re: #74 Feline Fearless Leader

OK. Thinking of going to see a movie tonight. Looked at the local theater and the likely candidates are “Gravity”, “12 Years a Slave”, or “Thor: The Dark World”. Any recommendations from the Lizards?

I don’t feel any particular need for mind candy at this point, so more serious films are acceptable.

Saw 12 Years a Slave this weekend. An excellent but in places harrowing movie. The performances are top-notch, once you get past Adepero Oduye’s Eliza. If Chiwetel Ejiofor doesn’t get an Oscar nomination for the lead role I’ll be surprised.

By the way, Richard Cohen has weighed in on this movie. Here’s what he said (my bold):

I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life. For instance, it was not George A. Custer who was attacked at the Little Bighorn. It was Custer — in a bad career move — who attacked the Indians. Much more important, slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned innocent and grateful blacks. Slavery was a lifetime’s condemnation to an often violent hell in which people were deprived of life, liberty and, too often, their own children. Happiness could not be pursued after that.

I’d comment on that but I’m suppressing my gag reflex.