[tlb]

A non-terrorist story might be a good change. Rex Reed isn't the sort people on this board would generally like, but he takes movies seriously.

[Darkwolf377]

Kevin Spacey, whose special talent is spoon bending

Actually, Spacey's special talent is man bending.

[Darkwolf377]

BTW, while I’d probably agree with him in this instance, Rex Reed is to intelligent film criticism what Barack Obama is to modesty, a complete stranger.

[FredZarguna]

In fact, the marvelous and insightful Good Night, and Good Luck is the only major exception in a career notable for frat-house one-liners and photo op mugging over artistic quality.

Of course, we understand your need to carve out an exception for an homage to the usual anti-McCarthy nonsense, but there's no need to do that for Good Night, and Good Luck Rexy, ol' girl. That one sux, too.

[Boiling point]

Wow, he makes it sound like a Burt Reynolds movie from the seventies.

[lawnguy]

Holy Crap, I had no idea Rex Reed was still around.

[midway]

I read a fair number of Reed’s reviews (because I love movies) but unlike some critics I can’t rely on his opinion lining up with mine.

In the course of his review of the Coen bros. A Serious Man
he refers to The Big Lebowski as ‘dreadful’ (IMO it’s extremely funny and a fave of mine, one of just a few DVDs I own) and about the Coens’ Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men (a very very fine film I have watched 3 times) Reed kvetches about ‘a confusing and maddeningly unsatisfactory ending’.

Rotten Tomatoes rating on Goats is a modest 59% so I may rent it eventually but the moral is, I guess, that Reed has an underdeveloped funny bone (yes No Country was a black comedy as well as a thriller and morality tale).

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Rex Reed isn't the sort people on this board would generally like, but he takes movies seriously.

For a second there I thought he was about to say bad things about "The Big Lebowski", or about Jeff Bridges' performance in it. That wouldn't have been cool.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

abominable Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Huh? Anyone who doesn't love that movie is a toad.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Portions of this were filmed at the Albuquerque Shooting Range, they really made it lok like a military camp.