I forgot "Invictus" which is Clint Eastwood's latest and debuts on Christmas Day. Clint was interviewed briefly on the 10 PM KGO show last Thursday (TDay). The crux of the show was the musical group they discovered in South Africa that wound up doing a lot of music for the film. Sounds definitely like a movie that will be in the awards too. I'm a great fan of Morgan Freeman who plays Nelson Mandela in the film. There was a trailer for it at the theater yesterday. Unfortunately that chain was taken over a few years ago by Cinemark. The original owner and head of Century Theaters who they bought it from did not want commercials running in between films and he limited trailers to two per show. Cinemark runs commercials between films by digital projector (not a good enough unit to show feature films with) and beaucoup trailers. Some of those commercials are pretty inane for an art house crowd.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/ Bhairitu wrote: > Of course the "Oscars" are like TV ratings. They don't mean much but to > the zombies and bean counters. The Golden Globes are more respected in > the arts. But I would think it would be hard to find a movie this > season that can trump this one. I can't think of any that has similar > buzz. The film was finished some time ago and held back until now for > its awards potential. It has it's "cause" factor which will get > Hollywoodies to vote for it but it's "bummer" factor might keep it from > winning because Hollywood doesn't like a winner that will bum out the > public. > > I read the book over a weekend and found it's experience "flat". The > movie has the same "flat" feeling but that is the feeling that one might > get trying to survive a hopeless nuclear winter. There have been many > post apocalyptic B-movies which were often an excuse for a bunch of > stunt people to act like waring gangs on horses or even motorcycles. > Though the potential for that was there this movie doesn't dwell on it. > > TurquoiseB wrote: > >> I rarely read reviews, preferring to see the film >> and decide for myself, but for some reason I've read >> a few about this film. All of them talk about it as >> having major Oscar buzz, but interestingly *most* of >> the reviewers comment that they've read the novel, >> and feel that the film is better. That would be a >> pleasant change. >> >> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: >> >> >>> "The Road" is one of those movies I've found myself thinking about the >>> next day after I've seen. This even after having read the book last >>> spring. The story is obviously an allegory but I can't go into that >>> without presenting spoilers. Though one can imagine it could be a gross >>> movie like one of the "torture porn" films it isn't. It doesn't dwell >>> on scenes (about cannibalism) like that you could imagine if you read >>> the book. This may well be the movie that sweeps awards this year. >>> Sort of like the little movie I saw last year at this time in the same >>> theater. It was called "Slumdog Millionaire." >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > >
