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on around million
world
yeah looked in the lower body welcome to what the flick
alongside a row the crystal a mere matter actually I
Christian Bale has a new accent for us when we are leaving
no I do I always believe is I consider raising did
that he's mentioned his name and street from
for the recall out Burnett the stars Christian Bale and Katie act like as
brothers living in a very depressed steel belt town
the year two thousand acres right around the time about
the presidential election and they're both struggling
and they try to get themselves out %uh this rock that they ran in different
ways Christian Bale tried to do it
in legal positive ways and get the applica- that through bare-knuckle
boxing and getting caught up with all kind
carry back with the gangsters and met head take a look
no one a unifying pas need money
he'd be a good blog
teach you a lesson
I
don't
they haven't been able on your brother people skills
dole me to just so I'm this is a leaner Caprio protection
yet yet give his hip fracture pressing partner is that political mom
at my kids school all yeah a pin way to be here
but if you like it angry and dirty ingredient trying to be the dear hunter
so yeah it is deer hunter written all over it and
it it's not about anything though it's like you know
it wouldn't fit into a look at this this is a movie that is clearly made with the
best of intentions and it's about let's talk about
how shitty it is for the working class right now and how the war in Iraq tried
on a people got stop-loss it'd mess with their heads
and and and people the the plant is closing in there's no word can I mean
all those things are interesting ideas
drinking song it know in my review of the dishes like every new card on
Springsteen's born board
but there's no the people to get I cook those ideas onto I didn't care about it
is character there in
necessarily believe them really they dissolve it like walking statements of
purpose
love you know agree I thought it was a nation article with but no story no
I disagree I really liked and admired Christian Bale character in this
that years ago been dealt a bad hand head screws up an end up in jail for it
and is trying to do the right thing that scene on the bridge that he has was Zoe
Saldana
I thought was heartbreaking that heartbreak high and I think that
when he's when he's you know to measure a Christian Bale
acting ability that you get to see the grief and yet like 14 himself
to express joy for her I found that to be really powerful
are I think the movie does make some mistakes now there's the first
scene where Christian Bale like pubs had a Woody Harrelson and Harrellson said
something to him
that almost renders use worse
the very first scene we see Woody Harrelson
here and like when he realizes right when he says
I got a problem everybody like okay with that now I don't need to have seen
anything
from the beginning that movie because now you've very skillfully set that
character
right with a white that lineup I thought that was really affected I thought there
was a lot a really good stuff great I agree that there's
problems with the movie like there's a some places where
it doesn't quite come together but I felt like as a collection
%uh acting and really powerful scene I feel like
it it get so close to working that
I'm willing to cut cut some slack I wonder because the calf is still great
you got likely that will in a photo that Woody Harrelson Tim Shepherd and as I
what and their own coltrane bail and get the app but the course
like they elevate was essentially kinda a grimy genre
water rated by showing up in heaven it's really it's very good worker shows I
brought with me right now
I I kind of wish this had been a grimy genre picture that also dealt with
bigger ideas
fine it feels like a shift gears from Big Idea movie about
the working poor and the raw deal they're getting to I
underground by clubs with New Jersey nobility like anything about
it quiet could it could be both but I don't think the movie
treats them I don't the movie doesn't feel comfortable being both the same
time
if you look at one and that is the other and I and II same will discuss it with
with last days a mars to
I feel like filmmakers seem to forget that
a lot the grimy genre movies in the past also
encompass big ideas and kinda snuck them in a cool way
and now it sort of feels like oh I can be one or the other and then
if I want to be both I have to head to the dustbin abrupt shift between the two
when it has now done it when the kinda thing with me it is about big ideas
about
redemption and about forgiving yourself for your path and then and
and also is about the day-to-day life I'm
the really horrible people I don't see why did they can
work together they do really really beautifully here it to me and I love it
the end is Nettie also interesting bill becomes the like
undercover bath in way that under the he has the knowledge
other me if you live in the small town he's been around screwed up
met had people for a while but he knows how to insert himself
in a way that I don't know really what I got my skill set yeah I'm actually not
buying it
I bought that his character like there's that there's a certain type a guy who
is like the quiet competent guy have we keep the I feel like
you know again go back to the tee with Woody Harrelson worry bout to the health
and health
you know he says I'm sorry and house into something like you better be
and you see that that in part this is Bill spur trail
you see this as a character that will be polite but wall
backed out won't shrink back and says we do have some kind of problem
and you know that's that strike three like their defining that guy is somebody
who
will assert himself
when pushed to and so at the end
you know the the when he's up against woody harrelson
I bought into that I i believe dat I thought that was
consistent with what we'd see now that character previously
you know if he'd been imprisoned he he knew them that
well drug your already been pretty I'm not beating your
for present right like he's in prison and somebody
stepped up to him and wants to you know and he immediately like size up the
situation
a Christian Bale start writing the guy to structural two or three other
prisoners
show up three starts getting beaten on but when it's one to one he shows that
he's kinda feel sorry
can handle himself and I'm I bought that in this movie I thought that that was a
character that could have I will say I like Christian Bale's performers at the
one takeaway I had from this and I
busy with Royal saddam is definitely the highlight but I think frankly if you're
gonna see
a Christian Bale movie this month save your money and wait for America
0 you should see about that I've got more to dispel performance I think Casey
Affleck's performance
what that characters last words I thought were really interesting and
that characters the way he portrayed that character and kinda like his
inability to kinda just
settle down I found really compelling I thought we had also did a really good
job I mean yeah okay since killing
he's terrified and that's what time he was great you know Willem Dafoe great as
always
like you right no saldana I think it's really good
force will occur as a guy who is in a weird position
and is trying to do the right thing by the protocol by the book he does
me to turn to a great performance I think this is a movie that showcases
enough good
acting that I was willing to overlook the flaws in the storytelling because I
think there's enough positive
in a storytelling that ultimately a it comes together
for me in a satisfying way and I was okay that was trying to be
deer hunter and it's got more the little winters bone in it too yeah I just I
like the idea that there's a very high
phony factor here didn't from Scott Cooper who wrote directed Crazy Heart
right so I feel like this is his net right he knows these desperate
candid dirty low-down people who are trying to save themselves and you know
that those
for me somebody had said that this directors
somebody told him he needs to be a serious filmmaker
with a capital asset her country makes serious movie in 3d readmitted to the
ridge
yeah that's the thing I I think this movie had been a little grimy really
wouldn't have felt so
all look I'm going to put a spotlight on these poor downtrodden people
there was there was just there was a sense that the just kinda
BS I didn't that I could not come through for the film but obviously you
got another problem so I don't think so cuz I feel like this fits within the
same
was owners like killing them softly wright also didn't work
about from another day another dollar with the game numbers so
II five-and-a-half only for the acting I think the script in the directing our
bullshit
I'm I'll I disagree I i mostly why I found myself thinking about this movie
for about a week and it clearly affected me so I
I get to 7.5 omitted whenever 2007 coming I'm high on this than my previous
number indicates I'm now at seven that's what like a six-point 8
mister route I if I'm 7 the 27
the seven I birth have a talented here are we
though I'm that the 7 average for a third 57 percent on the tomato meter
I'm know it sorry sorry for me know if that point six parades separately but
up with the idea that the copy it somewhere in that range
place it within 7 percent right down the drain let's clearly
to know I'd rather see awfully do that all the time