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you sure did.
I usually Love, with a capital L, the Coen's work, but I hated No Country through and through. I thought, beyond the ending, that it was a gratuitously violent swag piece with no emotional depth or substantive purpose whatsoever.
I guess I missed it.
you sure did.
The climax to a movie doesn't always have to be at the very end. The ending was just fine. I hate you ers making me agree with Mono.
I thought No Country was brilliant. Not Fargo brilliant, by a long shot, but still pretty damned impressive.
NO , I hate it when Mono and I agree.
If it was a movie about building climatic finishes and then ending with an absolute whimper...I guess it succeeded.
Damn. Maybe I should watch No Country again. The only time I saw it I watched a camera filmed bootleg on a 15 in TV, while I was running on the treadmill. So maybe that's why I hated it. Are you guy's sure though? What made it (beyond it's cinematography) a good movie or story? I just thought it was really, really- like vomit inducing violent while lacking in contextual narrative. Which IMO is a bad, bad combination.
I'd give it a watch when you're less distracted. The narrative is, I think, quite compelling, and the Coen's are absolute masters at building suspense. Amazing performances across the board, as well.
Will do. I guess the Coens deserve that much.
And as long as we're talking shop on the Coens- Anybody see Burn After Reading? Any good? I really wanted to see it, but lost interest right about the time it was released, mainly due to it's relatively poor critical reception. But then again, the critics might've held it to a higher standard, thereby judging it unfairly. Anyways, is it worth a download at least?
I thought it was an excellent portrayal of McCarthy's book. The lack of music was a great choice.
If you think that the main character died 3/4 of the way through, and that the scenes where Tommy Lee Jones talks to the guy in the wheelchair and the El Paso sheriff in the coffee shop were "super boring", then you didn't get the movie.
I absolutely loved Burn After Reading. I, too, am a huge Coen Bros fan, and it doesn't quite stand up to Raising Arizona or O Brother, but I laughed heartily, repeatedly, from beginning to end.
The tobacco chewing and spitting.
It would have been one thing to have shown the main character's death and it be part of the showdown that was built up between he and killer but it was just a note after the fact and done by people that weren't part of the tension in the movie. It felt like a real letdown to me...the Tommy Lee Jones speeches at the end weren't boring but just not the ending I was hoping for. If that floats your boat, then congrats on getting the ending you wanted. It didn't do much for me though...
I rented and watched it this past weekend...loved it. The characters were funny as and the story was very engaging. Pitt, Clooney and Malcovich's characters were especially genius...
The main character didn't die.
And he wore a badge.
I was going off of monosylab1k's statement of the guy with the money being the main character. I thought the main character role was split between 3 people myself...
LMAO @ his conversation with the black guys
Calls em spooks to start it then tells them to have a nice day to end it
I didn't say that.
It wasn't.
Brilliant movie indeed. Eastwood is the best contemporary director and the last of his kind. It's curious how his movies are becoming progressively darker and more pessimistic. Since Mystic River the path has been like that. He's been reminding me more and more of Raoul Walsh for more than one reason; and not Ford or Hawks, to whom he's often compared.
He had like 30 one liners for asians. He was awesome. I agree with the shady asian acting in many scenes.
I watched NCfOM starting at the half to the end. That's probably why I waited after the credits were over for the movie to start back up and actually finish.
Yeah. The fact that the Asian actors seemed to be ESL students gave them SOME room to underachieve w/ me, but SPECIFICALLY the scene where Tau was locked in the basement and "cryin for his freedom"...downright LAUGHABLE if it wasn't so irritating. That was supposed to be (I assume) a very tense, emotional part of the movie...and he RUINED it.
The racial slurs are some of the best parts of the movie. Gook food.
"Don't put those ing flames like those s" that was classic
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