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Sherlock Holmes. I enjoyed it, although not too much at first. It seemed to end just when things were getting really exciting... Robert Downey Jr. was fabulous as usual, but I think Guy Ritchie has spent too much time in Hollywood. Or maybe he was married to Madonna for too long. Or both.

Up in the Air. Amazing how George Clooney just keeps getting better and better. I think he could give Cary Grant a run for his money. It's a wonderful movie, too bad it's up against such an overblown ego. I mean, budget.
 
Milk. Sean Penn deserved his Oscar win. I also liked Danny Elfman's music score--very understated.

Frontiers.Think Texas Chainsaw with Nazis. The scenes in the tunnel and slaughterhouse were definitely the movie's high points.
 
Precious. Young illiterate black girl in NYC becomes pregnant by her own father for the second time, is kicked out of school, and has to try and piece her life together from scratch. Yes, it's social porn that seems specifically designed to make you feel bad, but it does it really well. Very well acted (yes, even the minor parts by Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey, whom you wouldn't recognise if you didn't know it was them, but theyre minor players at any rate) and the underlying theme becomes less "look at how messed up her life is" and more "here's how you build yourself". Depressing, but good, and while it's not my Oscar pick I can see how it got nominated. :star4:
 
Libra6Poe said:
That's exactly how I described it! :)
And I just saw this film not long ago. It wasn't bad.
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The one girl's incessant shaking and trembling freaked me out.

Gorp ~ amazingly bad Meatballs rip off from 1980. Features early appearances by Dennis Quaid, Fran Drescher(her voice wasn't as hard on the ears back then), and Rosanna Arquette. I'd been wanting to see this since I've got the trailer on one of my 42nd Street Forever dvds. This one was bad, and I love summer camp comedies. I can't believe this was in hd!
 
Continuing my Oscar catch-up: An Education is the story of a bored 16-year-old girl in 1961 who falls in love with a man about twice her age. Neither a sugar-coated lovestory (in fact, it's pretty brutal in the way it takes apart teenage romantic ideals) nor a simple cautionary tale about what happens to Bad Girls, there are two things here that make it shine. One is the way early 60s England is presented, drab, grey and stiff-upper-lip, the perceived lack of any proper alternatives for young Jenny; she's bright, she's told she needs to go to Oxford... but what for? To be a well-educated housewife, or possibly a teacher or civil servant; on the other hand, she could drop out, be somebody's teenage mistress, see Paris and have fun. The other is Carey Mulligan, who's perfect in the lead role, constantly playing Jenny as just a little too big for her shoes and trying to fit into ones that are too big for her, with both all the naivite, initiative and justification the role needs. :star4:
 
I saw Invictus last Thursday :star5: :star5:

I absolutely loved it. I was close to tears for the whole 2+ hours (and needed a bathroom break real bad for the last hour). I knew I would like it, but since I knew (like most people, I would assume) what it was about and how it ended, I was completely surprised by how exciting Clint Eastwood managed to make it.
Morgan Freeman is pure awesomeness as usual, and as for Matt Damon, I take back all the bad things I might have said about him in the past.
 
Great review. I wasn't interested in seeing it before, but now I am.
beer good said:
Continuing my Oscar catch-up: An Education is the story of a bored 16-year-old girl in 1961 who falls in love with a man about twice her age. Neither a sugar-coated lovestory (in fact, it's pretty brutal in the way it takes apart teenage romantic ideals) nor a simple cautionary tale about what happens to Bad Girls, there are two things here that make it shine. One is the way early 60s England is presented, drab, grey and stiff-upper-lip, the perceived lack of any proper alternatives for young Jenny; she's bright, she's told she needs to go to Oxford... but what for? To be a well-educated housewife, or possibly a teacher or civil servant; on the other hand, she could drop out, be somebody's teenage mistress, see Paris and have fun. The other is Carey Mulligan, who's perfect in the lead role, constantly playing Jenny as just a little too big for her shoes and trying to fit into ones that are too big for her, with both all the naivite, initiative and justification the role needs. :star4:
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Sex and Death 101 - 2 stars
It was kind of boring in truth, with a few comical moments. Simon Baker makes for some nice eye candy though.
 
At home: The curious case of Benjamin Button - I cried so much!

At the cinema: P.S I love you - I cried so much!

Sensing a theme here??

Jo
 
Up.

Not bad; yes, it says Disney on the opening screen and so it's pretty sugary and deliberately tearjerking at times, but it's really more Pixar than Disney and so there's a certain seriousness underneath (at least until the lovable talking dog shows up, but at least it's a fun lovable talking dog, the fact that it talks is a plot point, and there's no dancing). Certainly the first Disney film ever to feature a miscarriage as a plot point. :star3:
 
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