From “No Country for Old Men.”
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This scene along with a few others is “actually” the biggest drawback of a film that remains excellent. This is fiction. Fiction has a requirement to explain its characters motivations. Showing an otherwise functional person doing completely crazy/inhumane things does not explain their motivations so that the viewer can relate/understand.
That happens in life, not in good fiction.
Personally, I found “No Country for Old Men” to be disappointing. It was engaging until the ending which, like “There will be Blood”, felt like they simply ran out of ideas or film.
All I can say is that the Cohen brothers make good movies.
All I can say is that No Country for Old Men is utter crap.
#3–hopper==what did you learn about yourself or life in general from this film?
What feelings did it invoke?
Good movies do this. Great movies do this even moreso.
I learned nothing from it, but a very specific emotion was evoked. Care to guess? (I’m being serious and it is a valuable thing to recognize in life.)
Haven’t seen it yet… but I did see “Fargo”, “The Big Lebowsky”, “Brother, Where Art Thou”, “Raising Arizona”, “Barton Fink”, “Miller’s Crossing”, “The Man Who Wasn’t There” and more. I didn’t learn much from any of them but I sure enjoyed them.
I agree. Haven’t seen an uncut version of Lebowsky on tv yet, and I refuse to record an edited movie that is based on dialogue.
Barton Fink? Since I don’t remember it, I must not have thought much about it?
Arizona–one of the best.
Brother left me a bit cold. Yes, it was an homage to Ulysses but that made it too nonsensical except as an homage, which wasn’t enough.
Fargo–great character study.
Millers Crossing–I forget.
So, cracks me up. Haven’t seen the movie yet? Tommy Lee Jones best effort ever. He plays the world weary/disgusted sheriff as well as could have been done.
The best thing about all Cohen Brothers movies is the characters. You never forget them.
I saw this movie yesterday… that’s two hours that I won’t get back.
Definitely one of the best films last year. Although I thought Josh Brolin is getting short changed on the attention going mainly to Bardim. Tommy Lee Jones, typical brilliant job.
This is one of those movies that most people don’t really understand. But they still fawn over it because they don’t want to seem unsophisticated, or they assume there must be some deeper meaning because it had great actors and great cinematography.
In fact, it’s just a movie with a beginning and a middle, but no ending.
The movie was good but the book “No Country for Old Men” is one of the best I’ve read in years. His latest book, “The Road,” is one of the best books I’ve ever read.
It’s amusing to see how upset people get when a movie ends like that.
#6 You are right on! These guys are amazing!!
I wish they would make a movie based upon the novel by Herman Wouk – Don’t Stop the Carnival.
John Turturro would play the “get-away Jew” and the fat guy in charge from Barton Fink would play his sponsor.
Hopper, if you pick some money up on this idea – you owe me:-)
YouTube says that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhyg-YrLqx0
has been pulled “due to a copyright claim by NBC Universal”
[Thanks. Fixed. – ed.]
#14 – John Turturro as the pedophile bowler “Jesus” in Lebowsky was one of the funniest characters of all time. Ever notice how the Cohens use mostly the same actors in every movie?
“You don’t fuck wit’ da Jesus!”