Tuesday, February 5, 2008

On All the Pretty Horses, the trailer

Is "All the Pretty Horses" worth seeing? I probably won't--it was intense enough a read for me, and also, doesn't it seem like Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz are too old? I think one of the reasons John Grady could get away with so much and also why the story was so great was because he was 17. It was a coming-of-age. But Matt Damon is adorable and if he were 17 it would be perfect.

3 comments:

The Goob said...

DON'T DO IT!!!! Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz could not have had any less on-screen chemistry. You can't even call the movie an adaptation--it is more like someone used McCarthy's book as a barfbag when they got sick on a plane.

Kjerstin Evans Ballard said...

Check and check. Thanks the goob.

Makayla Steiner said...

My first impression of the movie was, "This sucks." It was awfully close to the book in a lot of superficial ways, but I think it really missed all the good stuff. The second time I watched it, well, it was a little bit more okay. Sort of.