No Country for Old Men

• There Will Be Blood
• Gone Baby Gone
• In the Valley of Elah
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• The Savages
• Things We Lost in the Fire
• Reservation Road
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Lions For Lambs (Full Screen Edition)
• The Hunting Party

However, this preposterousness did not cause him to stop taking the movie seriously, strangely enough. Seemingly people do not go to see movies expecting any degree of realism of any kind, be it physical, mechanical, psychological, what have you. I believe it won Best Picture. He is imbued with the notion that just because a sentence comes out of him, it's got to be good. Its based on the novel of the same name by an ultra-pretentious and hyper-established hack named Cormac McCarthy. So he takes a submachine gun from one of the dead guys and, slinging his own rifle across his back, goes in search of this fugitive. They are not interested in reality, only gimcrack everyman profundities that fall apart the moment they are looked at steadily.

No person familiar with guns would, in a bad situation, exchange his own rifle for a weapon he is completely unfamiliar with and which he has never test fired or even inspected to be sure it is not jammed. He uses this cattle gun to kill people and also, many times, to knock the cylinder clean out of door locks. I have written down my own dreams for more than ten years and can report that frequently I have to force myself to write down a dream, forcibly overcoming an aversion to revisiting it, not because it was unpleasant but simply because the most frequent first impression of most remembered dreams is that the dream is too worthless to recount. He finds him some while later and, leaving his rifle behind, he goes to investigate holding the newly-acquired (Uzi-like) submachine gun. This is completely unrealistic.

I mean, why is Sheriff Bell's father, who is deceased, STILL proud of this fact, whereas Sheriff Bell himself is, seemingly, NO LONGER proud of this fact. And so you have stylized gibberish like when Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Any real need for that ungainly middle name, Cormac. For example, toward the end, the "Sheriff" (who does absolutely nothing and seems to have no interest in actually apprehending anyone or doing more than read the paper and occasionally offer a bit of folk wisdom), played by Tommy Lee "Folksy" Jones, ruminates about some dreams he had to his long-suffering wife. The story telling (in both the book and movie, I'd imagine) is completely unrealistic. Now, this is false. The movie is psychologically completely unrealistic. Ahh think he's proud of that.

The guy I talked to had actually seen the movie and so he knew exactly what I was talking about. The movie is full of stuff like this. I tried to look at the movie from that angle and it doesn't work. Real crud.

He then decides that some one of this group who shot each other to hell and gone must have survived and walked away from the scene. Usually down south the first and middle names are carefully chosen so that the nicknames can be run together, like Robert Joseph becoming Bobby-Jo). This cattle gun derives its compressed air from a large metal oxygen tank that he lugs around, not to breathe out of but merely to power the cattle gun. This is what makes for bad, fraudulent writing. He said that it was completely unrealistic and that he laughed when he saw it. The scene is, the cattle gun busts the lock cylinder right out of the door and it goes shooting across the room. Ahh know Ahh wuz." Why the mixing of tenses, other than a knee-jerk narcissistic urge toward pretentious bilge. McCarthy is a man who likes the sound of his own supposed eloquence.

Hemingway was exactly the same. And, no, this is not The Hunting of the Snark. In short, a people get the movies it deserve. But none of this matters in the mind of Cormac McCarthy or the Coen brothers.

So this morning I'd had enough of this nonsense and I called a locksmith to ask his opinion. "Ahh had me some dreams lass naght." "Anythang innnarestin'." "They alwuz iaz to the party concerned.". It's not deep, it's just nonsense. This is what the world is, halfwits making entertainment for halfwits who then praise the other halfwits to the skies. The movie is unrealistic in too many ways to enumerate. says of himself and his deceased father, "We wuz sheriffs at the same tahm.

Here's an example of crummy dialog. Dreams are a digestive product directly analogous to feces. Another key plot device of No Country For Old Men is that the Bad Guy, a killer who dresses all in black, originally enough, goes around with a cattle gun, which is an air powered device that shoots and then retracts a bolt, used to stun cattle. As I say, this happens many, many times. Trailer trash protagonist to wife as he is heading out the door to do something dangerous: "If'n Ahh don't cum back, say hello to Muther fer me." "But LouEllin, Yer Muther is dade." (considers a moment) "Well, then Ahh reckin Ahhl tell'r muhself.". I tried to watch the recent Coen brothers movie No Country For Old Men last night.

However, one example of how crizap No Country For Old Men is, which most people would consider nit-picking, is the following: LouEllin, the trailer trash protagonist, is hunting deer when he stumbles across the scene of a drug deal gone bad, with dead bodies everywhere, a bunch of kilos of Columbian bam-bam and the inevitable tired stock plot element of the Briefcase Full of A LOT of Dirty Money.

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If you have any concept that this will be a good movie.forget it. Real life may end with people saying, "Heck with it.I'll just retire", but that's not an ending for any dramatic work. It has half a story, literally the story just sort of stops at the half way point. Despite what some reviews have said, not showing what happens to the main characters is not revolutionary story-telling. If it had been made by an indy director it would be getting blasted hard by the same people now singing it's praises. If you buy this wanting only to study the acting of the exceptional cast, then you will be very pleased. I know a lot of people don't want to say that this film sucked because the makers are well respected, but it sucked.

Jon. There was not a scene in this morality play that was NOT totally fascinating and it grabs the audience totally with 10 seconds. If you are looking for standard, mindless, Hollywood fare go to Rocky 100 or some other Hollywood sequel, one dimensional characters, artificial dialog and most of all, nothing that might allow on to "think". They left the camera and the sound of the southwest do the talking for them. That gentle voice and mannerisms of his, as well as his gentle features, REALLY made him frightening. The insanity and accepted amoral behavior of the leadership in the U.S., the random violence, the ends justify the means and how hard it is for many of us to accept and understand the lack of ethics, morality and random violence that is all over our society.

Want a bad script, horny teenagers, a contrived love story, mindless escapism, go to Hollywood. The movie really shows the decline in morality and ethics in the U.S. Where the heck did they get this incredible Spanish actor, with his warped sense of morality and ability to be so amoral, yet so human at the same time. To be great, there always has to be a fantastic villain.

This is a classic that will hold up with its timeless theme. The COEN brothers, who always have fantastic dialog, where many times, it takes the second watching of their movies to catch all of the humor and subtlties, made an extremely, "Quiet" movie. I loved how the Coen's used the dryness and sound of the boots crunching along the dry earth. This masterpiece is an example where only independent movies and movies from Australia or Europe have any depth to them. WOW.

This is a TRULY great movie, with a flawless script, incredible directing, cinematography and acting. From the gang violence and acceptance of torture and outright destruction and murder of innocent civilians going on in Iraq to the using of the children in our military like waste products for individual gain and profit.

Rent this first or better yet watch it for free, rather than paying for a dvd you may never want to watch again. The way the plot twist was revealed was a slap in the face to the viewer. It ends, but doesn't really have an "ending". and then suddenly there is a sickening plot twist and the last 30 minutes of the movie, the suspense was gone because I no longer cared. a flashback. but it never came.

Still I was quite entertained for that 90 minutes. mistaken identity. a nightmare. I was waiting for the second twist that negates the first twist.

I wish I could have written an ending for that story. For about 90 minutes of its 2 hour length, it drew me in and had me edgy in suspense. an ending that leaves you satisfied, then you won't like this. It was a huge let down to be drawn in for 90 minutes only to be slapped in the face with a shocking twist and a depressing non-ending. A lot of critics and movie afficianados love it, but the typical movie viewer may not.

This movie is not for everyone. If you like a good suspense thriller like I do that has a "nice" ending.