Frog In North Georgia » james cagney http://froginnorthgeorgia.com/frogwp You always have choices in life, even if they all suck. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:56:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Brothers Movie http://froginnorthgeorgia.com/frogwp/2009/12/brothers-movie/ http://froginnorthgeorgia.com/frogwp/2009/12/brothers-movie/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:23:31 +0000 Christine Eclavea Mercer http://froginnorthgeorgia.com/frogwp/?p=1502 This mornings email included a link to the trailer for the movie Brothers. I immediately thought three things:

  • Jake Gyllenhaal could make his career on the Middle East. I could come to think of him anytime I think of war movies about Iraq or Afghanistan. In the same way I think of James Cagney as the Chicago gangster.
  • Tobey Maguire looks like the real deal.
  • Maybe I’ll finally see Natalie Portman in another great film. I can’t think of anything great she’s done since The Professional. Star Wars may have been a hit. But I hardly think it highlighted acting talent.

    • Now that I’ve seen the trailer I think somebody did a great job writing the script for those kids. My five year old and her friends sound just like those little girls.

    Apparently, I am going to have to go and see the movie, which according to the Newsdesk section at IMDB is not a war movie. Well, maybe not technically. But to me a post-war family drama is still a war movie. People are still dealing with what happened during a war. The story could not unfold without those precipitating events.

    I think The War at Home is also a war movie. Though all of it takes place in the United States, after the war.

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