baha
Dec 2004
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I wonder if there's something missing from the DVDSCR. Whilst it's not beyond imagination that the movie could score as highly as it does, it would be something of a surprise for a US audience to accept what I saw and rave about it, let alone to vote it in highly enough for it be where it is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/ (at #14 at time of writing).
Even by Coen standards that was a weird 'climax' to the movie. Watched it in the early hours when quite tired, so that's my excuse made, but I missed the relevance of TLJ's dreams...I'm sure it's deep and meaningful, and I've mostly forgotten what he recounted, but I remember thinking 'Nope, I don't get it.'
I'm not even going to give it a rating in case the DVDSCR missed something, and doubly in case I'm just too slow to understand something that gels it together perfectly and it is in fact a great movie...actually, I wonder if that's what all the Yankistanis are thinking as well and why they've rated it better than all the other fantastic Coen movies (let alone every other movie ever made (bar the 13 above it in IMDB)).
EDIT: and forgot to mention how brilliant Brolin is in it. And Kelly...lush and sweet, just how she should be. TLJ is on form as well. Just Bardem I wasn't too sure about...seemed like the Coen's were making good on a promise and not necessarily casting the best man for the role (as he clearly wasn't, I'm sure a lot of other actors could've brought the menace and psychosis to the role that Bardem failed to supply).
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