I watched He Was a Quiet Man last night. I hadn't heard of it before but it had a 80% rating on Rotton Tomatoes, so I gave it a chance.
It was bad.
Christian Slater (from nothing good lately) was main star and it also featured William H. Macy (from many great roles) and Elisha Cuthbert (from "24" on TV).
I thought it had some very interesting camera work and special effects, but they seemed cheesy after awhile and seemed more appropriate for a funky short. The acting was predictable and the story was weak - I thought there a major plot fault as well. I wouldn't recommend it.
I also finally saw No Country for Old Men with Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.Just as everything I've read about it and like everyone else I've talked to, I thought it was great.
Although I'm pretty sure that while I understood the ending, I didn't like it. Maybe I just wasn't satisfied by it. I didn't want to be taught a lesson about good and evil in that way.
2 comments:
You're right, the ending should have featured a fist fight between Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem, with Jones punching Bardem through a plate glass window and uttering a good one-liner like, "I like my coffee *without* Chigurh."
Or Sheriff Bell could have said, "This is for whom the Bell tolls" as he punched him.
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