David Thomas

I gotta tell you, I only went to see this movie because it started at 10:30 am. I knew literally nothing about the film except for the title. Two things, as I sat there... One, I didn't know who the director was, but surmised it was the same as Jackie, mainly because of the score. That haunting, I assume, cello is unmistakable. At the beginning it's excruciatingly deliberate, it's tolerable, then understandable... Two, I actually said to myself, a person who's family thinks he knows every actor that ever appeared on screen, 'I'm glad they didn't pick a famous person to play her.' I thought it was a young Naomi Watts, and I love Kristen Stewart. Anyway, all performances are great and there isn't a ton of focus on the royals, except it's 3 days over Christmas and it's full of royals, it's totally about Diana.

I think an explanation at the end would have been nice.

It's difficult to not compare a movie that I've seen over and over to a 'remake'. So, I won't. What I will say is everything in this world has changed in 50 years, and in this case, acting style, directing style, choreographic style, production design, set decoration and even props, have all evolved. The music is timeless and the updated score is just as incredible and in iMax, wow. A friend said that Spielberg has never directed a musical, as though he wrote and choreographed it. He knows. Simple as that. He knows. The weakest link to me didn't matter because the emotional strings this show has, since that red album cover of the original movie was brought into my house when I was a year old, is beyond repair. You truly cannot be fair and compare the two, both are exceptional in what theyve achieved. Just remember one was made in 1961, and one was made by Steven Spielberg. I see more than a few Oscar nominations. Also, people need to realize that they were truer to the original Broadway production than to the the '61 film. So, things might not be exact as the original movie, but more to the stage production.

Nolan seems to start his movies in the middle of another movie. Dialogue and sense seem to not matter, but blasting soundtracks and truly dazzling SFX do.

Number 1 Rule, Stay until the end, until the lights in the theater come up. Rule 2, it's not a comic book movie thank the dear sky above Rule 3, maybe a few things you just have to let slip by... not exactly plot holes, more like, 'yeah, she's smart, but how the heck could she have known that?' Rule 5, there is no Rule 4. Rule 6, just have fun. Oh, and the scene in the beginning where she's in the general store, that guy behind the counter is her real life husband. He goes uncredited. Trivia for future generations of Ghostbusters.

Certainly the most coherent Nolan film. Even though it jumps back and forth, it's never ever about the bomb. Well, until the test, then it went back to not actually being about the bomb. He chased a dream, he did a job, he succeeded.