Re: So, I've been watching a lot of movies of late...
I just got through with "Black Snake Moan", which is way better than the ads & trailer would let on. Excellent performances, great blues music, and a script that holds together as well as it can given the subject matter. I'm really interested to see John Sayles' "Honeydripper" later this year for another blues movie, with Keb' Mo' reportedly playing a musician."The Number 23" was OK. Decent airplane movie, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it. Jim Carrey was fine in it, but the plot was a little thick. Hard to imagine that this is the same Joel Schumacher that directed the two horrible Batman sequels in the 90s.I enjoyed "Stranger than Fiction". It was kind of Charlie Kaufman-lite. Parts of it really felt like "Being John Malkovich", and other parts were like "Adaptation".
I've got "Flags of Our Fathers", "Letters From Iwo Jima", "Pan's Labyrinth", "The Matador", and "The New World" all queued up for viewing this week. The nice thing about being out of town for so long is that my stack of DVD's to watch gets trimmed down a bit, although I always wind up buying about 8 - 10 new ones a week when I'm in Shanghai.
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I just got through with "Black Snake Moan", which is way better than the ads & trailer would let on. Excellent performances, great blues music, and a script that holds together as well as it can given the subject matter. I'm really interested to see John Sayles' "Honeydripper" later this year for another blues movie, with Keb' Mo' reportedly playing a musician."The Number 23" was OK. Decent airplane movie, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it. Jim Carrey was fine in it, but the plot was a little thick. Hard to imagine that this is the same Joel Schumacher that directed the two horrible Batman sequels in the 90s.I enjoyed "Stranger than Fiction". It was kind of Charlie Kaufman-lite. Parts of it really felt like "Being John Malkovich", and other parts were like "Adaptation".
I've got "Flags of Our Fathers", "Letters From Iwo Jima", "Pan's Labyrinth", "The Matador", and "The New World" all queued up for viewing this week. The nice thing about being out of town for so long is that my stack of DVD's to watch gets trimmed down a bit, although I always wind up buying about 8 - 10 new ones a week when I'm in Shanghai.
