Comments for Movies I Didn't Get

Comment on Inception: One Simple Idea, quite simply a Masterpiece. by blurrypix

blurrypix — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:15:13 +0000

Just saw the film tonight and I have to say I agree with you completely. It’s films like “Inception” that remind me why I want to make films! What a great breath of fresh air after the last decade of let-downs and comic book remakes. “Inception” is easily the best film of 2010 if not the last decade. Can’t wait to see what Nolan makes for the world next.

Comment on Disney’s “Oceans” definitely sinks to the bottom by Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:53:23 +0000

I haven’t seen this movie, however, after reading this I can see your point of view just based on the information you shared about it. It sounds like you feel mislead and deceived. Is that accurate? I’m guessing you are feeling angry and hurt because you really care about the quality in the way people express and communicate with you, in this case through this movie. Is that accurate?

Comment on Fake Can Be Just As Good by Jason Hill

Jason Hill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:47:22 +0000

I wouldn’t waste your time on CALS. It’s basically saying, lets throw the baby out with the bath water. Too bad he can’t make doc that would actually make a film that matters rather than preach didactically to the choir.

Comment on Fake Can Be Just As Good by Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:32:39 +0000

I like Keats’s take, “beauty is truth, truth beauty” How was Capitalism, A Love Story? I think Michael Moore is a big faker who makes fake documentaries. I haven’t been able to stomach anything he’s done since Roger & Me, but I’ll probably go see his new film anyway just for the fun of making myself angry.

Comment on Oh what a sick world. by Oh what a sick world.

Oh what a sick world. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:49:12 +0000

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Comment on Vantage Point by blurrypix

blurrypix — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:03:13 +0000

Thanks for your comments Floost and Bunker. Keep an eye on the site since myself and the main admin of the site will be posting articles frequently. As for me, I am not a professional journalist but I do have a film education and background in filmmaking which lends itself to writing passionately about film in general. I’m glad that passion is translating over to you. Thanks again for reading and stay tuned for more from moviesididntget.com!

Comment on No Country for movies with plots and endings… by admin

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:36:21 +0000

Vince-

Wow, Thanks for that insight! You definitely mentioned some things that I had not thought of concerning this film, especially that dream, thank you! But again, like so many people I know who tried to explain this film to me, had to reference others films to put this story in it’s proper context. I really should read the book now, but I bet I will understand the film even less after that.

Orv-

Thanks for posting. I encourage everyone to see this film! And every other film we talk about on this blog!

Travis -

Thanks for posting. Please send me any other films you want to talk about! I bet you could start a whole Coen Brother’s thread!

Comment on No Country for movies with plots and endings… by Vince

Vince — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:50:20 +0000

Also, the title seemed to refer to the “country” of the Texas/Mexico border, which had become overrun by drug runners since he had been young, and that these new criminals had more money and people than an aging small town sheriff could handle. The dream Tommy Lee Jones mentioned at the very end meant to him that he had nonetheless stuck out the hardest times, and could join the Old Ones with honor.

Comment on No Country for movies with plots and endings… by Vince

Vince — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:37:48 +0000

Correction- “sir” and “ma’am”

Comment on No Country for movies with plots and endings… by Vince

Vince — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:36:26 +0000

I believe what they were attempting was the same tongue in cheek portrayal of middle Americans that they pulled off in _Fargo_ and _Raising Arizona_. The source of the humor is that they (we) are able to deal with horrible situations, killing sprees, and so forth, with the same type of mom-and-pop outlook on life they (we) use to deal with an ice cream social. It is rather remarkable, if you ever notice it.

Like other movies by the same writers, it is full of people who seem too ordinary to be in a movie. There are neither villains nor innocents. The writers use simple, decent characters to show that human beings are neither simple nor decent.

In Fargo, the killers are humiliated in the end of the movie by being lectured in a squad car by a woman who could just as easily by a grade school teacher. In this movie, Tommy Lee Jones describes his admiration for older lawmen who were so compentent that they could do their jobs without a firearm, and laments that his society starting going downhill when people stopped saying “please” and “thank you”.

What it leaves the reader with is the chance to see that simple, mild mannered people are often stronger than the most desperate criminals. So get a glimpse of human nature that our TV society doesn’t let us often see.

One thing that would have made this a better movie would have been if the kids at the end had politely refused the bad guy’s money, and instead, retrieved medical help for him. His whole philosophy was that he looked down on ordinary people and thought they were so stupid that their life was worth no more than a coin flip. Yet, he could have been brought down by two dimwit kids even after the shootouts with these arch criminals and the pissed off Vietnam vet. I thought the message would have been perfectly underscored if it had ended that way.

I also had a hard time believing the bad guy’s motivations. People either kill for money or because they’re pissed off, and it seemed like he couldn’t decide what he wanted.