My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
02.03.06	Netflix	This was recomended to me as a companion to Match Point. I guess I should state that I find Allen's movies watchable but am not a huge fan, and I also find myself unable to divorce his work from the stuff I've heard about his personal life, no matter how hard I try. Other than that, I think it's interesting that people are calling Match Point his best movie since this one... I am surprised at how amazingly similar the dramatic half of this movie is to Match Point. All through this I thought about other directors who make so many movies that they seemingly run out of stories, or like Stephen King's second haunted-car book and his admission of its similarity to Christine. I guess some people like Hitchcock managed to make whole careers out of telling the same basic story over and over again, but I'm now thinking even more that Match Point is so lauded more because it's not crappy than because it's actually good. That's just me though... I am not a Woody Allen expert.