Crazy Heart - Good Flick
John30_30
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Stars Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake, an over-the-hill, country hasbeen- getting the picture? who drives a beatup, old Suburban that's also seen better days to play bars and bowling alleys all across the Southwest with pickup bands.
His main interest is staying alive playing these dumps long enough to drink himself to death, if cancer or emphysema don't cut in on his dance.
Dang, if that don't sound like a good first line for a country song right there.
...with Maggie Gyllenhall as the cute love interest half his age, Colin Farrell as a very creditable country superstar who used to be Bad's sideman or something....and a wonderful cameo by Mr. Robert Duvall.
Bad's old songs and soundtrack music by T-Bone Burnett, who I have to say I don't care for, but his stuff is tolerable here.
I do have to give props to both Mr. Bridges and Colin Farrell for not only doing their own vocals- well, hell, it's country after all; and apparently doing their own strumming and chord changes too. Bridges does a little slide number in a bar that sure looked creditable to me.
Well, there's some romance, some good plot devices, we're all pulling for Bad to get it right before he flames out- hell, he's a 57 year old screwup, may not have much longer. Willie Makeit?
Without blowing the story, I have to say it's a well done movie, no crappy Hollywood saccharin ending, and entertaining. Maybe they tie it up a little too neat and clean there after the big crisis, but it's a story.
All the sidemen he picks up from town to town are, of course, way better than they should be, and that dang Jeff Bridges can carry what he's given, so the music is tolerable, even if T-Bone Burnett wrote it.
And I'm looking at the country superstar Tommy Sweet, (who Bad resents because the younger guy blew past him) and thinking who the hell is that actor? Looks like a young Mel Gibson, except better looking. Why, Begorrah, it's Colin Farrell an where's his Dublin accent goneta I'm askin ye?
He's bonafide!
2 thumbs & 1 bottleneck up.
His main interest is staying alive playing these dumps long enough to drink himself to death, if cancer or emphysema don't cut in on his dance.
Dang, if that don't sound like a good first line for a country song right there.
...with Maggie Gyllenhall as the cute love interest half his age, Colin Farrell as a very creditable country superstar who used to be Bad's sideman or something....and a wonderful cameo by Mr. Robert Duvall.
Bad's old songs and soundtrack music by T-Bone Burnett, who I have to say I don't care for, but his stuff is tolerable here.
I do have to give props to both Mr. Bridges and Colin Farrell for not only doing their own vocals- well, hell, it's country after all; and apparently doing their own strumming and chord changes too. Bridges does a little slide number in a bar that sure looked creditable to me.
Well, there's some romance, some good plot devices, we're all pulling for Bad to get it right before he flames out- hell, he's a 57 year old screwup, may not have much longer. Willie Makeit?
Without blowing the story, I have to say it's a well done movie, no crappy Hollywood saccharin ending, and entertaining. Maybe they tie it up a little too neat and clean there after the big crisis, but it's a story.
All the sidemen he picks up from town to town are, of course, way better than they should be, and that dang Jeff Bridges can carry what he's given, so the music is tolerable, even if T-Bone Burnett wrote it.
And I'm looking at the country superstar Tommy Sweet, (who Bad resents because the younger guy blew past him) and thinking who the hell is that actor? Looks like a young Mel Gibson, except better looking. Why, Begorrah, it's Colin Farrell an where's his Dublin accent goneta I'm askin ye?
He's bonafide!
2 thumbs & 1 bottleneck up.
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Stars Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake, an over-the-hill, country hasbeen- getting the picture? who drives a beatup, old Suburban that's also seen better days to play bars and bowling alleys all across the Southwest with pickup bands.
His main interest is staying alive playing these dumps long enough to drink himself to death, if cancer or emphysema don't cut in on his dance.
Dang, if that don't sound like a good first line for a country song right there.
...with Maggie Gyllenhall as the cute love interest half his age, Colin Farrell as a very creditable country superstar who used to be Bad's sideman or something....and a wonderful cameo by Mr. Robert Duvall.
Bad's old songs and soundtrack music by T-Bone Burnett, who I have to say I don't care for, but his stuff is tolerable here.
I do have to give props to both Mr. Bridges and Colin Farrell for not only doing their own vocals- well, hell, it's country after all; and apparently doing their own strumming and chord changes too. Bridges does a little slide number in a bar that sure looked creditable to me.
Well, there's some romance, some good plot devices, we're all pulling for Bad to get it right before he flames out- hell, he's a 57 year old screwup, may not have much longer. Willie Makeit?
Without blowing the story, I have to say it's a well done movie, no crappy Hollywood saccharin ending, and entertaining. Maybe they tie it up a little too neat and clean there after the big crisis, but it's a story.
All the sidemen he picks up from town to town are, of course, way better than they should be, and that dang Jeff Bridges can carry what he's given, so the music is tolerable, even if T-Bone Burnett wrote it.
And I'm looking at the country superstar Tommy Sweet, (who Bad resents because the younger guy blew past him) and thinking who the hell is that actor? Looks like a young Mel Gibson, except better looking. Why, Begorrah, it's Colin Farrell an where's his Dublin accent goneta I'm askin ye?
He's bonafide!
2 thumbs & 1 bottleneck up.
Could not have said it better myself. Great movie, one that, as the critics say, Jeff Bridges was made to star in. -
Watched it last night. Excellent movie! Bridges was VERY believable. They otta give that man an Academy Award! OK, they did...and it was very deserved I would say.McIntosh MA252 Integrated Amp, LUMIN D2 Network Music Player, Yamaha Aventage RX-A840 receiver, Emotiva XPA Gen3 2 channel amp, Polk LSiM 703 speakers. Oppo UDP-203 Blu-Ray player, Polk LSiM 705 speakers. Polk Signature S20 speakers.
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I will give it a thumbs up too. Bridges at his very best.Sony KDL-46XBR6, Onkyo 886, Emotiva XPA-5, Oppo BDP-83, HR22 HD-DVR, Polk RTi A9s, PolK CSi A6, Polk RTi A3s, SVS PB12-NSD, Monster HTS2500 Reference PowerCenter, Logitech Harmony 1.
