Just got back home from seeing NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

[cathandler]

It took me half an hour to stop shaking -- and I'd read the book!

Jeebus.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Maybe you didn't look long enough, then.

:P

[bicentennial_baby]

2. We're going next weekend

I can't wait! :bounce:

[likesmountains 52]

3. That's what I'm afraid of..but was the movie good?

[cathandler]

5. The movie was excellent. How could it not be?

The Coen Brothers. Cormac McCarthy. Tommy Lee Jones. Javier Bardem. The movie is everything the book is. And just like I imagined it as I was reading it. I don't even think the dialogue is different. What the book lacked that the movie has in spades is this underlying tension and foreboding. I mean, look. I KNEW what was coming -- so I shouldn't have been so disturbed, but it's just so unrelenting. At one point, I had my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears -- and I never do that (well, except maybe at Arachnophobia). Javier Bardem, as Anton Chighur, is the scariest bogeyman I can remember in a movie. And yet parts were a bit jaunty. Which made the violence all that horrible.

I can't recommend this movie enough. It's awesome! Just be sure to have a stiff drink afterwards.

[begin_within]

4. Spoil it for me, because I'm not going to see it.

What strange event happens in the second half that totally challenges an audience's expectation of what a film should be? Critics won't give up the secret, but something odd and unexpected happens in the 2nd half.

[cathandler]

7. bob_weaver, I can't for the life of me think what that might be.

This isn't a comin' to Jesus movie where there is redemption in the end. For those people who've read the book, there are no surprises.

[yellowcanine]

6. Preview looked exceedingly violent. Think I will pass.

[JTG of the PRB]

8. I saw this movie on Friday night.

I agree with you 100%. It was an absolutely brilliant piece of film making.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. I am really looking forward to seeing that film.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear cathandler...

My husband and I will see it...but on DVD!

We're done with movie theaters...

I think the Coen Brothers make excellent movies...I loved Blood Simple!

I haven't read this book, but it'll be OK.

Violence is OK when it's integral to the story, and not gratuitous...

Thanks for posting...

:hi:

[cathandler]

11. While we're sort of on the subject of Cormac McCarthy . . .

I hope you all have read or will read THE ROAD. I don't even know where to begin with that one! Excellent, excellent, excellent.

[ceile]

13. My mom just loaned it to me.

Thanks for the recommendation (it won't go into the "pile" like the other stuff she loans me). And welcome to DU, Cathandler! :hi:

[cathandler]

14. Thanks for the welcome, Ceile. Tho' I've been a member for

over a year (I just lurk alot). My wife, Kaiden, has been a member here since 2003 (and she's like the Supreme Lurker!)

[ceile]

15. I see...

but still...:hi:

[ceile]

12. Can't wait.

I'm making my fiance wait 'til I get home to see it (visiting fam @ the moment). I cannot wait!! It looks so 'effin cool!

[pokerfan]

16. Should I read the book first?

"No Country for Old Men" is as good a film as the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have ever made, and they made "Fargo." - Roger Ebert

High praise indeed. I've seen Raising Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, Fargo, Lebowski and Barton Fink. Loved them all but I think that Fargo was their masterpiece in that they so deftly blended the violence with humor.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. a friend was talking this morning about how good it was. nt