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Weekend happenings

Feb 23, 2005 10:19

Had a nice weekend, thought I'd write a bit about it, not often I get a whole weekend out. ;P

Had a quiet friday actually. Ended up watching Man on Fire with some of the girls here at the house. I've seen it before, but that was at like 5 a.m. so this time I got a little more out of it. It's a good film, if only a bit long.

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elvea_aure February 23 2005, 18:00:19 UTC

The Aviator was a lousy movie. End of discussion.

[makes plans to hunt down Martin Scorsese]

roguem February 23 2005, 18:28:29 UTC

It wasn't very engaging no... but I liked the technical stuff.

elvea_aure February 23 2005, 18:32:44 UTC

Well, imho opinion, Scorsese is an absolutely worthless director. There were too many scenes where I thought 'If they'd hired a professional director, it would've looked good', stuff like that. Acting department was weak as well. Most of the people could have done so much better; Cate Blanchett for instance. She was so below her level in that film... don't think she deserves the AA nomination for this particular role.
I also hated the way the story was structured. It just randomly started somewhere, and randomly ended somewhere. There was no real clue or anything, it just stopped. His insanity was badly explained as well, and... God, that film was LENGTHY. I felt like I'd sat through the entire LotR trilogy at the end, only it was a bad movie, not three good ones...

roguem February 23 2005, 19:51:39 UTC

Hehe, I pretty much agree with you, except for the Cate Blanchett part, Apparantly she's just like Katherine was at that time.
I am agreeing with you about the plot and everything, and that it was Looooooooong, it is very overhyped.

elvea_aure February 23 2005, 20:00:05 UTC

I know, Katherine was said to be like that at that time, but especially the first scene she did... it was screaming 'lesbo', a bit too masculine. Katherine was a bit more the male type in her manners, but she was also a very feminine woman, and that was missing the entire film. That, and the whole performance never came off as entirely 'real'. I think she could've done better, if she'd just had another director.

Overall, the film is so not worth the nominations... [kicks academy members]

Can't get anything right.

Not still holding a grudge for not nominating Sean Astin in 2004, oh no, not at all.

roguem February 24 2005, 19:02:33 UTC

Okay, I'll agree with you on that.

..especially the Sean thing..

I have lost all faith in the Academy, it's a bollocks award show.

elvea_aure February 25 2005, 09:05:07 UTC

Amen.

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