Overated Films (country, show, quote, performance)

Roygbiv · 02-26-2009, 07:03 PM

The ending was a big bummer, you're right. But for the entirety of the movie all I could think about where the raving reviews and how dense the film is and I just wasn't getting it whilst I watched it. I mean the suspense was nerve wracking, and I was told that was something to watch out for, but aside from that it just felt like the struggle between two men that ends randomly and inexplicably.

Film is a tricky medium for me, I guess. I get books and novels, and I get the most innaccessible pieces of music, but films...

Terrible Lizard · 02-26-2009, 07:07 PM

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Well, hell, The Wrestler did that a lot better and it's not being called the best movie of the 21st century. Cormac McCarthy is overrated.

Read Blood Meridian and Suttree.

Roygbiv · 02-26-2009, 07:10 PM

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Read Blood Meridian and Suttree.

Is that the best place to start?

**Janszoon** · 02-26-2009, 07:14 PM

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C'mon. No Country for Old Men was excellent, brilliantly done and highly entertaining. The only bummer is the ending, as said before.

Hucksucker Proxy I haven't seen in a while, I might meed to revaluate that one.

The fact that No Country for Old Men completely fell apart in the last half hour was certainly one problem with the movie but unfortunately it wasn't the only one. One of the things I love about Coen brothers' movies is the great characters and details they're filled with and I felt that No Country for Old Men really came up short in that department. This was true of basically every character in the movie except for Chigurh, but the most egregious examples were Llewelyn's wife and the characters played by Stephen Root and Woody Harrelson.

Hucksucker Proxy has a great beginning and a great ending but the middle is such a boring cheese-fest that I can barely stand to watch it. I understand that they were trying to step out of their normal frame of reference and pay homage to a certain type of movie but it just doesn't do it for me.

Terrible Lizard · 02-26-2009, 07:15 PM

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Is that the best place to start?

No, but they're my personal favorites.

boo boo · 02-26-2009, 07:26 PM

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The fact that No Country for Old Men completely fell apart in the last half hour was certainly one problem with the movie but unfortunately it wasn't the only one. One of the things I love about Coen brothers' movies is the great characters and details they're filled with and I felt that No Country for Old Men really came up short in that department. This was true of basically every character in the movie except for Chigurh, but the most egregious examples were Llewelyn's wife and the characters played by Stephen Root and Woody Harrelson.

Hucksucker Proxy has a great beginning and a great ending but the middle is such a boring cheese-fest that I can barely stand to watch it. I understand that they were trying to step out of their normal frame of reference and pay homage to a certain type of movie but it just doesn't do it for me.

Wuh?

I thought a lot of the characters were great. Especially Brolin's and Lee Jones'.

**Janszoon** · 02-26-2009, 07:34 PM

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Wuh?

I thought a lot of the characters were great. Especially Brolin's and Lee Jones'.

I didn't like either of them. Tommy Lee Jones was like a vague sketch of 99% of the characters he always plays and Josh Brolin was like a blank slate, which could've worked in a movie with lots of other interesting characters, but unfortunately this wasn't that movie so he was just one more bland person roaming around the screen.

You must agree that the characters played by Stephen Root and Woody Harrelson were a complete waste of space though, right?

Terrible Lizard · 02-26-2009, 07:44 PM

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I didn't like either of them. Tommy Lee Jones was like a vague sketch of 99% of the characters he always plays and Josh Brolin was like a blank slate, which could've worked in a movie with lots of other interesting characters, but unfortunately this wasn't that movie so he was just one more bland person roaming around the screen.

You must agree that the characters played by Stephen Root and Woody Harrelson were a complete waste of space though, right?

Didn't have time, Anton killed them too fast.

**Janszoon** · 02-26-2009, 07:47 PM

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Didn't have time, Anton killed them too fast.

So why bother wasting time giving them a couple of their own scenes then?

mannny · 02-26-2009, 08:02 PM

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Me too. Either that or Barton Fink. I love almost all their movies. The only ones that really don't do it for me at all are Hudsucker Proxy, The Ladykillers and No Country for Old Men.

Barton Fink is an excellent film. John Turturro is succchhh an underrated actor. He's actually one of my favorite actors, I wish he had more roles where he was the lead, but still every movie he's in his character steals the show for me, even Mr. Deeds

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My favorite Coen bros films are Barton Fink and Fargo. Miller's Crossing is the only one of their's that I could do without.

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Roygbiv marquee moon Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 759	The ending was a big bummer, you're right. But for the entirety of the movie all I could think about where the raving reviews and how dense the film is and I just wasn't getting it whilst I watched it. I mean the suspense was nerve wracking, and I was told that was something to watch out for, but aside from that it just felt like the struggle between two men that ends randomly and inexplicably. Film is a tricky medium for me, I guess. I get books and novels, and I get the most innaccessible pieces of music, but films... __________________ Roygbiv's Review Revue LATEST REVIEW SILENT SHOUT BY THE KNIFE