A Twist of Things to Come

I haven't seen many of the films nominated this year. I have pretty much no interest in seeing There Will Be Blood. I saw the trailer for it before No Country For Old Men and it gave me the giggles.

I know a lot of people like Paul Thomas Anderson's work. I just get the impression that if you stuck him with a pin he'd rocket around the room for ten minutes, bouncing off windows and light fixtures. Magnolia was like a meringue, the kind where you whip a thimble full of egg white and sugar into a treat the size of your fist. Some people like meringues, and that's cool, but they really are not for me.

I'd really like to see Michael Clayton and Juno. I hope No Country For Old Men gets sound effects editing. With no score at all, that movie was made by the sound effects, and the negative spaces in sound. Also, unless you have a truly HUGE TV set, you should see it in the theater. You miss a lot of details otherwise. (There's a scene where a guy looks at a tree a long way off, and on the big screen you can see what looks like someone sitting under the tree, but on the small screen it looks like... a tree. There are other examples.)

It's kind of neat that I don't care much about the Oscars this year. Sort of liberating.