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apocalypsosWinter's Bone
Three things:
1. This is a fantastic amazing movie that more than deserves every nomination it got. The one thing I will give it tons of credit for is that it could have been really easy to stoop to the redneck hillbilly cliches, but they really do a very good job of avoiding it. These are people first and foremost -- dirt-poor and squirrel-hunting in rundown homes with cluttered yards, yes, but it's the sort of poverty that's neither a joke nor a caricature.
2. It wasn't until halfway through John Hawkes' first scene, when I was trying to distract myself about how fucking creepy he was by checking his IMDb listing, that I realized the reason I thought I knew him from somewhere is because he was the weaselly guy in The Perfect Storm.
3. I've decided that my current idea of the perfect movie would be Jennifer Lawrence and Hailee Steinfeld kicking ass and taking names for two hours. They can play ass-kicking sisters! Helen Mirren can be their ass-kicking grandma!
Three things:
1. This is a fantastic amazing movie that more than deserves every nomination it got. The one thing I will give it tons of credit for is that it could have been really easy to stoop to the redneck hillbilly cliches, but they really do a very good job of avoiding it. These are people first and foremost -- dirt-poor and squirrel-hunting in rundown homes with cluttered yards, yes, but it's the sort of poverty that's neither a joke nor a caricature.
2. It wasn't until halfway through John Hawkes' first scene, when I was trying to distract myself about how fucking creepy he was by checking his IMDb listing, that I realized the reason I thought I knew him from somewhere is because he was the weaselly guy in The Perfect Storm.
3. I've decided that my current idea of the perfect movie would be Jennifer Lawrence and Hailee Steinfeld kicking ass and taking names for two hours. They can play ass-kicking sisters! Helen Mirren can be their ass-kicking grandma!
