"Slumdog Millionaire" was great but I am also a fan of Danny Boyle's work including "Trainspotting" and "Sunshine." The latter is too "dark" for many people but I thought it had a very profound spiritual message. I've seen the trailer for "The Wrestler" and think I'll take it in this week since it is at the local art house. Since I liked "Mad Men" I may have to take a look see at "Revolutionary Road" even though the trailers didn't do anything for me. Or then I can just wait for the Blu-Ray releases.
Speaking of which the local Fry's has been having blowouts on some of the HD-DVD titles they have. I picked up the first season of "Battlestar Gallactica" on HD-DVD for $15. You might want check out a little film called "The Wackness" with Ben Kingsley and Famke Janssen. The Kingsley role appears to be written for Harvey Keitel so it is Ben Kingsley playing the role as Keitel would. This is a "coming of age" film that takes place in 1994. TurquoiseB wrote: > http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/ > > I only got 62% correct. On the one hand, that > doesn't put me in the same category of "accurate > predictions" as Lou Valentino's claim of "85% > accuracy." On the other hand, I didn't have to > go back and edit my predictions after the fact > the way Lou does to score as highly as I did, > and I don't have to live with being a charlatan, > so I guess it all balances out. :-) > > The sweep by "Slumdog Millionaire" doesn't > surprise me. Giving any recognition at all to > "Revolutionary Road" does. I guess there are > critics out there whose lives are even more > painful and tedious and boring than the ones > in the film, so the movie looked like a "step > up" to them. > > I think it may be related in some way to "Mad > Men" winning Best TV Drama. Same painful and > tedious and boring lives, every week. Yes, > it's an interesting series in some ways, but > what I think *appeals* to people in "Revol- > utionary Road" and "Mad Men" is nostalgia > for the era of the 1950s and early 1960s > where the worst that Americans had to worry > about was that their perfect lives in the > perfect home in the perfect suburbs might not > be quite as perfect as advertised. > > Now they have to worry about being homeless > or starving. Painful, tedious, and boring > in Fantasyland are starting to look good to > people faced with the alternative of reality > in America. >
