3SMR: The Sisters Brothers

3SMR: The Sisters Brothers

While The Sisters Brothers is a good addition to the Western genre, it didn’t dazzle me on many fronts. The acting was good, with John C. Reilly being the standout.*  This is not a movie for people uncomfortable with animals—horses mostly—in peril. 

Cost: $9.00 or some such nonsense, though free for me because I’m still drawing down that sweet, sweet gift card.
Where watched: Regal Fox Tower

*I’d love to see an Oscar nomination for him because he aptly captured his distaste for the outlaw lifestyle and his deep love of his brother.

3SMR: Donnie Darko

3SMR: Donnie Darko

I remain firm in my conviction that the movie I watch should tell the whole story while I am watching it; Donnie Darko does not, and so it fails as a movie. Jake Gyllenhaal is very good as Donnie, and the movie achieves a satisfactory creepy and confusing vibe. But when the movie ends and the speech bubble over my head is filled only with “????” this is a movie that has failed.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home, as part of preperation for Filmspotting’s Best of the 2000s.