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Glenn
03-25-2008, 04:04 PM
I think I'm gonna watch No Country for Old Men again tonight.

Glenn
03-26-2008, 10:52 AM
So I've watched this twice now, and it's really interesting and well made.

It's pretty complex for my simple mind, which is why I've had to watch it twice now.

I'll probably watch it again.

One of the best villans and best weapons that I've seen in a while.

Strange ending.

Anybody else here dig this flick?

DrRay11
03-26-2008, 11:02 AM
Haven't seen it yet, definitely going to give it a go here soon...

MoTown
03-26-2008, 11:27 AM
Loved the movie, but I did get a little lost at the end. I was lost after the car accident, and I was lost as to why there was more focus on Tommy Lee Jones at the end of the film.

Regardless, Javier Bardem was one of the best villians I have seen in a long time.

Zekyl
03-26-2008, 11:30 AM
The idea for the weapon was actually used a few years ago at the end of the first season of Bones. Not saying they stole it from there. That's the way I knew what it was before they actually explained it in the movie.

Black Dynamite
03-26-2008, 08:21 PM
coen brothers are good for dead pan endings unfortunately.

Tahoe
03-26-2008, 08:25 PM
I'm assuming you're watching this on DVD. It seems like the movie just came out. Its a rental already?

I've been looking forward to this one btw. From what I've seen the viloence looks a lil like the violence in Pulp.

Black Dynamite
03-26-2008, 08:36 PM
No pulp fiction is a by far different movie.

geerussell
03-26-2008, 10:31 PM
This movie had the kind of disappointing exit that makes the Coen brothers look like the Flip Saunders of the cinema.

Big Swami
03-26-2008, 11:41 PM
The Coen brothers get a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card from me, after making Lebowski.

Black Dynamite
03-27-2008, 01:25 AM
well i lay no such card and i still find raising arizona to be a hilarious masterpiece along with miller's crossing being an amazing movie. Gotta execute your ending man. I dont want any david lynch like empty ass philosophical "make up your own ending mentally and think about it with deep thought and retarded discussion"... If David Fincher ever left me that far out to dry on an ending i'd be pissed. And i like just about anything he directs.


Errr just in case i say too much, put a spoilers warning on the title.. lol

Timone
03-27-2008, 08:27 AM
The Coen brothers get a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card from me, after making Lebowski.

Tahoe
03-27-2008, 12:56 PM
So was it just a drug deal gone bad?

Zekyl
03-27-2008, 12:58 PM
Essentially, that's what started the whole freaking mess.

Cross
03-27-2008, 01:52 PM
Loved the movie, but I did get a little lost at the end. I was lost after the car accident, and I was lost as to why there was more focus on Tommy Lee Jones at the end of the film.

Regardless, Javier Bardem was one of the best villians I have seen in a long time.

me too.damn im lost

Tahoe
03-27-2008, 02:01 PM
The dude with the air gun (Tommy Lee's nephew in the movie) played a good role. So Tommy Lee and his nephew got away with loot.

Thats why he was telling the guys wife in the dinner about the air gun at the cattle slaughter house.

Zekyl
03-27-2008, 02:06 PM
Tahoe you just lost me.

Tahoe
03-27-2008, 02:07 PM
I thought fuck it. GG says he doesn't like it when you have to make up your own ending, so I thought I'd role with my own.

Glenn
03-27-2008, 02:13 PM
If you guys think something might be considered a spoiler, throw it into white type.

Tahoe
03-27-2008, 02:16 PM
I thought I was prolly the last person on earth to see it.

Tahoe
03-27-2008, 02:17 PM
But point taken.

Tahoe
03-28-2008, 02:19 PM
On second thought...

I think we should tell peeps not to view this if they havent seen it and then discuss this movie at length in black text.

ta hell with the non-no country for old men-watching dummies.

Tahoe
03-28-2008, 02:21 PM
I watched it again.

This is a Pulp fiction, Fargo type movie to me. Great and funny conversation as you are about to smoke someone...type things.

And peeps started reading way to much into Pulp, imo, but not sure about NCFOM yet. Is there more to this movie?

Tahoe
03-29-2008, 07:49 PM
I'm surprised no one wants to discuss this one at length. Y'all are a bunch of losers.

