Tuesday, December 06, 2011
LESS GRITTY
Today's film was the Coen Brothers'
This is a "pretty good" movie and I was expecting a great movie.
I see a few reasons. One is that this is a Spielberg production and every thing he touches has the corners and rough edges rounded and smoothed.
Second, it is a remake. I don't watch remakes. I love Jeff Bridges but I don't want to be thinking about John Wayne while I am watching him.
Third, the story is iconic and they should either twisted its tits off or gone to a literal by the numbers story line and make shocking and distorted characters. Work the direction. The art. All of it to make it different. They did play with the stilted supposedly 19th century syntax. Not different enough. Not Coen like.
So I had to be satisfied with what I got and I was and I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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