Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

It's a current movie but it's been out a couple weekends I think and nobody has discussed yet so I assume there won't be much of one.

Anyway, saw The Good Shepherd tonight. It performed the trick of being very interesting without being particularly compelling. Of being almost three hours long, feeling like it is that long, and yet not being bored.

One spooky thing, however, is that in one of Robert De Niro's short scenes in looks like the love child of Henry Kissinger and Buddy Hackett.

It is a solid effort in the director's chair by De Niro, but a little too in love with the quiet pause. The score is pretty heavy handed too.