Well John I thought the film flew by, and had a genuinely warm and entertaining reaction to it. It would be nice to see Jackson scale it down (ala Heavenly Creatures or Forgotten Silver), but who knows? Personally I would have been pleased if Watts got an Oscar nomination for her work here, she was better than all but maybe Witherspoon last year, but how could the Academy resist some prime "I want to win an Oscar" perormance like Judi Dench in Mrs. Henderson Presents, especially considering Hoskins actually did a better job in the film. Likewise Theron had overtones of "trying too hard to be important" in North Country, the rest of the nominees on the other hand I felt were deserving (Huffman and Knightley).