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Old 01-04-2009, 06:13 AM   #3387
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I've watched quite a few movies when I was off over Xmas. Some of them the best films I've seen all year.

Burn After Reading - Facre from the Coen brothers highlights some A-list celebrities have huge fun with a hilarious script. George Clooney as a lethario US Marshall, Brad Pitt as a dense gym trainer in particular are great in a weird story of stupidity and spys.

Let the Right one in - Swedish horror film about a very pale effeminant 12 year old boy who is being hideously bullied at school who meets and befiends his new neighbour. (A 12 year (more or less) old "girl" who happens to be a vampire). She teaches him to stand up to the bullies and protects him and a weird romance grows. Stunningly beautiful and creepy film set in the cold winter in Stockholm. This is my favourite movie of the year. The ending is utterly superb from a weird camera angle under the water in a swimming pool. http://www.lettherightoneinmovie.com/ - There is a US remake due this year from the director of Cloverfield, but they will cock it up and make more like that pish Twilight.

The Wrestler - New film from Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain) http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thewrestler/. Mickey Rourke is superb as an over the hill ex pro-wrestler, struggling to make ends meet 20 years after his fame. Now working in a local supermarket and fighting in small time events at the weekend in the hope of regaining his 80's glory, struggling to connect to his daughter who hates him and a stripper (the superb Marisa Tomei)who is also feeling washed up. I predict Rourke will win this years Oscar for this film, Bruce Springsteen could win for his excellent theme song as well.

Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle switches drugged up Edinburgh for a sweet story set in India. A young boy grew up in the slums ends up on Who Wants to be a Millionaire India and gets all the way to the final question captivating a nation. He gets arrested for cheating, and asked to prove how he knows every answer. The flashbacks chronicles his life of homelessness, torture, prostitution, how he meets and falls in live with a street girl and how he knows the answers. Genuinly uplifting movie and Boyles best film since Trainspotting. http://www.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire/

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- Brad pitt again in David Fincher's latest masterpiece. Pitt is Benjamin Button who lives his whole life backwards. Born an old man and progressivly gets younger as the film goes on. It is a superb pice of makeup and SFX that make Pitt de-age throughout the movie although this isn't a SFX type film. It's kinda like a modern day Forrest Gump (it's written by the same guy) chronicling American history through the eyes of an extraordinary man. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are superb. http://www.benjaminbutton.com/
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