Mal ,'Shindig'
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I didn't have a problem with it either. I guess that officially means we have Slimline heads.
I didn't have trouble, and I have a HUGE noggin! Mine was Real-D.
There was also the purely 3-D moment of the needle coming straight out during the credits.
LASIK.
I just got back from Push. Both the artistic style and the fact that it was set in Hong Kong made it more interesting than your typical sci-fi dudes-with-powers flick. Although the director doesn't appear to be able to film fight scenes for shit; I could barely tell what was going on half the time. But it was very cool, and there were a few neat tricks. This is a very well-trodden field, so it's hard to be original. Dakota Fanning was very amusing.
Post-Oscar blitz, here is the order in which I would recommend the 15 nominated films I saw this year.
Frozen River
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
WALL-E
Man on Wire
(not an amazing documentary, but an amazing story)
Changeling
The Reader
Milk
Frost/Nixon
The Wrestler
(if you don't mind gore)
Tropic Thunder
(for Downey's performance only, which is brilliant)
The Dark Knight
(for Ledger's performance only)
Wanted
(if you can get over the ridiculous premise)
Vicky Christina Barcelona
(if you can get over the ridiculous premise)
Iron Man
The Duchess
Tropic Thunder (for Downey's performance only, which is brilliant)
The Dark Knight (for Ledger's performance only)
Really? I thought both those movies had more to offer than those performances, great as they were.
What is Frozen River even about? I'd never heard of it until the nominations.
I was really disappointed by The Dark Knight, mostly because it could have been so much better than it was.
Frozen River is about a women raising two kids in a trailer home on the border of both the Mohawk nation and Canada, who gets involved in smuggling people across the border. It is both really touching and very suspenseful. The performances are incredible--Melissa Leo, but also the woman who plays Lila, and especially her older son.
Encounters At The End of the World is also a wonderful movie. Although I'm happy that Man On Wire won, I'd be even happier if Herzog had gotten the award.
Although I'm happy that Man On Wire won, I'd be even happier if Herzog had gotten the award.
I'd have loved to see his acceptance speech, that's for sure.
Hey, I just saw last year's winner this weekend. I am appalled that Tommy Lee Jones didn't get anything for his performance in No Country for Old Men, but he's more of a blue-collar actor than Daniel Day Lewis, I guess.
NC4OM mostly made me the opposite of homesick. They absolutely nailed the environment I grew up in, and it made me really happy to be a fat soft middle-class suburbanite now.