No Country For Old Men (2007)
I need to see more Coen brothers' films. I haven't seen Fargo or O Brother, Where Art Thou? and I think I probably should now.
NCFOD was just plain creepy. I had no idea what to expect, especially with the skeletal summary of "a man who finds a suitcase full of money is pursued by a number of individuals". Um, right...really sucks you in, doesn't it?
I think it's better that I didn't know what it was about, or who was in it besides Josh Brolin (wow, where did this guy come from?).
There is one particularly uncomfortable conversation in this movie that made me squirm so much, I felt kinda sorry for the stranger sitting next to me on my right. The 8 o'clock show sold out last night and I can see why.
I really don't want to give anything away by talking details here, but I think you should all see this movie and then we can discuss it at length.
NCFOD was just plain creepy. I had no idea what to expect, especially with the skeletal summary of "a man who finds a suitcase full of money is pursued by a number of individuals". Um, right...really sucks you in, doesn't it?
I think it's better that I didn't know what it was about, or who was in it besides Josh Brolin (wow, where did this guy come from?).
There is one particularly uncomfortable conversation in this movie that made me squirm so much, I felt kinda sorry for the stranger sitting next to me on my right. The 8 o'clock show sold out last night and I can see why.
I really don't want to give anything away by talking details here, but I think you should all see this movie and then we can discuss it at length.
posted by Caffeine Free @ 6:15 PM
4 Comments:
At 1:57 PM,
Chris said…
i'm def. up for discussing this one, though i can't personally encourage everyone else to see it cause i didn't much care for it.
At 8:35 PM,
Caffeine Free said…
Chris, if you'd like, I'm curious why you didn't like it...shoot me an email: caff.free@gmail.com
At 10:45 PM,
Jon said…
I thought it was awesome. But I was a film major so I give it all these technical points non-dorks wouldn't give it. And I LOVE left-field endings.
Unrelatedly, am I the only person who remembers movies or shows by which actor from Trainspotting is in them? Holy crap that's Kelly MacDonald! And on Eli Stone, that's Jonny Lee Miller!
At 10:50 AM,
Chris said…
no! i spotted both of them. it was particularly weird to see Kelly MacDonald as a southerner because i kept thinking, isn't she scottish? trainspotting was definitely my shit at the time... i wonder if anybody who had ever actually done heroin (or any hard drugs) liked this movie or if it was all naive high schoolers?
there are definitely some good things about No Country: some of the acting (i didn't much like javier bardem myself,) the photography, and the weird ending, to name three.
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