Bog wrote:I guess your review is clever?
I guess that is what you were going for, I personally didn't think any of the film was extraneous and maybe I'm nitpicking and you were thinking of your whole movie-going experience with commercials and whatnot, but it's barely over two and a half hours long as a film, I felt that needed to be said what with "three fucking hours" so peppered throughout
I could've easily spent another hour with these characters, especially in that gripping coda (what happened to Bob Ford in between 1882 and 1892, for instance?). Sonic's "three fucking hours", which as Bog has stated is actually more like 2 hours and 40 minutes, absolutely breezes by. I do have to agree with him on one point, though: Mary-Louise Parker took the rather thankless role of Jesse's wife and created a piercing emblem of devastation in her final scenes. Paul Schnieder (hapless and adorable in The Family Stone and Lars and the Real Girl, btw) was fabulous here and maintained an indelible impression right from his first appearance on-screen.
And there simply aren't enough superlatives to describe Casey Affleck's performance in this film. It was just stunning. How he lost out on awards for this performance, whatever category he was nominated in, is mind-boggling. I'm still processing. Why did it take me so long to see this film?
Sonic, you get the award for the most self-referential (and self-indulgent) review of a movie this year.
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