movies

[G. Keenan]

I saw Crazy Heart last night. It's been getting great critical reviews but I thought it was just okay. The acting is superb, especially Jeff Bridges, I won't argue with that, but the plot is fairly standard, even if the movie does a good job of avoiding some of the more egregious genre clichés. With the actors involved there was a lot of potential for the film to be more evocative than it actually was.

Mostly I just want to see Bridges play Bad Blake. I don't have excessive expectations.

You'll like it then. I think I had very high expectations after watching the Golden Globes. Bridges is great in it.

[ghostrunner]

For years I haven't understood why Jeff Bridges doesn't get the accolades or recognition that others his age do. He's phenomenal in most everything. He has been in some mediocre stuff, but who hasn't? Looking back it's a shame Lebowski didn't get any acting nominations - Bridges, John Goodman, and Julianne Moore in particular. I was a fan of his before that though. I think he was nominated for Fearless, and should have been for The Fisher King. The movie sucked, but his work in The Vanishing remake was great too.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a good early one for him. He and Clint Eastwood play a couple of crooks out west in the 1970s. I haven't seen it for years, but it's worth checking out. I'd forgotten that Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) directed it.

[docellis]

District 9

[JL21]

District 9

Good story.

[Jocephus]

For years I haven't understood why Jeff Bridges doesn't get the accolades or recognition that others his age do. He's phenomenal in most everything. He has been in some mediocre stuff, but who hasn't? Looking back it's a shame Lebowski didn't get any acting nominations - Bridges, John Goodman, and Julianne Moore in particular. I was a fan of his before that though. I think he was nominated for Fearless, and should have been for The Fisher King. The movie sucked, but his work in The Vanishing remake was great too.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a good early one for him. He and Clint Eastwood play a couple of crooks out west in the 1970s. I haven't seen it for years, but it's worth checking out. I'd forgotten that Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) directed it.

jeff bridges is awesome

[clevername]

District 9

Good story.

the effects are incredible. I honestly found District 9's aliens to be more believable than Avatar's. Not bad for a movie that cost $470 million less. The story wasn't groundbreaking, but it was more original than Avatar's.

Basically, I'm saying District 9>Avatar. At least from where I sit.

[heyzeus]

[SHOW]

My one problem with District 9: If the aliens have this crazy awesome plasma weapon that blows everything the [expletive] up, and only they can fire it, why are they stuck in apartheid, and getting rounded up and frequently killed by the evil corporation?

[The Third Man]

I need to see D9.

[omaha_red]

My one problem with District 9: If the aliens have this crazy awesome plasma weapon that blows everything the [expletive] up, and only they can fire it, why are they stuck in apartheid, and getting rounded up and frequently killed by the evil corporation?

[SHOW]

I thougtht the same thing but at the beginning they say that when they first
got to them on the ship they were extremely disoriented and had never recovered their
senses. That's the only thing I could think of that would make what you just said
make sense. But yeah, I said that exact same thing the entire movie.

[JL21]

My one problem with District 9: If the aliens have this crazy awesome plasma weapon that blows everything the [expletive] up, and only they can fire it, why are they stuck in apartheid, and getting rounded up and frequently killed by the evil corporation?

[SHOW]

I thougtht the same thing but at the beginning they say that when they first
got to them on the ship they were extremely disoriented and had never recovered their
senses. That's the only thing I could think of that would make what you just said
make sense. But yeah, I said that exact same thing the entire movie.

Me too.

Oh wait... sorry.

[SHOW]

Me too.