No Country for Old Men

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Ouch. Lots of ultraviolence. A really good film that left you hanging at the end. I don't if I liked it or not, but the ending engendered lots of discussion. I think people kept expecting there to be a happy ending but that's not what happened. What happened was violence, sudden and random. There wasn't anyway to stop it.

Javier Bardem was just creepy, really creeepy and I liked it. In some ways the movie is mostly about Tommy Lee's character and how he reacts to the violence that engulfs his county and ultimately how he deals with it.

Best Line" If this isn't a big mess, it will do until one gets here"

[The Queen]

Definitely ultraviolent, but strangely, not as squirm-in-your-seat uncomfortable as I'd expected. This was good creepy; fascinating creepy. The problem with most movie psychopaths is that you can instantly recognize them as psychopaths and so you roll your eyes at the stupidity of the characters who don't recognize them as such. In this one, you know something's not right, but you're not 100% sure what's wrong -- it's that kind of lean in, get closer, see what it is, even though it smells kind of thing.

I am kind of glad that I saw it AFTER the Oscar gig, though, because I probably would have been not only annoyed at the difficulty of transcribing Javier Bardem's thick accent, I would also have been a lot more creeped out by his presence (even sans the Dorthy Hamill haircut).

[thatguy]

I like it, but I seem to like pretty much all the Cohen brother's movies. I found the DVD featurette interesting as well. The Cohens talk about this being more violent then there other movies. They go into detail about how they did the opening scene without injuring the actors.

There's a new one coming called "Burn After Reading" that looks like it will be fun too:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/trailers-imdb-vi1155268889">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/tra ... 1155268889</a><!-- m -->

--tg

[El Dingo]

Didn't like this one.

I don't like Tommy Lee "Southern Lawman" Jones to begin with. I find him too smug and typecast. It's like he has a rider on his contract that he has first dibs on military/police personnel with a drawl.

The villain was lame. There, I said it. See 'Rutger Haur: The Hitcher', 'Owen Wilson: The Minus Man'. I've seen dozens of movies with 'random serial killers' (I'm pointing at YOU Heath Ledger!) but without character development it's just shock value. The fact that they never really explained the background of his weapon pissed me off.

BTW movies with no endings are pretentious art-school wimp outs.