Country Strong
Published September 4, 2011
Film info
- Title Country Strong
- Director Shana Feste
- Year 2010
- Run time 1hr 57m
- Genres Music, Drama, Romance
- Tagline It doesn't matter where you've been as long as you come back strong
Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager and featuring a beauty queen-turned-singer. Between concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.
Live Blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:14 | Mr C says, you’ll recognise Tim McGraw, he’s the one in the cowboy hat. They’re all wearing cowboy hats! |
| 5:28 | This is the five most countrified minutes I’ve ever spent. |
| 6:45 | People actually call other people hoss? |
| 9:16 | Released once again from rehab. That’s not a good sign. |
| 12:00 | “I have no intention of stealing your invisible career.” |
| 14:52 | Omg, she said y’all. |
| 21:34 | Saying So am I is not accepting an apology. |
| 24:59 | Why is he on the bus? I thought he said no. |
| 29:59 | She can’t be mad at him though, she’s cheating on him with the other guy. |
| 33:04 | I’d make that face if I turned around and saw that many people looking back at me. |
| 39:00 | “I am going to sing, okay?” Not a good start to a gig. |
| 42:53 | I want a tour bus. |
| 44:24 | Ooh, Austin! |
| 47:02 | What are they doing on that train and how are they going to get back again? |
| 48:59 | She just walked out of his hotel room in a towel. She’s not very subtle. |
| 56:21 | I don’t like any of these people. |
| 1:02:21 | Ooh, that’s like Coyote Ugly. |
| 1:11:42 | Everyone is sleeping with everyone else except Tim. Doesn’t seem fair. |
| 1:19:30 | That might be the cutest kid there has ever been. |
| 1:24:59 | “Just because they put them on the radio, doesn’t mean they’re worth a damn.” Weeelll… |
| 1:33:15 | She’s reading the gossip mags. Everyone says they don’t do that. |
| 1:39:18 | “If you’ve got it, flaunt it, make all the cowboys want it.” Ahh, country music. |
| 1:46:22 | She said she wanted to live on a star. |
| 1:52:28 | Tim McGraw only gets to sing over the end credits. |
Conclusions
This wouldn’t really be my choice of film, I must say. I have nothing against country music, but I’m more of a Shania fan and pop-country is not so popular in the country world. I like to think I’ll give any movie genre a go, though, so Country Strong it is.
The story was okay, although a bit cliched in places. It was far too long, but I suppose that comes of having to fit in lots of singing in amongst the story, rather than letting the songs move the story along (like in musicals). I didn’t like any of the characters and certainly couldn’t relate to them, but their story was interesting enough. I probably could have done with subtitles, because not only were they quite deep accents, they also seemed to mumble an awful lot.
Rating: 3/5
Rating: 3 / 5