Bad CGI, Home of the Brave, & Oleanna

I forgot to mention something about the problem with the Harry Potter movies: the terrible CGI. I can't tell whether it's intentionally obviously bad or whether they just suck at it. Considering how good the CGI was in The Two Towers, you'd think they could do better.

Home of the Brave was depressing as hell. Still so many damn racists out there. And the FBI was embarrassingly racist. Man, if it weren't for RFK, JFK, and LBJ, there'd still be cases popping up of FBI agents involved in killing various people who don't actively hate black people. Jesus. What a terrible person J. Edgar was. Too bad he's responsible for Watergate breaking.

Oleanna has a terrible performance from Debra Eisenstadt. Way too Mamet. I think that it would have been better with Rebecca Pidgeon. She'd at least have been distracting for her being married to Mamet as opposed to being distracting for being terrible. Macy, on the other hand, was great. In a two person play, though, when one is terrible and the other is great, you end up with a mediocre at best movie. Plus, Mamet really is just playing with words the entire movie. Possibly the worst screenplay he's directed himself. Considering I really like almost everything he's done, even some of his script doctoring (especially Ronin, my personal favorite car chase movie, and the best MacGuffin in a non-Hitchcock film), that isn't saying as much as just my utter disappointment in its blandness. Not that the movie doesn't have it's good parts, but I really couldn't stand anything about Carol. I think Mamet was just messing with his wife.