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Movies: In Bruges and Appaloosa
Friday I get to Aptos and Scott wants to go see "Appaloosa" which I had never heard of, at all. I looked it up on the computer and it's a frikkin WESTERN. I tell him, "Hello, you go see "Burn After Reading" without me and now you want to take me to another stupid western?????" We stayed in and watched a dvd of "In Bruges" instead. Wow. I loved it, Scott loved it, and we both loved Colin Farrell. I cannot believe I didn't see this movie earlier. It's probably one of my top ten favorite movies EVER. I was hooked as soon as the voiceover started in the first minute, but within 5 minutes Colin utters these words (in his heavy Irish accent): "Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't." And you have to actually hear him say it, but I was in LOVE with the movie from that point on. This is a movie you could spend the rest of your life quoting. Excellent. Just Excellent. So then I relented and went to see "Appaloosa" with Scott on Saturday evening. And you know what? That was a really good movie. I have to hand it to them, the plot was different than any I had ever seen before, and that's saying something. I'm not even going to tell you what it is, but this was the craziest "love story" I have ever seen. For a western, the bad-guy plot was incidental - it was the whole "What the FUCK are they going to do with that woman???" part that held your interest. Of course, Ed Harris, Viggo Mortenson and Jeremy Irons were the stars and Viggo especially held MY interest. Renee Zellweger was a big bucket of ugly in this movie, far as I could tell, but she played her part hilariously. And the ending? Was PERFECT. I left with a smile on my face, and very happy to see it. I've never seen one preview for this movie and it's only playing on one theater over here - but if you can see this in your town, I definitely recommend it. Posted by Pischina at October 12, 2008 11:24 AMComments
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