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2008 Golden Globe Nominations, FILM
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Some nice shocks.
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We are all MoFos. A Movie Forum thingy. Although, I prefer Mother ****er, for myself!
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If I were buying a laser gun I'd definitely take the XF-3800 before I took the "Pew Pew Pew Fun Gun."
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CNN has already shown the whole thing!
Best Picture went to Atonement..
Best Picture went to Atonement..
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Originally Posted by Ðèstîñy
No one picked this. Did you few like it? I'm sure there's a review somewhere.
Atonement
Directed by Joe Wright
Written by Christopher Hampton
Starring Kiera Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan
I found the first half of this movie to be an engrossing, funny, sweet, sexy, and excitingly suspenseful piece of cinema. That's a lot of good stuff to squeeze into only the first half of the movie. Unfortunately once the movie leaves the aristocratic country house setting for a bombed out France and a London prepared for war, a lot of that magic dissipates into some forgettable melodrama.
Joe Wright, who also directed Knightley in Pride & Prejudice, perfectly captures the 1930's British upper class and the contained world they lived in during the early segments of Atonement. Saoirse Ronan plays the young attention craving Briony, a bright girl who thinks she's a lot smarter than she actually is and her misinterpretation of the relationship between her sister, Cecilia (Knightley), and the help, Robbie (McAvoy), has disastrous effects that ripple throughout the rest of the movie. Ronan actually scored herself a Golden Globe nomination for her turn as the somewhat unlikable Briony, and she's good, especially in a few choice scenes with the other child actors, but I had a lot more fun watching Knightley and McAvoy. I thought the pair of them played their roles well and they really share only a few scenes throughout the movie, but when the two are together there is a genuine energy between them that really got me to care for both their characters and the terrible predicament they were in.
After Briony's misguided testimony lands Robbie in jail the movie jumps forward four years and takes a bit of a nosedive. A lot of it has to do with the script that was clearly cut down due to worries about the movie becoming too long. The story then clumsily jumps back and forth between the characters of Briony and Robbie (Cecilia is left in the corner to twiddle her thumbs) not spending enough time with either to get to know their very different characters, which were transformed during the four year interval. This inadequate time clock management led to a few key scenes falling flat, in my opinion.
Despite my harping on the weak second half, I definitely like this movie, but am disappointed because it could've and should've been so much better than it is.
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Here's what I thought about the film. Definitely didn't expect it to nab the top prize. I thought No Country had it in the bag!
Atonement
Directed by Joe Wright
Written by Christopher Hampton
Starring Kiera Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan
Atonement
Directed by Joe Wright
Written by Christopher Hampton
Starring Kiera Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan
Yep, almost everyone seemed to think that way.
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