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
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, Sunday, December 26, 2010 9:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― max, Sunday, December 26, 2010 9:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
saw this tonight & this pretty much sums up my sentiments. I will add that Deakins also rules (as usual).
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Monday, 27 December 2010 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yah max otm
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Monday, 27 December 2010 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
This was fun (Matt Damon was the surprise), but about ten minutes too long.
I could watch those two kids get kicked off that porch stoop over and over and over.
OTM.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha I forgot about that part, so classic
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I gotta say: Bridges was the weakest of the three leads, in that Damon and Steinfeld consistently surprised me and did the most with that wonderful dialogue.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Bridges became MVP briefly, though, during the cornbread shootoff.
I was not feeling the denouement much until the last line, which is so beautifully terse. The Coens can end their movies with the best of them these days. Four in a row now.
― benanas foster (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, but not great. I just felt disconnected from the whole thing, like I was watching a well-acted and shot film made by people who didn't really feel like giving me anything to explore or care about. (nb: only Coen Bros. films I really like are Blood Simple and Hudsucker Proxy, and I haven't seen the latter in 10+ years)
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
;_;
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I do not remember the last line of Spinster Mattie's v/o, just Cogburn's.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Time just slips away from us."
― benanas foster (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
well see, "I've grown old" does that better.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
this was a kids movie, but v gory and raw, maybe how kids movies would be if parents werent such pussies - coens played it v straight, reminded me of when lynch went G rated - the whole thing was a lil wtf to me i must admit, well done but wtf
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i think by kids movie you mean "not smirky."
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a really beautifully photographed Disney western w/ nastier violence
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, December 12, 2010 3:07 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
idk morbs u tell me
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Loved this but I unfortunately saw it on an Oscar-screener DVD, would like to ~rescreen~ in the theater or on a proper DVD with subs.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ plus the guy in the bear suit.
― peacocks, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
kids /= Disney, joe
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
WAHT! outrageous
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
btw smirky is prob the most common quality of contempo kids movies, unfortunately
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
this one doesnt have a partic 'contemporary' feel given the debt to Portis's tone (tho I'm thinking they added the hush the hanging Indian joke?).
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess it felt 'childrens' or ya fictiony to me cause of the lack of subtlety
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
god that dude in the bear suit was so great.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― ice cr?m, Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
heh i actually had a convo w/my friend yesterday where he declared that this was the Coens' Straight Story, i totally agreed - love it for that reason too
― Princess TamTam, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
you missed the adult, Rohmeresque nuances of Barton Fink and Fargo, huh
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this didnt feel a lil more spelled out than those to you
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
im nto trying to be clever here, it really played like a kids movie to me, did anyone else feel this way
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
why is 'straightforward' = 'kids movie'
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
the deep complexities of a serious man, only to be comprehended as ~deep~ by adults
like if someone had said to me 'the coen bros made a kids film here watch this' i wouldve been like 'o ok p cool sort of violent for kids but thats rad in its own way'
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess its a more universally comprehensible movie, which could translate to 'kids movie'
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link