No Country for Old Men

[Kenzan]

Who saw this movie, and what did you think of it?

Discuss.

I saw it last night on DVD.
Had to watch it twice it was that good.

The Coen Bros. have done it again.

[JoDuncan]

Well, i arrived 30 mins into my buddies watching it and we didn't give it full attention. After a while I said, "You know, this is going to be one of those films that just ends and you have no idea what has happened." and then it ended. Ha.

think i'll have to watch it again, or rather watch it for real. Cohen bros can be hit or miss with me. Haven't like all of their films.

[Kenzan]

Well, i arrived 30 mins into my buddies watching it and we didn't give it full attention. After a while I said, "You know, this is going to be one of those films that just ends and you have no idea what has happened." and then it ended. Ha.

think i'll have to watch it again, or rather watch it for real. Cohen bros can be hit or miss with me. Haven't like all of their films.

Coen bros.

But it does have one of your own in the way of, Kelly MacDonald.
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531808/)

Mmmm..And boy Howdy, does she ever have a way.

:D

[H.Sandsleth]

It was very good. The bad guy is an instant classical character.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Best movie I saw last year. I loved the ending.

[Kenzan]

Best movie I saw last year. I loved the ending.

The ending I sort of got the first time, and was a bit irked, but the second time It clicked.

[Neil Gendzwill]

But just to let you know I still have that soft and squishy side, I also loved Juno.

[Berserker]

But just to let you know I still have that soft and squishy side, I also loved Juno.

I loved that movie... Saw it with the woman and enjoyed it... "No country for old men" has only started on our cinemas now... Why the huge delay? :confused:

[absenteekendoka]

We rented it the other day, and I thought it was one of the best films I'd seen in a while. My spouse fell asleep through it though.....which does happen...LOL....

I thought the casting couldnt have been better....... :)

"Call it....."

[Kenzan]

"Call it....."

"You don't quit yer hollerin', I'm gonna take ya in the back an screw ya."

"Big Talk."

"Keep it up!"

"Oh yeah? Well I don't even want to know where you was today."

"That'll work." (Gulps beer)



:D

[absenteekendoka]

"You don't quit yer hollerin', I'm gonna take ya in the back an screw ya."

"Big Talk."

"Keep it up!"

"Oh yeah? Well I don't even want to know where you was today."

"That'll work." (Gulps beer)



:D

"say hello to mother for me..."

"but your mamas dead?"

"well then I'll tell her"

That movie had more great lines than almost any movie I've seen.....truly great..... :)

[Lloromannic]

It only got released here this year. My only complaint is that now i won't see a better movie this year! There Will Be Blood was almost as excellent but not quite.

[stephanie dee]

I thought that film rocked. I really really liked it. Anton Chigurh is an instant baddie just like whoseitcalled said... And his hair is just.... :confused: And that gun is just like :eek:

Discussion: Did he kill her at the end??

I, personally, don't think he did...

LOL watch this I saw this earlier in the week... I wasn't looking for it honestly... :confused2

No Country for Old Farts.... :) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJdFtIHtY_0)

[stephanie dee]

"Call it....."

Friendo........

(my myspace name!)

[motolorax]

[QUOTE=stephanie dee;319903]I thought that film rocked. I really really liked it. Anton Chigurh is an instant baddie just like whoseitcalled said... And his hair is just.... :confused: And that gun is just like :eek:

Discussion: Did he kill her at the end??

I, personally, don't think he did...


.. I'm pretty sure his supposed to have killed her at the end - he checks his shoes before leaving the porch - can't be walking blood everywhere.

Agreed - one of the best 'baddie' caricatures of recent times! But who else was silently screaming at the guy not to return to the scene of the shoot up after he got the money and couldn't believe that he didn't go through it straight away to check it wasn't tracked!! Guess it was part of the comment on the nature of the characters.

[T.Lee]

its funny, everyone seems to want to talk about this movie. cant deny that its part of what makes it a great movie.

i think its a good movie due to its great direction, story setup and acting. but i just dont jive with the ending. i mean i "get it". "no country for old men", times have changed, a traditional sheriff cant do his job anymore because the world has become too corrupt and violent and senseless. but still, killing off the main protagonist off screen, only to be seen lying on the floor as the camera pans (i actually missed that detail). he deserved more than that. but of course the wife was killed, he checked his shoes for blood. and THAT subtlety i loved about the movie. the BIGGEST thing i couldnt deal with was why they showed chigur in the hotel room, and he still didnt kill the sheriff. makes no sense, why such a killing machine would let him go. and no clear answer what happened to the money.

its further interesting because what i read/heard was that was the only scene not consistent with the book. the book is less intimate with chigur being at the hotel, but outside and following him afterwards, but no further action.

still a well produced movie and compelling story that draws you in, but it let me down in the end.

