The Fighter
Dec. 26th, 2010 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatMissed out on the Doctor Who Xmas Special - because Parents really not into Doctor Who and want to watch their Irish Soap Opera - Ballykissangel instead. Which was okay, since it's Dvr'd at home and BBC America likes to rebroadcast Doctor Who about five or six times anyhow.
Saw the Fighter today with Momster. Was an excellent film. More a character study of Dickie Ecklund, a crack-addicted fighter aiding his brother to become a welter-weight than a fighter tale a la Rocky. Christian Bale in the role of Ecklund, blew us away. He's almost unrecognizable. We decided not to see True Grit - in part because Popster wants to see it and opted for football instead, and Momster knows the story too well, having read both the book and seen the original flick more than once. Melissa Leo is also amazing in the Fighter, as is Amy Adams. But I'm thinking this is Bale's year for an Oscar. He's going to be hard to beat.
[We went to it for Bale, Leo and Walhburg (who Momster likes quite a bit)].
Do I recommend? Depends - it's a good character sketch of a movie, realistic, and I've met these people or rather people like them. And it does end well. But it does have a lot of fight sequences...because you know it's a movie about boxers. A woman brought her three young boys (7-10, if that) to the flick - which amazed me. It's R-rated with adult content, is she nuts?
It's not like there weren't at least three kids movies showing at the theater.
Saw the Fighter today with Momster. Was an excellent film. More a character study of Dickie Ecklund, a crack-addicted fighter aiding his brother to become a welter-weight than a fighter tale a la Rocky. Christian Bale in the role of Ecklund, blew us away. He's almost unrecognizable. We decided not to see True Grit - in part because Popster wants to see it and opted for football instead, and Momster knows the story too well, having read both the book and seen the original flick more than once. Melissa Leo is also amazing in the Fighter, as is Amy Adams. But I'm thinking this is Bale's year for an Oscar. He's going to be hard to beat.
[We went to it for Bale, Leo and Walhburg (who Momster likes quite a bit)].
Do I recommend? Depends - it's a good character sketch of a movie, realistic, and I've met these people or rather people like them. And it does end well. But it does have a lot of fight sequences...because you know it's a movie about boxers. A woman brought her three young boys (7-10, if that) to the flick - which amazed me. It's R-rated with adult content, is she nuts?
It's not like there weren't at least three kids movies showing at the theater.
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Date: 2010-12-29 04:27 am (UTC)We saw The Black Swan today instead. Absolutely amazing film. Possibly the best thing I've seen this year to date.
Still haunts me. Thinking of seeing King's Speech tomorrow.