Comments on: Crazy Heart http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/ The official podcast of MovieZeal.com, where film is always best discussed under the gentle influence of fine wine (as fine as $10 will get you). Each week Evan, Heather, and Luke pick a theme, discuss a theatrical release based on that theme, pop the cork and drink a wine that fits said theme, and finally subject one another to The Gauntlet, where forcing others to watch painful films nets you fabulous prizes. There is not anything else on the internets like it (literally). Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:02:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: święty damian http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-382918 święty damian Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:24:21 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=3066#comment-382918 terms of technological development. While these BRIC nations appear to have hit a brick wall, terms of technological development. While these BRIC nations appear to have hit a brick wall,

]]> By: Sõrmus http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-254859 Sõrmus Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:23:55 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=3066#comment-254859 Morning I just commenting to say that you have done some nice articles recently and I was very glad to find your blog and read all your stories Hope you keep writing cheers Morning

I just commenting to say that you have done some nice articles recently and I was very glad to find your blog and read all your stories

Hope you keep writing
cheers

]]> By: E.J. http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-217429 E.J. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:47:14 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=3066#comment-217429 Who's Scott Cooper? Tom Cobb wrote the perfect ending to Crazy Heart. In fact, Tom Cobb wrote the whole novel. Who’s Scott Cooper?

Tom Cobb wrote the perfect ending to Crazy Heart. In fact, Tom Cobb wrote the whole novel.

]]> By: M. Carter @ the Movies http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-158711 M. Carter @ the Movies Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:35:29 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=3066#comment-158711 Although I did not love "Crazy Heart" the film (I can't forgive the director for monkeying with the perfect ending to Scott Cooper's novel), I loved what Jeff Bridges did with the character of Bad Blake. I simply cannot see anyone else playing that kind of layered, broken-down drunkard with more skill than Bridges. He reigns supreme among character actors, and he EARNED that Oscar. It wasn't a Lifetime Achievement Award; it was a merit award, plain and simple. Although I did not love “Crazy Heart” the film (I can’t forgive the director for monkeying with the perfect ending to Scott Cooper’s novel), I loved what Jeff Bridges did with the character of Bad Blake. I simply cannot see anyone else playing that kind of layered, broken-down drunkard with more skill than Bridges. He reigns supreme among character actors, and he EARNED that Oscar. It wasn’t a Lifetime Achievement Award; it was a merit award, plain and simple.

]]> By: Monday Morning Diary (February 15) « Wonders in the Dark http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-145170 Monday Morning Diary (February 15) « Wonders in the Dark Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:56:58 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=3066#comment-145170 [...] of Crazy Heart up at “Movie Zeal” with his typically probing pen on display:  http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/   Our dear friend Pat at Doodad Kind of Town has been busy with her life aside from blogging, but [...] [...] of Crazy Heart up at “Movie Zeal” with his typically probing pen on display:  http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/   Our dear friend Pat at Doodad Kind of Town has been busy with her life aside from blogging, but [...]

]]> By: Sam Juliano http://www.moviezeal.com/crazy-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-143120 Sam Juliano Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:09:18 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=3066#comment-143120 "There’s not one lackluster performance in Crazy Heart." Indeed Phillip, indeed. Even Robert Duvall, whose brief appearance here recalls his own similar leading role in 1983's TENDER MERCIES, is memorable. But I enjoyed your highly-descriptive opening, when the Chevy Silverado pulls into a bare parking lot and the sentiment that Bridges hasn't been this impressive since his turn in THE BIG LEBOWSKI. (and before that I might add his smashing debut in Peter Bogdonovich's THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.) I like that parallel to THE WRESTLER and particularly this observation: "The fruit of Bad’s struggle is not a new existence on flowery beds of ease, but a constant process of reconciling the past with the present in the hope of a renewed future. The painful thing about redemption, he finds, is that it comes at the price (and with all the pain) of total purification. The new songs he writes for Tommy all center around this process: “Whiskey has been a thorn in your side / and it doesn’t forget / the highway that calls for your heart inside.” “There’s not one lackluster performance in Crazy Heart.”

Indeed Phillip, indeed. Even Robert Duvall, whose brief appearance here recalls his own similar leading role in 1983’s TENDER MERCIES, is memorable. But I enjoyed your highly-descriptive opening, when the Chevy Silverado pulls into a bare parking lot and the sentiment that Bridges hasn’t been this impressive since his turn in THE BIG LEBOWSKI. (and before that I might add his smashing debut in Peter Bogdonovich’s THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.)

I like that parallel to THE WRESTLER and particularly this observation:

“The fruit of Bad’s struggle is not a new existence on flowery beds of ease, but a constant process of reconciling the past with the present in the hope of a renewed future. The painful thing about redemption, he finds, is that it comes at the price (and with all the pain) of total purification. The new songs he writes for Tommy all center around this process: “Whiskey has been a thorn in your side / and it doesn’t forget / the highway that calls for your heart inside.”

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