No country for old men
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Anyone see this yet? I've heard its very good, but the closest theatre thats showing it is over an hour away. So i'd like to live vicariously through any of you punks that have seen it ;(
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i sit there for the first minutes and i think, this sux.
1.5 hours into it - what is this crap is this like a joke?
after a while i left. then i found out its a cohen bro - say what???
i feel like seeing it again tho. there was something very classic about it, very subtle, conservative, point-blank attitude to it. the we're gonna make u appreciate good cinema kinda pretense. kinda fine-artsy.
american gangster was much cooler.
great cinematography, great characters.
there is little to no story, though.
I liked it a lot
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Really? I thought American Gangster was pretty mediocre, actually.
I've been looking forward to seeing this one, because I thought Cormac McCarthy's book was awesome and I expect nothing but greatness from the Coen brothers. I'm all hyped again. Now I somehow hope they won't make a movie out of McCarthy's last novel, The Road, because it's so very depressing, in fact the most depressing novel ever - but then again, it would still be interesting to see it if there is good art direction... (d'oh - checked IMDB and of course The Road is in production already).
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True dat' on the depression bit... Pretty simple book, pretty good too. Here's hoping for some Half-Life2 / Stalker-esque post-apocalypticism, and that they leave the ambiguous nature of the setting.
yea denzel @ american gangster was awesome. i love that actor.
Saw it yesterday and I think it's easily the best film of the year.
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Agreed, but it might still be a bit too early to say. There Will Be Blood (one of the trailers they showed before No Country) is coming out at the end of the month, and it looks like it's going to be a good'n itself.
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Saw it yesterday and I think it's easily the best film of the year.
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Agreed, but it might be a bit too early to say. There Will Be Blood (one of the trailers they showed before No Country) is coming out at the end of the month, and it looks like it's going to be a good'n itself.
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one of the critics i respect the most tied There Will Be Blood and No Country as his two best of the year... i can see myself making the same call, frankly, from the whispers of what i've heard about There Will Be Blood. great to see a movie you know you'll be watching again and appreciating for years to come
Other than that I loved it.
Am I the only one that found the ending to this movie entirely unsatisfying? Didn't really end, just stopped telling the story.
Other than that I loved it.
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i giggled a little bit when the people behind us in the theater were openly surprised by the ending, too.
i'll admit, the ending is more satisfying if you've read the novel, even though the movie is very faithful in virtually all respects. it was a very careful choice on the Coens' part, reflecting what the book is about.
the novel is more neatly structured and bookended by passages of sheriff Bell talking directly to the reader, about these horrible crimes and things he sees in the world that he can't understand (the most central of these interludes are incorporated into dialogue in the film). what's missing is that Bell interviews the kids that witness Chigurh's car accident and realizes it was him, and thinks he might have a lead on it, but as with the motel sequence, Bell realizes he's in way over his head. Chigurh (like many figures in McCarthy's novels) represents/is a kind of unmitigated evil, a strangely fair but brutal sort well adapted to these incomprehensible times.
but the film is an elegant and very faithful take on what the book is all about. it ends where it ends because that's the whole point--Moss, his wife, and Bell all come into contact with this force that they're not equipped to handle, and only Bell makes it out because he instinctively or explicitly knows that a confrontation with Chigurh will only end in death. Chigurh gets away, but ironically given his fixation on fate and chance, he still gets into a car crash. so it's an amended "the bad guys win" kind of ending, though that's still very much the point.
though the experience is kind of redundant to a large degree, i recommend the novel for those interested. it's a great study in how closely the Coens have adapted it, and also fills out certain themes and elements that are more implicit in the film. that and McCarthy is one of our best American writers around today
Anyways, definitely cleared it up a bit for me, so thanks.
the movie is absolutely fucking awesome. go see it. the story is awesome, it's just not on a simple, literal level.
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I'm quite surprised. that was easily one of the best endings i can think of! really really well acted too. i thought it was totally beautiful, and summed up the theme profoundly and in an articulate manor.
The movie pulls on traditional good guy vs bad guy structure, but it deals with higher concepts about the illusion of the "innate property of the universe to support what's right" The last bit describes how this dream, based on his father, is shattered. "and then i woke up". awesome ending.
and the action scenes are sweet too. such a good movie. definitely better if you can think in the big picture.