This is the time of year when the movie studios start putting out the movies they think are good enough to compete for the major movie awards. When I went to Burn After Reading a few weeks ago (good, but not great, by the way) all of the trailers were obviously award movies. One of them has already opened, Flash of Genius, and I haven't seen it, but Greg Kinnear makes his case for a Best Actor nomination for playing the cheated inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper. I'm sure competing with Mr. Kinnear are the leads from one of the other movies I have seen trailers for recently, The Soloist. This movie is a double threat with Jamie Foxx playing a homeless guy with mental problems who also happens to be a fantastic violin player, and Robert Downey Jr. as the journalist who befriends him while dealing with his own demons. I also remember a trailer for some movie about a priest who gets caught molestering a kid. It looked like complete crap, but I'm sure Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep turn in fine performances.
Anyway, I remember thinking, "what the heck is this, where are all the fun movies?" And then I realized that the summer movie season was officially over, and it was time to turn our attentions away from Hollywood glitz and focus in on Hollywood art. But judging from the movies that the studios are advertising already, I just can't get into it. Hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised by something coming out that I don't even know about yet, but if windshield wipers and homeless musicians is the best we have to look forward to, its going to be a long winter.
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