Oscar reviews

[mteson]

I happened to miss most of the major Oscar movies before the actual Oscars took place. The only movies I had seen were the exceptional Frost/Nixon and the also-exceptional Milk, both of which deserve their Oscar nominations. But following the Oscars I caught up and saw three great movies, although my opinions of them weren't the same as the Oscar

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[bluemekka]

you loved the fountain????? i wanted to love that movie so bad, because i also really like his work, but i had so many problems with it, oh goodness.

in any case, i can't wait to see the wrestler. i will probably wait until dvd because getting to the movies seems to difficult these days, but i've heard great things from friends who have seen it.

i think i saw on facebook that you guys saw coraline in 3d though, ya? we also saw it and i thought it was absolutely lovely. can you believe it, i voluntarily went to see an animated film not made for adults!

[mteson]

I really liked The Fountain for several reasons. The first is that I have a very soft spot in my heart for films that take major risks, even though those risks aren't always successful. The Fountain is an avant-garde experimental film with a non-linear storyline and an ambiguous ending. Even if a lot of the ideas in the movie don't quite work, I completely respect and admire movies that at least try to be something more than typical Hollywood fare

[libberroo]

Is it anti-semitist to say that there are really only so many movies I can stand to watch about the Holocaust before even one of the greatest human atrocities in modern Western history gets tired?

Because really, I am getting tired of the Holocaust.

[mteson]

I agree. I think we're in the middle of a generational changing of the guard in filmmaking anyways. There are a lot of young filmmakers out there who care more about genocide in Africa than the Holocaust, about Iraq more than Vietnam and about Bush more than Nixon (Nixon and Vietnam are two other baby boomer topics I'm kinda done with too).

That having been said, I think there might still be the seeds of a great movie not yet made about the Holocaust. Every now and then a film like The Grey Zone comes out of nowhere, kicks your ass, and turns a tired subject into a newly relevant one. So we'll see.