No Country for Old Men

[Stoner]

I just watched this movie and all I can say is WOW!

I knew it won an oscar for best picture and I had really wanted to see it but everyone I talked to about it said it sucked harder than Michele Obama at prom night. Even my best friend said it sucked and we have identical tastes in movies.

This was a bad-ass flick. The acting was phenominal (especially by TLJ).

The man that played the bad guy was wicked! He was as evil as they came.

Everyone told me they hated the ending. I loved it. You have to really listen to the story TLJ tells about the dream and his dad right before it goes black and the credits roll.

[sam]

LOL..........we just watched this last night; and I have to agree with your assessment.
Small wonder it won so many Oscars and Tommy Lee was fantastic (I'm a huge TLJ fan).

Never saw the actor who played the bad guy, but he was wicked enough to give me nightmares last night.

I liked the ending. Typical Hollywood would have had him shoot the wicked one and retire happily in a rocking chair telling his tales to his great grandchildren.

[AnnEsthesia]

Dumbest movie ever. It is sad that that piece of cow flop won awards.

[GhostintheMachine]

Ah, I just think you really have to look closely to appreciate its subtle genius. But I personally think There Will Be Blood was the real movie of the year.

[Stoner]

I liked the ending. Typical Hollywood would have had him shoot the wicked one and retire happily in a rocking chair telling his tales to his great grandchildren.

Exactly. I thought the ending was incredible.

The movie is pure genius. I was glued to the screen the whole time. The only time I looked away was to hit the bong.

Going to watch it again in a few days.

I love that air-pressure weapon he used.

Definitly worthy of an Oscar for best picture.

[Osborn F. Enready]

I haven't seen it yet, anxious to do so though....

[Stoner]

I haven't seen it yet, anxious to do so though....

It's not for everybody. It's definitly an acquired taste. The acting is tremendous. It's done by the Cohen brothers.

[Stoner]

Never saw the actor who played the bad guy, but he was wicked enough to give me nightmares last night.


Javier Bardem. He's from Spain. He won Best Supporting Actor for that movie.

http://whatilove.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/no-country-for-old-men.jpg

Here's a good description of his character. I love the captive bolt pistol he uses in the movie.

A sociopathic assassin hired to recover the drug money. The character was a recurrence of the "Unstoppable Evil" archetype found in the Coen Brothers' work, though the brothers wanted to avoid one-dimensionality, particularly a comparison to The Terminator. The Coen Brothers sought to cast someone "who could have come from Mars" to avoid a sense of identification. The brothers introduced the character in the beginning of the film in a manner similar to the opening of the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Chigurh has been perceived as a "modern equivalent of Death from Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal". Chigurh's distinctive look was derived from a 1979 photo from a book supplied by Tommy Lee Jones which featured photos of brothel patrons on the Texas-Mexico border. Describing his "extraordinary moptop haircut," Bardem said, "You don't have to act the haircut. The haircut acts by itself." Bardem signed on because he had been a Coens fan ever since he saw their debut, Blood Simple.

[sam]

It was a great story if you looked beneith the surface at the different levels. This critic (among many) from the Houston Chronicle says it all"

But before you start thinking, "Yeah, OK, so Texas Chainsaw Massacre,'' consider this. The freak is a metaphor for violence - all violence, all evil, in all of society. The prey is a metaphor for our measly human efforts to escape and subdue it. And the tired old sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones? He represents the beleaguered, collective superego of civilization, trying and failing to make sense of it all.

The best parts were the opening and closing words of Tommy Lee Jones,
his inflection was perfect.

[Stoner]

It was a great story if you looked beneith the surface at the different levels. This critic (among many) from the Houston Chronicle says it all"

But before you start thinking, "Yeah, OK, so Texas Chainsaw Massacre,'' consider this. The freak is a metaphor for violence - all violence, all evil, in all of society. The prey is a metaphor for our measly human efforts to escape and subdue it. And the tired old sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones? He represents the beleaguered, collective superego of civilization, trying and failing to make sense of it all.

The best parts were the opening and closing words of Tommy Lee Jones,
his inflection was perfect.

QFT. Thanks for the great post.

[GhostintheMachine]

One of my favorite parts in the movie was when the sheriff(Tommy Lee) is speaking to the hotel owner who is talking about the signs of the times, and the most he can blame is people quitting to open doors for each other and those "kids with goofy hair and piercings," I felt that it really captured the disillusionment of the modern conservative and how they wished for the good old days to return, yet they miss the point as to how society has become so depraved through fear, greed and corruption. It was a great point of irony almost.

[ilikegw]

I looove Tommy Lee Jones with a passion, I think he's one of the greatest actors on the planet. Hubby saw this movie and said it was phenomenal. I'll get around to watching it some day.

[sam]

I looove Tommy Lee Jones with a passion, I think he's one of the greatest actors on the planet. Hubby saw this movie and said it was phenomenal. I'll get around to watching it some day.

We have two more coming "In the Valley of elah" and a comedy "A Prairie Home Companion"

I dont know if its voice, his acting, or what, but he is definately in my top five. And even in the dark movies he always says something in that tone that makes you laugh.

[Stoner]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrekMKl_Vk

[sam]

This was from Roger Ebert which probably says it all and why he is such a superb actor.


I don't know Tommy Lee Jones (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&SearchType=1&q=Tommy%20Lee%20Jones&Class=%25&FromDate=19150101&ToDate=20081231) at all. Let's get that clear. I've interviewed him, and at Cannes we had one of those discussions at the American Pavilion. He didn't enjoy doing it, but he felt duty-bound to promote his great film "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=REVIEWS01&TITLESearch=The%20Three%20Burials%20of%20Melquiade s%20Estrada&ToDate=20081231)." During my questions, he twisted his hands like a kid in the principal's office. He remains a mystery to me, which is why I feel free to share some feelings about him. I'm trying to understand why he is such a superb actor.
Look at the lines around his eyes. He looks concerned, under pressure from himself, a man who has felt pain. Look at his face. It seems to conceal hurtful emotion. He doesn't smile a lot, but when he does, it's like clouds are lifting. Listen to his voice, filled with authority and hard experience. Notice when he speaks that he passes out words as if they were money he can't afford. Whether these characteristics are true of the private man, I have no way of knowing.