H to the U to the M to the P to the D to the A to the Y!

(it's a silly spelling phase - I'll move past it soon)

I'm going to go watch Avatar 3D tonight - I hope i enjoy it for all the hype around it. I do suspect, for all teh hype around it I'll probably leave teh cinema and go "so is that all?" ... it usually goes that way with the overhyped films... (cough cough Watchmen ah hem cough)

If I think back the movies taht really made me come out of the theatre speechless - or babbling like a crazy preson who has had her brain switched around... were more movies that didnt get a who lot of commercial hype. It may be the anti-be-like-everyone-else streak in me that makes me disdain popular movies but some indie flicks, some foreign language flicks and some bloody stupid low budget flicks are really great.

For example:

Departures - Foreign Language Oscar winner - Fascinating movie about Japanese burial traditions.
Sunshine Cleaning - Movie about sisters with a happy ending

There are exceptions:
Genua - sad movie about sisters with no real conclusion except for wondering if the little sister deserves to die.

I'm no movie critic so three examples is poor but my memory runs dry - I go to movies once a week so I should have more... but I don't .. too bad for me and my opinions... shows how much my R45 spent really changed my life.