Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]>

>
>  going to silllllly cohen brothers movies,
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>The Other Debbie wanted to see that, but we never made it.  Should
> we have gone, or were we better off monitoring the pre-school meltdown of the
> Short People?<<<<<<<<
>

well, I saw it at BAM, which I understand sports top-notch sound reproducing equipment....
music is fundamental to this film, and I'd say you have to have some taste for southern
and old time music to really enjoy it....

the youngers didn't enjoy it as much as the elders, partly, I think, to a lack of
knowledge
re: the depression and the south, and possibly O. Henry stories, on one of which this
movie was supposedly based  (as well as the Odyssey)....

clooney sort of detracted from the experience by seriously hamming it up -- BUT then
again,
maybe that was the directors' way of bringing O. Henry's 30's ornately flowery prose to
screen..?

it was a piece of visual and musical art, if nothing else   ;)

deb  "I don't really like clooney all that much, but what do I know?"



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