has anyone seen North Country yet?

[yellowbismark]

I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to see it, but it comes out today...

Feel free to discuss the movie, if you have seen it...I will sit back and read :)

[Gioca]

I hadn't heard of this movie, I figured the green linked "movie" might give me some answers. Instead, it would have directed me to learn how to write a movie script in 30 days while working 1 hour a day, what nonsense.

[Ghost]

I would give it a very mild recommendation.But man, does it have a silly courtroom ending.

[yellowbismark]

I've been perusing reviews of the movie and it seems like the knocks on it are that it takes on the characteristics of the cliched melo-drama/soap opera. Even the critical reviews, though, have complemented the acting and the cinematography.

I don't keep track of movies very well so I hadn't heard much about it until recently on the local news programs, where they talking up the movie bigtime. Although I supposed those kinds of shows rarely dish out criticisms and tend to stay vanilla on subjects like films.

The main reason I want to see it is because it's of local interest.

[adam]

Looking forward to seeing it, as I'm a native of the Iron Range. People back home seem pretty evenly split on the subject, though...

An interesting note: Woody Harrelson, who plays a former high school hockey star, couldn't skate. Anytime you see footage of "him" skating around, it's actually a kid that grew up down the block from me. His mother, who was actually involved in the lawsuit, also has a very brief moment on the screen.

Like I said, I haven't gotten a chance to see it yet, but I'm looking forward to hearing the Range accent and seeing "home" on the big screen.

[adam]

I liked this quote from Entertainment Weekly:
It's a stern, devout community, where high school hockey is a religion and people speak in a charmingly eccentric pidgin-ethnic twang, and where everyone, more or less, works at the same place: the local iron mines, a hellhole of smelting danger.

God bless the Range.

[yellowbismark]

Let us know what you think when you get a chance to see it, Adam.

[adam]

Well, I saw it last night...

Overall, I thought it was a great movie. I'm still kind of in disbelief at how accurately they portrayed the culture of the Range. They got everything right...(with the sole exception being Charlize Therron's use of "soda" in one scene...which you would never hear up there). It was almost a surreal experience for me because every character in that movie reminded me of people that I grew up around.

The story itself is interesting (though, to be fair, they should've shown that there were more than two people at the mine that weren't involved in or supportive of the harassment). The courtroom stuff may not have been completely accurate from a legal standpoint, but it didn't strike me as out of place because I can honestly see people back home acting like that.

This is a movie that not only tells a story about sexual harassment, but also provides an amazingly accurate depiction of life on the Range (if you are willing to get past the notion that 98% of the male miners are bad people).