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[film] no country for old men

def chrisdef chris
edited January 2009 in Chit chat
anyone else seen this? read so many conflicting reviews of this film before I watched it. my mate and his g/f lent it to me saying it was the best film since pulp fiction, and when I told my other mate I'd borrowed it he said it was the most boring film he'd ever seen!

watched it and tbh I think it's one of Cohen Bros better films, not a patch on Fargo or Big Lebowski though. very well shot and atmospheric but slightly lacking in any overall point (or maybe Im a bit thick and the 'point' went over my head). the main bad guy steals the show
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  • WhizzBangWhizzBang
    edited January 2009
    I watched about half of it with my girlfriend but we just couldn't get into it so we switched it off. I think it is quite rare to get half way through a film and think to yourself "I don't really care what is going on or what is going to happen next so I might as well turn it off".
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited January 2009
    I really enjoyed it - typical Coen brothers violence with some great performances. I thought of it as a non-sci-fi version of The Terminator.

    I still don't know the point of the Woody Harrelson role though - it added nothing whatsoever to the film and just seemed like some filler.
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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited January 2009
    lol, 2 conflicting views already..

    agree a bit with the woody harrelson bit...hes not even listed as a star on the DVD sleeve
  • milemile
    edited January 2009
    i thought it was an excellent film. the woody harelson character was prolly only in there as he was in the book. cut him out and the book lovers whinge, but keep him in and the film goers whinge, can't win, huh.

    i thought josh brolin was super, he certainly has come a long way since goonies.
  • rahtgazrahtgaz
    edited January 2009
    No Country for Old Men is one of the films I enjoyed most in years. For me, the best of the Cohen Brothers followed closely by Fargo.

    Javier Bardem character, Anton Chigurh, has gained a place in my heart as one of the most terrible villains in cinema.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2009
    Yeah it was a good film watched it a while back, wanted to see it long before it came out at the flicks. I asked the woman in the vid shop when's it out? She looked on the computer and said it'll be at least 4 months, it's not even on the cinema yet :lol:

    When I did see it was good, pretty crazy stuff.
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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited January 2009
    The Woody Harrelson role i actually thought was good as i was sure he would be in the film a long time but of course wasnt which was a major surprise.

    The 'baddie' is superb in the film, there a ton of talking which bored me but the action scenes are superb. Not a bad film at all but they could have cut out a good chunk
  • beanzbeanz
    edited January 2009
    Hmmm the fact that you think the big lebowski was a good film suggests I wouldn't like this one as the big lebowski was one of the worse films I have ever watched.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited January 2009
    beanz wrote: »
    Hmmm the fact that you think the big lebowski was a good film suggests I wouldn't like this one as the big lebowski was one of the worse films I have ever watched.
    exactly what I thought about the big lebowski...the first couple of times I (attempted) to watch it...seen it about 6 times now and my opinion has completely changed. I love it now, lol
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2009
    def chris wrote: »
    exactly what I thought about the big lebowski...the first couple of times I (attempted) to watch it...seen it about 6 times now and my opinion has completely changed. I love it now, lol

    I instantly thought it was great, but maybe that's because I was high as a kite the first time I watched it.
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  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited January 2009
    mile wrote: »
    i thought josh brolin was super, he certainly has come a long way since goonies.

    :-o I totally didn't realise that was him. He was great in this.

    tbh I didn't think much of it. It was miles better than The Ladykillers though (mind you, that wasn't a proper Coen film anyways) but it's not a patch on Lebowski, O Brother and Hudsucker. Even The Man Who Wasn't There was better than this.

    I keep hearing people saying that they left the ending open and you don't know what happened. But if you pay attention to Javier at the very end you'll know exactly what happened off camera.
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  • Old_SpeccerOld_Speccer
    edited January 2009
    VincentAC wrote: »
    But if you pay attention to Javier at the very end you'll know exactly what happened off camera.

    Yea the credits rolled :p
    The IMDB forum for this film made some funny reading about people who thought they knew exactly what happend at the end, arguing with other people who also thought they "knew" :D

    Nobody does, that's the point isn't it? I enjoyed it anyway.
  • milemile
    edited January 2009
    Old_Speccer wrote: »
    Yea the credits rolled :p
    The IMDB forum for this film made some funny reading about people who thought they knew exactly what happend at the end, arguing with other people who also thought they "knew" :D

    Nobody does, that's the point isn't it? I enjoyed it anyway.

    didn't the film makers leave it open at the end for you to make up your mind.

    btw i stayed in an appartment building, and one of the apt's on the floor belongs to ethan coen. i didn't see him. :(
  • milemile
    edited January 2009
    VincentAC wrote: »
    :-o I totally didn't realise that was him. He was great in this.

    yeah i didn't either till my GF told me at the end, and i pretended to know all the way through.

    watch the goonies reunion after it, and he's the only one apart from chunk who seems to have changed.
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited January 2009
    I liked it, but then I also liked The Jacket so make of that what you will.
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited January 2009
    mile wrote: »
    my GF
    Are you still going with this story? Thought you'd have given up on it by now :D
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited January 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I instantly thought it was great, but maybe that's because I was high as a kite the first time I watched it.

    weirdly, the first couple of times I saw it was at uni where me and everyone else was smoking about an eigth a day of skunk. it's only since I stopped smoking weed altogether that I have got into the film...
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