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Films:  Ain't Them Body Saints and The Spectacular Now

Screenings at the LA Film Festival.  Super fun atmosphere to watch movies.  Makes movies you wouldn't otherwise enjoy, still worth the time and effort.  Saints is good, but not great.  It's fine to be inspired by Malick, but I'm just wondering if filmmakers ought to strive to be something other than what people in the past have already done -- and better.  The Spectacular Now was an enjoyable movie watching experience, but I don't think it will find a wide audience.  Afterwards the filmmakers talked about being inspired by Cameron Crowe and John Hughes, but the film lacked both the humor and the melodrama of the better movies by those guys.  No conflict between the two lovers, so it got kind of flat and I imagine would not be as fun to watch if you were at home or in a regular theater.