Adaptation. (2002)

So this is my first post in my new blog.  This is where I will be making daily reviews of something, anything, just where I can talk about something.  It's New Years Day,  went to a great party last night.  Open bar til 3 AM, all I wanted to do today was sleep and watch the Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-Fi.  And I did, but I was also able to manage to take some time and watch a movie that has been on my "To See" list for a few years now.

Spike Jonze's 2002 flick, Adaptation. starring Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper.  It is a great story of Charlie Kaufman in the process of having writers block, trying to write a screenwrite for Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief which is a book written about John Laroche, an orchid pocher on trial.  Cage and Streep both received Academy Award nominations for their performances.  Cooper won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Laroche.  I enjoyed this movie.  You always wonder what's on someone elses mind.  This movie gives you the opportunity to see what was going through the mind of a writer with writer's block.  And it seems like it was a great idea to have the movie Adaptation. instead of The Orchid Thief.  The story, I doubt, would have been very good.  From Kaufman's description of the story, the story was just boring, you won't care about the characters, theres no climax, there's just no reason for the movie.  Kaufman doesn't want to change the beautiful story of flowers, but he knows it sucks. He and his twin brother Donald (both whom received nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay)  added more to the story and certainly made it more exciting with sex, drugs, and car chases.   Kaufman took the story and made a wonderful Adaptation.  And we owe this movie to his writer's block and depression.  Thanks for going through it all Charlie, a great movie came out of it.  And you have to thank Donald, he certainly had his part in it.  And once this was done, he was able to work on another project, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind.  

And if you find yourself in Hoboken, check out Willie McBride's, good drinks and friendly bartenders, good on New Years Eve and good any time!  Happy 2009! 

Here's the trailer for Adaptation.