I haven't seen either one yet, but I think Kate excels at playing unlikeable characters sympathetically. I'm looking forward to both, which are queued ... and at my current Netflix viewing rate, will be arriving in my mailbox sometime in October.

I'm with you there, so I basically viewed this Oscar as a cumulative, sort of a little overdo Kate, oops, the Academy bad.

For me what was good about Winslet's performance in The Reader is that she didn't (at least not to me) make the character sympathetic. She simply make the character human. Showed that evil isn't just a mighty efficient thing but can also be a passive uneducated thing.

I figure that it was a combination award for this and Revolutionary Road (though that movie didn't really work for me either).

Overall, though, I didn't really care for the movie.

well thanks for the illumination

My Name is Bruce is why we brought this up in the first place. Ooh, I thought of Bolt but forgot to post it.

The Game, heh, that's an interesting one. Great movie.

I wanted to like it, but I left the theater with an irritating question.

Yes, The Game definitely suffered from omniscient villain syndrome.

Another would be A Bug's Life, at least from the circus performer's point of view anyway. They think they're there to do a show not fight.

The most accurate psychological programming in the history of the universe of course.

And how do you know they didn't have something set up on any of the other sides of the building as well?

Ah, good one! Should have thought of that.