I ended up seeing it last night instead of today like planned. FANTASTIC movie. In terms of the coen brothers it would probably be my third favorite of their entire career (only raising arizona and fargo are better).
LOOOOOL. Enchanted was a ton of fun but No Country is one of the best movies of the year there is no comparison. Why can't I enjoy fun kiddie movies and still worship the "great" movies that come out? loool. It's not like I would put enchanted on a top 10 list at the end of the year.I ended up seeing it last night instead of today like planned. FANTASTIC movie. In terms of the coen brothers it would probably be my third favorite of their entire career (only raising arizona and fargo are better).
But it's no ENCHANTED, amirite?
I ended up seeing it last night instead of today like planned. FANTASTIC movie. In terms of the coen brothers it would probably be my third favorite of their entire career (only raising arizona and fargo are better).
But it's no ENCHANTED, amirite?
LOOOOOL. Enchanted was a ton of fun but No Country is one of the best movies of the year there is no comparison. Why can't I enjoy fun kiddie movies and still worship the "great" movies that come out? loool. It's not like I would put enchanted on a top 10 list at the end of the year.
:-[I ended up seeing it last night instead of today like planned. FANTASTIC movie. In terms of the coen brothers it would probably be my third favorite of their entire career (only raising arizona and fargo are better).
But it's no ENCHANTED, amirite?
LOOOOOL. Enchanted was a ton of fun but No Country is one of the best movies of the year there is no comparison. Why can't I enjoy fun kiddie movies and still worship the "great" movies that come out? loool. It's not like I would put enchanted on a top 10 list at the end of the year.
You can, as long as you turn in your meat and two veg.
For Christs sake, give it up.
I spoiled The Departed somehow by putting stuff in spoiler tags. I spoiled Bioshock by talking about its ending in a thread call "games that change mechanics at the very end", which implies spoilers. I swear, some of you internet folk are way too uptight about this shit. Dont want to get spoiled? Get the fuck off the internet, for starters.
LOOOOOL. Enchanted was a ton of fun but No Country is one of the best movies of the year there is no comparison. Why can't I enjoy fun kiddie movies and still worship the "great" movies that come out? loool. It's not like I would put enchanted on a top 10 list at the end of the year.I ended up seeing it last night instead of today like planned. FANTASTIC movie. In terms of the coen brothers it would probably be my third favorite of their entire career (only raising arizona and fargo are better).
But it's no ENCHANTED, amirite?
eh?LOOOOOL. Enchanted was a ton of fun but No Country is one of the best movies of the year there is no comparison. Why can't I enjoy fun kiddie movies and still worship the "great" movies that come out? loool. It's not like I would put enchanted on a top 10 list at the end of the year.I ended up seeing it last night instead of today like planned. FANTASTIC movie. In terms of the coen brothers it would probably be my third favorite of their entire career (only raising arizona and fargo are better).
But it's no ENCHANTED, amirite?
Alright Spielberg!
If you guys like the movie, please, please read the book. It's easily the most accessible of Cormac McCarthy's works.
If you guys like the movie, please, please read the book. It's easily the most accessible of Cormac McCarthy's works.
Does he actually use quotation marks when people speak? That annoyed me to death in the book of his I read for AP Lit. Also the untranslated Spanish.
...it's 6:25, conspiracy!
what exactly is this movie about and why should I care? I only saw a few trailers but know nothing about the story.
I had a fucking 10 bucks movie cash for this but I forgot it had an expiration date of Nov 30. I hate procrastinating.
Major drug deal gone bad, one party sends out a Psychopath to get their money back, he goes on a rampage which leads to fucken brutal death scenes. It rocks but its one of those movies that ends rather abruptly (so don't say I didn't warn you!). But the way the movie ends is ok with me, I can't see there being any other way.odd.
I hate procrastinating.
I didnt love it, nor like it as much as all the hype/praise from trusted peeps would have led me to believe I would :(
Give Jesse James that golden statue!The only award it has a chance is best supporting actor for Affleck. Best picture as of right now is a battle between No Country and Juno. Though that can change as Brokeback Mountain and Dreamgirls can tell you.