Uncle Mxy
03-29-2008, 08:13 PM
I haven't seen it yet, and have avoided reading about it.

So, yes, this qualifies me as a loser. :)

Tahoe
03-29-2008, 08:22 PM
You get a pass because you post in the boring, mondaine (for most peeps) Political threads.

Seriously, this is a good movie to discuss in length, imo. And i don't think anyone would be wrong, especially my opinions... of course.

Big Swami
03-29-2008, 10:51 PM
Well, I think that it's not like Pulp Fiction at all. Pulp Fiction had a lot of kitschy ironic humor to it, and NCFOM definitely does not. This is a very stark, very frightening movie. And it's an effective meditation on what it means to be a lawman in a lawless area.

UxKa
03-30-2008, 02:39 AM
The dude with the air gun (Tommy Lee's nephew in the movie) played a good role. So Tommy Lee and his nephew got away with loot.

Thats why he was telling the guys wife in the dinner about the air gun at the cattle slaughter house.


I saw it once and became more enthralled with my Sno-Caps by the end. That explanation makes the ending so much better, and makes the movie overall worth watching again. Maybe I'm retarded, but I missed where they were related. That adds a whole new dimension. I'll give it a second go. (I did like the first 80% of the movie the first time)

MOLA1
03-30-2008, 04:57 AM
Chigurh is death. Watch it again or read the book. Enjoy.

Tahoe
03-30-2008, 03:07 PM
1. It is what it is...No Country for old Men. It all happened and the Sheriff knows what happened at the crime scenes but can't get in front of it.

2. It was all just the sheriffs dream. He knows he's outmatched.

Starting to get out there now...

3. The Sheriff is crooked and is in on all of it.

really out there...

4. Chigurh is actually the Sheriffs bad side. Chigurh is the Sheriff. Ed Tom AnTom.

He's never in the same scene. Or is he?

He drinks milk and looks into the TV just like Chigurh.

He never wants to go see the DEA agents.

He's the only one who mentions the air gun.

He tells Moss' wife he can protect llewellen(sp?), when he can't even come close to finding Chigurh. He just wanted Moss to give himself up to him to get the money and kill him.

He could have told the deputy how the deputy about the air gun when the deputy told him it wasn't a bullet that killed the motorist.

The 3 mexicans who were killed he says 'just died of natural causes' sort a like Anton I'd say. In this scenario he killed them himself.

ok enough of the craziness.

Tahoe
03-31-2008, 09:53 AM
I'm convinced Chigurh is the evil in the Sheriff

Glenn
03-31-2008, 09:53 AM
Wow, that's some outside the box stuff there, Tahoe. props

Tahoe
03-31-2008, 09:54 AM
I watched it again last night. It works.

Glenn
03-31-2008, 10:02 AM
Are you on medication of any kind?

Tahoe
03-31-2008, 02:17 PM
Nooooooooooooooooooooo. Why? I nailed the movie. I'm tellin ya. rewatch it and listen. AC is the Sheriff.

Tahoe
03-31-2008, 03:38 PM
Well, I think that it's not like Pulp Fiction at all. Pulp Fiction had a lot of kitschy ironic humor to it, and NCFOM definitely does not. This is a very stark, very frightening movie. And it's an effective meditation on what it means to be a lawman in a lawless area.

Seriously? I lmao on some of that dialogue.

Don't put that coin in your pocket. Its your lucky quarter. It'll get mixed up with all the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
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Are you going to shoot me?
Depends, can you see me
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Just how dangerous is he?
Compared to what? The bubonic plague?
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Phone call

LM--Is Carson Well in?
AC looks at his corpse and says..."Not in the sense that you mean"

are just a couple

Tahoe
03-31-2008, 06:41 PM
And what happened to the deputy in the begining when he knew about the air gun? history. Getting to close to the truth.

But the dumbass deputy? He lives, Bell has him go investigate the motel murders for him. lol.

Zekyl
04-01-2008, 12:33 AM
I really need to rewatch that while thinking about what Tahoe said. I only got to see it once and it was the day it came out, so I'm a bit rusty on everything.

Big Swami
04-01-2008, 10:30 AM
I really think Tahoe's :cogent: as hell on this one.