Posted by: lootekukur March 19, 2008
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hey oys bro!
good to 'see' you after a hiatus.
well, no country for old men is a brilliant movie no doubt (at least of all the 07 movies i watched and heard of), but i won't say it's a flawless piece (not that all oscar winning movies are flawless though) and that's strictly based on my personal observation/opinion. i haven't read Cormac McCarthy's novel so i don't know how well it's been adapted by Coen brothers but i somehow felt that all other characters in the movie apart from Javier's  are shallow with none of them taking the lead from the opposite side. first it's brolin then jones then harrelson and not to mention brolin's and jones' wives who are there just for namesake.... no one gets much scope and screen time.  i felt jones and brolin both performed quite well but there wasn't much opportunity for their characters to display histrionics coz their characterization was pretty lose. i think when the antagonist is as powerful as Javier's character, there ought to be a more powerful character on the opposite side, either in brolin or Jones. it feels like the movie is entirely based on Javier and his psychotic behaviorism..

HAHA..and no, i wasn't expecting anything of David Dhawan's kinda stupid ending...i felt that the plot didn't deserve a more than 2 hours reel. the second half (more towards the end )is superfluous and they could have easily done away with few sequences especially once brolin (moss) gets killed...(sorry for the spoiler sahayog and other folks who haven't watched it yet)

btw, i have heard good things about mr. and mrs. iyer. i would definitely put it in my list. :D

Riten bro!
i too liked cheeni kum. the other day i watched taare zameen par. it was fantastic (by bollywood standard)...and chak de india was also pretty good.







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