Academy Award Movie Day

Since I submitted my first draft of my project in on Monday - and ALL of my frickin other assignments are done (i just have to close up shop in my internship) - I had a free day yesterday to finally watch the netflix dvds I've had for weeks!

Finding Neverland - this was a hella good. fun. touching. inspiring. Jamie did a really good job of turning into Ray Charles so I'm glad he won, but Johnny Depp's gotta get his due sometime.

James Barrie: regarding a play, "much of it has to be imagined."
Michael (I think it was him): "As it should."

Hotel Rwanda: I struggled at the beginning to sift through the political framework (and the creator's own politics) but after I stopped worrying about that and settled into the tragic story - I felt.. well.. tragic. I was kinda disgruntled at the end after I sat there for a second, let it soak in, and thought about the fuckin things we, as humans - the so-called intelligent beings, do to ourselves.

Sideways: Paul Giamatti's got that loveable loser role down pat! I gotta say, that though this movie was good and fun, after watching Finding Neverland, this movie just didn't punch as hard. I actually thought that a lot of it, especially the interaction between Miles and Jack reminded me of older counterparts to Mike and Trent in Swingers. I love Swingers.

So yeah, good day. I was tempted to run off to the theatre to catch Crash or Hitchiker's.. but I'll do that later since I'll have so much more freetime next week. =D