Crazy Heart

The Wrestler Part II: Gone Country

Nominated For:
Best Actor - Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actress - Maggie Gyllenhaal
Best Original Song - The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)

This movie is about as generic as they come. There isn't anything particularly offensive about it, but there isn't anything very exciting about it either. I suppose if you like country twang there might be something in this for you, since there is a lot of singing. But if you are going to name your protagonist something like "Bad Blake", you gotta at least inject a bit of controversy into the mess. Basically, everything about this movie made me think "yeah, ok... but The Wrestler did that better".

I love Jeff, and Maggie, but not in this movie. They've done better, and will do better, in other, more interesting movies.

Eli