Given my oft-expressed deep love for Far from Heaven, it may surprise some to hear me say the Dennis Quaid omission wasn't a body blow to me (except insofar as it represented weakness for the film as a whole). Filmgoing certainly seemed exciting at least for that brief period. Far from Heaven, Talk to Her, Chicago, The Two Towers, Adaptation, About Schmidt, The Pianist, Catch Me If You Can, Gangs of New York.all opened right on top of one another (leaving perfectly solid films like The Quiet American, Narc, The 25th Hour and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind to fight for the slightest bit of attention). Whatever else you can say about 2002, it had about the most jam-packed last seven weeks of any film year I can recall. They are prisoners of the writer's (supposed) intelligence, and it prevents them from being really as creative as they could be.īy contrast, Christopher Walken - in a not very good movie - can still play a recognizable, flawed but warm human being, and even if only by default, I find myself voting for him. Reilly has an Oscar nomination, but it's not the most interesting role he has ever played.Īnd I'm glad that Chris Cooper has an Oscar, though Adaptation and anything else written by Charlie Kaufman don't really give actors the chance to explore a character, to make that character human, to breath. I am glad that a great character actor like John C. I don't like any of these five movies much, which makes things more difficult. Of course this doesn't mean that Ed Harris is good in The Hours - he's actually scarcely believable both as a gay man and as a dying man not helped by the script, true, but very, very fake. It's not necessarily homophobic - it depends on how it is done. Well, let's face it, gays unfortunately aren't immortal, and some - especially till a few years ago - even die of Aids, so I don't see anything wrong if movies deal with that.
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