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Jude Law in Good Movie Stunner

Well, I'm not going to say that Team America isn't a good movie, it's very entertaining, but it's coarse, stupid, and ugly. You can't help but warm to qualities like that.

On the other hand, The Aviator is the complete opposite, it's a beautiful movie. Yes, Jude Law is in it, but only for about 20 seconds, and he's covered up by a moustache as well. OK OK OK I will give him this one.

Many people think good art should be understated, or naturalistic. But this is clearly a load of bollocks. The Aviator is a fantastic film, it's expansive, over-the-top and wonderful. Right from the beginning, even the colour-balance has been tweaked to give the soft blues and apricots of hand-tinted film; by the time it gets into the forties, it's all over-saturated technicolour. You can see where the money went as well, it looks ridiculously opulent. I am sure some bits of it must have been done with computers, but I have no idea what bits they are.

What of Leo as a leading man then? He's fine, he isn't really irritating at all, you don't want to flick his ears. Kate Blanchett does a weird Audrey Hepburn impersonation, and it has the real Alec Baldwin in it as well, which is odd when you've watched his puppet entertaining Kim Il-Jong the night before.

I liked this film a lot, it is good. If you don't like it, fuck you, maybe you don't like cinema.

I went to see it in the Barbican cinema. You get Pearl and Dean adverts, and it's like being in a proper theatre. Importantly, the seats are very comfortable. Nice people work there as well. And on a Monday it only costs £4.50. This cinema is good.

posted by Chairman Peyote @ 3:03 PM