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Posted: 2/9/2013 7:10:01 PM EDT

Lads,

Tonight I decided to watch No Country For Old Men as I've seen plenty of references to it and has some good actors in it. And after watching it frankly I'm a bit disappointed, For a while I felt I understood where the story was going to lead then Moss was killed. Overall I felt it just kind of ended answering few questions. Now I understand it was originally a novel, does the hive believe that reading this would be worth it? What did everyone thing think of the movie? An I alone in feeling a bit unsatisfied?

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:12:26 PM EDT

[#1]

As is usually the case, the book is FAR better than the movie.

Having said that, I wasn't "disappointed' in the movie. Javier Barden played his part to perfection as did Tommy Lee Jones.

Read the book, enjoy it, and accept the movie for what it is.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:14:15 PM EDT

[#2]

I haven't read the book, but I think the movie is great.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:28:53 PM EDT

[#3]

I loved it, will have to read the book.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:31:24 PM EDT

[#4]

JMHO - the Coens did an excellent job and it's their own spin they put on it. They hide some themes in it.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:32:10 PM EDT

[#5]

Very disturbing movie. Especially the cow thumper being used on that old man who got "pulled over".

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:32:14 PM EDT

[#6]

Friendo...

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:32:16 PM EDT

[#7]

I didn't find it confusing at all. I should try the book as well.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:33:51 PM EDT

[#8]

- Clint

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:37:56 PM EDT

[#9]

Interesting characters shitty movie. Happens a lot in Hollywood.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:38:09 PM EDT

[#10]

It's a Coen brothers film, so don't expect a typical plot.

The movie, IMHO, is about fate. Chigur represents death, and nothing more. He's swift, quick, and has no remorse. Those who get in his way are given an opportunity to postpone the inevitable (coin flip).

Sheriff Bell, while involved in the plot, exists outside of Moss's struggle to escape death. Bell represents the everyman fighting to cope with a changing world.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:39:44 PM EDT

[#11]

Gotta remember that the story is about Bell.

The one thing missing from the movie is Bell's story about his time in WW2. That provides a lot of background to his character.

Great movie, great book.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:40:56 PM EDT

[#12]

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:42:02 PM EDT

[#13]

Enjoyed both the book and the movie. The book helped to tie things together better for me.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:42:53 PM EDT

[#14]

Great book and decent movie. The scene where the deputy is strangled is pretty screwed up. The shot up pit bulls and the carnage of the original shoot out it pretty heavy.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:42:56 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

Call it......call it

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:43:39 PM EDT

[#16]

You're suffering from what a lot of casual moviegoers suffer from: If it doesn't have a neat resolution, you feel jilted.

The biggest misconception about the movie is that it's about a killer and a guy that took money. It's not, it's about an aging sheriff that just can't comprehend the world he's being forced to function in. The ending is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:45:26 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

You're suffering from what a lot of casual moviegoers suffer from: If it doesn't have a neat resolution, you feel jilted.

The biggest misconception about the movie is that it's about a killer and a guy that took money. It's not, it's about an aging sheriff that just can't comprehend the world he's being forced to function in. The ending is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

This

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:49:52 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
You're suffering from what a lot of casual moviegoers suffer from: If it doesn't have a neat resolution, you feel jilted.

The biggest misconception about the movie is that it's about a killer and a guy that took money. It's not, it's about an aging sheriff that just can't comprehend the world he's being forced to function in. The ending is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Derp. Apparently you didn't watch the movie cuz it's exactly about a killer and a guy that took money.

Just kidding.

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:51:47 PM EDT

[#19]

Great movie with great actors and the best Director of Photography still working in the biz today:

Roger Deakins

Posted: 2/9/2013 7:52:48 PM EDT

[#20]

Friendo.

Quoted:

Quoted:
What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

Call it......call it

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:00:24 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
I didn't find it confusing at all. I should try the book as well.

I wouldn't say I was confused by the film, more so I just felt unsatisfied by it. I don't know it seems I'm in the minority here.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:01:49 PM EDT

[#22]

hated it. the entire movie focused on all these people and then in the last 2 minutes you find out it wasn't even about them. It was about TLJ who was in the movie all of about 5 minutes. The rest of the movie was just dumb.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:04:46 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
You're suffering from what a lot of casual moviegoers suffer from: If it doesn't have a neat resolution, you feel jilted.

The biggest misconception about the movie is that it's about a killer and a guy that took money. It's not, it's about an aging sheriff that just can't comprehend the world he's being forced to function in. The ending is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

This ^^^^

What business is it of yours where I'm from? Friendo..

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:08:59 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

hated it. the entire movie focused on all these people and then in the last 2 minutes you find out it wasn't even about them. It was about TLJ who was in the movie all of about 5 minutes. The rest of the movie was just dumb.

