Two quickie movie reviews. Maria had gotten Mildred Pierce from the library so we watched it one evening. A good movie, not fantastic, but good. Lots of snappy dialog like they had back in the day. Joan Crawford looked like someone in the movie but we couldn't quite place who... she was still kind of good looking in a harsh angular way at this point. Today it'd make an excellent training video for sexual harassment. Anyhow, I'd always meant to watch it, and now I have. Check.
A while back I watched Stop-Loss on the treadmill. Directed by Kimberly Pierce (sp?), who also did Boys Don't Cry, it was again another well-done film, not spectacular, but solid. The opening gunfight was as tense as they come and was very well edited. The rest of the film kind of came down from that, but of course it wasn't meant to be an action film. It was good to see them avoid what a clichéd Hollywood film would have done at certain key points, specifically the avoidance of a bedroom scene that seemed destined to happen, and particularly the ending, which was more depressing than most endings I could think of. A little too obvious in its political leanings, but hey, since I lean that way, I didn't mind it. Good film.
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