I’ve been watching a lot of movies these past few days and I must say, they are a great cure for being alone and mostly bored.
Hurt Locker, recipient of like 9 academy awards tonight, was a great flick. I remember vaguely seeing some of the promotion for it when it came out but dismissed it as just another opportunistic “Iraq” film. However, this movie rocked. Loved it from start to almost finish (it just sort of ends abruptly I felt). Kathryn Bigelow, the films director, was the first woman to win an Oscar for best director and she totally deserved it. I thought Jeremy Renner was robbed, and was disappointed Mo’ni’Qu’e or however she spells it won best support actress but, whatever.
I also watched ‘The Perfect Getaway’ and it sucked for almost 80% of the film until the very end. It has a good twist, which makes it somewhat respectable.
Next was Couples Retreat, and for a straight comedy I thought it was well done. It wasn’t laugh out loud funny, but entertaining.
Finally, just finished “Up in the Air” which was very good. I like Clooney and I thought that the younger girl Anna Kendrick should have won something for best support actress.
