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I'm just waiting for Virtual Celebrity Sex on my holodeck. Me, Michelle Pfeiffer, Melissa Theuriau, Cate Blanchett, and Karen Allen circa Raider's are gonna have a party.

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I didn't have a problem with the ending. It was a bit magical. She was in the fairytale house and the witch came to get her. Although Hanna was bad ass, she was completely freaked out psychologically by confronting the witch, so not functioning well. I thought it was a pretty good ending actually. Cate played evil really well in this one.

>> ^blankfist:

I saw Hanna a while back. It's really well done. And the tone is exceptionally great for this kind of story. It's really good. Or at least the first two acts are really good. By the 3rd act I felt like the stakes were lowered too much. In the very last big scene I never felt the main character was threatened.
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@dag, how'd you feel about the ending? Up to that point we've seen what Hanna is capable of: fighting troves of baddies with guns and kicking ass all the way. I mean, she's the perfect assassin, right? Then by the end it's just her versus Cate Blanchett's character. Sure, Cate is armed with a gun, but she's so out matched it's a deflation from the action-packed ride we were just on.

I saw Hanna a while back. It's really well done. And the tone is exceptionally great for this kind of story. It's really good. Or at least the first two acts are really good. By the 3rd act I felt like the stakes were lowered too much. In the very last big scene I never felt the main character was threatened.

SPOILER ALERT
Do NOT read further if you don't want the ending ruined.

@dag, how'd you feel about the ending? Up to that point we've seen what Hanna is capable of: fighting troves of baddies with guns and kicking ass all the way. I mean, she's the perfect assassin, right? Then by the end it's just her versus Cate Blanchett's character. Sure, Cate is armed with a gun, but she's so out matched it's a deflation from the action-packed ride we were just on.

I loved the bit about Cate Blanchett, around 8 minutes. The rest was a bit too mawkishly patriotic, like a child nagging its parent for compliments about a drawing it did.

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Amazing they got Cate Blanchett to take her gear off for this.

I bet it is nothing but big hollywood roles for her from now on!

I absolutely do Abel, I'm quite sick of every single model and all the 'hottest' actress' looking pretty much the same anymore. It's why I personally think some of the most beautiful famous women don't meet those standards. Women like Laura Prepon, Kristen Kreuk, Kirsten Dunst, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett (who was the biggest reason to watch Benjamin Button lol. She was stunningly beautiful in that movie.) Not to mention some of the extraordinarily beautiful asian actresses around the world, like Ziyi Zhang.

None of these women meet that exact 'super hotty' look of long, lanky, skinny with the same thin little face and sparkling eyes. But to me they are some of the most beautiful women in hollywood.

Don't get me wrong, Megan Fox is gorgeous and wonderful to look at, but she is simply more of the same exact look that every white early 20's model looks like these days. That same air-brushed look.

Don't be a douche..."I think she is lovely" gimme a break.

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I think she's lovely- the plainer she looks the more attractive I find her. I feel the same way about Cate Blanchett.

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I think she's lovely- the plainer she looks the more attractive I find her. I feel the same way about Cate Blanchett.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
No one wants to defend the Oscar noms?

Hmmm, well since no one else will do it, I guess I'll have to.

-Babel

While this was almost certainly Alejandro González Iñárritu's weakest film, considering the fact that I find Amores Perros and 21 Grams to be near-masterpieces (Amores Perros in particular), that was pretty much a forgone conclusion. The stories don't tie together quite as nicely as you'd hope, and it felt a tad long long, but it was really well made and superbly acted.

-Crash

Yes, it's heavy-handed; there's no denying that subtlety isn't a word in this film's vocabulary. But there were some surprisingly powerful moments, and it featured (mostly) very good performances.

-The Aviator

This was definitely one of Scorsese's weaker films, but there were a lot of things I liked about it. I liked the visual style, and how it tried to mimic the look of movies of the various eras. Cate Blanchett was really good. Ummm... well look, it wasn't a great film, but it certainly wasn't so bad as to be a waste of celluloid.

-A Beautiful Mind

Again, not great, but not awful, either. It was a competently made, entertaining Hollywood film. No more, no less.

-Titanic

I'm going to admit that I really liked this one. Though this isn't exactly the kind of thing James Cameron became famous for, I still think he's at his best here. This film manages to be a very good romance, and a good disaster movie, without one element ever eclipsing the other. Yes, it is schmaltzy, but I think an unabashed romance like this is allowed to have a bit of schmaltz. I still remember seeing this opening weekend, when the only buzz around it was "how hard is this film going to FLOP??" and walking out completely stunned. I know it isn't "cool" to like this film because of the way it was embraced by teenage girls, but you know what? I don't care. I think it's great, old-fashioned movie-making. Also: if you can remain dry-eyed during the sequence in which the string quartet plays while various passengers make their final preparations, then you sir are made of stone.

-The English Patient

I can't defend this one too vigourously, as I thought it was horribly overrated, but I will admit that it wasn't terrible. I honestly don't remember much about it... Ralph Fiennes was very good, though, as he always is (and go see In Bruges if you want to see a very different, and very hilarious, performance from him).

Cate Blanchett.