Saturday, February 21, 2009

Amen, Brother

Film critic Peter Hartlaub makes an impassioned plea against giving the Best Picture Oscar to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Regular readers of this blog--all two of you--will recalls that I wasn't impressed by "Button."

Has time and distance changed my mind? No, no, and no. Also, no. In fact, my opinion of that exercise in tooth-grinding boredom has only gone down. If my mind were a beach, "Benjamin Button" would be a beached whale. At first, I hated it because it took up too much space. Now it's starting to stink.

Who do I want to win? Not having seen "Slumdog Millionaire," "Milk," "The Reader," or "Frost/Nixon," I'm forced to say...uh..."Wall-E." Failing that, maybe "Slumdog."

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