Monday, February 23, 2009
BOYLEING OVER
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Danny Boyle's
with Ewan MacGregor, Robert Carlyle and Jon Lee Miller
This is a tight, nasty little bit of cinema which never lets up and holds you down to take some more. It is all in very bad taste. At the end I was not disappointed.
MacGregor and Boyle's first big film. It made both their reputations as well as Carlyle's.
I am one of the few people on earth who had not seen it. I was afraid of it. Druggies.
But I can tell you that they have it exactly right including the fun part. Of course, eventually there is no fun but that is the point.
It is highly appropriate that I should see this by random chance on the day after Boyle wins the Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire. When I see that one I will have been at four of his films. All great!
I will definitely see this film again in the Danny Boyle Film Festival. My own private one, natch.
I will give this a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
