Posted on 02/22/2008 11:44:04 PM PST by L.A.Justice
My ranking: 1. MICHAEL CLAYTON 2. ATONEMENT 3. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
I enjoyed M CLAYTON, in spite of some questionable plot twist towards the end. A question...When a car is burned down, do you assume that a person was in it just because you find a wrist watch in the car? Is it not obvious if a human body was not in the burning car? In any case, George Clooney did a good job.
ATONEMENT was good...I just thought that it was too slow at the beginning...
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN...Javier Bardem was great portraying a killer. However, there were moments in the movie when I asked myself what was the point of this particular scene...For example, what was the point of the scene with the sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and some old guy? I guess that I was not too sophisticated enough to "understand" this film...Oh well. I am sure there are other people out there who watched NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. I would love to hear your reactions...
Julie Christie...I think that she was great in DR ZHIVAGO. She did hand out awards at some AARP function. At the function, Michael Moore got some award for SICKO. Christie, at that function, commented that it is important that Hollywood make films challenging present policies on Iraq...Whatever...
I am prepared to be disgusted when the BEST DOCUMENTARY winner is announced Sunday night...Some anti-Iraq War documentary will probably win...Either TRIP TO THE DARK SIDE or NO END IN SIGHT. TRIP TO THE THE DARK SIDE is about US troops torturing an Afghan taxi driver to death...I am sure that maker of either documentary will use the platform to critize Bush Administration.
I am looking forward to OSCAR LIVE THREAD Sunday night...
My heart does not care. My head said who gives a damn what awards liberals give to other liberals.
I hope that Ruby Dee gets the BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS award...She was great in AMERICAN GANGSTER.
Last movie I saw was the Godfather—as in the original one with Marlon Brando.
For those FReepers in to reading: Try reading a collection of Coen Bros. screenplays (I can give links to free ones--let me know). I started out with Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing one night. They're screenplays so they're short--2 hrs max ea. but, with your mind's eye, they come alive like in a movie, but with a difference.
The last academy awards presentatiion show I saw was hosted by Bob Hope.
obligatory in-joke explanation-
Dark horse: Roderick Jaynes for “No Country for Old Men.” The award will be accepted on his behalf by the Coen brothers (in-joke).
Roderick Jaynes is a pseudonym for the Coen brothers themselves that they use for Editing credit.
My brain says, “WHO THE FU@K CARES??????”
It’s just the frickin’ liberal nutjob self-absorbed Oscars. Who the absolute fu@k cares about anything in Hollyweird anymore? They need to be ignored. I wish the writer’s strike would’ve kept going.
I hated “No Country for Old Men”.
It was doing fine until the last 20 minutes or so...
Then it got disjointed like the film broke and the important pieces got lost... The end made the whole thing feel like a waste of time.
Needless to say, I was really disappointed.
I haven’t watched that Hollywood swill crap for years and for sure will not this year after seeing what’s up for Oscar. I’m predicting the lowest TV audience in the history of that show.
Last year, it was all about gays, pimps, and global warming.
This year, its all about “dark” subject lines and documentarys ripping on the US military.
The oscars have become one big liberal circle jerk. I haven’t watched them in years.
Where are the nominations for Amy Adams in "Enchanted," or "King of Kong" for Best Documentary, or for anything that anybody actually liked and might be rooting for? They nominated a bunch of stuff that was about as enjoyable as sitting through a root canal, and the Oscar telecast will probably be just as painful as any of these movies and twice as long.
I read No Country. It was a pointless story built around some guy’s facination with guns and violence(shotguns with silencers?).
I don’t want to see any of them.
They were right on one area, the takeover of our southwest by gangs of narcoterrorists, the “hero” of the story an enforcer for them.
I agree a total waste of two hours, I am glad I did not pay to see it.
“..and the Oscar telecast will probably be just as painful as any of these movies and twice as long.”
I don’t watch that swill but I’m betting there will be a lot of “Go Obama” going on. It’ll drive Hillidiot nuts.
The movie was about a lot more than that. It’s a very good and thought-provoking movie.
The Coen Brothers hit their peak with Raising Arizona, a funny movie. Regarding their nonsense scenes, either they are much dumber than anyone thinks, or they slip them in to have fun with the critics trying to make sense out of them. Personally I think they got lucky with Arizona, ran out of material shortly afterward, and have been displaying their incompetence ever since, which the critics love.
Brando used cue cards in most of his scenes. Talk about over rated.
amen amen. According to Bill O’Reilly,he’s in L.A. nobody cares about the oscars.Hollyweird is all about supporting abortion and homosexuality! And let us not forget that hollyweird overwhelmingly supports Demon-crats.
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