March 23, 2008

  • I watched a couple of much acclaimed  movies over the weekend. The first one was the Coen brothers No Country For Old Men. I did like it, thought it was very good, however I don't know if it was worthy of an Oscar for best picture. I also feel that it was not the Coen brothers best work, as I feel Fargo was better than No Country. I think the academy felt they were much overdue for an Oscar much in the same way Martin Scorsese won last year for the Departed, a great movie, although not as good as Goodfellas. I will say this much though, the villain in No Country For Old Men (played wonderfully by Javier Bardem) was the creepiest character I have seen in a movie since Robert Blake's character in Lost Highway. This character might have made the movie worth the price of admission alone, however the rest of the movie was still very good.

    The other movie I watched was Into The Wild, which is a fact based movie about a 23 year old guy who leaves home in West Virginia and travels cross country for 2 years before eventually going to live in the wilderness by himself in Alaska. I think I liked this movie more than No Country For Old Men, even if it probably was not better. I was able to relate to the character a lot more as both he and I share a passionate love of travel and have a strong sense of adventure. The movie was directed by Sean Penn and stars the adorable Emile Hirsch. As a bonus for me, he is also naked in the movie. And I don't mean just his ass, but his junk too! Unfortunately, it was a scene that was high up in the area so you don't get that good of a look at it, but it was still nice. Getting back to the movie though, this guy's journey was nothing short of amazing. On one hand, it seemed like he completely lost it when he left home, as he pretty much broke off all contact with his family, going as far as to even change his name so that he would not be found or associated with them. On the other hand, this was truly an amazing and ballsy thing to do, being out on his own with no car or money. I think I would have loved to have done something like that at his age, although I probably would have skipped doing some of the things he did.

    This morning we went to Mark's house for breakfast. Ok, so eating at 11:30 is probably not everybody's idea of breakfast, but we didn't get there until almost 11 and the food wasn't done until after 11:30 in the am. And although we were only going there for breakfast, next thing you know we had lunch there too. And then dinner. Mark and Amy just got a Wii so we got hooked on playing that for, I dunno, the better part of 6 hours.

    For whatever reason, I'm tired tonight. I'm gonna cut this short.