Awesome movie. Nothing more need be said. 10/10
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As you may know, if anyone actually reads this blog, after my epic 20-month trip across Asia and Europe, I will eventually arrive in the UK, where I wish to attend University/College. I would really like to live in London, just because it looks downright awesome. So much culture and history, the food, the sights, the smells and the people - just everything.
So I was looking around at Universities and the like and I found the London College Of Communication. Quite frankly, it looks great. I’m interested in possibly either their Journalism or Film & Video courses. Maybe even Photography - I’ll just have to see what happens. Film & Video would help greatly in putting together a film/documentary of my travels using the footage I’ll have from my trip (hopefully using the nice JVC i posted about earlier)…
Monday afternoon, and my family decided to go see a movie. “No Country For Old Men” they said it was called. I had never heard of it. We drive to the cinema, buy some tickets, and I go sit down with my “Jumbo” Drink (about a medium at McDonalds) and some Maltesers. Put my mobile on silent (what type of sucker turns it off?) and I wait for the film to start.
Now, i hadn’t heard of it before, so at the start i wasn’t expecting much. In fact I didn’t know what to expect. But then my dad started saying how he’s heard so much about it, and how he thinks it’ll be really, really good and we’ll all enjoy it. Now I’m starting to think it’ll be worse than having a horse fart in a bag and then sticking your head in it. My Dad’s choice in movies.. isn’t the best. He said he’d heard that Rescue Dawn got 2/10 in some review, so that proved it was not worth seeing. I liked rescue Dawn; I’d had given it at least 8/10 (It’s IMDB article gives it an average of 7.7/10)
So, as I sat down in the semi-full cinema, I wasn’t exactly ecstatic about seeing a movie recommended by my dad. But, luckily for me, No Country For Old Men turned out to be far better than expected.
The performances of Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin are particularly outstanding efforts. I was very annoyed both that Josh’s Character (Llewelyn) died, and that Javier’s Character (Anton) didn’t die. A film that can make me emotional about something, is an outstanding film. The acting of all characters, was exemplary and outstanding. The ending, though was a little confusing, and leads one to assume that perhaps there’ll be a sequel?
Personally I’m just hoping there will be a sequel, just to see Anton die. Seriously, I’d like to see him dead. Whilst I watched him throughout the movie (i wont spoil the story for any of you), i could feel myself suddenly getting an urge to hit him in the face. I’m sure Javier Bardem is a positively lovely guy, “Anton Chigurh” on the other hand is a positively insane bastard.
Anyway, to round up. This movie, although I’d heard nothing of it, turned out to be really enjoyable.
8/10
I recently stumbled across a series of videos known as “Sexy Beijing”. They’re produced by a company called goldmines film, which also makes other china-based short films. Here is an Episode of “Sexy Beijing” to wet your appetite:
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You can find the Sexy Beijing Archives here. And a youtube account with Sexy Beijing (amongst other interesting videos) here.