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No Country for Old Men (2007)

Oooh so good, go see it right now or your heart will surely stop beating in your chest cavity! Last night while at dinner at Oaxaca in Ballard I was explaining to a friend who Javier Bardem was, and I was like "You know, he was in Before Night Falls and he played a Cuban homosexual poet. And then he was in The Sea Inside and he played a quadriplegic. And now he's in the Cohen brothers movie and he plays a really REALLY scary murderer guy," and I started to get the creeping suspicion that Javier Bardem is a freaking amazing actor. He's proving that he belongs to that rare breed of awesome actors who can completely transform themselves for each role (which is kind of like, duh, the point of acting) like Gary Oldman. Do you even recognize Gary Oldman in Nosferatu as the same man who plays Zorg in The Fifth Element as the same man who plays Albert Milo in Basquiat as the same man who plays Drexl in True Romance? No, because he's that good. Javier Bardem might even have more skills than Gary Oldman because he's doing the chameleon thing on an international level, english isn't even his first language! Anyhoo, go see this movie just so you can marvel at Mr. Bardem's acting ability, and pee your pants when you see how scary he is. Oh wait I guess Gary Oldman is British so he's doing the international thing too, but you know what I mean.

I like the Cohen Brothers. They seem to like filming things in Texas. Put it all together = I liked this movie which was filmed by the Cohen brothers in Texas.

Oh remember when I was talking about how cool-looking Anjelica Huston's face is in The Darjeeling Limited? Tommy Lee Jones' face is also a marvel for the camera to capture. His acting is good in this movie but it plays second fiddle to his neat-o wrinkles.