Holidays are a funny thing. While they are a welcome step away from daily activities, they also become a break in routine. You step out of the routine, you lose your pace and your focus. Matters get upended, sleep is lost, priorities are shuffled - a basic clusterfuck. So, while I'll like to blame 'the holidays' for my lack of writing, it's actually my break from routine that is to blame.
Where were we? Yeah - True Grit.
Now, with this 'project', I knew that there would come a time where I would watch a film that I had bought but hadn't seen before. Yeah, I know its a little strange to buy a film you haven't seen, but there was a time when video stores would sell five DVD's for $20, and I would more often than not find three films I would really like and had to randomly choose two in order to complete the sale. That's what happened in this case - it was the fault of Blockbuster that I own this movie.
I tend to be hit and miss with Coen Brothers movies. I either REALLY enjoy them (I'm looking at you Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy) or I'm indifferent - for instance, I'm indifferent about this one. It's a pretty film to look at, mainly due to the landscapes that the film is set in. It hearkens back to a John Ford movie - beautiful wide country shots for our interpret heroes to ride across. Real cowboy stuff.
For the most part, the story is a revenge plot. Josh Brolin kills some girls father, girl gets consumed by revenge, hires a Westerm version of The Dude to track him, Matt Damon does a Brad Pitt impression. And, like most narrated films, you know that in the end the narrator will survive because they are telling the story. Sprinkle in a few Biblical images, like a dark tunnel that someone falls into after they achieve their revenge as they struggle to get back into the light high above them - then you cue up a snake that bites them. Pretty standard stuff - not bad, not great. A movie that you get to fill out the necessary five titles to get a sale.
Yup. Over that film, time to go to the next! But before we do, lets do some housekeeping.
- I bought a movie recently, so it's getting added to 'the list'. It's a documentary called Never Get Tired.
- End of the year always makes me want to look back and see the great media that was released. In years past I usually put out a list of the top movies or albums that I listened to, but this year I want to do something different. Gone will be the traditional numbered list, and instead will be a smorgasbord of different things for people to hear about. Sure, I've got my 'number ones', but I'm more interested in talking about WHY I liked the things that I did. Expect that soon - be forewarned, though, because it's going to contain a lot of discussion about Ghostbusters.
New title!! Hey, ho - lets go!
Lets see what number we get......
....and the movie is.....
DIE SISTER DIE! We are going to have a field day with this one - promise it will be much longer that this post.
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