12.25.2007

No Movie for Old Men

Back in my day, when somebody made a movie, it was supposed to have a point, dammit!

That's decidedly not the case in No Country for Old Men, which has lots of great scenery, acting, and action, but absolutely no point. It was very well made, and critics are calling it a masterpiece, but the problem is the story. There's just not much there. It's like Michelangelo spending years painting the Sistene Chapel to illustrate some guy walking into a bakery.

Old Zeke will probably like it. He liked Magnolia, a similarly artful and pointless movie.

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