Last movie you watched......

Julianne Moore? You mean Naomi Watts? Are you thinking of "The Big Lebowski"?

I love "No Country for Old Men," yes. And I think that "Mullholland Drive" was the best movie of the 2000s. (I love David Lynch, though.)

I'm not sure that "No Country" had an ambiguous ending as much as a tacked-on one, i.e. Jones speechifying.

Ambiguous endings:

"Take Shelter"
"Sound of My Voice" (mentioned a few posts back by me)
"A Serious Man"
"Total Recall"
"The Wrestler"
"Inception"
"The Shining"
"Barton Fink"
"Another Earth"
"Doubt"

 

I could pull up 20 reviews right now where critics call it a great movie or the best movie of the year.

And I saw it and thought it was fantastic.

 

'Cache' is a great movie that doesn't answer plot questions.

 

The movie "No Country For Old Men" ends exactly as the book did. In fact, probably half of the dialogue in the movie is lifted straight from McCarthy.

But speaking of ambiguous endings ... Reservoir Dogs.

 

Yeah I meant Naomi Watts.

Cache was enjoyable.

Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorites; definitely ambiguous.

 

I don't think No Country for Old Men is all that ambiguous. Many people I've discussed the movie with simply find the conclusion unsettling or unacceptable out of hand.

 

It seems like the biggest issue people have with NCFOM is that the fate of protagonist and antagonist both occur off-film. (Think that's true of Shighur, though I might be wrong about that - I know that however it occurred, people felt it was anticlimactic.)

 

Inception had an ambiguous beginning and middle, too.

 

Hugh Jackman is a Tony award winner with considerable experience in musicals on Broadway, in Australia and on the West End. It's Russell Crowe you should be worrying about.

 

I know Jackman's background. He's a very charismatic performer in general, but he's pretty good but not great as a singer. But yes, of the three, Crowe worries me the most, especially when it comes to "Stars".

At the same time, I know I'm most likely fighting a losing battle in that if the singing from the main people is decent (even though those songs deserve better than decent), and the rest of it looks as awesome as it does in the trailers then people will love it.

 

Tried to watch Prometheus (sp?) the other night. Fell asleep.

 

I'll see it and decide for myself, but I have a hard time believing that "Les Miserables" is going to be some all-time, holy-shit, this-is-on-par-with-both-"Godfathers" seminal film for the canon.

It's a song-and-dance remake of a play that we all already are intimately familiar with, if you did so much as take French I in high school, or had an adolescent Broadway kick that lasted more than five minutes.

Like "The Artist" and "Chicago," I'm sure it'll be just delightful.

And largely forgotten in a year.

We'll see, but I just don't know what could possibly elevate it beyond that, considering the elements and the story, all of which we are familiar with already.