haha yeah i just read the comments he's responding to and they're hardly 'abusive'
― xX_420_GoKu_ChRiStWaRrIoR_Xx (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 16 December 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno if that's a 'rant,' seems thoroughly otm
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ya it's not like he's frothing at the mouth there, for a comments section argument that's pretty chill & articulate
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't disagree with him, but I did wonder why he acts like it's the first time he reads a comments section.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno dude, that shit can get to you, he's only human, etc etc
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/70106/comments.html
― xX_420_GoKu_ChRiStWaRrIoR_Xx (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
haha there are only 4 comments on that article and one "abusive" one?
ok i take it back, chill out edelstein
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe he got foul emails as well.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw this last night and I loved it. I'm such a huge fan of the book, and it was great to see more of it on the screen this time. Bridges and Damon played off each other really well, and that little girl who played Mattie was great. Obviously I wasn't asking a lot of the movie, but honestly, I found this really really enjoyable.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Wayne version is on TCM tonight.
My fave line from the Coens' film, which I assume is from Portis, might be "Keep your seat, trash!"
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
That was indeed a Portis line.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
this is awesome
everyone's really good (barry pepper!), but the girl playing mattie kills it, such an awesome character - i could watch a zillion hours of hailee steinfeld being a pain in the ass to crusty old men
third act left me a little wanting but that's mostly the book onscreen so, y'know, what can you do
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
those moments when Mattie shows that she really is just a 14 year old girl, and she gets that happy, sweet look on her face like when she wants to tell ghost stories...Steinfeld kills. And the haggling scene was perfect.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, totally! though i read the ghost story thing as calculating - trying to defuse the situation. the haggling was great. i loved her continually catching the male characters off-guard with her brassiness. the first scene with Brolin is fantastic. Brolin kinda surprised me actually.
btw im pretty sure JK Simmons had a cameo of sorts doing the voiceover of Lawyer Daggett.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 December 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I could watch those two kids get kicked off that porch stoop over and over and over.
― benanas foster (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 December 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lol yeah the porch scene was funny. And TamTam otm, Brolin was GREAT. Way more charismatic as Chaney than I expected...I expected sort of a dead, dumb mean delivery but he was great, especially in that river meeting.
And Barry Pepper (cast as Lucky Ned Pepper, lol!)...really brought the right shade of grey to Ned, where he's almost likeable with the way he runs things and deals with Mattie but you still know that he's a mean sonofabitch.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
just saw the original on TCM!
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 December 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I just watched it too... I saw it when I was a kid but I'd forgotten a lot of it. I think Wayne might be a better Cogburn tbh, but the new one does everything else better, probably.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 December 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
All I could think while watching that was how annoying Bernstein's score was.
― pixel farmer, Thursday, 23 December 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
your score is annoying!!
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I could not believe that was Barry Pepper.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I really didn't like Mattie in the original. She was just so damn bug-eyed all the time.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved how messed up Peppers face was too...and all the spit flying out of his mouth when the camera was pointing up at his face...so great
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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yeah this was definitely simmons
― max, Thursday, 23 December 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not the biggest Coens fan you'll meet, but I have a really good feeling about this. Can't wait to see it.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 23 December 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
quality picture imo
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 25 December 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont want to SPOILERZ this but i think the 'disney' stuff is a little much, i mean what's interesting is how it deals w/ the morality of revenge -- the chain of events that leads her to the place she ends up ---
oh fuck it, SPOILERRRRRRRRRRRRRRZ
losing her arm because she takes the kill shot isnt a v. 'disney' way to approach it (fwiw im assuming this was in the book) but i think the alcoholism, the hero's patheticness, the bumbling idiocy of the bad dudes, its very puncturing of myth & the whole mysticism of westerns, doesnt feel particularly DISNEY to me imo
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Saturday, 25 December 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
by 'hero's patheticness' im talking about cogburn btw not protaganist
of COURSE it is plenty dark... but the snarky definition of 'Disney' overlooks the fact that Bambi and Old Yeller traumatized millions of children by introducing them to death.
SPOILERING more:
I'm pretty sure Kim Darby doesn't lose any limbs in the first film of TG, which is certainly a crucial omission; Mattie has to pay a price for wasting Tom Chaney.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 December 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck
hey mods plz add "now with spoilers" to the thread title plz?
― kanellos (gbx), Saturday, 25 December 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
good, not great picture. brolin was funny. matt damon is always charming. couldn't decide about lead actress. score was really banal.
overall... is this the coen brothers' most conventional film?
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
score didnt take me out of the film at all, cant imagine how it would unless you were expecting something jarring or yeah unconventional & yes this would probably be the most conventional film theyve done -- which imo is not a bad thing.
really unsure how u can be uncertain about the lead, she was great!
i do like pita inn tho so we will always have that
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Mattie has to pay a price for wasting Tom Chaney
bingo. she says as much in the opening voice-over.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 25 December 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
the score wasn't good - didnt take me out of the movie and ordinarily i like carter burwell, but this kind of thing isn't his strength - u could tell at a couple points he was trying to echo elmer bernstein's 'stirring' score for the orig and it wasnt working imo
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMf0MTweXYc (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 25 December 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Burwell has been ruled ineligible for a scoring Oscar, too many preexisting hymns.
Hoberman took Coens to task for using "Leaning on the Everlasting Arm" and thus invoking its use in a better film -- The Night of the Hunter. I thought that was quite intentional, as Mattie's severe, inhuman faith reminds me of the rather annoying Lillian Gish in that film.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 December 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
its a film w similar themes so im sure it was intentional
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Saturday, 25 December 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
'good not great' otm. lots of good laugh lines.
2nd tier coens still better than most stuff. relatively few overly coen moments/characters.
― iatee, Sunday, 26 December 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Agreed, No Country still had the Harrelson/Root moments, among others, to briefly hint at the fact it was a Coen bros film.
This was a very good genre exercise and had some great moments. I'd rewatch it sooner than a lot of films, and found the humor well-balanced.
― mh, Sunday, 26 December 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
so i went to see this today and the projector broke so i did not see it, ffs
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 26 December 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
also dim sum was an intolerably long wait
No grit for old cr?m
― mh, Sunday, 26 December 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
p sure btw the projector wasnt particularly broken just the guy who could sort whatever issue they were having wasnt there because it was christmas - they called him and he said restart it and it should work - i know this because the usher in detailing troubleshooting efforts described the projector as 'like a little computer'
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 26 December 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
saw this w/ my mom and the night of the hunter thing is the 1st thing she mentioned afterward
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 26 December 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Aggressively OK-ish.
― benanas foster (Eric H.), Sunday, 26 December 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Did not realize that was Iris DeMent over the end titles!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 December 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
btw i totally dug this. "second-tier coens" is right but ill take it. bridges, damon and the girl all kill it, barry pepper too.
― max, Monday, 27 December 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Bridges takes the annual Winona Ryder Memorial Marble Mouth Award with ease
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 December 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
pepper was electric
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 December 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the pepman
― ೋ*¨*ೋALWAYz A F4RT3R ♥ 24/7/365ೋ*¨*ೋ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 27 December 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
When Pepper was five years old, his family set sail in a homemade ship, navigating through the South Pacific islands for five years.[1][2] His education was completed in both public schools and correspondence courses. Due to the lack of television as entertainment, the family used sketch acting as a means of fun.
― max, Monday, 27 December 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link