From there, I headed out to meet Tony for breakfast, a few errands, some box shuffling, and then we went to see Kate Bigelow's new movie, the controversial Zero Dark Thirty, starring the immensely talented Jessica Chastain. Now, I will tell you, I think there is a great movie in the hunt for UBL, but, unfortunately, this wasn't it. There were two problems - first, there was a lack of narrative structure - the movie felt like a series of vignettes strung together. Then, second, it would have benefited from a far more aggressive hand on the editing machine - it simply ran on too long in many scenes.
I think that is a risk that happens with directors and authors when they become very successful. They get the ability to successfully resist or disregard the advise of their editors - and we, as the reading or watching public, suffer. All of that said, I did enjoy the movie, it was good - it just wasn't great. (I was a huge fan of The Hurt Locker.)
From there, I came home, took a hot soaking bath, and then a short nap and now I've settled in to watch the Golden Globes. Which I can do while multitasking.
I did watch a surprisingly good little piece of film last night - the SyFy Channel's mini-series "Riverworld". I'd watched it when it originally aired, but I was not terribly impressed at the time. Last night I watched it on DVD and I basically watched all three hours continuously. It was pretty good in that format and I would recommend it as a nice, user friendly, bit of Science Fiction - though of course, the classic novel is a source of constant amazement,
