Milk
Sean Penn proves his undeniably amazing versatility as an actor once again. The story itself is both entertaining and intriguing, but suffers from didactic moments perhaps aiming to influence people who unfortunately will never see this otherwise fine movie. Movie does an admirable job of showing Milk as both a likeable, determined, courageous idealist yet also someone who’s political savvy could sometimes devolve into realpolitik. Hopefully Penn, unfortunately ignored last year as director of the remarkable Into the Wild, will get love this year as an actor from the Hollywood trophy contingency.
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I don’t know. I’m from the O.C. and found the whole thing a bit sillysaurus. I’ve always found Sean Penn a bit grody so seeing him mac on a dude like seven or eight times in one movie was a bit, well, grody. James Franco is a bleeping babe though and that underwater butt shot gave me wet ones for a week. Too bad James couldn’t just mac on himself instead of grody Penn. That Into the Wild guy looked like a dork in those glasses but I guess he looked like a dork in real life too so I won’t fault the director for keeping it real. That’s how we roll in the O.C. anyway.