Comments on: First word on ‘Invictus’ – Drama or piece of furniture?

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:07:53 +0000

Some folks just get into Eastwood’s groove. I don’t tend to unless he’s actually in the film.

His directness and simplicity can be appealing with the right material, but there’s a very fine line between simple and simplistic and for me he tends to cross it.

I’ll shut up about Invictus now until I see it for myself.

By: Pierre de Plume

Pierre de Plume — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:42:36 +0000

Sounds like Invictus is a dramatic piece of furniture — the kind that many AMPAS members like to acknolwedge by placing their statues on the mantel.

By: Matthew Lucas

Matthew Lucas — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:46:45 +0000

Did I say that actually meant it was a masterpiece? No.

By: sartre

sartre — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:43:20 +0000

An odd list, it contains lots of choices that vibe with my own taste but others I was indifferent to or disliked. I wonder too whether it is advisable to include films in a best of a decade list that were seen for the first time this year or even in the past few weeks – the recency effect can distort relative judgment. Maybe giving oneself a little more distance from the decade will offer a more personally enduring appraisal of what it had to offer.

By: joel

joel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:01:26 +0000

True, although there’s some movies in his list that come with extremely mixed responses from critics far and wide. Mr Kenny, whom I respect greatly, appears to be stirring the pot with his list. I don’t think we can conclude that its inclusion here is necessarily indicative of a home run from Eastwood.

I shall wait to serve you your crow.

By: Matthew Lucas

Matthew Lucas — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:08:50 +0000

Glenn Kenny just included it in his top films of the decade list. no joke.

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2009/11/the-seventy-greatest-films-of-the-decade.html