30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 10

One third of the way there!

Day 10 - Your favorite director
Uh...I don't generally notice direction. I mean, I notice it if it's bad, or particularly flashy, but even after all these years of watching movies and even after a few courses in schoool, I'm still really shaky on this "direction" stuff. I know directors whose movies I've generally liked--Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan--and one or two that I haven't (fuck you, Kubrick, and Lucas? You are a dead man). But I honestly don't have a favorite.

Bummer, I don't have an answer for this one.

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::sigh:: January, what can you do?

My movie-a-week resolution was going along swimmingly until this weekend. There is literally not a single movie I want to see. I scoured the smaller-venue listings when the major studio releases all appeared to be made of fail. I had held out hope that the mindless Jason Statham movie The Mechanic would be serviceable, but all the reviews say not. I wasn't so interested in it that I'll bother if reviews are that poor.

The problem is not that the indies look dumb; it's that they look depressing or, worse, boring. A fictional film about child soldiers in Africa? Interesting, but I'll probably be reduced to suicide by the end of it. Or they look boring, if appropriately liberal-guilt-easing, like movies about a Woman Doing It On Her Own In A World (in this case, country) That Will Not Tolerate It.

Not a great start to a year's resolution to be thwarted so early on. I have, easily, a movie-a-week I can see from March until July, but I've got to figure out how to survive fucking January and February first. February is, at least, short, and there are several movies that are actively of interest. Despite knowing that it will probably suck (the director himself is saying things aren't exactly Shakespearean in his film), and despite knowing where it came from, I still want to see I Am Number Four. Liam Neeson kicking ass, taking names in Unknown is enough to make up for January Jones being in it. (January! My nemesis!) And even though Season of the Witch made absolutely no goddamned sense and wasn't bad enough to make it fun, I'm still totally on board for Nicholas Cage in Drive Angry. Hopefully, not in 3-D.

But this will be the first weekend I have no movie to see. Help me, Oscar Showcase. You're my only hope.