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People often ask, “How do you choose the movies you show?” Well, in this case, a conversation at the dog run brought Moon<\/em> to our attention. The description was intriguing, and my fellow dog walker was someone whose opinion I felt compelled to trust. How random is that? Still… what if we hadn’t had that conversation? Not many of our friends had even heard of Moon<\/em>. It was the latest in a string of “moderns” to grace our screen, and a superb bit of film making, all the more impressive for being a debut. Sure… there will be those who belittle Duncan Jones’ success with Moon<\/em> since he could surely take no wrong step under daddy David’s supervision (and people assume that that supervision existed, somehow), but they’d be missing the point: a good movie is a good movie is a good movie.<\/p>\n Hell, we’re even happy to cut the unbearably confident Canadian James Cameron some slack… whatever we thought of him before, Avatar<\/em> is undeniably two-and-a-half hours of wonderful entertainment… even if we’ve seen the story lines played out before. I can’t remember feeling so exhilarated at the close-up of an opening eye. Oops. Did I spoil something for you?<\/p>\n Next time, something old. After that we’re going 7.1 surround sound, so I guess we’ll choose something to show that off. Is that OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People often ask, “How do you choose the movies you show?” Well, in this case, a conversation at the dog run brought Moon to our attention. The description was intriguing, and my fellow dog walker was someone whose opinion I felt compelled to trust. How random is that? Still… what if we hadn’t had that … Continue reading Moon. Swoon.<\/span>