Babel, Children of Men, and the Queen

[King Crimson]

saw all of these on a "screener" download.

Babel: i liked Amores Perros a lot and thought this was good. politico-knuckleheads will have beef i guess.

Children of Men: i'm a sucker for dystopia flicks and this one was great for 30 minutes or so. the scene with the art minister and the "Animals" album cover backdrop/city view is awesome. just incredible. i like Clive Owen too. but, it's marginal and becomes a conventional genre flick after that. the final battle scenes have some neat camera shots though.

the Queen: nothing great. the guy who played Tony Blair looked like Rowan Atkinson. one dumb symbol: the high point buck and Princess Diana...does not a movie make. i guess this where we are supposed to gush about Helen Mirren's performance.....and it was good. but, netflix the Madness of King George instead. "Aristocrats are out of touch" theme: Daddy Bush had never seen bar code scanner.....

[Bizzarofelice]

the Queen: nothing great. the guy who played Tony Blair looked like Rowan Atkinson. one dumb symbol: the high point buck and Princess Diana...does not a movie make. i guess this where we are supposed to gush about Helen Mirren's performance.....and it was good. but, netflix the Madness of King George instead. "Aristocrats are out of touch" theme: Daddy Bush had never seen bar code scanner.....

The Queen looked like one of those Miramax blatant attempts to garner Oscar nods; formulaic reserved emotion. I've really grown to hate any movie that advertises with "Academy Award Nominee" and such. See also any film including Judi Dench.