Award Season 2006

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Hello, out-of-the-blue. They only recently upped Iwo Jima to a December release date. I hope it was better than Flags of Our Fathers. I guess it might be another Clint v. Marty year after all... (though, personally, I thought that The Departed was woefully pedestrian. "Oh, look at the mob and the police officers. They go undercover and drink and shoot people until they're comfortably numb. How not at all cliche.")

While I enjoyed Stranger Than Fiction, I thought that Little Miss Sunshine was superior. Bummer.

The Illusionist on the ten-best-indie list? I thought it sucked balls compared to The Prestiege. (Though I hear that The Prestiege sucks balls compared to the book.)

I haven't talked about it on the movie thread yet, but Volver is quickly becoming one of my very favorite pictures of the year. It's such a crap year for movies, though. Many fewer than I really felt drawn to or excited by.