Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I saw Blood Diamond tonight. Ed Zwick is such a fantastic director and I've watched just about everything he's done (Glory, Legends of the Fall). IT was very well done film all around. Acting was great lead by Jennifer Connelly, who, dispite showing her "age" has really erased any thought of her as a kid in Labrynth. She is going to age really well and continue to be a classicly beautiful actress for many years to come. Leo again was Leo, but in a film where you were drawn in, I kept on thinking "That's Leo with an African accent." Not a bad accent, but not a great one. It would have been a much better film had they cast someone who doesn't always play "themselves." But, that aside I think this is his best job since GIlbert Grape.