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PS I Loved it. I saw it twice...first time the same day it opened and took me 3 hours to drive home in the snow and ice storm...30 miles...we were going 4 miles an hour through the canyon...fun fun.

But Hillary Swank was fabulous, of course, she aways is. She was in every scene and stole the show. The other girls were good, too. I love the costumes.

2nd time I saw I took my honey. He said he liked it, it was good. it I loved the movie even more the second time. Butler can do that to me. (Yes, my honey knows about my mad crush on Butler. Heck, I'm old enough to be Gerbear's mother, duh.)

I was thrilled that Gerry Butler sang...we want more of his delicious deep sexy voice.

True the movie was a corny romantic comedy...but it had its serious side. I laughed and cried. What more could you want from a movie. Two beautiful young people doing what they love best...acting.

The guy at the end of the movie with the dimples that the girl meets in Ireland? He was cute, looks a little bit like Gerry. But Gerard Butler (actually pronounced correctly in the trailer--Jerod) can act circles around any one of those men. And they were all good, especially Harry Connet Jr.

Kathy Bates was superb as the mother. I've never seen a bad performance from her, even naked in the hot tub with

The only shortcoming of the movie was the outdoor scene depicting the day the couple met--more than 10 years before the time of the movie...they didn't even try to make the actors look younger. Swank acted a little younger with her voice and mannerisms, and let's face it, she's young and doesn't have to fake it even tho she was supposed to be about 18 or 19 then. But Bulter's face looked all craggy and wrinkled...tsk tsk for smoking all those years-- it ready does cause wrinkles--and he looked fantastically young in the other flashbacks filmed indoors.

What can I say? I would stand in line and pay a fortune to watch Gerard Butler just stand in the middle of blank stage -- quiet doing nothin'. I love the boy.

Thanks for a great romantic comedy. KEEP 'EM COMING.

Thank you, Hillary too, for bringing Gerry into the American Hollywood spotlight. Maybe someone will remember him now...if 300 and Phantom of the Opera obviously didn't make him a household name maybe this one will.

HOLLYWOOD: Put him in more movies!!!! PLEASE.

Gerry, thanks for being you. Best of everything to you. I understand you are filming in Albuquerque and quit smoking. GREAT. That makes me and all the rest of your fanatic fans happy. I live near Albuquerque. Would I like to meet you in dark elevator...

Watch the movie. It's a "feel-good" movie. Really. See it.

PS I Love Y'All.

Sandy the movie critique (I went for more than popcorn this time.)

Premonition

“Depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead.”

I enjoyed this movie. The screenplay was excellent. Plenty of foreshadowing. And the end was adequately supported throughout the movie and it came to an “of-course” ending.

Sandra Bullock was basically the only star of this movie. She was excellent. But I don’t think this type of thriller (hinting at paranormal? I don’t know.) is ever nominated for Academy Awards. (Well, I take that back Martin Landau won best supporting actor for that sleeper Ed Wood − which was a great movie (to some of us.)

I urge you to avoid this movie is you have suffered a loss recently. Unless you are in the mood to cry for awhile.

If you want some philosophical messages about death and living, this is the movie for you. It’s not done like a horror movie, not creepy, etc. It mostly deals with a woman desperate to handle her own feelings, and make sense of changes in her reality. And of course the inborn drive of humans to take control of their own destiny.

Worth the rental fee, especially if you are a Bullock fan. She does her acting with great natural grace and ability. She's flawless in this regardless of what reality she is dealing with.

Infamous--Glorious Review of a Work of Art

How pathetic am I? Sitting home on a Saturday night watching a movie? Not only did I sit and watch the whole movie (and what a wonderful work of art it is) but I watched the whole movie again with the commentary voice over by Douglas McGrath.

What a fabulous tool for a writer--the commentary of a movie. Previously I have listened to the commentaries of directors on movies that I was wild about. But this is a special case. Douglas McGrath was the screenwriter as well as the director.
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Now here I am sitting at the computer writing about it. Wow.

If you are a writer and enjoy stories about other writers and have a yen for "literary" quality to your movies, presented by talented directors, writers, actors, then you will certainly appreciate my glowing opinion of this movie. I am sure many of those involved in this production consider it the master-piece of their careers. And they should. (Until the next great movie they do, of course!)

I am STUNNED that it received NOT one nomination for an Academy Award!!!!

I think perhaps we have here the subtle resistance of Hollywood against talented actors from other countries. Toby Jones and Daniel Craig are both British actors. They were so good, I can't even think of any more superlatives to use. Just...just...gosh. Fabulous.

I suspect too, for some reason, there is, in Hollywood, a slight "rejection" of a highly dramatic, even artistic, movie using stars better known for light-hearted comedies. But Sandra Bullock and Jeff Daniels were also superb in supporting roles. As was all the supporting cast. I had not one complaint. Everyone seemed so real that I was right there in the movie with them.

I have never seen Bullock and Daniels so clearly into the expression of the roles with their voices, facial expressions, exuding emotions, just wonderful. Thank you, thank you. I will never take you for granted again.

When a movie goes together like this one does, with all the elements--cinematography, costuming, music, script, true story elements, plus all the little things like foreshadowing and uses of color to convey mood...you have a classic work of art that takes the sting out of seeing so many Hollywooded-up movies that are lacking or downright terrible.

This screenplay was based on the book about Truman Capote and his own book In Cold Blood, as well as the story of his whole life actually, by George Plimpton. It brought the man Capote really was, truly alive to a depth that is breath-taking. And nearly all the scenes in the movie were accurate as to the actual event...right down to Capote's merciless gossiping.

As I said, the subject matter of a writer, to a writer, is gold when you can find it. If you are a writer, don't just watch this DVD and listen to the commentary by the screenwriter/director, study it and take into you soul.

All, I can say about the movie is mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. Magnificent.

I saw the other movie about Capote a year ago or so, and unfortunately it was before I got my hearing aids so I couldn't hear a lot of it. I thought it was a good movie, and the starring actor deserved his award, but it definitely spoke of Capote in a very different interpretation. It didn't have the depth and meaning and raw emotion that Infamous has.

Rent it, or buy and watch it.

Much impressed movie "critique" blown-away by a REAL movie, Sandy your movie critic.
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