Seriously....

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Yea, this kind of life is terrible, and yea it should have been griping & emotionally charged, but it just wasn't. It was boring & executed poorly. Maybe it was the mediocre actors/acting. Maybe it was the direction. Who knows... It just plain didn't work, and it has nothing to do with the subject matter.



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Don't be so ignorant. If there are people who aren't impressed by Winter's Bone, it doesn't mean they're all morons who only like eye candy. I'm a film-maker and have studied film for more than two decades. I like thought-provoking films, and this was just plain awful. The writing was half-baked, so was the direction, and the acting was average. Even good actors like John Hawkes can only do so much with weak material. I'll go out on a limb here and say that I have a stellar IQ and attention span; you clearly think highly of yourself as well, but that doesn't mean that the many people who were unimpressed with this film have no intelligence. Peerless acting? Hardly. Lawrence was decent. But none of the performances were memorable. If you want to know what acting is, look at Beatrice Straight's Oscar-winning performance (mainly, the divorce scene) in Network. That's peerless acting. Go watch that, then watch Winter's Bone again and get back to me.

What you said must be right.

I'm from Brazil and I disliked this movie.
It was boring to me too.

Here in the south we are poor. Not the miserable poor, but poor. I make my life with 5k dollars a year.

All I could think while watching this was "you people are in the fc.king USA! How can you be that miserable???"

So the movie was geting boring, and boring, and boring...And I was like "no complains about my life anymore...At least i'm happy here in Brazil"

I don't know...the movie just didn't worked for me, as a foreign.
6/10 for the acting.


Sorry for my english. As I said, i'm from Brazil.

There's subtle hints that Merab has an affinity for Ree. In fact, several character's do throughout the film- watch the bondsman's slight change of demeanor after he asks Ree how old she is. The area is just so poverty-stricken that all of them have their own problems to sort out, much less help a stranger's.

Merab's actions were pretty much dictated by Thump... once "word" started spreading about the Milton drama, the situation pretty much needed to get squashed. It wasn't just an act of decency, but it made sense to the operation of things.

And Trash Humpers was the most boring hour and fourteen minutes of my life. Harmony Korine is on some good drugs.

Winter's Bone: Best film of 2010. Jennifer Lawrence is the next big thing.

Hey man, it's an opinion. I get it, you didn't like the movie.
No need to work so hard to try and convince me or anyone else of it.

yeah, her performance was rigid but it was supposed to be, but at the same time i wasnt entirely invested in her. i cared about the kids, though. that one scene where they both crawl into bed with her after she got beat up tugged at the heart strings a lil bit. i thought the guy who played teardrop did a great job.

ON A SEPARATE NOTE,

it is important to ask oneself why he or she didn't like a character in a movie. Part of the reason that so many people are interested in movies is because of the characters. We see parts of ourselves or parts of others that we know personally in these characters. And when we dislike a character, it may be because they remind us of someone we actually know and dislike. Or something in ourselves that we dislike.

Or it may be because they're crappy actors and the script was written terribly.

regardless, I enjoyed this film. The ending bothered me because in my head I was saying "okay, what now? Nothing changed." But that was the whole point, I think. Nothing changed. She still is stuck taking care of her siblings in this crappy situation in this crappy community. Teardrop should maybe get an oscar nomination.

Two lines that made me cringe (should have been cut):

"Here's a doobie for the walk."

and

[paraphrasing)

the protagonist to her friend after she says she got the keys to her husband's truck: "You're everything I ever thought you were darlin'. I mean that"


my 2 cents.



I am me, you are you. http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=42036194

It's too bad people can't back up their statements when they dislike a film. Besides "it was boring" and "it sucked" usually they don't tell reasons on why they thought it was boring or what contributed to its suckage. If these boards are meant to be used to voice opinions, then it should at least contain dialogue that moves the discussion forward.

Just because a film is realistic doesn't make it compelling. I live half an hour outside of St. Louis, Missouri in Wentzville and can confirm that people do live like this, most notably in the southern portions of the state. So what?
There are far better character study films, and far superior mystery dramas as well.
I mean one half of this entire flick is the lead character walking. Brilliant.