- This is such a terrible title for a movie, I can’t even believe it.
- Jeff Bridges always feels the same to me, so his portrayal of Bad Blake was a welcome change. Still, enunciate, motherfucker! He had one of the best character introduction scenes I’ve seen in a while; it’s really great when you can make a big bold gesture that basically encompasses your character’s state of mind in one fell swoop. That said, if he gets nominated for and wins Best Actor at the Oscars, I’m going to weep for Mickey Rourke, who played the same character last year and got completely shafted. Apparently I’m still not over that.
- I love the bad puns used to name bowling alleys. The Spare Room, har har har.
- I was going to say that I couldn’t understand what Jean saw in a decrepit, ageing alocholic musician who has clearly seen better days and then I remembered how much I love Keith Richards, so… who am I to judge?
- That dinosaur movie Buddy was watching looked pretty epic.
- I forgot Robert Duvall was in this, so that was an exciting rediscovery. His character’s casual racism, not so much. Speaking of which, do people seriously think Mexican is a language?
- The music was pretty great and I wish I had a great name like T Bone. I’ve never been terribly into what is apparently known as “new country” these days (young whippersnappers), but the older, twangier, infinitely less polished stuff I can definitely wrap my head around.
- Speaking of which, Colin Farrell can sing? Hmm. I’m not going to lie, I have a sick attraction to him despite being quite certain that he’s got at least four STDs coursing through his system at any given time. I thought it was nice that the rivalry between Sweet and Blake was slowly revealed to be not one of anger and betrayal the way it was originally hinted at.
- Points to Jean for choosing not to be with a man whom she apparently loves but ultimately cannot trust. Points taken for the writers deciding that despite this choice, she still needed to end up engaged by the end of the movie.
- I really hated the final third of the movie, stating from the point at which Blake lost Buddy. At that point it went quickly down hill for me, especially with the hilariously brief and easy stint in rehab and the 16 MONTHS LATER denouement. I really didn’t need that last scene.
- There’s something bland and repetitive about this movie.
- ETA There’s a guy in the credits named “Paul ‘Cow’ Baca”. I think “Chew” would have been a far superior nickname.
Crazy Heart
Too inoffensive to dislike and too predictable to love.
IMDB Plot Synopsis Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages...
I haven’t seen this yet but I think Mickey Rourke should not have won because he was playing himself, if only a slightly more intelligent version of himself in the wrestler (SAD). What you should do instead is go watch Jeff Bridges and Justin Timberlake in The Road. Giggles galore!