Watched Millions last night, which I’d been wanting to see since it came out but had just never gotten around to it. Danny Boyle is a director who maybe doesn’t get enough auteur credit, even though he’s never made a movie I didn’t love (well, I haven’t seen The Beach, so I can’t say that for sure). Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, 28 Days Later, and Millions are all excellent films.
What’s funny, too, is the jump from 28 Days Later, a tense zombie flick with lots to say, to Millions, a light kids movie. (Though the record for stark filmographic contrast has to go to Robert Rodriguez for going from Sin City to The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D.) For an extra dose of craziness, compare the magical realism of heroin to the splendor of being a kid. Boyle uses basically the same tricks in the same ways, but the difference in the settings and characters are (obviously) vast.