I don't chime in a lot to this thread, as I'm usually about a year behind the theatrical/DVD releases because of time constraints and such, but I wanted to chime in on a few movies I've caught recently that didn't get a lot of play in this thread: 16 Blocks This movie seems to have flown under everybody's radar, and I enjoyed it. Not much of a plot or at least not a well-developed one, but in a chase-type movie, that's generally unnecessary. Probably worth a look if you've missed it like a lot of people have. United 93 This movie was so amazingly done, it's a real shame it wasn't further recognized last year. The use of no major actors was quite effective, as the viewer sees the people involved as just ordinary people, instead of ie Nicholas Cage playing a police man in the other movie about the events. In fact, many of the airline people in the film were actually airline people in real life, not actors. The film was a bit choppy and frantic, but I think that was intentional by the production team to try and convey the chaos and franticness of the events and what was happening behind the scenes. A thoroughly emotional film, and I found myself on the edge of my seat rooting for the passengers as they made their frantic dash for the cockpit and almost desperately hoping they'd make it and save the plane, despite knowing full well what the outcome was going to be. Kind of eerie for me, as I was about 20-30 miles away from the 93 crash site like 10 days after the tragedy. And also saw Capote this week. I found myself enjoying this movie quite a bit for the first hour or so and thought it was quite interesting. But after the inmates moved to death row, it took a very dark turn and really turned into a chilling movie. I thought the last 45 minutes or so dragged on and on, and at one point it really felt like you wanted to just smack Truman upside the head because of the way he was behaving. After seeing the film, I'm very understanding of why Hoffman won the Oscar, as his performance was fantastic, but the film really left something to be desired in the 2nd half.