Babel, Children of Men, and the Queen
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:12 am
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.....
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.....