Movie Reviews By Ivan And Sylvia

Ivan said...

I am VERY RELIGIOUS! The Academy is like a God to me -- even though I do not always agree with their opinions.

Yes, believe it or not, I disagree with many of their choices -- such as Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I saw "Walk the Line" last night and I have to say I believe Joaquin Phoenix's performance was the better of the two. Of course, we have to allow for personal taste and subjectivity -- in the final analysis, isn't that what really drives most of what we consider good, better and best.

I thought Phillip Seymour Howard did a good job, yes. Perhaps I'm being influenced by the fact that I disliked the movie. As I said to some one at work today, "It was Truman Capote's 15 minutes of fame dragged out into two and a half never ending hours!" Then again, I didn't like Capote when he was alive and I care for him even less now. His entire status was built on two books ... good ones, no doubt, but wasn't Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" superior to his two books?

I have not seen "Good Night and Good Luck" but I agree with you about it's message and our loss of freedoms.

I really want to see "Good Night and Good Luck", I'm a very big David Strathairn fan. Remember him as the father in "Dolores Claiborne"? He was also in "L.A. Confidential" and "Lost in Yonkers" as the "retarded" boyfriend to Mercedes Ruehl.