Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

Slumdog was extremely disappointing and way overhyped. Extremely patronizing. Poverty, it's so photogenic. And we're all equal in love so it isn't so bad as it seems.

I liked Burn After Reading quite a bit. Not a surprise that there are few likable characters in it. You could probably count the likable characters in the Coen Brothers oeuvre on one hand. To me, their genius is in being able to make audiences enjoy people they shouldn't like. A tightrope walk for sure but it succeeded for me. Also, I consider Intolerable Cruelty one of their classics and don't like Raising Arizona or The Hudsucker Proxy so obviously I'm out of the mainstream of Coen appreciation.