Fargo

This movie was supposed to be good, yah? Yah. Did you like it? Oh, yah! Yah??!! Yah!!

Okay, I'll admit it. I liked this movie. Weird f@ckin' movie, but it's probably why I liked it. I've been hearing all you guys gush about it, so I had to take advantage of my HBO and watch it. It was pretty good in a funnier NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN kinda way.

At first, I have to say, I thought the movie sucked a$$. I was trying to figure out WHY anyone would want to watch this type of movie. It took me at least 45 minutes to warm up to it. Must've been all the snow in the movie. Hardy har, har, har!!

Then, after all the shocking violence started, I felt more at home. Yeah, violence to calm my nerves.

In case you were the only person to NOT see this move besides me, here's the rundown. Small-town loser hubby comes up with lame-a$$ kidnapping scheme to score some money. Plan gets f@cked-up. Small-town pregnant police chief with big-city homicide skills sorts through the mess to solve the crime at the end of the day. Small-town sensibilities and characters to keep the movie interesting. Big-city violence and crime to keep it exciting. Critically-acclaimed Best Picture-nominated movie is the result.

Again, it took the whole movie to convince me to like it. The oddball characters and dialogue kept me watching to the end though. Yah??!! Oh, yah!! Frances McDormand's police chief was the absolute best. She made the movie. Everytime she came onscreen, I thought I was watching LEAVE IT TO BEAVER meets THE WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB (James Patterson reference 'cause I'm a bibliophile like that).

Steve Buscemi's always good. William H. Macy as the pushover, loser husband was so good that he was irritating. You wanted him to grow a pair onscreen. I think one of the hired killers was that hilarious Russian cosmonaut guy in ARMAGEDDON.

Two scenes stood out for me. One was that awkward scene where Mike Yanagida (obvious token Asian) met up with the police chief in the bar 'cause he was trying to hit on her. And the other scene was that subtle scene where some old man is talking to one of the police officers and shoveling snow and talking about how he noticed some out-of-place character at his motel (or bar?). For some reason, the dialogue between the two was priceless to me. It sounded like when you interview some local guy on the news here in Hawaii, and the bruddah getting interviewed can't help but moke-out on live TV.

Overall, good movie. I don't know if I'd watch the whole thing again. Maybe some parts here and there if I ever catch it flipping channels. Do I like this movie 'cause I like it or do I like it 'cause it makes me feel smarter that I like it? Hopefully, the former. Ah, who gives a $hit, yah??!! OH, YAH!!

I give this movie two kanak boneheads trying to steal the entire ATM machine from the Waianae 7-11 a few years back and coming up empty. Dumb$hits, yah? Oh, yah...