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Originally Posted by koosie
Do you know I've consistantly failed to mention what the last movie I watched was. Well it was Persopolis, the English dub version and I liked it a lot. Perhaps not the sort of animated feature that'd get many people round here that excited I'd guess.
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I saw it about a year or so ago. Good film.
And the last movie I watched was...
Best In Show
This is the second Christopher Guest mockumentary I’ve watched this week. Again, the structure and cast are essentially the same as in
Waiting For Guffman and
A Mighty Wind – once more, Eugene Levy plays a socially awkward nerd, and Fred Willard a crass, loud idiot who seems to be entirely in love with his own crass, loud idiocy - but it’s a solid formula which produces some highly entertaining and slickly observed results, and this is certainly no exception. Here, Guest takes a dip into the world of canine fanatics and pedigree showing, focussing upon five different entrants into a prestigious dog show – a two-time champion Standard Poodle, a troubled Weimaraner, a friendly Norwich Terrier, a pampered Shih Tzu and a rookie Bloodhound – and the colourful assortment of eccentric owners who’ve brought them this far in the hopes of seeing their beloved pooch be named Best in Show.
I did feel sorry for Beatrice the Weimaraner, whose owners, a high-strung, constantly-bickering married couple, were easily the least likeable of the bunch (their outcome in the competition wasn’t exactly unforeseen), but for the most part this was an utter delight, and I’d recommend it very strongly to anybody who enjoys mockumentaries, unconventional comedies, or just movies with a lot of cute doggies in them.