......and I really enjoyed it.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell were all very good and Jeff Bridges was great as flawed country musician, Bad Blake.
If you've appreciated Jeff through the years in "The Last Picture Show," "Rancho Deluxe," "Nadine," "The Fabulous Baker Boys," "The Big Lebowski" and "Arlington Road," you should enjoy him in this movie.
And if you like introspective country songs with good lyrics such as those Kris Kristofferson wrote for himself and other singers like Johnny Cash, there's plenty of that too.
This movie could have been called "Tender Mercies, Part 2" or "Another Honkytonk Man," or even "No Real Country Music Except For Old Men" because it definitely is akin to some good movies previously made by Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones.
But, IMHO, "Crazy Heart" is fully capable of standing on its own merits.
Duvall won an Oscar for his leading role as Mac Sledge in 1984.
I haven't completely decided yet if I think Jeff Bridges will or should win the Best Actor Oscar this year for his portrayal of a hard-living, faded, over the hill, often self-destructive and occasionally dysfunctional songwriter/singer, but he's already won a Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance so he's a really strong nominee.
I was pulling for Mickey Rourke as Randy the Ram to outwrestle Sean Penn for that Academy Award last year, so we'll see what happens.
If anything I've mentioned about Jeff Bridges or "Crazy Heart" raises your movie watching interest, I think it's at least worth a rental.
Thoughts?
The Link
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell were all very good and Jeff Bridges was great as flawed country musician, Bad Blake.
If you've appreciated Jeff through the years in "The Last Picture Show," "Rancho Deluxe," "Nadine," "The Fabulous Baker Boys," "The Big Lebowski" and "Arlington Road," you should enjoy him in this movie.
And if you like introspective country songs with good lyrics such as those Kris Kristofferson wrote for himself and other singers like Johnny Cash, there's plenty of that too.
This movie could have been called "Tender Mercies, Part 2" or "Another Honkytonk Man," or even "No Real Country Music Except For Old Men" because it definitely is akin to some good movies previously made by Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones.
But, IMHO, "Crazy Heart" is fully capable of standing on its own merits.
Duvall won an Oscar for his leading role as Mac Sledge in 1984.
I haven't completely decided yet if I think Jeff Bridges will or should win the Best Actor Oscar this year for his portrayal of a hard-living, faded, over the hill, often self-destructive and occasionally dysfunctional songwriter/singer, but he's already won a Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance so he's a really strong nominee.
I was pulling for Mickey Rourke as Randy the Ram to outwrestle Sean Penn for that Academy Award last year, so we'll see what happens.
If anything I've mentioned about Jeff Bridges or "Crazy Heart" raises your movie watching interest, I think it's at least worth a rental.
Thoughts?
