How about a movie thread?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Saw it when it came out. Very good.

Strathairn is a really good actor who has worked a lot with John Sayles.

He's terrific in Matewan.

Good movie. Been to that area? One of the toughest places in all of Appalachia. I spend a week there looking at a bunch of flood control projects. Scary.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Good movie. Been to that area? One of the toughest places in all of Appalachia. I spend a week there looking at a bunch of flood control projects. Scary.

Yes, I've been pretty much all over West Virginia. Matewan is Hatfields & McCoys territory, great natural beauty but lots of ecological destruction and poor, poor people with utterly no sense of hope.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Yes, I've been pretty much all over West Virginia. Matewan is Hatfields & McCoys territory, great natural beauty but lots of ecological destruction and poor, poor people with utterly no sense of hope.

Yep, and highly distrustful of strangers. It's quite palpable. Mingo County is a (in)famously rough place.