Wanted to have a better first movie of the year, but this was it. For what it was, it was fine. Jennifer Aniston still hot and funny, Owen Wilson still funny, dogs still cute. Great.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
margot at the wedding
Noah Baumbach - 2007
Noah Baumbach doesn't work that much, but I love everything he's ever done - especially "Kicking & Screaming" from 1995. This one was wonderful as well, with Nicole Kidman playing a most unlikable character. Baumbach's films are filled with wonderful dialogue and discourses. Excellent.
This is likely my last film of 2009. During this year I've watched 132 movies, not so bad, but not my goal - which was 150. However, I also watched a number of 1 hour ESPN documentaries and the entire season of "Freaks & Geeks" which is 18 hours long, so I think I've come pretty close.
I think I'm going to start 2010 with Butch Cassidy - I don't think I got to it in 2009 and I now own it on blu-ray. What a great way to start the new decade.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
up in the air
Jason Reitman - 2009
Wow. This was really good. Great plot twist I didn't see coming and such a great character study. George Clooney was amazing. Vera Farmiga fabulous and watch for the moment where her in a different type of clothing signifies her truth.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
julie & julia
Nora Ephron - 2009
I tend to like Nora Ephron's movies - seeing a movie through a woman's lens is so rare that even her somewhat predictable heartfeltness (word?) is okay by me. Julie Powell's husband is indeed a saint, I would have gone crazy.
At the end, this film is about finishing what you started. Completion in a fragmented age is more and more difficult - what does completion even mean? Blogs go on forever, movies have sequels, prequels and even squeakwels - ugh. Anyhow, media fragmentation can make completion feel more elusive, and thus more difficult to achieve. Both of these women accomplished something, and not something trivial.
My one nit - they raise the specter of Julia Child not liking what Julie Powell was doing, but then they leave it alone and don't bring it back - quite frustrating. Did anything else happen there?
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