Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-25 (Saturday)

On 1/26/25 11:13 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 1/26/2025 10:50 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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What did you watch?
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 I watched:
  No Country For Old Men (4K disc) 2007 movie written by Joel and Ethan Coen and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.  Josh Brolin stars as a man who finds himself in over his head after stumbling across a drug deal gone bad and stealing 2 million in cash left at the scene.

So, I just discovered recently that this is based on novel by famous (infamous?) author, Cormac McCarthy, the guy who also wrote "Blood Meridian" which they've been trying to adapt into a movie for decades and have continually failed!
I supposed one of these days I need to watch "No Country For Old Men", but it's never been a high priority.

True Grit (blu-ray) 2010 movie written by Joel and Ethan Coen and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.  Bailee Steinfeld

Hailee.

stars as a 14 year old girl in the old West out for revenge against the man (Josh Brolin) who murdered her father.  To bring him to justice she hires an alcoholic lawman (Jeff Bridges) because he has "true grit."  Matt Damon also costars as a Texas lawman who teams up with them.  This is a pretty good Western.

I'm pretty sure that the consensus is that this is a better adaptation than the earlier John Wayne film.