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I'm planning to see this movie tonight. It's a new movie by the Coen brothers (Fargo, Barton Fink, etc). A lot of reviewers say it's the best movie they've made since Fargo, and some say it's their best yet. My expectations are pretty high. Anyone seen it yet? (No spoilers please.) |
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lets just say its no country for old men. |
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best genre film of 2007. |
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iz good, yes. |
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it's good - i had a few troubles figuring out what the fucking yank texans were saying, betimes, but yeah, it's good. doesn't touch fargo though. |
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i think it will age well. |
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Can this be downloaded yet or are you people going to actual theaters? |
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if its downloadable its prolly just shitty cams. its a great film, very tense and intriguing, but just to warn you tommy lee jones in a useless character. |
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I downloaded a great copy, but what can you say about No Country for Old Men at the end of the day, other than its violence for the sake of violence? It's well made, but hardly original. |
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yeah, sometimes dvds are sent out to critics I think while they are still in theaters. So that could explain why some rips are so good while not even released yet. |
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Like, I dl'ed the new bourne movie and it still had the time code numbers at the top |
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a friend used to work for a store which sent out copies of cinema films to british consulates, which had the timecodes etc... so bogala is correctamundo. |
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scary and enjoyable flick, probably up until the pool part, then it got pretty boring pretty fast |
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read the book first!!! its excellent |
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I was thinking the same thing, after the pool shooting the film just collapsed. The vietnam vet who had been instrumental to the whole film just copped it and you didn't even see how - they messed up badly. |
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i disagree. after the "pool scene" the film becomes cohesive. we realize it was never really about Llewelyn Moss but rather, the movie is about how crime in this small town is getting too outrageous for the old men to handle or even comprehend. This movie is about the sheriff becoming overwhelmed and ultimately forced into retirement by criminality he no longer understands. anyway, i loved it. |
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That's what I thought the movie was about, basically. More generally, how an older generation are out of place in a new world created by the next, younger generation. Or something like that. Otherwise, the film is just pointless, without any subtext. |
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Can you imagine how fucked up the world would seem to people from the 1930's if they were put in a time machine and dropped here. |
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Well i finally seen it and its not as good as i thought it would be with all the rave reviews. I'll echo what others have said in this thread, that it's 'pointless', I didn't find it any deeper than the average holywood flick, no matter how hard it tried to be. Yes there is the old people living in a changed world thing, but it felt tacked on to make it appear deep. There were good ideas here and there but none were developed enough, the exchange between the physco and the old man near the beginning was very lynchian and was one of the best scenes in the movie, also we learn nothing about the killer apart from the fact that he's a phyco with no sense of humour. Hoping that 'There Will be Blood' will not be such a disappointment.. |
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absolutely loved this film the hero character wow. what a man |
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its awesome |
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awesome film. (still watching it though). i've got a quite different take on it's meaning though. the old men from the title are the vietnam veterans. and they brought the war back to america. america is not a country for those old men. it's the old men who bring those outrageous things. |
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tommy lee is a vet as well, of course (speculation, i'm 1.50 in) |
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damn. the ending sucks |
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*spoilers* what do you think happened when his wife refused to choose a side of the coin? also why didn't he kill tommy lee jones's character, he killed just about everyone else he came across and whats with the car crash? what was the point? |
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sorry to milk my theory here, but here it goes anyways. the four protagonists are all vets. -brolin and harrelson explicitly stated in the movie - bardem, the psycho: harrelsons and bardems characters know each other, which is the first indication. the second being his survival/war skills. a psycho just doesn't pick those things up in normal life. he must have been to war. - and tommy lee. he doesn't seem a man who's overwhelmed. he gives the impression he knows pretty well what's going on. more so than his younger assistants. for instance, he even ends up just a bit too late at brolins place in el paso (think also of how easily harrelson found brolin - vets know how to find each other, because they know how they think). also, in the end where he talks with his wife telling he's having dreams again...well yeah, that's what vets do, don't they. god, i hate the open ending |
