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Originally Posted by cal828
You know, you have to have a pretty strong constitution to watch any movie taken from a book written by Cormack McCarthy like No Country for Old Men. The action parts of everything he writes is interesting and appealing to fans of action movies, but everything is also so depressing. Read one of his books entitled The Road, I think. Most depressing thing I have ever read. About a man and his son trying to survive after a nuclear war. A movie, I also did not care for was "Leaving Las Vegas." Stayed and watched it to the end, but a lot of people at the movie house, got up and left before it was over. Tough to watch someone drink themselves to death. Only good thing about it was Elizabeth Shue. What a fox she is.  |
Oh God, The Road. I can never read that book again. Tore me apart too much. Though there's one where the movie, while very faithful, I think wasn't quite as good as the book, because you didn't have the "aha" moment I had around page 60 or so as to what the setting was (I would have yelled SPOILERS at your comment, but the book and movie have been out long enough.
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Funny anecdote about Leaving Las Vegas- a friend of mine who was living in LA at the time Shue got nominated said that the story running around was, if she won the Oscar, the film's editors were going to get up and accept the award- that her performance really was put together in the editing room.