Posted on 01/03/2018 9:27:46 AM PST by Simon Green
The live action version of Beauty and the Beast was a beautiful and grand movie. It didn’t receive one nomination. Disgraceful.
No Country for Old Men was a very good movie, I recommend it.
They meant Josh Brolin. Tommy Lee was Gore’s college roommate, however.
How do you know they are trash if you haven't seen them?
With some of these at least, you've missed some great art. Which is your prerogative of course.
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78 A pretentious movie about an actor who wants to be considered seriously. Artsy. Grade: C-
2013 12 Years a Slave: #62A free black man in 19th century America is dragged to the South and made a slave. Based on true story. Grade: B+
2012 Argo: #22 Surprisingly entertaining story based on Canada did a better job than Jimmy Carter getting hostages out of Iran. Grade: B+
2011 The Artist: #71A daring film--A silent movie in modern times! Enjoyable love story. Grade: A-
2010 The King's Speech: #18Impeccable performances and riveting true story of a man who rose above many obstacles to lead a nation, if only in morale. Grade: A+
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116A pretty intense Iraq war flick. Not bad, but not as riveting as others. Grade: C
2008 Slumdog Millionaire: #16Very surprisingly entertaining story based on "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire"; young man in India plays the game and knows the answers to tough questions. We see the back stories of how he knows so much "trivia". Grade: A
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36Violent, not for kids flick--but an intense story of hide and seek with a trunk full of money that belongs to drug dealers. Grade: A
No Country For Old Men is a Cohen Brothers movie. Well done and very entertaining. Violence and mayhem abound. Tommy Lee Jones was excellent as the sheriff and Josh Brolin is good as the one who finds the money. But Javier Bardem as the bad guy makes the film.
Don't recall seeing any of the others.
Although they didn't explicitly show it in the movie, Josh Brolin's character, Llewellyn, had hidden the money in his final hotel room and Chigur recovered it there. That was my reading anyway. It was spelled out clearly in the book.
Great threads on the box office. I think a lot of people wait to rent the Oscar nominated movies, since most of them are small indies and don’t really need to be seen in a theater. Also, a lot of them are kind of dark and depressing these days.
Hillary would probably love to see Margot Robbie play her. :D
I’ve seen three of the ones listed—Argo, The Artist, and No Country for Old Men—and they were all good. I also want to see The King’s Speech, which I’m pretty sure will be good.
Morbid.
No Country For Old Men was GREAT, as was Argo.
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