Willow ,'Storyteller'
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ETA: What is In the Loop?
British political satire, in the same universe as the TV series "The Thick of It" as I understand. I badly want to see it, just based on this hilarious trailer: [link] But it never made it to my town. Is it out on DVD yet?
x-post with Sue! And I guess it's out on DVD if she rented it. Awesome. And it has Peter Capaldi (who was so brilliant in the last Torchwood serial)!
What is In the Loop?
It's a British satire about Western Gov'ts creating a war. (Say, like the US and UK invading Iraq.) It's based on a TV in the UK.
Coincidentally, I rented it this weekend, but haven't watched it yet.
I kinda get the feeling that this might be the year that Sandy Bullock gets her Oscar. Then again, though Meryl has been endlessly nominated, she hasn't won for a while and she's recently proved herself a big box office star so she could collect one here.
Well, my blitz served me well, but I still want to see:
The Messenger
Crazy Heart
A Single Man
In the Loop
I'll probabably try to see:
Invictus
The Last Station
The Blind Side
I'm bummed Avatar and Nine hit so many categories, because I still have no interest in seeing them. At least The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds got almost as many as Avatar. (8 vs. 9).
What is this one and why is it cheating? Did Sheppard play a younger version of the same character as Hoskins in the same movie?
Oh, nothing so honourable. This is base cheatery and there's no denying it.
ETA: What is In the Loop?
OH MY GOD YOU MUST SEE THIS.
It is, hands down, the funniest movie I saw all year. The writing is so sharp you could cut yourself on it. It's brilliant.
District 9 is an amazing movie. I've actually got two I'm rooting for.
I want to see Crazy Heart. I like it when Jeff Bridges sings.
I figure I'll have to see Avatar at some point, just to see what all the hullaballou (or however you spell it) is about.
I have Inglourious Basterds and District 9 sitting at home from Netflix, and The Hurt Locker and In the Loop at the top of the queue. After that, I'd have seen... er, 6 out of the BP nominees? (I've seen Up, Up in the Air and An Education).
I have never even heard of The Last Station.
Serial: I'm a bit puzzled about In the Loop being in the adapted, not original, screenplay category. I mean, OK, it was based on the TV series, but the exact same writers wrote a whole new script just for the big screen, right? (Unless they took an episode they've done already for the TV and expanded on it.) Wouldn't it make it an original screenplay?