Mulholland Drive.
To be fair, after the first half hour I had the i-Pod on and was reading a book because I was so bored. I looked up to see BOOBS everywhere. Crusty seemed to like it though.
A bit too clever for me.
Just tell me a story, and tell it well. Put in some explosions, massive natural disasters as a bonus, maybe a bit of science. That'll do.
I love Mulholland Drive but then I like most David Lynch stuff.
Goodfellas
really really enjoyed
loved the way the story is told and the way it evolves over the decades
What a cracker of a film that is, one of the few films that I have lost count of how many times I have seen it – famously it lost out to Dances with Wolves for the best picture Oscar.
Did it? Crikey that's an appalling decision, Goodfellas is superb.
It’s not uncommon, the Academy Awards being a beauty contest rather than a measure of quality – although I know nothing, I confidently expected Avatar to win best picture this year (not because I thought it was any good but because it had generated lots of business for the cinema and with a boost for 3D film technology, provided a possible counter to some industrial piracy/downloading).
I was very surprised when The Hurt Locker won instead, which I thought was an awful film, most especially the ‘bomb-disposal-experts-as-mavericks-on-the edge’ schtick which I imagine is as far from the truth as is possible. Also, when your pacifist Quaker girlfriend criticises the military authenticity of a film, you know it’s really, really bad.
Apologies for drifting OT, in other news I saw First of the Few the other day for the first time, not quite sure how I got to be 40 and had not seen it yet.