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*spoilers* he almost certainly killed her, as when he walked outside of the house he checked the bottom of his boots for blood stains (as usual) |
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ah, yeah i forgot about that.. your probably right, |
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he killed her, i think. before bardem drove off he took the time to take something from the soles his boots. probably blood. and bardem didn't kill tommy because they had no quarrel. tommy hasn't even been near him. never saw him. bardem wasn't running from the cops . |
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haha what the cygmeister said |
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i thought, with all the hype, this film would be class it wasn't, it was superbly acted with an intriguing story, but it just fizzled out with a crap ending and no conclusion the most disappointing Coen film i've seen |
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o, and the car-crash was just a random car crash. bardem wasn't watching where he was going, drove over a crossing and got hit by some random guy. also, think of how bardem was obsessed with odds (the flip of a coin could save someone's live). |
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perhaps i wasn't clear: driving over the crossing without paying attention finally brought him in a position where he himself was against the odds (he survived though). |
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i have see it today and end satisfactory, see very disturbing the images of blood and body pain. can congs the cohen brothers for their work. no country for old men,is country for new man thats why sherrif survive and hero die. |
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The fact that this film has received such raved reviews merely shows how low mainstream expectations have sunk. They should have stuck to the two guys hunting each other as that was the only good bit about the film. The sub-plot is old hat and has no depth, trying to give such an unimaginative plot hidden depth defeated the object in the end and was superficial in itself. It was watchable but no more than that. These films are ten a penny. |
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wot barcode sed |
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i thought it was a great film and among the coen's best work. If you were walking into it expecting a masterpiece then its probably going to be shit for you. if you walk into it expecting a coen film far darker and better than anything they've done since Fargo you will be pleased |
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"the most disappointing Coen film i've seen" im surprised youd say this taking into account Intolerable Cruelty, Crimewave, Oh brother, and Ladykillers |
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oh brother is great |
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I thought the car crash was in reference to the whole coin thing? the killer telling the shop clerk to never let the coin that decided his fate become 'just another coin' and then him doing that exact thing when he left what I presumed was his 'fate coin' behind when he got the money out of the air duct. I thought the car crash (and whatever else followed) was his comeuppance for taking things for granted. Although it's very likely I'm completely wrong. |
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overall decent cohen flick still raising Arizona bring back such good memories |
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i guess we agree, innit |
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he didn't left his coin though. he still had it when he went after his wife. and also, the guy who was saved by the coin flip got to keep the coin. bardem had no 'fate coin' for himself. he wasn't attached to a particular coin, but to the concept of chance. anyways after reading some wikis, in the book the tommy lee character is indeed a vet. although not a vietnam vet, but a ww2 one. |
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his wife should be the wife ... |
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good film but the last 20 mins was not so good becuase film wasnt as "deeeeep" as it belived itself to be so tomas lee jones character's existential angst became kind of pointless for my opinion and film began to sag like an old ladies breasts |
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I liken the movie to a male orgasm. at its peak it had a very strong erection, but ejaculated prematurely and couldn't get it up again in the end. |
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barcode, i agree with most of what you've said. i think they could have shortned it and kept it tighter, but for me i think most of the pleasure was watching the Coen's return to a very Blood Simple template, one of my favorites of theirs. No Country definitly did some over reaching towards the end that was unnecessary, however i only saw it one time so my opinion may change when i see it again. It took me a while to love millers crossing, when i first saw it i was kind of disappointed by it, but it quickly grew on me and i would rate it #2 just under barton fink as my favorite coen movie. |
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Is this film against the elderly? I don't like racists. |
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its about youth,racist. |
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overall, 'twas good. i liked that the killer was smarter than everyone else and that he didn't get caught in the end. if only because it was not what i expected. i felt like woody was a little out of place in this movie. he didn't last long enough to really bother me, though. i couldn't figure out if the shotgun with the big silencer was firing buckshot or slugs... |
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