Ok, so I saw the

Ok, so I saw the Pianist, it was decent, but not mind-blowingly good, and while Brody did a fairly good job transforming himself for the movie and changing over time, it was done before, in a movie called Cast Away. What the whole movie came down to for me was that it was mostly showing Nazis executing Polish Jews in the street in horrifying ways and that has been in several movies before, so it was nothing new, and frankly it was unsettling. The directing by Polanski was nothing special, and he really shouldn't have won for that.

In other news, I watched the whole first season of 24 and it was quite decent, except the last episode wasn't as thrilling as I was led to believe. From what I hear, second season is better, hopefully it is.