just saw nelson. without gosling, epps, some cool photography, and the occasional good lines, this would be offensive, all those stereotypes lined up like pins and all. as it is, it’s watchable. gosling is an incredibly charismatic actor. i saw him for the first time a few days ago in fracture, which held mostly because of him. he seems to have been born in front of the camera. i wonder, though, if he ever acts without all those twitches. in fracture the twitching was even worse than in nelson, even though his character was as sober and clean as a whistle.
in splitting the posts and comments on breach and half nelson into two separate discussions i inadvertently deleted jeff’s original brief comments on half nelson. sorry! jeff, do you think you could recreate them?
and in general, let me echo mauer in also asking that we not lump together reviews of unrelated movies in one post with a generic title. makes them harder to find.
Speaking of Vengeance is Mine, Shohei Imamura’s great film about a serial killer (sort of)….
Just kidding. It is a great film, but I’ll do a separate post later.
You ruined everything! Actually, my computer has lost the cookies (or brownies or whatever) for me to start my own threads on the site so I’m left to responding to others’ threads. I’m sure I’ve written my username and password down somewhere.
please jeff forgive arnab.