Sunday, February 11, 2007

On Royalty and Protocol...



OK, the movie poster may make it look like a bland film, but Chryslyn and I discovered the contrary on Saturday evening. This movie is rated 98% on rottentomatoes.com, and has a bunch of Oscar nominations. It's a fascinating film about the response of the royal family in the days following the death of Diana. Very interesting.

Other great movies we've seen lately... Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed, Apocalypto (and met one of the stars who lives in Lethbridge and happened to be in the theatre), Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men.

Bad movies we've seen lately.... Well, really, only one has been REALLY bad... Borat. Why the heck is this such a big hit? It was terrible. Seriously... Don't see it...

4 comments:

Chryslyn said...

Do you really have to be sooo hard on Borat??? Haha actually there could be stronger ways to correctly describe that movie. Yikes, good thing that was at the mill.
the Queen was excellent though. I like how I still have to sorta think about it the next day.

grandma said...

O.K. we won't see Borat. Went and saw Departed last night with Veronica and the Grants. It was O.K. but people don't talk like that in real life .Despite the violence your Mom managed to fall asleep in one part. I ate a $4 bucket of popcorn. Glad the bad guy got his at the last.Dad

Stephen and Amber said...

Hey Tavis,
Stephen and I saw the Queen and thought Helen was amazing. She deserves every award between that an Elizabeth the 1. We would definetly recommend that mini series as well and I honestly think it is better then the Queen.

Love the climbing pictures...we'll have to go with you guys when we are back the next time.

Mel T said...

someone else uses rotten tomatoes?! I'm so excited! You have no idea how much mocking I endure for movie-choosing based on rotten tomatoes!

Helen Mirren is my hero. What an awesome film!