I found no country for old men plenty bleak. Of course I came home fro the movie to find that my power was out, so I opened my door fully expecting
to be shot in the head with a compressor.
Then I sat in the dark for a couple of hours, contemplating the nature of evil.
The whole time I was watching the movie, and afterwards, I couldn't help think of Tommy Lee Jones character compared to the sheriff in Fargo. Lots of paralells, both decent, small town cops who were good detectives, but TLJs character seemed totally
shaken and defeated by his encounter with truly bad men, where FM character had her family and a basic faith in humanity to fall back on.
She's almost two years younger than me and I got carded buying cigarettes last week. (Don't worry. So far I've only smoked 2 of them.)
There are people her age, and older, who could pull it off on stage without distracting me. I wouldn't expect anybody much younger than her to play the role, actually: it's a tough one. But she very much looks her age. Not an insult, just truth.
I didn't know that and I've partied with her. We used to have mutual friends in Chicago.
This has been driving me crazy because I'm pretty sure we also have mutual friends or that I know somebody who worked with her but I cannot for the life of me remember who! And IMDB is not helping. stupid memory.
I saw Beowulf on Friday. Can anyone tell me why I found it so disappointing? Cause I seriously can't figure it out.
I saw Enchanted on Friday.
It was silly and uh, predictable.
I saw Beowulf on Friday. Can anyone tell me why I found it so disappointing? Cause I seriously can't figure it out.
Naked virtual Angelina Jolie didn't do it for you?
For bleak? I'm in the middle of Between Two Worlds.
It's WWII. Diverse group of people braving the war to sail from England to America. On the way to the boat, their car is hit by a bomb. So they end up on a boat to heaven and/or hell. But don't know they're dead.
And they're joined by a couple who committed suicide. Who at least know they're dead.
The passengers are to be examined by The Examiner. Played by Sydney Greenstreet.
The comic relief, if you want to call it that, comes in the form of cynical wisecracks from John Garfield, who plays a cynical reporter.
So far, it's very absorbing. In that way melodrama-with-a-message can be when the message should be delivered a little more subtlely than it is.
Naked virtual Angelina Jolie didn't do it for you?
Unsurprisingly, no. Surprisingly,
naked virtual not!Ray Winstone
didn't do it for me either.
I just can't understand why I'm so unhappy with something with Neil Gaiman's name on it.
No country for old men:
Sue, yep. I get your reaction to the film. It was my understanding thatTommy Lee Jones' character wasn't so much despondent over all the deaths. TLJ's character seemed to predict the killers actions up to a point, but lost faith when he forgot to check for the money in the heating grate when Brolin's character died. So I think he just realized that he didn't have the head for this anymore. Maybe that's true. All the killing was amazing, but watching "Criminal Minds" each week I'm used to it!
