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In the book Eli was a boy, hence the scarring. I don't think they did that full justice in the movie.
I ended up not liking it because the participants seemed deeply stupid. No idea how Eli got to be as old as all that, with that sort of quality help.
I ended up not liking it because the participants seemed deeply stupid.
Exactly. I kept thinking I was supposed to root against everybody, because they were varying degrees of stupid, pathetic, useless, inept, and outright destructive.
I decided after about 45 minutes that I was too bored to keep watching.
I also wasn't sure whether the director was trying to make it funny or not. There were several moments that I thought were comedy, either Coen-brothers-dark humor or born-loser humor (and the cat scene! OMG hysterical!).
Yeah! Our audience was laughing at things, but I wasn't sure they were intended to be funny.
Watched The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford last night. I really liked it, although it's very slowly paced. The setting an acting is real and gritty, but the dialogue is very poetic, and the cinematography is breathtakingly beautiful. It somehow coalesced for me into a powerful experience, althoughj I could certainly see that it's not for everyone. Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck were both really impressive.
Hayden, you see it?
We rewatched that not too long ago, Scrappy. DH and I both really like it. It can drag a bit but Pitt and Afleck were both fascinating in it.
And I never get tired of Sam Rockwell.
I was ruined for that movie -- along with The Long Riders -- by watching a documentary about the real Jesse James.
I just finished Syriana. I had no idea what was going on, but I think it was good?
I do have two questions: Was the intimation that Oskar's father was gay, or was it that his friend was raping Oskar? I think it's the latter, but I'm interested in what other people think.
The impression I got was the former, and that some of Oskar's disassociation was due to his little bit of family time with his dad being hijacked by an outsider. I haven't read the source material, though.
I got the same vibe as Matt.