I agree one hundred percent. I thought lost in translation was the best
movie I have seen in a while and without Bill Murray's performance it
would not have been. As for Sean Penn, I grudgingly admire his
performance like I did the one by Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, but
both of the characters were so unredeemably unlikable and the movies so
dreary that I did not much care. The best comment I heard by a reviewer
I like after I saw it was to warn people to take their prozac before
going into the theater, or maybe that was House of Sand and Fog.
Yeah, maybe I was too hard on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy films, but
if I want to revisit the story I think I will take the books from my
shelf and reread them. I really loved them the first time. And I really
hated the way that Frodo was turned into the wimpy, clinically
depressed, and angst ridden character in the film. I remembered him as
a pretty feisty little hobbit, not at all reluctant to draw his elven
sword and go on the attack. Sorry. Can't stop myself. :-)
But I did like many of the other characters a lot and the fairy glen
was magic. The New Zealand scenery was just stunning.
I reluctantly went to the Peter Pan movie a couple of months ago and
loved it. Surely the best one ever done that follows the story with the
lead played by a boy not a shouting, middle aged woman in drag. Second
childhood, I guess.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Mar 1, 2004, at 10:44 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
> And while we're talking about the Oscars -- I thought Bill Murray
> should've gotten the best actor award. But, although I don't
> agree with some of his off-screen activities, Sean Penn is
> probably the greatest talent in the biz today, so that award for
> him wasn't really undeserved.
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