(09-03-2010 10:00 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  Started to watch Greenberg. Ugh. Don't know where it was headed, but that was 8 minutes of my life wasted.

I can understand why people hate this film. The characters in Noah Baumbach's films aren't really likable, but I feel they aren't manufactured. His films are labeled comedies, but they really aren't, even though there is a fair amount of humor. I loved Greenberg. It was nice to see Ben Stiller out of his element per se.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The editor of Elle magazine suffers a stroke, goes into a coma and is left completely paralyzed except vision in his left eye. He is fully coherent but cannot speak. So he communicates by blinking his left eye, and he writes a book. He has an assistant (a very patient and dedicated assistant) who translates his blinks thru a frequency ordered alphabet. His book is about living with his condition and about when he stopped pitting himself. Very moving and very powerful, but also very very depressing.

I am Love. Italian film starring Tilda Swinton. I love Tilda Swinton. She's amongst the finest actresses out there, if not the best. I was so so let down by this. Beautiful shot, well acted, but f*cking boring. An Italian soap opera. The trailer is gorgeous though.

Pride & Glory. Oh man the writing was on the wall with this one. When's someone gonna make an original cop movie? Hell of a plot there guys. I feel Edward Norton is making some very bad choices. And for the record, I love Colin Farrell.