The WOW Factor

[sandman]

well, as far as your bud who shelled out a day's wages for the ticket, glad someone was ecstatic. still, i will wait for your report. i've heard the typical stuff we history curmudgeons curmudge: lincoln overdone, lincoln underdone, mary WAY too sane and sensible, modern words in the script, clothing, etc......one friend said that it is just a bore.

one of my favorite recent history movies of note is The Assassination of Jesse James, by the Sneaking Sniveling Little Cowardly Rat and Hunchback, Robert Ford. To me, it don't get much closer to the period than that. even the script, especially the script, is so well paced and languid and ever-so-nineteenth-century that it felt strange coming out of the theater to hear people talking about "yeah, you know, like it was a, you know, a weird movie and all, you know?"

guess what we really want is not an accurate movie, so much as a time machine to take us back then, then bring us back here later (or maybe just leave us back there)

thanks, laurie...as jesse would have said, "you're a peach."