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this is pretty much the first year in a very long time i've made a definite effort to go see movies that are being hyped as potential oscar winners. the last couple years have seen some decent (i hear) films like the Aviator and the Departed and Blood Diamond, but I never got around to checking any of those out.
however, i lucked into seeing Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone for free on campus. i went not knowing even WHAT the movie i was seeing was, and obviously was skeptical when the woman at the screening said it was Ben Affleck's new film, but fool is on his shit. good flick.
American Gangster sucked. definitely not even close to enough dead bodies or gunshots for a mob-boss movie. but that's because they paid way too much attention to the cop story aspect to it.
No Country For Old Men: Duh. Coen Bros. making a movie out of a Cormac McCarthy book. An older, solemnly reverent intellectual recluse who writes ironic/humorous/dark/bloody/insightful literature, as envisioned by ironic/humorous/dark/bloody/insightful filmmakers, who make up for in vision what they lack in McCarthy's experience. GO SEE THIS MOVIE. Twice.
There Will Be Blood: Another duh. It's being hyped as our generation's Citizen Kane and with good reason, I think, with regards to symbolism in the shot set-ups. Visually stunning, sonically baffling. It is gut-wrenching, painful, hilarious at points, terrifying in others. Daniel Day-Lewis is a fox. The guy from Little Miss Sunshine that doesn't talk is in it and plays an extreme evangelical in a small town and he fucking rocks it. I also saw this movie twice.
the only thing left on my list is "before the devil knows you're dead," but it's not playing anywhere in LA anymore. fuuuuuck.
however, i lucked into seeing Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone for free on campus. i went not knowing even WHAT the movie i was seeing was, and obviously was skeptical when the woman at the screening said it was Ben Affleck's new film, but fool is on his shit. good flick.
American Gangster sucked. definitely not even close to enough dead bodies or gunshots for a mob-boss movie. but that's because they paid way too much attention to the cop story aspect to it.
No Country For Old Men: Duh. Coen Bros. making a movie out of a Cormac McCarthy book. An older, solemnly reverent intellectual recluse who writes ironic/humorous/dark/bloody/insightful literature, as envisioned by ironic/humorous/dark/bloody/insightful filmmakers, who make up for in vision what they lack in McCarthy's experience. GO SEE THIS MOVIE. Twice.
There Will Be Blood: Another duh. It's being hyped as our generation's Citizen Kane and with good reason, I think, with regards to symbolism in the shot set-ups. Visually stunning, sonically baffling. It is gut-wrenching, painful, hilarious at points, terrifying in others. Daniel Day-Lewis is a fox. The guy from Little Miss Sunshine that doesn't talk is in it and plays an extreme evangelical in a small town and he fucking rocks it. I also saw this movie twice.
the only thing left on my list is "before the devil knows you're dead," but it's not playing anywhere in LA anymore. fuuuuuck.