I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

I've been a bit behind on writing here, but last weekend I finally got around to seeing Chicago (around Oscar time I trypically make some kind of effort to see this year's nominated movies and winners from the past.) I'm a little conflicted about Chicago. I thought it was extremely clever, and a great achievement in filmmaking. The camera angles and lighting were fantastic and showed huge amounts of talent (mostly in their subtlety - lesser talent in this space would have made these things much more ostentatious.) The effect is the movie seamlessly translated between watching an actual movie, and watching a stage production.

All that said the whole thing didn't really grip me. That's not surprising, I'm traditionally not a big fan of musicals. I think I'm just too much of a dialog guy. So I guess my final verdict is I recognize the remarkable talent that went into this, and it was clearly well done, but just not my thing.

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