A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. This film stars Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman. This film was written and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen. I was very excited about this film. It enthralls the very like and dislike fascination I have with the Coen brothers. I dislike "No Country For Old Men", "O Brother Where Art Thou" and "Fargo", but I love "The Hudsucker Proxy", "Raising Arizona" and "The Big Lebowski", which is in my top 5 greatest movies of all time. "Inside Llewyn Davis" falls between these two categories for me.
Let me make this statement and no I'm not ashamed of it "I love folk music". There are a lot of great scenes in this movie of folk music at it's purest. The songs in this movie are great and the actors/musicians deliver them well. The movie does a great job of putting you in the music scene at the time. This film develops some amazing characters which I believe the Coen brothers are experts at pulling off. This is where my criticisms for this film begin. I'm so captivated by the music and the characters and just wanting to see where they will all take us. Well I'm left wandering what happens to so many side stories I'm so amazingly introduced to. There are amazing twists in the film that I can't disregard but I was left wanting.
I would not recommend this film for families but for anyone that appreciates how much folk music has influenced musicians over the years and how much they had to sacrifice. The drink I would recommend for this film would be a white Russian, that's a respectful homage to the Coen Brothers and Walter Sobchack. I give this film 2 and 1/2 beer cans. This is not a bad film at all, I was just left wanting more.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
“Great” Scott’s Stupendously Great Review of Non-Stop (2014)
“Great” Scott’s Stupendously
Great Review of Non-Stop (2014)
Title
Non-Stop
IMDB
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Summary
It’s a who-dunnit in the air as
Liam Neeson’s air marshall Bill Marks tries to stop a murderer from killing
people on an airplane.
What’s
Great About It
Nothing’s particularly great
about this move, but there’s a lot that’s very good.
What’s
Not-So-Great About It
Some people are
going to complain about the political undertones, but, seriously, it’s a Liam
Neeson Movie. Also, at the risk of a
MINOR spoiler, part of the ending pushes the needle into the absurd region.
Rating
GGGg
(3.5 out of 5)
Explanation
Let me get this out of the way
right out of the gate…this movie will never be mistaken for an Oscar
nominee. It’s not artsy-fartsy and you’ll
never mistake it for 12 Years a Slave
(except for the odd fact that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o plays a ridiculously
small part) or Philomena. If you understand these (pretty damned
obvious) statements, you’ll be prepared for Non-Stop,
which is a very entertaining movie.
The plot’s pretty simple: Liam
Neeson plays an air marshal that gets a text from a mystery person who wants
150 million dollars. That mystery person
threatens to kill someone on the plane every 20 minutes if the money isn’t
delivered. The rest of the movie sees
Neeson growl at people the way only he can; people who are familiar with law
enforcement will probably take some umbrage with some of the tactics Neeson’s
Bill Marks employs, and said tactics did make my eyes roll from time to time,
but for most of the hour and 45 minutes of this movie, I was entertained. Neeson does a great job, and just enough of
the supporting cast does just enough to make them suspicious and potential threats.
There’s not really much more to
say. Non-Stop was entertaining, but it's a
movie I’m likely to forget in a few months.
I enjoyed the time I spent in theater, but I’m not going put it on any top
ten lists. If you enjoy a good suspense
movie (or, more specifically, if you liked Liam Neeson in Taken or Unknown), you’ll
enjoy Non-Stop. It merits a rainy day
trip to the theater or at the very least a rental.
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