tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591038.post8141890238494345530..comments2024-02-25T04:20:09.570-08:00Comments on When the Dead Walk the Earth: Miller's Crossing (1990)/ No Country for Old Men (2007)Jeff McMahonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17455194268519396055noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591038.post-57292266957166696992008-03-11T17:58:00.000-08:002008-03-11T17:58:00.000-08:00just watched no country for old men, it's unassumi...just watched no country for old men, it's unassumingly unconventional yet (thankfully) never over-the-top. the Coen bros. deserve their Oscars; well done indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591038.post-50435915475561879612008-02-28T11:42:00.000-08:002008-02-28T11:42:00.000-08:00You know, sometimes a movie just doesn't hit you w...You know, sometimes a movie just doesn't hit you where you live. It happens. Other times, it hooks you somehow and you end up buying into it 100%<BR/><BR/>For me, I'm addicted to the way the Coens write dialogue and Miller's has some of their best. They always seem to key into a regional mode of common speech and turn it into a weird kind of poetry. <BR/><BR/>The dialogue is the hook of Miller's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591038.post-48712320913828704142008-02-28T02:44:00.000-08:002008-02-28T02:44:00.000-08:00Yeah, I see that the movie is about what you're sa...Yeah, I see that the movie is about what you're saying intellectually, Craig, it's just that I don't really feel it in my gut. Aside from blaming myself (was I sleepy when watching it?) I can only think that there's some missing piece of screenwriting or performance that's keeping me from connecting to Byrne's character. For example, unlike classic detectives like Bogart's Sam Spade or Philip Jeff McMahonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17455194268519396055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591038.post-28003529195188328702008-02-27T09:52:00.000-08:002008-02-27T09:52:00.000-08:00I love Miller's Crossing so I'll have to disagree ...I love Miller's Crossing so I'll have to disagree with your estimation, though not violently so.<BR/><BR/>For me, Tom's character arc is as the man who appears to be completely self absorbed, but who is the only man in the film who really has the 'ettics' thrown around by Caspar.<BR/><BR/>The whole movie he's juggling all of these threads, not for his own self interest, but to basically save Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com