It's certainly a step up from mainstream-formulaic film. Good Slate article here defending Little Miss Sunshine, a movie that I'm surprised would ever actually need a defense.
I thoroughly enjoyed Little Miss Sunshine, ditto The Royal Tenenbaums. On the other hand Garden State is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Since this is a movie post: We rented Fight Club earlier this week, years after my sister began urging me that I needed to see it. This is a fantastic movie but one would have no idea why until actually watching it. (Remember, "the first rule about Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.")
Two off-the-wall ideas that would have improved Fight Club in my opinion (but probably nobody else's opinion):
1. Replace Ed Norton with Zach Braff.
2. Go back in time 20 years further and replace Ed Norton with Woody Allen.
Posted by Matt Bruce at February 22, 2007 03:10 PMI would contend that neither Zach Braff nor Woody Allen circa 1979 (or ever, really) would've been able to pull of the character's transition.
This is a great movie but it's made from an even better book. Well, I guess Palahniuk's direct and wild prose is not for everyone. Well, at least Chuck didn't present Durden as that clean.
I have not watched [i]Little Miss Sunshine[/i] mostly because I have kinda suspected that I would not enjoy it that much. I won't know until/if I see it, though.
Having not watched Fight Club yet (currently # 59 on the Netflix queue), I agree that watching Woody Allen get beaten up would be entertaining.
Posted by: Kubi at February 22, 2007 11:20 PM