Saturday, February 28, 2009

Mendon Movie Mews:

Last night we piled up on the Sofa in our SNUGGIES to have a movie night. All four of us, well, Koda was unsnuggied, Pookie was under mine. ( also Koda will not sit beside Pookie, so Neil had to sit in the middle.) 

Wow, It always sort of fascinates me that Hollywood is just fascinated by the working poor. My life is as much realism as I need in the day! This movie was nominated for two Oscars : Best Actress - Melissa Leo and Best Writing - Courtney Hunt ( She was also the director) They were both very good, but the top 5 of the year?
Poor family lives in a truly nasty part of up upstate NY , with only a river between them and Canada, well, and an Indian Reservation. The father ran off with the money the family had saved to buy a new trailer ( he gambles) The mother works at the dollar store. Ummmm, is this a movie or just another day at the Moose Lodge in Winder ? Stuff happens, people drive across the frozen river. NOT a feel gooder.
See it IF gritty realism is your thing. All the critics, who I am guessing have never been to the dollar store, LOVED it...
Fine, not as good as the first, seemed some corners were cut, and they just sort of JUMP into the story. BOOM talking moose or what ever. I have never read any of the other books in the series, only LWW, they are around here I should. Ummm, sort of the exact same story, without the  fablous Tilda Swinton. Always good to see Peter Dinklage in anything. It would have been a fine movie, but I really liked the first one. It cleared a little over two hundred mil at the box office, so I am guessing we will see the rest of the books.

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