlas, but the trailer just doesn't catch me, and I've not read the book.

man, I really need to get to reading that book! thanks lisah.

Emmett and I saw The Dark Knight Rises again today, 'cuz it's still playing in IMAX.

Which, incidentally, is the way you need to see it. Because...

Like with The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan decided to film sequences of the sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, in 15/70mm IMAX.[41] Nolan elected not to film in 3-D and stated that he intends to focus on improving image quality and scale using the IMAX format. In a Hollywood record, The Dark Knight Rises will feature over an hour of footage shot in IMAX (in comparison, The Dark Knight contained less than 30 minutes.) But because of the considerable noise made by IMAX cameras, 35mm and 70mm cameras had to be used for shooting the film's dialogue scenes, and dialogue had to be dubbed when shot with IMAX cameras. Chairman and president of the IMAX Corporation Greg Foster stated that IMAX plans to run the film in its theaters for two months, despite only being contractually committed to run the film for two weeks in some theaters.

So a whole hour of it was shot in IMAX instead of digitally upgraded after the fact. No wonder it looks so amazing.

My friend really wants me to go with her to see Cloud Atlas, but the trailer just doesn't catch me, and I've not read the book.

Friends I was with who had not read the book enjoyed the movie okay. Although, everyone was struck by how FREAKING BAD THE MAKEUP IS!

You should totally read the book!