Last movie you watched......

I loved Zero Dark Thirty. I really liked The Hurt Locker.

But I think Bigelow and her films tend to get overpraised because she's a female director who makes "guy" movies. And I still maintain that The Hurt Locker won Best Picture in part because voters wanted to stick it to James Cameron.

Renner was great, but the movie didn't really stick with me.

 

I feel the exact same way about both of them.

 

This is pretty much exactly how I felt about the movie. I didn't really understand all the caterwauling over the torture scenes. They weren't too graphic or unwatchable and as you point out, they are a real part of the story that deserve telling.

 

Switching gears: "The Princess and the Frog."

Love the music. Both my parents are from the state, so I love the response to the "We're from far, far away" line:

"Y'all from Shreveport?!"

 

I saw advanced clips of Training Day 2. The role of Denzel Washington's been replaced by some Kenyan.

 

If you read real CIA agents' thoughts on ZD30, they all pretty much say the same thing about the torture scenes... It's. just. Not. like that. What's interesting is they don't deny waterboarding or even dog collaring took place. But they say interrogations, nor life in the CIA, are as devoid of emotion as it's portrayed in the film.

They also say rarely is there ever a "lone wolf" like Chastain's character... It's more like small packs of wolves... It's very collaborative.

My problem with the movie is that it presents itself as a so-cool-for-school, know-everything account of how it happened....... That has real CIA agents cringing and shaking their heads.

 

Dudes. I just saw the Big Lebowski. Not sure if I really liked it but I didn't chuckle a few times. Big ups to Dude Bridges. And John Goodman did himself proud too. I now return to this century.

 

You might both be interested in this:

www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/disturbing-misleading-zero-dark-thirty/

 

I don't count Cowher in DKR, but of the rest, Firestorm might be the best.

The Chris Berman performance in Longest Yard is one of biggest turds of fake acting ever laid. I'm still halfway convinced Sandler did it prank to Berman, it's so bizarre.

 

Can't argue one bit of that.

 

Taken 2 and Parker. Loved them.

 

I watched The Town a few nights ago, and holy shit, that was a good flick. So, I watched Gone Baby Gone tonight, and that was also one hell of a movie. Therefore, I must fit Argo into my schedule in the next few days. Affleck is one hell of a director - like GBG and The Town just have a kind of nervous energy and feel to them, which really helped to elevate them even though they're essentially just genre pictures.