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i would *fo shizzle* throw down in a bar fight for moving "walk the line" into the "really good ones" column. i was not only thoroughly entertained by the love story, but thought both cash and carter were written/portrayed remarkably well as full, fleshed-out characters.
let's settle this when i'm back from germany.

s. seeley

By  Anonymous, at 4:06 PM  

It's the biopic problem. I was thoroughly entertained, but there's something about the form that just doesn't get under my skin. And Capote...well, I was really tired when I saw Capote. Although it was after I made this list, I don't think I need to put it back on. I thought the performance was stunt-y, a la Blanchett Does Hepburn, and I'm sure it was saying something interesting about The Artist As A Guy Who Doesn't Stick Up For You When Your Head Is On The Chopping Block but like I said, I napped.

By  Josh K-sky, at 6:59 PM  

Oh, and if you follow that link and read to the end, you can see what I mean by "the biopic problem." Love story, check (I cried when he proposed on stage). Well performed, check. How was the world different after this person lived? Didn't go there, which makes it a chicken movie.

By  Josh K-sky, at 7:01 PM  

Was In Her Shoes included as a joke?

That was one of the biggest turkeys of last year. The dialogue was shockingly unnatural and clunky. And poor Toni Collette. It's actually a running joke among my friends to impersonate Cameron Diaz' attempt to read "One Art" (one of my favorite poems, at least before I saw In Her Shoes).

What did you like about it?

By  Solomon Grundy, at 8:45 AM  

Nope, not a joke at all. I wish I'd written about it at the time, but I found the relationship completely believable and touching. I was also really grateful that the movie allowed itself so much length to tell the story -- it was easily forty-five minutes longer than a typical "chick flick" might have been, and that made the narrative relaxed and detailed. At some point in the film I realized "hey, this is going on way long" and then I realized that I was rather happy to stay with the characters that much longer. And Toni Collette's character's shoe thing connected her right back to Muriel's Wedding, where Muriel's mediation of her life through pop culture (ABBA) tells a story about pleasure and culture that is complex and rich. Between the relaxed pace and the performances (which I liked--I even choked up with the illiteracy stuff, though not the final too-smooth reading of One Art), In Her Shoes achieved really good stuff within genre confines.

My sister made vicious fun of me for liking it, if that's any consolation.

By  Josh K-sky, at 9:08 AM  

I thought Mysterious Skin was okay but not great. I thought A History of Violence was bad, mainly because I couldn't tell what the hell point Cronenberg was trying to make. And Munich SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED ASS. I felt like my intelligence was insulted by its very existence, let the three hours I let it eat of my life.

By  Antid Oto, at 9:48 PM  

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