I rest my case about its overrating, since most of us saw that last night. It made my ten best list, but barely, when I decided it was better than _Bulworth_. all the other best pcture nominees did, too, but that doesn't mean a whole lot when I only got to see (I think) seventeen 1998 films, the only really bad one being Emmerich's _Godzilla_, which as a fan of Ishiro Honda, Yoshimitsu Banno, and Takao Okawara, I had been dreading it so much that it was actually better than I expected it to be, but not much. My belated ten-best list of 1998, as meaningless as it might be, and however changeable it will be in the future, goes to (in alphabetical order, because quibbling among very different films is tough): Buffalo 66 Dark City Elizabeth Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love A Simple Plan Smoke Signals The Thin Red Line The Truman Show La Vita E Bella Ther others I saw were _Bulworth_ (pretty good), _Godzilla_ (entertaining ONCE-and that's giving it too much credit), _Small Soldiers_ (Dante--witty), _T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous_ (starring a fellow former NCHS student whom I've seen on stage--pretty decent first film role, not counting her cameo in _Can't Hardly Wait_), _One True Thing_ (good, but nothing special), _Waking Ned Devine (sweet and funny), and _What Dreams May Come_ (visually splendid, but I didn't think it was all that great). I wish I had gotten to see more indie films. Of this years films, I've seen _Ravenous_ and _Trekkies_. I hope one of Antonia Bird's goals in that film was to make the audience vegetarians, because the though of eating red meat, especially ribs, has made me nauseous, like the Ludovico Method, ever since I saw the film Saturday. Everything about it was exceptionally well done except the story, which was reasonably good. It's a quirky little film that's obviously not going to do well. Go buy the soundtrack (if you can find it): it's worth it. A les brief, a little more scholarly, review should show up on the IMDb page for it soon. Scott =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."--Noam Chomsky ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite