Hey, a Movie! Starring Everybody and Me!
Okay, not actually starring me, but you get the idea. . .
I went to see Frost/Nixon tonight with miss_begonia. It was fantastic. The acting was outstanding, and I never fail to love a movie that shows the power and the purpose of the media. Even when it's ill-used about 90% of the time.
( Cut for Talk of Frost/Nixon and Doubt, too )
I went to see Frost/Nixon tonight with miss_begonia. It was fantastic. The acting was outstanding, and I never fail to love a movie that shows the power and the purpose of the media. Even when it's ill-used about 90% of the time.
( Cut for Talk of Frost/Nixon and Doubt, too )
I just got back (alive) from Coraline, to which my husband thankfully accompanied me. Well, or maybe not. The kids (all four of them) were incredibly well behaved. I thought that it might be a little scary in places, a little boring and a tad bit too long (or maybe that was just my analysis), but the kids all seemed to enjoy it, so there's that.
Now? The husband is off at the Brooks Brothers outlet for to buy some new dress shirts, and I'm holding down the fort here, with the option to drop off the guests at any point necessary.
*waves*
Though I did the Catholic school thing for a while, it was only three years and I kind of have no interest in seeing Doubt. I may or may not look up Frost/Nixon, when it comes out on PPV. I've been very apathetic about all movie-watching lately, though I did find Slumdog Millionaire fantastic (and I loved seeing Dev Patel on Stewart, if you haven't watched it yet, hulu it...his immitation of the "mill-un-aire" is priceless, alone). I thought Slumdog would be all pretentiously, fake, "I loved it," like the stupid English Patient, but it actually lived up to the hype!
*waves again*
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I think you might actually like Doubt. I liked the way it debated the various issues, and spun all around the different kinds of faith. And seriously, the acting was outstanding (my inexplicable PSH crush aside).
Slumdog Millionaire was a great movie! I know that it was a little bit facile in places, but unlike with The English Patient -- which I hated (it's like Casablanca, if Rick and Elsa had thrown over Viktor Lazlo! Ugh.) -- I never felt like it was toying with my emotions. And I thought the sort of fairy-tale elements of it (the questions meshing exactly with his life story), actually worked really well with the framework.
I've now seen 3 of the 5 Oscar movies. I'll probably try to see The Reader at some point, but I don't know if I can make myself sit through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
How's the house full of kiddies? I hope you're holding down the fort!
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