List 1- Thing 54
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just_the_things54. Watch every nominated movie from the Academy Awards (excluding foreign film) from 2007-2009
Last night I watched two:
Volver- Grrr. Subtitles make it difficult for me to multitask. It was bad timing for a subtitled movie, but I really liked the movie a lot- much more than I thought I would. It was mysterious and amusing, touching and frightening, dramatic and silly. I loved all the mother-daughter relationships/dynamics and it cleverly explored a lot of heavy subjects without getting heavy, which was amazing. It never went in the direction I expected it to, which is refreshing. And the acting was great. And I never would have bothered seeing it if not for this goal!
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford- I'd started watching this a ways back but the disc I was watching kept skipping (ack!). So I finished watching it last night when my parents happened to rent it from Red Box. I came in about 10 minutes before I'd left off, so it was good timing. I liked the second half better. The beginning... was slow and yet I kept mixing people up for some reason. The last hour and a half was intense and terrifying. I kept wanting Robert to shoot Jesse, because Jesse was clearly nuts and could have killed Robert & brother at any time. I kept saying "Come on! You have to! Shoot him!" And then, after Jesse was shot, I immediately switched to "Oh my god, how could you have shot him?" The end was so sad- and I still have the chorus of the folk song stuck in my head (I learned it when I was a kid and it always gave me the shivers). The movie was gorgeous. And the acting was AMAZING and then some. You could just FEEL the intense emotions gripping the men. I was terrified and devistated, relieved and horrified. What a beautiful movie about betrayal and human nature. I liked it a lot.
Last night I watched two:
Volver- Grrr. Subtitles make it difficult for me to multitask. It was bad timing for a subtitled movie, but I really liked the movie a lot- much more than I thought I would. It was mysterious and amusing, touching and frightening, dramatic and silly. I loved all the mother-daughter relationships/dynamics and it cleverly explored a lot of heavy subjects without getting heavy, which was amazing. It never went in the direction I expected it to, which is refreshing. And the acting was great. And I never would have bothered seeing it if not for this goal!
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford- I'd started watching this a ways back but the disc I was watching kept skipping (ack!). So I finished watching it last night when my parents happened to rent it from Red Box. I came in about 10 minutes before I'd left off, so it was good timing. I liked the second half better. The beginning... was slow and yet I kept mixing people up for some reason. The last hour and a half was intense and terrifying. I kept wanting Robert to shoot Jesse, because Jesse was clearly nuts and could have killed Robert & brother at any time. I kept saying "Come on! You have to! Shoot him!" And then, after Jesse was shot, I immediately switched to "Oh my god, how could you have shot him?" The end was so sad- and I still have the chorus of the folk song stuck in my head (I learned it when I was a kid and it always gave me the shivers). The movie was gorgeous. And the acting was AMAZING and then some. You could just FEEL the intense emotions gripping the men. I was terrified and devistated, relieved and horrified. What a beautiful movie about betrayal and human nature. I liked it a lot.
