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Add me to the "Cutter's Way is fantastic & ridiculously underseen" camp.
Add me to the "Cutter's Way is fantastic & ridiculously underseen" camp.
Hell yes. How awesome was old school John Heard?
I need to show that to friends soon.
Check out the film Heaven Help Us. One of the best teen films I've seen, and it's also fucking hilarious. Heard is great in that. Pretty deep cast too, with Donald Sutherland, Mary Stewart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, and Wallace Shawn.
And guess what, it's on YouTube, if you're not against that kind of thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJQohuwiAPo
You sold me at Sexiest Man Alive™ Wallace Shawn.
The lead actor looked so much like the guy who plays Nick on New Girl. It was really distracting.
I forgot about Lebowski...it's still close, though.
I have one major, major complaint about ILD, though: The friggin' music. Oh my God, I don't care how pretty it was, it doesn't sound anything like the period it was meant to. Well, none of Llewyn's music, anyways. Everyone else was pretty on track. Maybe he was just way, way ahead of his time.
Just got back from Inside Llewyn Davis. Gonna post my thoughts here before I go back and read what all you thought of it, as I always do with films.
I thought it was pretty crap to be perfectly honest. I think that's sacrilegious, because I'm pretty sure it got good reviews and was nominated for some awards.
The music throughout is boring. Not a single one of those songs even remotely interested me (aside from the Llewyn-Justin Timberlake-hick dude performance of that Kennedy song, which was a highlight). The whole movie to me seemed completely directionless. There wasn't much of a plot, and so many interesting detours were left completely unanswered and un-revisited. The car trip with that dude and John Goodman was great, probably my favourite part of the film, Goodman was great... but the other dude got arrested, Llewyn left the cat and Goodman behind and it was never spoken of again. I thought Jean was a great character, but the movie never really delved beyond the surface level of her relationship with Llewyn. She was a total bitch for 90% of it (and that was hilarious) and then they had this touching moment back at her place, and then she was gone. His old girlfriend, who had Llewyn's child, never pops up and just when you think he might take a detour to her town he drives past and it's completely forgotten.
The film ends with him sitting outside the bar having been punched, and then cuts to credits. We never find out if he got successful, or went back to the Navy, or even if he went back in the bar and saw the birth of Bob Dylan.
One of the most unsatisfying films I have ever seen. Some really quite funny parts, the cats were fantastic and added a good deal of levity to the film, and some interesting characters, but there was no conclusions at all and I walked out of the theatre not even sure what I'd watched. 5/10.