Wed, 12 Dec 2007
No Country For Old Men - ****
I was a bit worried about the hype surrounding No Country For Old Men, but it was well deserved.
I finally got around to seeing this at The Bridge Theater over on Geary. It's a nice quaint one-screen movie theater that tends to show "art" movies. There wasn't a big crowd when I saw it. It was full of tokens. I was the token "single" guy. There were two token gay couples. "Ah, but Kenny, if there were two, how are they tokens?" you ask- because one was an older couple (they wore vests) and there was a younger token couple, one of whom was wearing the "I'm not really an architect, but my glasses are" lenses. And there was a token straight couple behind me and a token pair of OMG BFF women behind me who hadn't seen each other in a long time and were a bit chatty during the movie. Why does this matter? Because there are long stretches of the movie without much going on in the soundtrack. No dialogue, no music, just film. I love that. But at one time or another, some token didn't enjoy it judging by the noises they were making. If you see this movie, go see it where they crank the volume and you can't hear the snickering bitches sitting behind you who think Texans speak funny, or who say "that's the ending?!" at the end. Bah, maybe I shouldn't write this when I'm in a semi-bad mood, but just thinking about the noises in the theater sets me off. The movie was so good, so well-filmed, and acted so well, that I guess I'm just surprised that the crowd wasn't in to the film as much as I was- Maybe parts of it made me homesick. Maybe the story was so engrossing to me that I was in full-on escapism mode-- I didn't even get distracted as I customarily do when I recognize actors like Tess Harper or Kelly Macdonald and start to realize how good they are in the movie and how it took me x seconds more than normal to recognize them. Or how Barry Corbin, Woody Harrelson, and Tommy Lee Jones all have ties to Texas. Or how good Josh Brolin and Bardem were in their roles. Nope, I didn't think about that at all, I just sat back and let the story wash over me. And is Garrett Dillahunt ever bad in a movie? He had two roles in Deadwood and was great in both . . . Anyway, go see the movie. Really really good.
12 Dec 00:01 | /movies | 2 comment(s)
kenneth wrote:
yuck
That review sucked, I should re-write it
12/12/2007 20:46:19
Sam wrote:
Umm
Are you allowed to comment on your own post? Isn't that a bit meta for blogging?
12/13/2007 10:33:17
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