Coen Bros: No Country for Old Men

[jake_fink]

The Coens do Cormac McCarthy. Looks good.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/nocountryforoldmen/trailer/

 

[Girl Friday]

Holy moly! That looks like it is going to be great. Way better than Blood Simple, still a really good movie, but this looks better!

A friend of ours was reading the book last fall and was saying it would make a great movie, then went on line and found out the Coen Brothers were making...even better!

 

[Doh!]

These guys are hit or miss at times, but this looks really promising.

 

[Feraud]

I read the book and cannot wait to see the film.

 

[Earp]

Wow! That's quite a trailer. I enjoy Coen Brothers films. And I always seem to like movies with Tommy Lee Jones. Thanks for the heads up on this film. It looks interesting.

 

[Feraud]

No Country for Old Men opens today!

Who else is going to see it?

 

[jake_fink]

No Country for Old Men opens today!

Who else is going to see it?

I'm going on Sunday.

Feraud, please post your thoughts as soon as you can.

Cheers.

 

[hepkitten]

Can't wait to see what a combination of Tommy Lee Jones and the Coen Bros. does for this book. Just checked Rotten Tomatoes.com, and the film's getting rave reviews. Many folks saying the Coens are hearkening back to Blood Simple, but that this movie tops it. The word "masterpiece" is mentioned more than once.

 

[John in Covina]

I caught the end of a Roeper & Ebert style movie review on TV last week and the two reviewers were ecstatic over the film. (One thing was I thought that the psycho guy seems patterned after Benicio del Toro some how.)

 

[Feraud]

Just got back from seeing this film. All I can think right now is WOW! What an intense film. I have not seen the likes of this in a long time. The Coen's have crafted an amazingly relentless piece of drama.

Did anyone else see it yet?

 

[pistolpete]

I am shocked.....

.....I think the Coen Bros. are the most talented film makers today. Oh Brother, Millers Crossing, Hudsucker, The Man Who..., Barton Fink are the most correctly costumed and detailed films I have ever seen. The hats, the haircuts, the clothes, the shoes, are totally amazing. Does anybody remember the scene when John Torrturo was in the brown patnet leather shoes in Millers Crossing? Bang! Bang!

 

[Girl Friday]

Fantastic!

What a great movie. Not one for anyone with a heart condition, it gets started early and doesn't end. The violence is not gore, but violence none the less and pretty intense.

"A great film is one you think about for days, not one where someone rides off into the sunset." - Me

 

[Doh!]

Saw it tonight and think it's 90% of a brilliant movie. It has elements of Blood Simple and Touch of Evil within it. However, I'm quite disappointed in the ending (or lack thereof), but I hear the book's the same way.

It's still better than Hudsucker Proxy or The Man Who Wasn't There.

 

[Feraud]

I definitely noticed elements of Blood Simple in NCFOM.
The tone of justice, fate, etc. reminded me of Sean Penn's brilliant film, The Pledgehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237572/.
Oddly enough, Charley Varrick popped into my head while I was watching the film. [huh] It was probably because of the location.

I thougth the ending was excellent and on par with the overall sentiment as expressed by Tommy Lee Jones' character at the beginning and throughout the film.

 

[flat-top]

I definitely noticed elements of Blood Simple in NCFOM.
The tone of justice, fate, etc. reminded me of Sean Penn's brilliant film, The Pledgehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237572/.
Oddly enough, Charley Varrick popped into my head while I was watching the film. [huh] It was probably because of the location.

I thougth the ending was excellent and on par with the overall sentiment as expressed by Tommy Lee Jones' character at the beginning and throughout the film.

I saw it and was riveted. I'm just mad at myself that I wasn't paying closer attention to Tommy Lee Jones' final lines. I wasn't expecting that to be the end.

 

[Doh!]

I thougth the ending was excellent and on par with the overall sentiment as expressed by Tommy Lee Jones' character at the beginning and throughout the film.

Funny you should mention the beginning: there was a seating ruckus in the theater just as the movie started so I missed some of the opening narration.

They apparently didn't have time to fight during the 15 minutes of trailers and commercials...

 

[Feraud]

They apparently didn't have time to fight during the 15 minutes of trailers and commercials...

Thanks to a misprint regarding the movie showtimes our film ran with no trailers or commercials.

 

[jake_fink]

Best Picture

according to the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures

Article and other winners

It really is a great film... even with the hype. I feel like the Coen Brothers have been holding out, as good as they've been. You know youi're in good hands when a film works so perfectly without music telling you what to feel that you don't even notice that there's no music.

 

[The Wingnut]

EXCELLENT.

Saw it Friday night. Anton Chigure had me so creeped out that I was checking my closet and bathroom when I got home, and slept with the pistol loaded and the safety off.

I'm fascinated with the Coen Bros.' knack for nailing the look and feel of different eras. They don't concentrate on the most notable features of an era as so many period pieces do, and it's more of a backdrop than anything else. It was so well-done in NCFOM that it's almost unnoticable. The major jarring detail in the story that reminds you it's not current-day is the lack of any trouble Lewellyn Moss has in picking up a Winchester Model 97 shotgun over the counter at a sporting goods store on short notice. The immersion in the story and characters themselves is complete and you keep forgetting this story takes place in the late '70s.

If you're not expecting it, the ending leaves you hanging...it's not so much the beginning and end that are an important part of this movie anyway, but the development of the characters and the message about human nature.

One of those films you just have to see twice...

 

[SamMarlowPI]

...had me so creeped out that I was checking my closet and bathroom when I got home, and slept with the pistol loaded and the safety off.

guilty...