POSITIVES…
- As an anthology film, with six short stories, this movie gives us a nice variety of tales about the western frontier.
- The first segment “The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs” is easily my favorite of all of them. It has a lot to do with Tim Blake Nelson’s performance of Scruggs, and the fun cleverness of how the story plays out itself.
- The second segment carries over that fun cleverness to the story, and gives us more of that black ironic comedy that I enjoyed from the first segment.
- The third to sixth segments all had some interesting things to offer to the movie, and continues to give us some great cinematography and that perfect tone that captures that era.
- This is a movie about storytelling, whether it’s tall tales, sad tales, or fascinating tales, and for that I give the Coen Brothers credit for their craft in film making.
NEGATIVES…
- As it also goes with anthology movies, not all segments are going to work with everybody.
- Besides the first two segments, the other four were kinda boring to me, with short spurts of the occasional cool thing that’s happening.
- The conclusions to each segment isn’t going to be completely satisfactory for some people either.
- I kinda wish Buster Scruggs had a whole movie for himself actually.
P.S….
- Is that Harry Potter’s Dudley Dursley in this movie?
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