Comments on: December Movie Trailer Reviews

By: Austen

Austen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:03:54 +0000

Why the new film bias?? Realism + uplifting = Sidney Poitier. I say put Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Lilies of the Field, and A Patch of Blue on your queue.

By: Tim Rice

Tim Rice — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:20:36 +0000

I know what you mean about CP being easy to mix up with other symptomologies. I remember the first time I met a person with CP. I was on a cross-country bicycle ride to benefit people with disabilities and this guy who was slobbering all over himself was pointing at our team photographer and tapping on his touch board.

We all felt a bit uncomfortable and couldn’t figure out what he was trying to tell us until our team photographer suddenly realized he was talking about “f-stops” and exposure times. Turns out he was he was a photography hobbyist and wanted to compare notes with a fellow enthusiast.

It was then that I realized how very different the outward appearance of CP is from what is going on on the inside.

By: LAN3

LAN3 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:21:24 +0000

I haven’t read “No Country for Old Men,” but plan to when I finish some studies about a year from now. The movie, however, was, I thought, a real masterpiece. The Coen Brothers, who adapted, directed, and produced it, are no strangers to movies featuring a characters with a deficit of moral fortitude, as you put it, but this movie, like Fargo before it, shift the center from a character who got themselves in a rut of crime to a character who’s there to make sure the audience appreciates the depth and breadth of sadness that resulted from the events of the plot.

By: Joshua Zader

Joshua Zader — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:36:18 +0000

Dan,

Glad to hear it. Care to elaborate? I’m sure others would be interested.

Joshua

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:26:28 +0000

Your suspicion that “No Country for Old Men” has “a deficit of moral fortitude” couldn’t possibly be more wrong.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:04:31 +0000

I'd also chime in recommending No Country. Best movie of the year, by far, and I never agree with the holly-libs.

By: Joshua Zader

Joshua Zader — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:56:15 +0000

I must admit, I get more drawn into No Country every time I watch the trailer. That is one deft trailer. The characters are compelling in that Jerry Springer sort of way, where you just can’t take your eyes off them.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:41:18 +0000

I’m with David here regarding No Country For Old Men. The book is about older sheriff in Texas who has spent his whole life trying to live down an act of cowardice he committed in world war II. No one knows about this act. in fact, he was awarded a medal for that episode, and has been a pillar of the community since his return to civilian life. In reaction to his feelings of guilt, he has tried to take responsibility for the safety of everyone living in his county for 35 years or so. People look at him as embodying the virtues of the older society. “A man of an older time”. Ultimately, he decides that he is not up to taking on the “villain” in this story, however, concluding that he is, in fact, the same man he was in 1944 (“that’s a hard thing to face after 38 years”). “I’m not a man of an older time. I’m a man of this time. I always have been”. He turns in his badge, and, once again, character is destiny.

Its not an amoral story. It just doesn’t have the ending we would like. Life is often like that, however.

I read a number of reviews that described the movie as being faithful to the book. I disagree. I think much is lost in the adaptation, and recommend the book.

By: sourcreamus

sourcreamus — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:15:54 +0000

I was on that website last night and the trailer that jumped out at me was Persopolis- an animated movie based on a memoir of a girl coming of age in revolutionary Iran. Its animation look was retro but uniquely appealing, and the story seemed very interesting.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:08:08 +0000

There are too many people already that are convinced that Christianity is the most dangerous religion in the entire world, and too many already that are convinced that their fellow human beings are all actually vampires and/or zombies deserving only a stake to the heart / bullet to the brain. I’m tired of preaching masquerading as entertainment, myself, so I think I’ll skip “Golden Compass” and “I am Legend” despite all the assurances that they were designed for agnostics like me.

In fact, the rabid atheist fervor around “Golden Compass” is really frightening. Atheist fanaticism is far more dangerous than religious fanaticism, as it’s unhindered by any moral imperatives, yet just as prone to violence when confronted with dissent.