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Director's Trademarks: The Coen Brothers (2018)
Fantastic vistas, not much else
I get that life was hard and cheap in the frontier days, but the movie is downright nihilistic. The vignettes range from grim, to grim and dusty, to grim & dusty with singing.
The whole thing was great to look at, but just felt ultimately pointless. Especially the stage coach and wagon trail stories.
Horns (2013)
A terrible adaptation of a fantastic novel
The movies first 1/3 is very faithful to the book and I can live with poor casting choices. However what destroys the fantastic story by Joe Hill is the schlock horror and bizarre ending sequence which left a sour taste in my mouth and made me wish I hadn't bothered. Radcliff gives it a go, but the script is all over the place. I can't understand why they didn't follow and develop some sub plots that were in the book, and still managed a 2 hour movie with stuff that wasn't in the book and weakened the original tale. The book is essentially a love story with a twist on how others see and judge themselves and the others around them. The movie is some strange Christian tale of redemption and uber violence which seems to infest the majority of Hollywood movies. Avoid.