We have SWIIIROTS on sale at the store. When I first spotted it, I thought the price was just $12.99. Nope, my glasses were blurry and we're charging $22.99. Too much for my wallet this time around; I can wait.
Lunch was very delicious, and I got back home early enough to be able to get to the movie theater showing CAPOTE in plenty of time.It's a truly wonderful film. Hoffman (Philip Seymour, not Dustin) is brilliant beyond belief, and Clifton Collins, Jr. playing Perry Smith is almost his equal. The give and take these two actors experience during this film is something for the books.Catherine Keener as Harper Lee is also grounded and very good, and numerous other superb actors pop in for brief appearances, Bob Balaban and Chris Cooper among them.I loved it.
Natalie Portman can be an expressive actress, but I thought she was dreadful in STAR WARS II and only marginally better in STAR WARS III. Hayden Christiansen was horrible in II and really no better in III.A friend believed that both actors are talented but they were saddled with Lucas' trite and laughable dialogue, and though I agree the dialogue is pretty feeble, couldn't talented actors have been less stiff and monotonous even if the writing was insufferable and the direction more interested in effects and mechanics than flesh and blood people? I think so.
I wonder if MBarnum has risen from his nap yet and is watching his movie on white snakes?