Picture
1. No Country For Old Men (NBR, BSFC, WDCFCA, NYFCO*, NYFCC, CFCA, SA, BFCA*, LFCC*, GG*, AFI**)
2. Juno (ISA*, NBR*, SA, NYFCO*, BFCA*, GG*, WFCC, AFI**)
3. There Will Be Blood (NYFCO**, LAFCA, CFCA*, BFCA*, LFCC*, GG*, AFI**)
4. Into The Wild (NBR*, GA, CFCA*, BFCA*, AFI**)
5. The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (ISA*, NYFCO**, LAFCA***, BFCA*, AFI**)
Director
1. Joel & Ethan Coen, “No Country For Old Men” (WDCFCA, NYFCC, CFCA, SFFC, SA, BFCA*, LFCC*, GG*)
2. Julian Schnabel, “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly” (ISA*, BSFC, LAFCA***, BFCA*, GG*)
3. Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood” (NYFCO, LAFCA, CFCA*, LFCC*)
4. Tim Burton, “Sweeny Todd: ...” (NBR, BFCA*, GG*)
5. Joe Wright, “Atonement” (BFCA*, GG*)
Actor
1. Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood” (NYFCO, LAFCA, NYFCC, CFCA, BFCA*, LFCC*, GG*, WFCC)
2. George Clooney, “Michael Clayton” (NBR, WDCFCA, CFCA*, SFFC, BFCA*, LFCC*, GG*)
3. Viggo Mortensen, “Eastern Promises” (CFCA*, SA, BFCA*, BIFA, GG*)
4. Ryan Gosling, “Lars And The Real Girl” (CFCA*, SA, BFCA*, GG*)
4. Frank Langella, “Starting Out In The Evening” (ISA*, BSFC, LAFCA***, CFCA*, SA*)
Actress
1. Julie Christie, “Away From Her” (NBR, NYFCO, WDCFCA, NYFCC, CFCA*, SFFC, SA*, BFCA*, GG*)
2. Marion Cottilard, “La Vie En Rose” (BSFC, LAFCA, CFCA*, SA, BFCA*, LFCC*, GG*)
3. Ellen Page, “Juno” (ISA*, CFCA, SA, BFCA*, GG*)
4. Amy Adams, “Enchanted” (SA*, BFCA*, GG*, WFCC)
5. Angelina Jolie, “A Mighty Heart” (ISA*, CFCA*, SA*, BFCA*, LFCC*, GG*)
The Oscars were confirmed shit after last year when Children of Men wasn't nominated for any of the big awards and didn't win cinematography.
And Cheebs, Juno has no shot. It's this years LMS, a feel good quirky indie flick that will win some categories (Ellen Page maybe, dunno) but serve no purpose in being in the best picture category.
The Oscars were confirmed shit after last year when Children of Men wasn't nominated for any of the big awards and didn't win cinematography.
And Cheebs, Juno has no shot. It's this years LMS, a feel good quirky indie flick that will win some categories (Ellen Page maybe, dunno) but serve no purpose in being in the best picture category.
I had my Oscar outrage moment when Titanic beat LA Confidential. I still want to see things I like get some recognition, but I don't expect it.
Haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth, so I can't comment on the cinematography award, other than to say The Illusionist really shouldn't have been nominated. The sets and costumes were pretty, but the filming was really meh.
LMS is a fun 8/10 type film at best. Kinda heart warming, funny, etc, but didn't strike me as a BEST PICTURE candidate.What PT Anderson movies have you seen?
I'm more interested in seeing There Will Be Blood than NCFOM, but obviously I'll watch both.
GUESSthe one with adam sandler, punch drunk love.
I liked it a lot more before the abrupt tone shift than afterwards.
Doesn't Pee Dee have a boner for Tom Cruise? Get Magnolia. I'm actually surprised he hasn't seen it yet -- it's Cruise's best performance.He hasnt seen like any of Tom Cruise's best movies. He only watches the blockbuster ones.
I liked it a lot more before the abrupt tone shift than afterwards.
