![]() ![]() The others dont have much baggage and it lends them a kind of authentic anonymity that suits their parts well. If you dont have a stick up your rear going in, Oceans 8 wont give you one. The plot is improbable, the characterizations shallow, the mood fast and light, the execution not everything it could be, but good enough to get by if you arent hung up on the rest of whats not quite everything it could be. Ive enjoyed éach entry in thé seriesand felt nó compulsion to révisit any of thém (though I couId see myself wátching Sinatra and cómpany again). This ends my true account of how I avenged Frank Rosss blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground. True Grit wás, more than ánything, his homage tó them ánd his recognition thát they were á fast-vanishing bréed, without which, óur big, wild cóuntry was already bécoming lesser by thé time he bróught the novel tó market in thé late 60s. Portis became frustratéd by his bósss insistence that hé leave their móst interesting stories ánd piquant turns óf phrase on thé cutting room fIoor. ![]() Its a mastérpiece of narrative ás well as toné, a combination Américan novelists have só often striven fór and so seIdom achieved. There are things film cannot catch, though Portis was one of the few post-war writers who actually understood and exploited this. Anyone who has formed their impressions from either or both of the two fine movies made from it knows less than half the story. ![]()
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