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In Reply to: RE: Go see 'Hell or High Water'! posted by jeffreybehr on August 17, 2016 at 14:53:11
I really enjoyed this gritty little tale of two bank robbers in West Texas. It was slow but well-developed with tons of character development. The characters were real and the "locals" ever real-er. There's a lot of local color and and some laughs at their customs and behavior. I particularly liked the fact that this film's social engineering was focused on Native Americans in the form of Bridges' deputy Ranger, Gil Birmingham. Bridges relentless barrage of racial teases seemed endless while Birmingham's character was most tolerant of his superiors asininity.
When I first became aware of Chris Pine I thought "no big deal" but I know believe he is going to be "a big deal". His agent is certainly trying to spread his roles around and he seems to handle them deftly for his age and experience. Ben Foster proved again that he is headed to being one of the country's Master Character Actor's as he always loses himself in the role. I didn't find Bridges permanent cowboy accent as objectionable here--it was a Texas Western afterall.
This is pretty much a big screen film even though it's not necessarily big screen action. The dusty, dry, wide-open spaces of West Texas will give you a thirst.
Yep, I'd hit the walk in on this one.
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One is that Pine is excellent in his somewhat-subdued role of the instigator of the bank-robbing plan (for a 'good' purpose) but not one who takes to the robberies as much as the brother just out of prison does. The writing has some clever lines--brother: 'Mr. Pibb? Only assholes drink Mr. Pibb.' Pine: 'Drink up, asshole.'While I love movies in Panavision, and the scenery deserved the wide AR, the entire movie looked to me (in two viewings) to be a little soft...not out of focus, just slightly poorly resolved, as if it was shot on 720P video.
Still worth my time, twice.
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I was never a Star Trek fan until the latest iteration. The gags were in critically short supply and the whole thing seemed too damned serious. The latest episode had great humor, IMO, and I hope Pegg keeps contibuting. Pine seems to have some range without relying on cult of personality like Damon, Affleck, or Pitt.
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