2 posts tagged “film”

This weekend we made it to the theater and saw Little Miss Sunshine. It's the funniest movie I can remember seeing in years. The cast of the movie is just perfect. In my opinion, comedy reveals the talents of an actor more than drama does, and in this movie we get to see Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, and Toni Collette at their best. Most surprising to me, though, was Steve Carell. I loved him on the Daily Show and I love him on The Office, but I absolutely hated The 40 Year Old Virgin. In this movie, though, he's spectacularly good.

I also saw The Devil Wears Prada recently. It's worth seeing just for Meryl Streep's performance, which is amazing. Unfortunately, it wasn't a tenth as funny as Little Miss Sunshine.

As of last night, I have seen all five Best Picture nominees for 2006. (Have I mentioned how much I love Netflix?) Here's how I'd rank the films:

1. Munich
2. Good Night, and Good Luck
3. Capote
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Crash

Basically, opposite the probable order of finish. I remain stunned that Crash, which I thought was mediocre at best, bested all of the other movies on the list. Even if the voters chose based on the message of each film, I thought that Crash's was trite compared to all of the others.