The Good Old Boys

Buy This Item The Good Old Boys by Turner Home Ent  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 11-26-2008     I actually bought this for my husband to read, but found I enjoyed it almost as much as he did. He (my husband) is a great fan of good westerns, and liked this book so well, he had me order the vhs tape of the same name. Reader Reviews On the strength of the consistent rave reviews here of this Tommy Lee Jones project - he co-wrote, directed, and starred in the film - we got this over-priced video. Talk about the sensation of being from another planet! We were amazed to discover that the movie is truly awful (read: AWFUL). Jones was clearly worshipping at his own altar, with incessant lingering close-ups of his grinning face. Like Costner's self-glorifying DANCES WITH WOLVES, THE GOOD OLD BOYS rarely sports a single frame which does not showcase Jones. Neither star is sufficiently talented as an actor or as a director to carry an entire film, yet both are compelled to take their places on both sides of the camera. When Jones isn't chewing the scenery with those all-too-exposed teeth (the man literally never closes his lips from start to finish), he is directing the wasted Spacek in a thankless role as a frustrated spinster. More offensive than Spacek's painfully over-the-top girlishness is the notion that ANY woman - frustrated or otherwise - would pursue an unbathed, aging, penniless, dim-witted drifter whose ludicrously exaggerated accent could scrape paint off a fender.

The Good Old Boys Available from Amazon Price: $14.98 Updated on 11-26-2008.

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