Don't you love when you have incredibly high expectations for a film and when you finally see it, it meets them all?

16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is on a clear path to Oxford University in pre-Beatles London when she meets the much older and more worldly David (Peter Sarsgaard) who introduces her to an intoxicating new life of art, music and sex. David seduces not only Jenny, but her protective parents as well, much to the dismay of the teachers at Jenny's school who perceive Jenny's enlightenment as wasted potential. 3/4 (out of five) (Minus 1/4 for one act of inexplicable carelessness by the otherwise always clever and prepared David.)

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sextonseven said:

Although that hasn't happened to me in a while. Probably because I've stopped watching movies.

heartbeatocean said:

YOU stopped watching movies? Why is that?

Now that baseball season is over, I plan on seeing A LOT of films. Right up until the awards next year.

sextonseven said:

Well, not completely. But I look at my 2009 movie list and I have only seen 15 movies ALL YEAR!!!! How will I ever make a top ten list out of that?

Part of it is that I work for a theatre company now, and I've been seeing plays instead. And suddenly this year, I get that "lonely complex" creeping in, so I don't go to so many movies alone anymore. Weird. I miss the discipline of it.

I heard about this on CBC radio recently...definitely interested in seeing it.

I love Peter Sarsgaard. I find him very hot

heartbeatocean said:

Get back in the habit of going to see movies alone! That's how I see most new films now.

I don't think I've seen that many 2009 films either:

Antichrist
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Coraline
Departures
Easy Virtue
An Education
(500) Days Of Summer
The Girlfriend Experience
The Girl From Monaco
Gomorrah
He's Just Not That Into You
The Hurt Locker
The Lemon Tree
Moon
Revanche
Rudo Y Cursi
Séraphine
Summer Hours
Taken
Thirst
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Watchmen
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

More than I thought.

sextonseven said:

The Hurt Locker was good. Rudo y Cursi was ok.

And I loved how Rosamund Pike's character Helen was a clone of Dusty Springfield.





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heartbeatocean said:

Might be the best movie I've seen this year.

sextonseven said:

I agree, although I don't have much to compare it to. LOL But I have a feeling it would end up in the top 5 even if I'd seen all the movies that came out!

garganta said:

was he the pet adoption guy in Year of the Dog?

ZombieKitten said:

well, i just looked that up and yes, he´s in that movie. it´s the first time i hear about it, though

garganta said:

I never saw him in anything else I think (I didn't know his name)

I saw Where the Wild Things Are last night

heartbeatocean said:

That's so weird because I just decided to see that movie tonight at the art house theater near my apartment. I didn't even realize that was an art film. I guess because Spike Jonze directed it. We'll compare notes tomorrow.

sextonseven said:

this will be interesting

sextonseven said:

sure, it's an art film

heartbeatocean said:

I feared for little Max the entire time he was on wild things island. Those creatures were huge. I loved the opening credits. It was all filmed very well. I'd give it 1/2

Ooh this looks like something I'd love.

minneapolisgenius said:

A schoolgirl gives it up to a suave older man in 1960s London. You know you'll love it.

sextonseven said:

No. Way.

minneapolisgenius said:

That's a much more succinct synopsis than what I wrote in the first post.

Does something happen in this movie?

ZombieKitten said:

This movie is recommended to everyone EXCEPT CHARLOTTE.

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sextonseven said:

Is that out of 4 stars?

What were the opening credits again? I think I was a lot like Max as a kid, it brought up feelings I had long forgotten. His acting was very good. It expressed the world and psyche of a child, and had real integrity in that sense.

heartbeatocean said:

Out of five stars. I liked it, but not that much.

The opening was Max just bouncing around the house with lots of energy and then the screen freezes with his face very close to the camera with the title Where The Wild Things Are in the movie's scratch writing next to him. Excellent!

sextonseven said:

I remember being invigorated during the credits, but I can't remember anything specific.