Revolutionary Road Buzz

This is exactly the kind of thing no one should ever pay attention to — for one thing, it’s one person’s opinion and you all saw my opinion walking out of King Kong. Maybe all opinion’s aren’t created equally, maybe some people are more “in the know” than others and who am I to judge? But this little tid bit just popped up on Anne Thompson’s site, via Hollywood-Elsewhere:

“[It’s a] two-hander for Leo and Kate, all grown up now as a married couple, unhappy but still in love. They go at it fiercely and you can sense the real-life bond that lets them really go for it, all defenses down.

“It’s powerful and also beautifully written and filmed. [American Beauty director] Sam Mendes doing suburban angst again, but this time in the 1950s. I daresay it may be a modern classic. The screenplay race this year is unusually light on adaptations, so this being an adaptation of the Richard Yates novel, I’d look for a nomination.”

What strikes me immediately, as with almost every one of these early hearsay “tips” is that anyone could have written it, without even having seen the movie.¬† And sorry to be the one to say it but anyone not looking for a nomination of not only Richard Yates’ novel but THAT Richard Yates novel ought to rethink this whole Oscar coverage thing. Maybe we ought to rethink it anyway.