127 Hours

127 HOURS (2010) - Nov. 20, 2010
Well made by Danny Boyle and quite compelling despite its seemingly limited premise, this was about Aron Ralston, the adventurer who famously had to cut his own arm off to free himself from a rock that was pinning him down.  Boyle does a great job of really putting you in Ralston's head, and the now-infamous scene in which he cuts off his arm is quite intense, if not quite as unwatchably gory as many people are making it out to be.  Like pretty much all of Boyle's films, I found this good but not great.  ***