I am going to have to disagree with you on this one.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:09:33 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

You're suffering from what a lot of casual moviegoers suffer from: If it doesn't have a neat resolution, you feel jilted.

The biggest misconception about the movie is that it's about a killer and a guy that took money. It's not, it's about an aging sheriff that just can't comprehend the world he's being forced to function in. The ending is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Ding..ding...ding..winner right here.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:12:28 PM EDT

[#26]

Book>movie by far

Internal thoughts unable to be portrayed in the movie make all the difference.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:32:48 PM EDT

[#27]

I was disappointed the first time I watched it too. After the second and third times I got over it. Now it's my favorite movie. There's a lot more to it than the average hollywood BS action movie. The more times you watch it the more you love it.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:35:12 PM EDT

[#28]

There's a book based on this movie?

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:38:01 PM EDT

[#29]

LOL

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:43:46 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
I was disappointed the first time I watched it too. After the second and third times I got over it. Now it's my favorite movie. There's a lot more to it than the average hollywood BS action movie. The more times you watch it the more you love it.

This. It took a few viewings for me to understand and appreciate it. Now I watch it every time it airs.
And i sure wish it was that easy to silence a 12ga.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:43:53 PM EDT

[#31]

I hate that movie.
It's a VERY good movie (As all Coen Brothers flicks are) but....as much as I hate Woody Harrelson, I SOOO wanted him to turn around

on the stairs and shoot that sumbitch in the face. The end pissed me off too. I was hoping for something along the lines of the Japanese

5th grader's ending from "The Cabin in the woods"

EDIT: "Probably" (

) Not safe for work or around youngsters.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:51:05 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
You're suffering from what a lot of casual moviegoers suffer from: If it doesn't have a neat resolution, you feel jilted.

The biggest misconception about the movie is that it's about a killer and a guy that took money. It's not, it's about an aging sheriff that just can't comprehend the world he's being forced to function in. The ending is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Once you stop hearing sir and maam the rest just follows.
That movie has a lot to say to us today.

Posted: 2/9/2013 8:58:00 PM EDT

[#33]

It is tale of a fudd

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:00:54 PM EDT

[#34]

READ IT.

Cormac McCarthy is the great American novelist of our time.

Only Blood Meridian, his masterpiece, is better.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:02:23 PM EDT

[#35]

He was blind the whole time

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:04:03 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I didn't find it confusing at all. I should try the book as well.

I wouldn't say I was confused by the film, more so I just felt unsatisfied by it. I don't know it seems I'm in the minority here.

Corms doesn't care if you were satisfied, or knew the answer.

Would the Mona Lisa be so intriguing if we knew for sure if she was smiling or not?

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:04:12 PM EDT

[#37]

It was like Seinfeld; basically about nothing. If Moss had been killed by Chigur maybe I at least could have liked him better as some allusion to death.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:04:46 PM EDT

[#38]

Excellent book.

Cormac McCarthy writes some heavy shit.

I loved the movie

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:07:02 PM EDT

[#39]

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:07:27 PM EDT

[#40]

I thought the book read like a movie script. I was actually pretty impressed how close they were, usually the movie adaptation blows.

It's not your average movie, and McCarthy wasn't your average writer. Let's just say that he seemed to consider conflict resolution overrated.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:08:50 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
hated it. the entire movie focused on all these people and then in the last 2 minutes you find out it wasn't even about them. It was about TLJ who was in the movie all of about 5 minutes. The rest of the movie was just dumb.

It's fucking genius.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:15:36 PM EDT

[#42]

Irresistible Force meets Immovable Object.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:17:39 PM EDT

[#43]

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:18:23 PM EDT

[#44]

The movie was too deep. Stories like that have to be told by the written word, not on a movie screen.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:19:31 PM EDT

[#45]

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:22:22 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
The movie was too deep. Stories like that have to be told by the written word, not on a movie screen.

books may be 3 dimensional, but writing is not any more than film

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:28:13 PM EDT

[#47]

I remember being physically revolted while at the same time impressed that she would not bend. Especially to him.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:28:42 PM EDT

[#48]

The only continuation I wanted was what happened to Chigurh? As he hobbled away with the money was he now the target of the Mexicans? Would they come for him as fiercely as both he and they did Moss? Will they simply quit when they find out the guy that hired them is dead?

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:37:50 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

The only continuation I wanted was what happened to Chigurh? As he hobbled away with the money was he now the target of the Mexicans? Would they come for him as fiercely as both he and they did Moss? Will they simply quit when they find out the guy that hired them is dead?

Death doesn't die.

Posted: 2/9/2013 9:44:15 PM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The only continuation I wanted was what happened to Chigurh? As he hobbled away with the money was he now the target of the Mexicans? Would they come for him as fiercely as both he and they did Moss? Will they simply quit when they find out the guy that hired them is dead?

Death doesn't die.

I didn't say he did, but would the Mexicans try?

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