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Anyone else see this yet? It's really freakin great. The ending kinda confused me cause I wasn't expecting it and I wasn't paying as close attention as I should have been. Seriously, Chigurh is the most bad ass, nightmare inducing villain ever put on film, IMO. This movie definitely felt like Fargo in alot of ways, and that's a really good thing. Go see it.
Post by chicojuarz on Dec 17, 2007 18:23:54 GMT -5
Yes it was a great movie. I'd be happy to give a more detailed opinion but dont like to even hit at what happens in a movie. Reminded me a lot of Fargo and was a great return movie for the Coen brothers after Intolerable Cruelty and the Ladykillers remake.
As my Inebriated buddy walks out of the Porto, he yells out, "Dude...I love this place...bonnaroo thinks about everything...they even put beer holders next to the toilet!"
Had to break it to him that that was the urnal. Good times good times!
Post by henotbusybeingborn on Mar 14, 2008 12:07:44 GMT -5
I really liked what I saw of it, however, I'm a little embarressed to say that I fell asleep about three quarters into it, so I don't know how it ends. In my defense, we started watching it at like 2 in the morning, and I was already verrrrrrrrry "chill" at that point. I do plan on watching the rest of it soon.
I liked it. I didn't think it was great or even near great really. The Coen brothers have made some truly great movies. Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski...all pretty damn near perfect.
No Country For Old Men is good though. Best thing they've done since O Brother Where Art Thou?
Post by jambandjohn on Mar 14, 2008 16:32:54 GMT -5
Compared to what else is out, it's an excellent flick. Compared to other movies in the Coen catalog, I would say it's only in the middle of the pack...
Just finished watching it and liked it quite a bit. I thought the ending suited the movie, sort of a loose tie-up to the randomness of life. That's kind of what I got from it, that life and how thing turn out are random (just a coin flip, you might say) so don't question it too much. There are no answers and it will just drive you crazy if you try to find some.
The Coen Bros do just about anything well from Raising Arizona and Big Lewbowski to Fargo and this.
Kind of surprising that the 2 movies I watched today (No Country and Eastern Promises) both had similar loose endings.
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Didn't Eastern Promises kind of feel like a really good TV pilot? Not a put down, just felt like there was more story there in that character than one movie could contain...
^^I wouldn't worry about spoilers. If a thread is about a book/movie you should expect people to talk about it. That's why I avoided this thread until I saw the flick.
I liked NPFOM's ending better the EP. I agree that EP seemed like a pilot in that it left so many questions and possibilities. NPFOM actually made a lot of sense symbolically, IMHO.
Post by stonewall927 on Mar 17, 2008 11:06:55 GMT -5
I loved it. I thought the ending was great. I think too many times we want things tied up in a nice little package and this movie did not have that proverbial bow. But man the impact and the intensity was overwhelming. I can totally understand why it was nominated and won awards. I thought Josh Brolin was great as well and it had a really strong supporting cast. From Brolin's wife to the old convenient store clerk. I thought Gone Baby Gone was alright and I enjoy watching Casey way more than Ben. Not that ben didn't do a good job with the direction he did. But for my money I'ld rather watch No Country before Gone anyday.
I'm gonna watch No Country for the first time, tonight (didn't see/hear any spoilers yet, thank God).
Recently, I've seen a few really good movies from last year: Per Dudezer's suggestion, I saw "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly"... simply amazing film, exquisitely shot and acted, and the narrative was really great, I thought. I also saw "Michael Clayton" which was surprisingly good... nice to see a movie with a somewhat satisfying ending, and not a complete downer. I still hold "There Will Be Blood" as my fav of the last year, but that could change tonight.
"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high." Jimi Hendrix
Very good movie, not deserving of Best Picture, but good, still. Ending was good... made me sit on it for while, acting was superb, and, God, was it suspenseful. Recommended, if you can tolerate intense and violent movies.
i need to see 'there will be blood'...i love me some pt andersen flicks!
ps watched 'southland tales' last night also...very cool movie, not the best of last year but the 'darko' director put a nice lookin' film together again.
I was very disappointed by this film. I felt that the story didn't resolve anything by the end of the movie. Also, the whole thing with the sheriff at the end left me thinking "who cares?" He wasn't a very major character throughout the film, so I really could have cared less about the dream that he had.
I understand that the book is much different. I'm told that the sheriff is the narrator, at least through parts of the book, so the reader becomes closer to him as a character. It would have made the ending much better if Tommy Lee Jones had been narrating periodically throughout the film and if his character's presence was felt more.
I was also really disappointed that this movie won so many Oscars. It seems like the Coens won because of their reputation and all the other great films they've had that didn't win anything. Their Oscar this year felt to me to be a kind of "here ya go" type of award rather than something that they earned with this specific project. Last year was the same way, with Martin Scorsese. In no way did I feel that The Departed should have won best picture, or Scorsese should have won best director. But they Academy has snubbed him so many times in the past that this was the year he was "due" to win.
EDIT: I'm not trying to say that this movie was all bad. It was not. Compared to some of their other more recent projects, this was a fantastic return to Coen Brother form. But compared to their better films, No Country just doesn't stack up.
