vanDoug Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Saw this last night. The visuals were very good. The acting good too. But the writing? Seemed weak to me. I must have missed something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai Jet Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Saw this last night. The visuals were very good. The acting good too. But the writing? Seemed weak to me. I must have missed something. If you did miss something you're not alone. I was very disappointed overall in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentos Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Saw this last night. The visuals were very good. The acting good too. But the writing? Seemed weak to me. I must have missed something. visuals- correct acting- correct writing- incorrect The writing was excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowmoe57 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 THought the movie was good overall -- the lack of background music added greatly to the suspence -- not a great movie -- but very good -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 disappointing from a BIG Coen Brothers fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Great, now you tell me this. Just sent the wife out to the video store to rent it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Great, now you tell me this. Just sent the wife out to the video store to rent it. It's worth the watch Alk-just is kind of like a big meal that doesn't really satisfy you-you'll see what I mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 It's worth the watch Alk-just is kind of like a big meal that doesn't really satisfy you-you'll see what I mean Eh, it doesn't matter anyway. All of the copies were rented out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serphnx Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 It is a good movie but I didn't think much of it overall in terms of writing, especially the ending. It tried too hard to be "different", but it's pretty much a similar formula to a lot of good foreign films just with a nonexistant ending. A lot of foreign films will have a "bad" ending, but NCFOM just doesn't even bother having an ending. A lot of foreign films will also have sparse if any accompanying musical scores, so agian it is not new. Maybe new to american audiences but not to anyone that's seen other movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sperm Edwards Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 disappointing from a BIG Coen Brothers fan Was it as bad as The Hudsucker Proxy or Intolerable Cruelty? They've made lots of phenomenal movies that I can watch over & over but those two pieces of crap were just awful. How would you rank No Country... compared to them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Was it as bad as The Hudsucker Proxy or Intolerable Cruelty? They've made lots of phenomenal movies that I can watch over & over but those two pieces of crap were just awful. How would you rank No Country... compared to them? it would be hard to do because they are in a completely different genre-I would recommend NCFOM-IDK it may be one of those movies you have to see a couple of times. I actually went to an I-Max theatre to see it-something I hardly ever do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Saw this last night. The visuals were very good. The acting good too. But the writing? Seemed weak to me. I must have missed something. hey , art is subjective,,if it didnt do it for you then thats Ok... personally, i loved this flick and thought the ending was PERFECT..especially when you consider the title of movie and the scene with tommy lee jones talking to his old mentor in wheel chair... fyi..here was my review.. http://www.jetnation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46957&highlight=country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afosomf Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Finally got to see Movie last night Good Flick until the dumb ending Anton Chigurh will go down as one of the most ruthless bad guy in movie history. I'm sure there will be a sequel. I am shocked it won best picture, Afo's scale 7 out of 10. javier deserved oscar though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Finally got around to watching it. I personally loved it. I was a little leery as usually if a movie is critically acclaimed it will bore me to tears. Not this one though. The funniest part was the scene where the wife comes home to find the killer in her bedroom. My wife slept through the whole part but when he got t-boned at that intersection she jumped so bad that it knocked my drink off of the couch. That leads me to the one question I had. Did he or didn't he kill the wife? I assumed he did since he was on the porch checking his shoes afterwards but it wasn't definite. I'm also assuming there will be a sequel with him hunting down the guys that took the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smizzy Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Had to be one of the most overrated films of the last 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Finally got around to watching it. I personally loved it. I was a little leery as usually if a movie is critically acclaimed it will bore me to tears. Not this one though. The funniest part was the scene where the wife comes home to find the killer in her bedroom. My wife slept through the whole part but when he got t-boned at that intersection she jumped so bad that it knocked my drink off of the couch. That leads me to the one question I had. Did he or didn't he kill the wife? I assumed he did since he was on the porch checking his shoes afterwards but it wasn't definite. I'm also assuming there will be a sequel with him hunting down the guys that took the money. I loved it also ALK.. He killed the wife,,remember,,she wouldnt let him flip the coin,,and he checked shows,, I loved the whole tommy lee jones coming to grips on 'do the law thing' like his disabled buddy alone in trailer,,or do the smart thing and live and retire with wife,,aka,,no country for OLD men... no sequel imho,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 I loved it also ALK.. He killed the wife,,remember,,she wouldnt let him flip the coin,,and he checked shows,, I loved the whole tommy lee jones coming to grips on 'do the law thing' like his disabled buddy alone in trailer,,or do the smart thing and live and retire with wife,,aka,,no country for OLD men... no sequel imho,,, Yeah