Just got done watching 'No Country for Old Men'...

[Danger Mouse]

damn...it was a fantastic movie.
But you might as well have punched me in the stomach...no happy endings here. :P
Javier Bardem...earned his oscar...no question there. None at all. :scared:

[SeattleGirl]

1. I just got that one from Netflix, but haven't watched it yet.

I'm looking forward to checking it out.

[Danger Mouse]

2. It's great. Won't say anything to ruin it but...

it's as good as anything the Coen brothers have ever done, if not much better, even.
A well-deserved best picture.

[Danger Mouse]

3. Anyone else see it?

[Norwood]

4. Up until the last 30 minutes it was the best movie of the year hands down

Boy did that last 30 min piss me off though

[tekisui]

7. It's a sign of the times.

A lot of hopelessness lately. The bad guys keep winning.

[Danger Mouse]

16. Like I said...it's based on a book.

[Danger Mouse]

14. It's based on a book. They couldn't just change the ending to make it all neat and pretty.

[fishwax]

21. well, there's nothing unusual about changing the ending from a book to make it all neat and pretty

The Natural springs to mind, but there are dozens of other examples as well :)

[cemaphonic]

25. Well, they could have. To their credit, they didn't want to.

I saw an interview with them where Joel was saying how much they liked that the book started out like a genre potboiler, and then set about subverting all of the expectations of the genre.

[Forkboy]

5. Loved it. The Coen Bros. are the best moviemakers going.

Even Scorcese has chucked out a couple of stinkers.

Bardem was beyond awesome. The look he gives the store clerk after making him call the coin toss was priceless. :rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

15. That smile...haha...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. dark and darker. Grim and grimmer...sort of like my life --

x( :D :hi:

I liked the non-ending.

[QMPMom]

8. My son bought the DVD but I haven't watched it yet.

He said I'd like it, so I should make time soon to sit down and have a look.

[morningglory]

30. Great extra features on the DVD. We rented 2 other Bardem films. He is

fantastic. In one he was a gay Cuban during the revolution. Another: he was an evil bishop, priest or some type of cleric. Oh, Lawd! Evil.

[atomic-fly]

9. Very good film

We watched it last night. I love the Coen brothers films.
Of course they always pick such good characters.
Lots of good lines.

[Connonym]

10. I saw it in the theater and got it from Netflix yesterday because I want to see it again

I liked it the first time but I think I missed a lot of the symbolism and some of the nuances because I had had wine with dinner and then beer at the theater so I was a bit buzzed.

[OneMoreDemocrat]

11. O.K. film.....

I don't understand why it garnered any Oscars though.

[Critters2]

22. I'm so glad it's not just me. I didn't really enjoy it at any level.

And all of the acting seemed stiff. Didn't like the violence, but I tried to look past that. But...meh.

[swag]

12. Yes. No redemption.

In the book, for the sheriff there was at least the love of his wife as some saving grace, but maybe I was projecting that on the book via my own sentimentality.

[Danger Mouse]

19. Haven't read the book...is it good?

[fishwax]

13. glad you liked it -- i did too

I saw it twice in the theater, but haven't had a chance to watch it on DVD yet. As soon as the semester is over I'll be buying that along with There Will Be Blood and watching them both, perhaps multiple times :)

[Skittles]

17. EXCELLENT MOVIE

it cracks me up, how the ending RUINED it for some people. HELLO! SOMETIMES THERE ARE NO HAPPY ENDINGS.

[Danger Mouse]

18. Exactly. I appreciate films with unhappy endings..it challenges our comfort zones...

where we're always expecting the white knight to come in at the end and save everyone.
Sometimes, reality is much more cruel. There is no redemption, no hope, and no clean getaway.

[Skittles]

20. DEAD ON!!!!!!!!!!

no pun intended :D

[Danger Mouse]

23. It brings to mind Brazil....

which for awhile makes you think everything is going to be okay, but then jerks you back to reality with a sudden jolt, right into complete and utter bleakness.
:D

[Skittles]

24. OOH I REMEMBER!

OMG WE ARE SO OLD! :D

[nytemare]

26. Bardem was great!

Were it not for him, Tom Wilkinson should have been a shoe-in, but Bardem was about unbeatable. I think if the extent of his role was the scene where he strangled the guy, he still should have won the Oscar.

[Howler]

27. Javier Bardem

I didn't like this movie..... I agree with your "you might as well have punched me in the stomach...no happy endings here."
That pretty much summed up how I felt after the movie.LOL! Though I also can see the movie was well done and the acting impeccable the story was just too depressing.
Javier Bardem However is one of the great actor's of our generation. I just watched him in "Love in the time of Cholera" I didn't even recognize him as the assassin in "No Country for old men" At first. And I gotta tell ya He was excellent in this completely different type of movie role. What an incredible range this artist has.Yep! Definitely Oscar worthy performances.

[Bluzmann57]

28. The ending was strange to say the least

Won't say anymore so I don't spoil it for others. Good movie though.

[Lindsey]

29. I loved it but it reminded more of a David Lynch and Quentin Terentino

movie than a Cohen Brothers flick.

[cemaphonic]

33. Hmm, not surreal enough for Lynch,

and too serious for Tarantino. I can kinda see what you mean though. Even their other darker, more serious films have an element of eccentric and playful humor, and warm characterizations that is really toned down here. But, then it's Cormac McCarthy - wacky and sentimental is not what he is about at all.

[Skittles]

31. the ending really is not strange

it just seems that way because people are so condtioned to expect the standard Hollywood feel-good ending

[stuntcat]

32. I love it

It was my favorite of the ones up for the big awards.