Three movies
The last month has been a time for some escapism so Jen and I have been going to a lot more movies than we usually see.
Three stick in my mind:
Flushed Away -- this was done by Aardman, the same people behind Wallace and Gromitt and it their first all-CG film. Wonderful! It is ostensibly a kids movie but there are so many in-jokes and references to other films crammed in that we were laughing through most of it.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan -- about as politically incorrect as you can get and I loved every minute of it. Some of the best scenes are the tight closeups of people as they react to Cohen's character. The rodeo was wonderful.
Finally, a much darker film --
The Prestige. It felt long at the theater but there was so much crammed into it that the two-hour length is needed. David Bowie's portrayal of Nikola Tesla at his Colorado Springs Laboratory was spot on from what I have read of personal accounts (Tesla is a big hero of mine).
The development of the Turn and its final Prestige is one that will be sticking in my subconcious for a very long long time.
See this one...
Posted by DaveH at November 19, 2006 8:17 PM