"Blood" hits not only its castmembers over the head again and again and again and again, it inflicts the same abuse on the audience. Yes, both films touch on similar themes - Greed and Existence. But, more importantly, it's a far deeper film than "Blood," if only in its subtext. Last time I checked, that was a good thing. The distinction of the Most Overrated belongs entirely to the critics' consensus winner, "There Will Be Blood." Yes, "No Country For Old Men" is a film that is outwardly exciting. Anderson film, this "pinball machine," as the unknown author(s) of the article refers to it, is a film that defies category and might be, even with all its praise, the Most Underrated film of '07. Unlike the heavy-handedly manipulative P.T. This led me to write the following two reactionary paragraphs: But it’s also a soulless enterprise, with nothing more on its mind than the expert manipulation of the spectator, critics included. In formal terms, the Coen brothers’ latest pinball machine is obviously superior to 90 percent of the year’s releases. For that, I’d happily mark down No Country for Old Men. What upset me about the aforementioned article was this:Ī more useful category, addressing as it does the tyranny of conventional wisdom, would be Most Overrated. and 38 minutes), the look and feel of an HBO mini-series, lame humor, and Daniel Day Lewis' half- Snidely Whiplash, half- John Wilkes Booth over-performance (which will likely win him the coveted gold statuette).
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only with lots of head-bonking, an under-developed main character (revolutionary for a movie with a running time of 2hrs.
that last year's best film was "There Will Be Blood." It's "startlingly original".
In an article entitled "2007 Film Poll: If It Bleeds, It Leads," authors unknown have conspired to perpetuate this year's biggest myth. Well, the smarms at the Village Voice (L.A.
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