no country for old men
 

this isn't horror per se, but its awesome. i think this is easily the best movie of the year and reminded me of some of the great 'dark' film noir films. real rural grit and one of the best film villains in years. some great gore and real tension but with a deep intelligence that will annoy some audiences (but not the discriminating folks here at HDC).

so - go see No Country for Old Men and learn to fear the Chegure!

This one is a MUST SEE for me.

I can't see this one. God fucking damn it.

temporary context-specific blindness prevents you from seeing this specific movie? or is it a court-ordered ban?

The people that bought both local theaters check ID's now, no matter who you are even if you're 70. I'm 16, the movie's rated R, no adults I know want to see it, so fuck.

oh - sorry - maybe you could get a fake id - or just shoot your way in in a bloodbath!

I can picture it now.

"Why'd you shoot up the theater?"

"A monkey told me to see No Country For Old Men"

Insanity plea?

If I was 70 and someone asked me for idea when I went to buy a movie ticket I'd beet them down with my cane......

I loved No Country for Old Men but hated the ending. Just my opinion I guess.

Ouch...that sucks, but what are you going to do?... A good consolation prize would be for you to rent the Coen brothers first film Blood Simple. It's not like their comedies; it is hardcore suspenseful drama.

Seriously, try to rent it. It will be a good warm-up for when you can see No Country...

agreed - that and miller's crossing

on the ending, i really loved it- i thought that it fit perfectly with the whole theme of the movie - not that we wanted it to end this way, more that it HAD to end this way and if the Cohen Bros had given in to the audience's desire to see a different ending it would have betrayed the whole thing

difficult viewing - but worthwhile!

easy fix. buy a ticket to a different movie, then go to No Country instead.
as for the movie, i loved it. intense. great characters. great direction.

hey zero, i was going to make a thread for this film but you beat me to it. well done.

i couldn't agree with you more. the film blew my mind.
and the last segment of the film just left my jaw on the floor (in a great way).

ugh the ending was so great.

anyway, you pretty much said it all. i just wanted to second your statement.

Now that I think of it I do like the ending. It was like a book ending. And considering it was a book now I love it.

This one has really lingered with me. The Coens play with audience expectations and never pander. Bardem is brilliant (I know what next year's Halloween costume is going to be!!!) and Tommy Lee Jones is heartbreaking.

I wanted more Josh Brolin.

I'm really looking forward to seeing it again

Me too!
this guy has had a lot of excellent roles lately, Grindhouse, American Gangster, now this.

Yeah, I can't believe every kid hasn't thought of this..

There are many tricks you can play at the cinema.. buy a ticket for a kids movie that has adult prices and go see a full priced blockbuster your unsure about..

If you go see a movie and it sucks just walk in to something else that is starting.. Get your moneys worth...

Good. Gravy. What an amazing movie, and what a great villain in Chigurh.

i saw this for the second time tonight, and i must say i say i loved it even more this time around. i noticed some more things, smaller details and the like.

i'm going to go ahead and say this is my favorite of 2007 so far. i'm waiting to see before the devil knows you're dead and there will be blood, which might beat it out. we'll see though.

I was traveling for my job in Eden Prairie Minnesota and I had a free night so I went and saw it. At the end a lady yelled out "that was the worst show I ever saw!". I love when people obliviously proclaim their stupidity.

SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!

Make's we want to read the book. So was Woody Harrelson going back to change clothes so he could go get it? Also I don't think he would have agreed to go back to the room. And Brolin's character (when we don't see his final stand), how did the Mexican tracker's find him? Or where they trackers at all, and just hoodlams? We know how "sugar" finds him (after the fact) but we don't know how the Mexican's find him(???)

the mexican trackers found him by getting information from carla jean's mother (the "i got the cancer" lady). lewellen had told carla jean to meet him at the hotel, and carla jean must have told her mother. so when the "mexican in a suit" comes over to carla jean's mother to offer her help, he asks her where she's headed. they went to the motel to retrieve the money.

i'd say the only 'stretch' of my belief (ok beyond the usual 'beyond belief stuff in a movie') was that harrelson's character would just happen to start looking around the bridge (I won't say more so as to not make it too much of a spoiler). it just felt unlikely- otherwise this film all made sense to me.

i can understand that. i thought about that too, and here's what i came up with:

apparently, he's good at his job, and it was obvious that lewellen had gotten rid of the case somewhere between the border and the hospital, so he must have decided to check every place in between. the hospital couldn't have been that far from the border. plus, that may not have been the only place he checked, it's just the only place they showed him checking.

Thanks for reminding me about the "Mexican in a suit". And I agree with the above. I thought it rang very true. It is simple deduction really. It made me realize that "sugar" wasn't so much smart, but rather he was calm and logical when he needed to be. Woody's character WAS smarter... But smart isn't always enough in this world...

not a problem, glad to help.

what you said about chigurh is very true. he was so calm and logical about what he did that it removed virtually all trace of humanity from him.

by far one of the greatest villains in the past 10 years.

I've heard that complaint from a lot of people.

I loved the ending. Tommy Lee Jones telling those dream stories was great.

"I'm twenty years older now than he ever was, so when you see us, I'm the older man..." Brilliant.

Hell yeah! Brolin is on fiya'!

2007: Year of the Brolin.

Okay, I didn't want to crack into this thread until I had seen the film.

Best movie of the year (sorry, Gone Baby Gone), and one of my favorite movies in recent theatre memory.

I loved the ending; what a perfectly dark, chilling conclusion!

**SPOILERS**

I read an interesting theory on the mysterious scene towad the end where we see Tommy Lee Jones at one end of a hotel door, and Chugar at the other. Jones breaks in, but Chugar is not to be found. Well, there are several theories going around that place Chugar at a supernatural level, at least in some context. This is backed up as well by the many instances in the film where a character refers to him as a ghost, or some other such entity.

Well I read one analyzation that put Chugar out as "greed", personified. Notice that the two people that Chugar doesn't kill when he has the chance, the sheriff and gas station attendent, both confess to beig quite content with their lives.

Using this theory, it is possible that when the sheriff breaks into the hotel room and Chugar is not there, it is because he cannot see greed.

Anyway, I thought this was one interesting dig on the film.

That might of worked back when you were a kid, but now in most theaters they seperate the R movies and the PG-13/PG movies.

i think the only reason Chigurh didnt kill the gas station attendant is because he won the coin toss.

***Small Spoiler***



There were two rooms blocked off. I assumed the sheriff went in one and Chigurh was in the other.

They patrol the theater like a prison. So I guess I'm waiting for DVD.

Could be. I've seen the flick three times now, and am starting to lean away from that theory...