Yesterday, I watched two good movies via "award screener" DVDs.
The first was Steven Spielberg's Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis in the title role. The movie focuses on the final months of President Abraham Lincoln's life and the end of the Civil War.
The movie was well done and Lewis was probably the best movie Lincoln ever and Sally Field was great as Mary Todd Lincoln.
I am disappointed at how the assassination at Ford's Theater was glossed over. Every Lincoln movie I've seen (dating back to D. W. Griffith's 1930 Abraham Lincoln) re-enacted the assassination. This movie didn't. They did depict Lincoln's moment of death in the rooming house across the street from Ford's. The room was bigger than the actual one (I should know, I've been in it.)
Other than those quibbles, it was a fine movie. If one is not into political history, they may find the movie long and boring. There is one other actor who is in the movie who once also played Lincoln.
My grade: A.
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Washington plays an heroic airline pilot but his alcoholism causes him trouble when federal investigators look into the circumstances surrounding the crash of the plane he was piloting.
Flight is a riveting movie and Washington's portrayal of an heroic, but flawed pilot was excellent. Nadine Velazquez provides some eye-candy early on in the movie.
My grade: A+.
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