Someone's been reading Todd Alcott, I think. He wrote about No Country for Old Men containing references to their other movies. I think sometimes he's reaching, but:
the examination of trailer-park life, as well as the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse, here resurrected as the dead-serious Anton Chigurh. (In Raising, the Lone Biker shoots at a lizard on a rock as he drives past, in No Country Chigurh shoots at a bird on a bridge as he drives past -- and misses. The scene is straight from the book.) Also, the scene where the fugitive has a strange conversation with a gas-station attendant.
(There is another, funnier reference to Raising -- in No Country, Sheriff Bell squats down to examine the dent in the wall made by Chigurh shooting out the lock -- in Raising, the Lone Biker squats in the exact same attitude to examine the word "FART" scrawled on the wall.)
Today's Dork Tower is a thing of delight.
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I just bought the DVD for The Untouchables a few weeks ago, and watched it for the first time in a while. Damn, that's a good film, but the Union Station stairwell scene was just screaming Classic Film Homage!!!
I really have been on a DVD-buying spree this past month or so. I just pulled out the Best Buy gift card my sister gave me for Christmas and made an online purchase of Holiday Inn, Gosford Park, Heart and Souls, A History of Violence ($5!), and Green Street Hooligans (which has been on my Netflix queue for a while, but since it's only $5 as well, I figured I might as well buy it. It was well reviewed locally and the producer is a Chicagoan, one of the Pritzkers, so it was promoted relatively heavily here when it was released).
After the gift card, I only had to spend $25 for all those movies, so not a bad haul! Most of the $5 films were action films, but they also had a decent number of good films for 20% off, which is where I found the first three titles.
How convenient: A.V. Club runs a Pixar Primer.
Hey, folks we've got Netflix now. I've missed a ton of not-kid movies in the last several years.
What should I see first? Eastern Promises? No Country for Old Men? That movie with the thing and the guy that did the stuff and there was a Burger King tie-in?
I'm very pissed at netflix still. I can't believe they are getting rid of profiles.
What should I see first? Eastern Promises? No Country for Old Men? That movie with the thing and the guy that did the stuff and there was a Burger King tie-in?
I'd vote for No Country. But that's probably a given, and it's not like I've seen a lot of recent movies. If you'd like to be very tense for about 2 hours, I definitely recommend it.
NCFOM is more entertaining than EP, IMO.
Anything Coen or Cronenberg is a must see for me, so I'd say both (and I liked both movies a lot, though Naomi's character in EP has some serious naivete issues - I suspect Jess would say "too stupid to live issues"; I didn't have quite that many problems, especially when it involves her disregarding her uncle).
