The entire core storyline, which deals with Grace and Jessie's difficulties in being forced together at school and in their lives, was simple, basic stuff, but the emotions and complications they wrought out of it were superb. But soon enough I was reminded of how great this show truly was. My guess is that they wanted to have all three older kids in the same school, but didn't want to really get into any "the perils of skipping a grade" stories, so tried to have their cake an eat it too-and for the most part, they succeeded.Īt first, I was a bit worried-the story seemed pretty dry and uneventful, lots of stuff about Jessie being scared at starting a new school, and some light comedy with Rick and Lily getting caught in the morning by her kids having fallen asleep on the couch. It had been established in the first season that Jessie was in seventh grade, so it would seem that she had skipped a grade, a fact they allude to but never really address or confirm explicitly. Eli is a senior, Grace a sophomore, and Jessie a freshman. The episode actually picks up a few months later, with a new school year beginning. I could have sworn that the second season picked up right at that moment, but my memory is, it would seem, faulty. #Dead presidents danny elfman complete fullThe first season left off with the full two families - Rick, Lily and all four kids - getting together for the first time, with the last shot of that last episode a shot of Lily and her kids opening the door for Rick and his kids. The second-season premiere was not what I remembered. As I go through the second season, I thought I'd try and post about episodes as I see them, rather than go the full-season-in-one-long-post approach again. My lengthy, perhaps too-lengthy-post on that first season is here. I've finally started to watch the second-season DVDs of Once & Again, after a too-long break in between my re-watching of the first season last summer. (The Visual Effects nominees are Narnia, King Kong, and War of the Worlds). No Visual Effects? Really? I smell an anti-Lucas backlash. I'll have to defer judgment until I've heard some of these, but I suspect Williams' Star Wars score got unfairly dismissed out of hand as "just more Star Wars stuff." It's a fine, fine, score. How many nominations does he have? A hundred? I haven't heard any of the scores, but am keen to get the two Williams scores, the Brokeback Mountain score, and possibly the Pride & Prejudice score. John Williams gets two Best Score nominations, for Munich and Memoirs of a Geisha. King Kong got shut out of the biggies, but it did get Art Direction, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, and Visual Effects nominations.Īn out-of-nowhere Cinematography nomination for Batman Begins. The non-Pixar crop of animated films ( Madagascar, Chicken Little, et al) ain't getting much respect. Only three animated films nominated, and two are stop-motion (Corpse Bride and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit). An outgrowth of the whole "auteur" theory, methinks. (I've always thought such complaints silly-as if the quality of a film rests that much on its director. #Dead presidents danny elfman complete movieNo complaining from various outlets about how silly it is for a movie to be nominated for Best Picture and not Best Director this time around. He was very good, though, although some of the lesser names in the film were probably even better-thinking of the shopowner here, particularly.įor the first time in, I think, a few years, the Best Picture and Best Director nominations line up perfectly. Matt Dillon's nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Crash was, to me at least, a surprise. She was excellent, but is very young, too young, I would have guessed, for the voters. Very glad to see Keira Knightley nominated for Best Actress for Pride & Prejudice. Glad to see Crash nominated for best picture-the only of the five nominees I've seen. So here are some brief, very random and uneducated thoughts: Nominations are out, and I have probably seen fewer nominated films than in any other year.
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