No Country For Old Men (movie review)
 

I thought this was a good movie though violent. Story held my interest. I really couln't predict what was going to happen next. I like Tommy Lee Jones as an actor.

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I liked it, to. It was pretty intense. The end really surprised me. I think it won several Oscars, didn't it? This one and There Will Be Blood were two of the best movies I saw in the last year.

I thought it was kinda crappy, just a stupid abrupt ending. I know it's based on a novel and i dont think it made the movie transition very well.

I told my wife that after I got the suitcase full of money, I would have returned for the truckload of drugs ($$) immediately and then just left for good. His WORST mistake was returning the next day.

It doesn't pay to bring water to a dead guy. Second mistake was keeping the briefcase. First thing I would have done would have been to empty the case and play with all the cash. I would have found that homing device for sure and smashed it. ;)

Yeah, but then you'd be in a boring movie. Who'd want to watch that?!:P

Decent movie but not best Picture material. A lot of the big name characters had roles not pertinent to the story, like Woody Harrelson. Hell, Tommy lee could have stayed out of it as well and the movie was just as good, he did no great crime busting.

Yeah, I thought Tommy Lee's character was rather peripheral to the story. It wasn't really, it just seemed like the killer and they guy who found the money were the main characters.

I think the impotence of the Tommy Lee Jones character is an important part of the film. It contributes to the overall lack of justice in McCarthy's universe. I think it's this dark vision of an amoral universe that makes the film so powerful.

That sounds just like something a philosophy professor would say. :rolleyes:

NCfOM: WTF??
 

I was just about to start up a similar topic. Yesterday, intrigued by all the Oscar noise, I went.

The movie's top notch, a crime story to rival anything Elmore Leonard's ever done -- until the last 20 minutes. If you leave when Josh Brolin's welder/cowboy, Llewellyn Moss, arrives at the El Paso motel, and go home and write your own ending, it's likely to be a heckuva lot better than this. Moss, who we've followed since the first frames of the movie, just vanishes from the story.

Wha??? If you set up a battle like this between two antagonists, you need to have a payoff! The good guy doesn't have to win, of course, and the villain doesn't have to be killed. But you need a payoff of *some* kind for your audience! I mean, suppose Og, the Cro-Magnon tribal storyteller, climaxed his exciting story of an epic mammoth hunt by saying only, "Oh, the mammoths got away, so we came back home." The rest of the tribe would stone him.

Maybe I missed something; maybe Moss *is* killed; but it's murky and unclear to me. I thought it was the mother-in-law who was killed at the motel. If Moss was killed there, okay; but why not show his face in the morgue when Sheriff Ed Tom (Tommy Lee Jones) is alone there with the body?

I suspect I wouldn't like the novel, either -- I hear it's full of long digressions, and doesn't have quotation marks, which always makes me claustrophobic.

That said, Anton the psycho cattle-gun killer is as creepy as Hannibal Lecter or Harry Roat Junior, and Brolin and Jones just plain inhabit their roles.
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Yeah, the way this ended was a shocker to me. Maybe a little too much reality for a movie.

Here's an interesting take on the film.

http://www.christandpopculture.com/film/hope-defered-no-country-for-old-men/

I can't comment on how the film deviates from the book since I haven't read it, but I read Tommy Lee Jones dream story at the end completely differently. The fact that it occurred in a dream, I took to indicate that the hope for justice and redemption is nothing but a dream as opposed to the transcendent intervention that this author sees.

Thank you, everybody, for your comments. This is a movie I wont waste my time watching.