No Country For Old Men
posted by pfunk on 2008-08-11 19:38:17Just watched No Country For Old Men. Wow. I like dark and I like it well done.
Sometimes I go a while without seeing a really good movie and forget how good they can really be.
Some people criticize movies like this. A lot of people don't like movies without tidy endings and full explanations. I think it's the same group of people that don't like poetry that doesn't rhyme, or jokes with no punch lines. Songs with no catchy chorus. I just can't relate.
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posted by jigawatt on 2008-08-14 18:47:53In the introduction to Paradise Lost, Milton writes,
"The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hinderance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse."
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