This trailer is amazing in my eyes. The music, the gritty footage, the scene selection-everything. I swear, if I saw this up on the big screen I would have been in tears…and I’ve only seen a 1:30ish of a bunch of scenes spliced together. The Messenger won many honors at the Independent film festivals. I’ve been crushin hard on Ben Foster (the main character, opposite Woody Harrelson) since he was the star on the hit Disney tv show, Flash Forward. But when he played a bad guy in 3:10 to Yuma, I fell hard. Foster has evolved into this amazing actor who isn’t afraid to take risks. He is one of my favs. Check out the trailer here Oh and the girl, Samantha Morton has been nominated for 2 Oscars in the past and yet I don’t recognize her – I’ll have to move some things around on my Netflix queue and do some research.
Archive for October, 2009
In the Dark – Inglorious Basterds
October 9, 2009
Genre: drama, satire, war film (?)
Tagline: Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France
Ebert gave it: 4 stars
Taratino is back at it again, and like his earlier masterpieces, this one entertains. Set in a Nazi occupied France (yeah, I know…see above?), Inglorious Basterds tells the story of World War II the way it could have gone down had a Nazi fell in love with a Jewish girl on the run, and a Lt. from Nashville went huntin’ for Nazis. After a Nazi war hero turn movie star (his story was turned into a film you see), he falls in love with a theatre owner. The theatre owner happens to be hiding from said Nazi’s boss after a little mishap on a farm. Meanwhile Lt. Aldo Raine is scalping all these Nazi’s hoping to get to 100. One film premier brings them all together, plus a few more characters – including Hitler – at the cinema. Everyone has one thought on the brain, kill…someone. Each has an intended target, however no Taratino character is flawless, nimble, or predictable, leading to a surprising end to World War II.
