Taha Avalos
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Freeman
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Justina
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
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The perfect mixture of amazing performances and a heart warming soundtrack,a well deserved Oscar winning song 'the weary kind' just finished the movie perfectly,thoroughly enjoyable throughout
Python Hyena
Crazy Heart (2009): Dir: Scott Cooper / Cast: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Paul Herman: Engaging country music fiction biography about the things one cannot help do wrong. Jeff Bridges plays washed out country music musician Bad Blake who is reduced to performing small bar gigs. He falls for a young journalist who has a child from a previous marriage. Blake sees this as his opportunity at a second chance at family. Director Scott Cooper is backed with a flawless performances by Bridges who knows how far he has fallen but cannot help himself. He attempts happiness with Maggie Gyllenhaal but after his alcohol results in him losing her son, she calls off the relationship. He must pull himself together and attempt to correct his wrongs through songwriting. Gyllenhaal plays the journalist who interviews Blake. She will form a romance as well as introduce her son who looks up to him. Gyllenhaal plays her as intelligent and willing to pull away if need be. Her concluding scene with Bridges provides great closure. Robert Duvall plays a friend of Blake's who helps him with his addiction. Colin Farrell plays a country singer who once opened for Blake. Now Blake writes songs for him with loyalty in tact. Great effort in creating a realistic view of fiction with wonderful music to bring it heart. Score: 9 ½ / 10
SnoopyStyle
Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a drunk broke country singer whose best days are in the past. Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a journalist doing an in-depth piece on the old legend. They open up to each other and start a relationship. He tries to get his life together. He talks to star Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell) who was once his mentors. Everybody wants him to write new songs but he hasn't written anything in three years.This movie is simply living off of Jeff Bridges' natural performance. He is absolutely perfect for this role. He is touching and compelling. Gyllenhaal is good. Colin Farrell surprises with a great cameo. Their scene together is so wonderful. The story is rather thin and moves at a leisurely pace. There is a lot of country music. It's an easy comforting journey.
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Although the film is described as drama, it's very much downbeat romantic drama, which makes the final twenty minutes a disappointment.Jeff Bridges gives a suitably unflattering performance as washed-up alcoholic country singer Bad Blake. Whilst the Oscar might be overdoing it, it's a solid performance and Bad is suitably touching in his interactions with Buddy, Bad's journist girlfriend Jean's son (Maggie Gyllenhall).There is as you might have guessed an age-gap between Bad and Jean. Whilst I could believe in his relationship with Jean in the context of her son, as a loving friendship, I found their sexual relationship a little unsavoury. It's not that it's graphic but it's just a bit unpleasant, considering Bad is not only much older than her, he's in bad shape. To be fair, she doesn't see the extent to which he is an alcoholic.As a romantic drama with some country music to reflect the bluesy nature of Bad's alcoholism, the film worked. But- and this is where the SPOILER comes in- the film falls at the final hurdle. After the moment when Bad hits his low point as he loses Jean's son, Jean tells him to sober up and not come back again. He seemingly sobers up pretty darn quickly with no real side effects and whilst I understand that this is because he needs to do it for his own health, the film implies that Jean will one day allow him back in to rebuild the relationship. Eighteen months down the line, Bad has written a nice song (naturally inspired by Jean, although lyrically not seeming to be relevant) and his career is back on track. Jean turns up and what do you know, she's engaged to a 'nice' man. We do see some character development as Bad takes the news gracefully, but seeing as she was meant to be in love with the guy, would she so readily bounce into bed with someone else? The way she says 'nice' also indicates that she's marrying him purely for the security, which makes her a pretty weak character. It would have been much better to see her doing well in her own right rather than a hasty marriage to counteract her troubled relationship with Bad.NO MORE SPOILERS: The songs are a bit samey but not unpleasant. Colin Farrell has a surprisingly good cameo as Tommy Sweet, Bad's protégé.Crazy Heart is fine if you want a gentle downbeat film; it just either needed more grit or more sweetness, rather than sweetness that sours.