I remember that but you never really heard a gunshot or anything. Like I said though I assumed he killed her. That guy was one bad mother though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Yeah I remember that but you never really heard a gunshot or anything. Like I said though I assumed he killed her. That guy was one bad mother though. which is precisely why Tommy Lee said F**K it, this aint worth it,,if I try and get this guy, not only will he nail me, he will nail my wife, my kids, my dogs, my mailman etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gun Of Bavaria Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 NCFOM SUCKED ASS, PERIOD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 NCFOM SUCKED ASS, PERIOD ya, it was no Transformers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryK Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 The ending was poop. It left me wondering what the entire movie was even about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gun Of Bavaria Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 ya, it was no Transformers Transformers - Entertaining NCFOM - Another Coen Brothers bomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 The ending was poop. It left me wondering what the entire movie was even about. what confused you? 2 things, the title of movie, and the realization of tommy lee jones that he didnt want to end up like his old sherrif buddy in the trailer, disabled , drunk and alone, cause he fought the bad guys and lost. so in end, instead of MAYBE killiing the bad guy, by going into closet in hotel room, where he knew bad guy was,,he decided to realize this was no fight for a old man and he decided to retire with wife..if he fought in hotel room and lost, he knew that not only wa she dead or disabled, but the bad guy would kill his wife like he had done to others... i liked that it didnt wrap up a expected 'OK Corall fight scene' or good beat evil..he let i tgo, which in some cases is the best approach.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 The ending was poop. It left me wondering what the entire movie was even about. Here's what it was about. It's about the nature of the country changing. It takes a prototypical western plot line and throws an wrench into the works with the character of Chigurh who represents a kind of evil that the "old guard" are not equipped to deal with. I thought it was great. Or course it didn't have the prototypical western ending, that would've defeated the point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Here's what it was about. It's about the nature of the country changing. It takes a prototypical western plot line and throws an wrench into the works with the character of Chigurh who represents a kind of evil that the "old guard" are not equipped to deal with. I thought it was great. Or course it didn't have the prototypical western ending, that would've defeated the point... yup,,f**k the storybook right thing to do,,i want to retire and fish with my wife,,, oh madmike,,good luck to rutgers this year,,EXCEPT on Sept. 11 on 7:30 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J pold Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Personally I loved this movie and thought it was brilliant It’s strange when it first came out people raved about it but now that some time has passed and it’s been released on DVD there is this huge negative backlash The scene in the Texaco station is one of my favorites of all time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryK Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ok, SJ, I hear you..and I didn't pick up the sherrif's sentiment. Without the Sherriff's musings...isn't this nearly an exact copy of 3:10 to Yuma? 3:10 to yuma told me "don't take the money, it's not worth it"...didn't like that ending either btw. I think the flaw in this film is it spends 2hrs making me feel for the guy on the run and prep for a '3:10 ending. Then they totally shift gears in the last 70 seconds and make it about a marginal (to me) character's grumblings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthernJet Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ok, SJ, I hear you..and I didn't pick up the sherrif's sentiment. Without the Sherriff's musings...isn't this nearly an exact copy of 3:10 to Yuma? haha,,well the Original Yuma had totally different ending than the remake..so............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ok, SJ, I hear you..and I didn't pick up the sherrif's sentiment. Without the Sherriff's musings...isn't this nearly an exact copy of 3:10 to Yuma? 3:10 to yuma told me "don't take the money, it's not worth it"...didn't like that ending either btw. I think the flaw in this film is it spends 2hrs making me feel for the guy on the run and prep for a '3:10 ending. Then they totally shift gears in the last 70 seconds and make it about a marginal (to me) character's grumblings. Not at all. 3:10 was what no country blows up. That was the worst movie Christian Bale has ever been in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gun Of Bavaria Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 That was the worst movie Christian Bale has ever been in. That's a BOLD statement, as there have been plenty of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 That's a BOLD statement, as there have been plenty of them. Not really... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gun Of Bavaria Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Not really... AS I WAS... I was thinking of Christian Slater when I wrote that, not Christian Bale. LOL - No wonder why you're probably looking at me like. "WHAT?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 AS I WAS... I was thinking of Christian Slater when I wrote that, not Christian Bale. LOL - No wonder why you're probably looking at me like. "WHAT?". No, we've all pretty much just learned to ignore you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gun Of Bavaria Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 No, we've all pretty much just learned to ignore you. Sort of like the other 47 contiguous states ignore Kansas. I understand now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmike1 Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 AS I WAS... I was thinking of Christian Slater when I wrote that, not Christian Bale. LOL - No wonder why you're probably looking at me like. "WHAT?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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