I agree with this. I'm guessing you're talking about the last 1/4 of the film? The first 3/4 is so fucking awesome that I'm able to overlook the last 30 minutes or so.
I didnt love it, nor like it as much as all the hype/praise from trusted peeps would have led me to believe I would :(
Can someone answerspoiler (click to show/hide)What the fuck was going on when Tommy Lee Jones revisited the crime scene where Main Man died? They made it look like Murder Dude was hiding in the room, but then Tommy Lee Jones just kind of pokes around and walks out with no consequence. Was Murder Dude in there or not?[close]
The same thing happened with The Departed last year.
I love all three as well but things get out of hand. I should be head over heels hyping TDK but the gaf insanity has made me bored of the internet viral stuff for it.The same thing happened with The Departed last year.
And Batman Begins the year before.
I love all three movies. I guess I'm part of the problem. Oh well.
Can someone answerspoiler (click to show/hide)What the fuck was going on when Tommy Lee Jones revisited the crime scene where Main Man died? They made it look like Murder Dude was hiding in the room, but then Tommy Lee Jones just kind of pokes around and walks out with no consequence. Was Murder Dude in there or not?[close]
The Oscars were confirmed shit after last year when Children of Men wasn't nominated for any of the big awards and didn't win cinematography.
Can someone answerspoiler (click to show/hide)What the fuck was going on when Tommy Lee Jones revisited the crime scene where Main Man died? They made it look like Murder Dude was hiding in the room, but then Tommy Lee Jones just kind of pokes around and walks out with no consequence. Was Murder Dude in there or not?[close]spoiler (click to show/hide)I've seen it suggested that Chigurh is actually a projection by the sheriff, to personify the encroaching evil of the world around him. I don't think that's the case, or at least I don't think it should be the case. Up to that point, there's too much verisimilitude for that sort of thing.[close]
There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. Be there in about fifteen minutes. I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job - not to be glorious. But I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. To go into something you don't understand you would have to be crazy or *become part of it*.
It's also worth remembering that the movie began with Sheriff Bell talking about where he thought he'd been and where he found himself at the moment the film starts. Evidently Bell believes that, in the not-too-distant past, criminal activity was connected to motives. A lawman who fought crime eventually might get around to understanding what he was up against. In any case, Bell's two monologues -- one off-camera and one on -- serve as battered old bookends, leaning against all the sorrow and horror the movie has to offer.
In the opening monologue -- delivered while the Coens' camera reveals a desolate Western landscape -- Bell recounts the story of a 14-year-old boy who not only committed a senseless murder, but made no attempt to hide a matter-of-fact attitude toward the evil he had wrought. Bell made the arrest. The kid went to the chair.
What a waste. It wasn't even a crime of passion. Crimes of passion can't be justified, but they can be understood.
"No Country For Old Men" deals with incomprehensible violence, incomprehensible to everyone except Chigurh, the character played by Javier Bardem. Chigurh, whose first name is Anton, operates on a different plane than those he pursues. Although he's versatile when it comes to killing, Chigurh's preferred method involves use of an instrument normally employed to kill cattle in slaughterhouses. People. Cattle. It's all the same to him.
Chigurh has principles of some sort, although we're not entirely sure what they might be. Whatever they are, they're not the same as whatever motivates folks in the ordinary world -- greed, lust or a desire simply to get away with something. No, Chigurh brings a purer kind of menace to the proceedings, and maybe he stands for just about everything that's driving Bell toward defeat, the horror he (and we) can't see coming.
But back to that final scene. The newly retired Bell sits across the breakfast table from his wife. He's just hung up his badge, which we take as less of an act of satisfaction than an abandonment of hope. We may fairly conclude that Bell's twilight years will be tinged with puzzlement and sorrow. In his troubled leisure, he'll probably dream the same dream again and again, the one he describes to his wife, the one in which his lawman father rides ahead of him, negotiating a dark mountain pass to make a safe place for his son. Each time Bell dreams about the father who silently rides ahead, he'll awaken to a defenseless world in which there are no safe places.