I have such high hopes of HR - great novel, director and cast.

I've had a bad feeling about ISTL for a while. I loved Walk the Line but I do feel ISTL will struggle to live up to that, not least in its lightness of touch. ISTL sounds so flipping earnest and trying so hard to be profound and moving (and to win things...). The hallmarks of a well-meaning flop I fear. I just love going to the cinema and being pleasantly surprised, like wow, that little low budget labour of love and it was amazing. They have killed that feeling right out of the gate with all the advance publicity. Now if it isn't amazing we'll feel cheated. It makes it look like it was a project created to get an Oscar nomination. I'm sure it wasn't but that's how it feels, to me anyway.