In particular, with everything from the plate throwing to the kind of half-hearted tone in the reading of her lines, Jolie seems like she may have dropped the ball here. However, I will happily eat my words at a later date if necessary, and I would also take a not-so-good-performance-good-movie over a good-performance-not-so-good movie (A Mighty Heart) any day.

The score appears to have issues, too.

Anyway, I'm hoping the film's more a character study than anything, so maybe that's why the trailer, being as condensed and contrived as it as to be for commercial purposes, doesn't seem up to task.

Still, if it's critically received well, I can't imagine any other Best Original Screenplay winner than J. Michael Straczynski.

>I have to say, this Oscar season wasn't very interesting at
>first glance but some of the recent trailers (Soloist, Milk,
>and this) have piqued my interest.

Off-topic kinda, but, yeah, the Milk trailer was good. Gave me more hope for the movie than I ever thought I would have.