[Movie -- / Day 58]
Almost as good on the second viewing as the first.
My rating: 7.8 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.4 / 10
Running time: 96 mins
IMDB link
Showing posts with label Frances McDormand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frances McDormand. Show all posts
Friday, 27 February 2009
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Mississippi Burning (1988)
[Movie 81 / Day 49]
Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe are two FBI agents with very different personalities that head the investigation into the disappearance of three voting rights activists from a small town in Mississippi.
Before long, they're fighting with the KKK and struggling to make a case in a town where nobody wants to speak out.
It's a pretty good film and well acted.
My rating: 7.4 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.7 / 10
Running time: 128 mins
IMDB link
Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe are two FBI agents with very different personalities that head the investigation into the disappearance of three voting rights activists from a small town in Mississippi.
Before long, they're fighting with the KKK and struggling to make a case in a town where nobody wants to speak out.
It's a pretty good film and well acted.
My rating: 7.4 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.7 / 10
Running time: 128 mins
IMDB link
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Burn After Reading (2008)
[Movie 77 / Day 45]
The new Coen brothers movie is an excellent tale of deception and paranoia. It's too complicated a story to describe now, I've drunk far too much, but suffice it to say, it's brilliant.
I especially loved George Clooney and John Malkovich, both of whom were excellent.
Far more enjoyable than No Country For Old Men (which was pretty good), this has a fair amount of comedy in it (like Oh Brother Where Art Thou).
My rating: 8.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.4 / 10
Running time: 96 mins
IMDB link
The new Coen brothers movie is an excellent tale of deception and paranoia. It's too complicated a story to describe now, I've drunk far too much, but suffice it to say, it's brilliant.
I especially loved George Clooney and John Malkovich, both of whom were excellent.
Far more enjoyable than No Country For Old Men (which was pretty good), this has a fair amount of comedy in it (like Oh Brother Where Art Thou).
My rating: 8.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.4 / 10
Running time: 96 mins
IMDB link
Monday, 2 February 2009
Fargo (1996)
[Movie 55 / Day 33]
When I first saw Fargo, I didn't like it. But then, I also didn't like Blood Simple, Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski on the first watch either. So when I saw it in the bargain bin at Asda, I thought I'd give it another go.
I enjoyed it much more this time round - in fact, I really liked it for the first half an hour, when the main characters are William H. Macy (who is criminally under-rated), Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare. Then, unfortunately, Frances McDormand's character hits the screen and the reasons I didn't like this movie came flooding back. Mainly, I really don't like the accent that nearly everyone on screen is afflicted with once McDormand is introduced. I don't know if it's a real accent and whether that manner of speaking is accurate, or if it was done for 'comic' effect, but it really, really grates.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but it's not as strong as it's made out to be - and I found the ending to be lacking something. What, I'm not sure, but it didn't seem a good way to finish.
My rating: 6.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 8.3 / 10
Running time: 98 mins
IMDB link
When I first saw Fargo, I didn't like it. But then, I also didn't like Blood Simple, Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski on the first watch either. So when I saw it in the bargain bin at Asda, I thought I'd give it another go.
I enjoyed it much more this time round - in fact, I really liked it for the first half an hour, when the main characters are William H. Macy (who is criminally under-rated), Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare. Then, unfortunately, Frances McDormand's character hits the screen and the reasons I didn't like this movie came flooding back. Mainly, I really don't like the accent that nearly everyone on screen is afflicted with once McDormand is introduced. I don't know if it's a real accent and whether that manner of speaking is accurate, or if it was done for 'comic' effect, but it really, really grates.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but it's not as strong as it's made out to be - and I found the ending to be lacking something. What, I'm not sure, but it didn't seem a good way to finish.
My rating: 6.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 8.3 / 10
Running time: 98 mins
IMDB link
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