January 26, 200917 yr Active Members Revolutionary Road was ripped off on Academy Award Nominations. Terrific performances by Kate Winslet & Leonard DiCaprio. It was an awesome study of the descent into madness. I won't say any more about that because I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it. Also a great period piece of 1950's suburban America and the male dominated corporate working environment like seen on Mad Men. I also saw The Wrestler & Slumdog Millionaire and enjoyed both movies, but think they may have suffered slightly from over hype.
January 26, 200917 yr The big awards have always valued smaltz over substance. I decided I'd had enough of the Oscars when the feel good movie crash beat brokeback. Maybe it was just sour grapes for me, but I found Crash really really shallow. Thanks for the vote for revolutionary road, I'll try to go see it.
January 27, 200917 yr Author Active Members Let me know whether you like it. Revolutionary road is definitely a substantial movie, but I wouldn't place The Wrestler or Slumdog Millionaire in the schmaltz category.
January 27, 200917 yr There's smaltz and then there's smaltz. I greatly enjoyed slumdog millionaire, but at it's core it's just a smaltzy love story. Haven't seen wrestler, sounds like it's good, but not really that interesting to me. Not having seen it, I won't critique its smaltziness :-)
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