:bandit:

[T.Lee]

I thought the casting couldnt have been better....... :)


i can only think of woody being slightly miscast. the rest of the cast was great.

:bandit:

[NoNameKleenex]

i can only think of woody being slightly miscast. the rest of the cast was great.

:bandit:


I know what you mean - this movie was certainly an interesting one, but I kept expecting Ted Danson or Norm to sidle by as a cameo :)

Still, I thought woody did a "good enough" job.

[yoda-waza]

If you're puzzled by the ending of the movie then the poem (http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575) will be way over your head.

[Hank]

...killing off the main protagonist off screen, only to be seen lying on the floor as the camera pans (i actually missed that detail). he deserved more than that.... As can be said for most book-to-movie things - the book was much better. Mainly because you just can't fit enough detail into 2 hours and you have to make choices about what to cut. In the book, it became apparent to me about half way through that the sheriff is the focus, not Moss. The movie doesn't show this well. Also, I don't think it's clear in the movie why Moss is going back to the desert at the beginning, which I think is pretty important. And I really think the sheriff's WWII backstory was integral to the book - it's not mentioned at all in the movie. I think the Coens read the Chigurh character and fell in love. And they did Chigurh well, but at the expense of other perhaps more interesting parts of the book.

For those who haven't read it - the book is a short, fast, good page-turner. It's written by a crotchety old man who can get a little whiny at times, but it's written so well I could look past that. It kept me up at night, wanting to read more - and that hasn't happened in a long while.

[Lloromannic]

I actually think that killing Moss offscreen was a very neat touch. No epic last stand, no tearful goodbye. Just a man who finally ran out of luck and got killed. It doesn't matter at all if he deserved better or not, which is a major part of the movie. Did Carla Jean deserve to die? Of course not, she confronts Chigurh about it in probably the most defiant act in the movie and the result is that we see Chigurh walking out on the porch checking his shoes for blood.

[Kent Enfield]

[T]he BIGGEST thing i couldnt deal with was why they showed chigur [sic] in the hotel room, and he still didnt kill the sheriff. makes no sense, why such a killing machine would let him go.Reconsider Bell's opening soliloquy, and, at least to me, his actions throughout the rest of the film make sense--including the mysterious escape of Chigurh.

The book is just as good, but follows a slightly different thematic line. If my take on the themes of the two works are correct, the omissions and changes between the book and the movie all work well.

[Kenzan]

i think its a good movie due to its great direction, story setup and acting. but i just dont jive with the ending. i mean i "get it". "no country for old men", times have changed, a traditional sheriff cant do his job anymore because the world has become too corrupt and violent and senseless. but still, killing off the main protagonist off screen, only to be seen lying on the floor as the camera pans (i actually missed that detail). he deserved more than that. but of course the wife was killed, he checked his shoes for blood. and THAT subtlety i loved about the movie. the BIGGEST thing i couldnt deal with was why they showed chigur in the hotel room, and he still didnt kill the sheriff. makes no sense, why such a killing machine would let him go. and no clear answer what happened to the money.
:bandit:

It's just those things that you mentioned which make it so great.
Just like in life, things can be left to fate (which was a major theme in the movie.) We didn't get our reward of seeing the protagonist triumph over evil.
Which was another overlapping theme in that the definitive social line between good an evil was fuzzy at best.We only could judge it by the stark extremes of the Sheriff and Chigur.
The conclusion you came to is the same one I came to after watching it once.
After a second viewing, it became clear that the movie has a completely different meaning, pehaps even several others.

In my book, the Coen Bros. are right up there with the greats.

[T.Lee]

btw, i dont have a problem with the protagonist dying or not "triumphing over evil". its the directorial discretion to not show what happened to such a main character. whether it mattered or not i guess is the point.

hank, now that you said it, i did sense the main shift going to the sheriff in the latter half, but it wasnt quite pronounced. im glad you mentioned that was more clear in the original book.

like i said, still a good movie. i just disagree with the directorial choices at the ending, as great of directors as they are...

:bandit:

[Usagi San]

its funny, everyone seems to want to talk about this movie. cant deny that its part of what makes it a great movie.:

Disagree.
There was a lot of talk about "Deep throat" on the ocasion of it's 30 years but that didn't trnasform it into a master piece of the 7th art did it?

[Bucho]

and here I was thinking this would be a thread about old bogu.