Army of Shadows

A 1969 French movie about the Resistance in World War II, only released in the U.S. in the last few years. The movie is slow-paced but gorgeously shot. And it takes an honest, if grim, view of the many hard-choices required by the leadership. The lead character is a former civil engineer who becomes one of the chief leaders of the Resistance movement...

But here is the deal. This is an excellent movie. Well made, brilliant cinematography, strong acting, excellent story. And it does nothing for me. I can tell its good, but otherwise I might as well be doing laundry. Which in fact I wandered off to do a couple times in the movie. What it reminds me of is The Shield. Not that the television show and this movie are really at all alike. But they're both things I can tell are great in pretty much every way, yet manage to hold no appeal to me. This isn't where other people see something great and I'm left baffled as to what they're getting out of it. This is where I can TELL what makes it good and yet it doesn't catch a hold of me at all. Still, despite that, I'd recommend it for others, who likely WILL catch a spark from it...

Piggy Flue

From the f-list:

Lest you dismiss this because you're vigorous and healthy, like the Spanish Flu, it's primarily young and healthy people who have been killed by swine flu.

Hah! I'm old and fat. IMMUNE! IMMUNE!

Pixar Short Films

While this collection has that one with the cute desk lambs and "Jack-Jack Attack" and a cool one about dueling one-man bands it also has one featuring both the ugliest and scariest looking baby ever. Really seriously creepy baby. Also some adequate shorts for Monsters, Inc and Cars...

Worth the hour to watch, but since the best ones are ON various Pixar dvds as extras already, that is about it...