Saturday, February 10, 2007

Some Great Movies

Recently I have had the opportunity to see "Flyboys", "Hollywoodland", "Flags of Our Fathers" & "Running with Scissors".
Flyboys is an excellent movie with great cinematography and action. One of the great films of 2006 for certain!
Hollywoodland was much denser a film than I had expected and the cast filled this movie about the suicide/murder of the great actor George Reeves who played Superman at the time.
Andrian Brody yet again performs as a two-bit private investigator and fills the audience with questions on George's death. Diane Lane is spectacular.
Flags of Our Fathers-Clint Eastwood's signature is all over the film, though I have to say I enjoyed the book much more.
The story is very well covered in the film and gives a wider population the chance to know this great historic moment in WWII history.
Running with Scissors reminds me a bit of The Royal Tenenbaums in that we are looking at some really screwed up people. This movie, as the book, is based on the memoirs of Augusten Burrough's. This is a very quirky story that requires you to take with 'a grain of salt' and much humor.

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