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[Wonky3]

Actually, you just named one of my "movie tests".   I have tests for whether a movie is good or not. The first one is the "coffee pot test". or so I call it.  It means if I can watch this in the movie theater and not start wondering if I left the coffee pot on, it's pretty good.  Test two is: Believably. It doesn't matter if the movie isn't believable, what matters is do I believe the characters in the movie?  Star Wars is a good example. I don't really find the setting all that believable but the characters and the world are believable so I believe it.  Success.  Test three:  Do I care?  If I care about the characters that is a good sign. If I don't, test three fails.  Test four and this one is a biggy for me.  Do I think about this movie afterwards?  If I find myself thinking about a movie and replaying scenes in my mind and wanting to see those again that's a huge indicator to me that the movie was a good one.  I've seen several movies recently and honestly can't even remember anything about them the next day.  So test four is important. I think that's my main "rules for if a movie is good."   I know you all were dying to hear my movie tests!

I really like those tests, especially the last one. I use similar criteria to judge dramatic movies. Comedy has only one test; was the movie funny. Did I really laugh out loud? I know humor is somewhat subjective, but some comedy just isn't that funny to me. Like the movie 'Taladega Nights.'

'There Will Be Blood' is another movie that came out at the same time that 'No Country For Old Men' did. I really enjoyed that movie as well.

Briefly, just on the subject of Talledega Nights, I am NOT a fan of almost everything by Will Farrell.  His brand of "funny" is just stupid most of the time, to me.

I don't "get" Will Farrell either. But, I guess a lot of folks love his humor...keeps making movies. 

Hey Clete, I too thought "There Will Be Blood" was really well done! Mattter of fact I'm not sure I"ve ever seen a film with Daniel Day Lewis that was not good. (He was brilliant in "Lincoln") 

I REALLY enjoy (some) movies! Best escape ever. And, have too often walked out of movies I didn't like. 

By the way: Anyone seen "Hacksaw Ridge". I'm tempted, IF it gives at least some honest history of the battle on Okinawa. (An uncle who I admired, fought, and survived, on that bloody island. Only later to be killed in a senesless logging accident: Irony!) My reservation is that Mel Gibbson made the thing and I'm not a fan of his.

I've seen it, and it is amazing.  Not for the squeamish.  Mel Gibson will win Best Director for this. edit: Be sure to watch the ending with interviews from the real people involved.

Thanks for the "feedback". Yeah, I heard an interview with a movie reviewer who agrees with you that Gibson should win Best Director for this. 
I have mixed feelings about "war movies". I'm not even sure where the breakdown for me is, but some I see as just "another action flick" that I don't enjoy. But becuase I have great respect and admiration for those who went to war when our nation was truly at risk, I like to see the re-creation  of events that honors them. We OWE them!