NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:15amBe sure to check it out this weekend if it's playing around where you're at.
#2re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:18am
Where I'm at is where we don't end our sentences with a preposition...think it's playing around here?
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#2re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:29am
Be sure to check it out this weekend if it's playing around where you're at...bitch.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:32am
I don't know where I'm at.
Just that there's two turntables and a microphone.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#4re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:34amCalvin finally figured out my nickname in high school!
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/7/07 at 7:35pmLife is also too short to waste on Coen Brothers crap.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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#6re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/7/07 at 11:08pm
Based on all of the rave reviews, it would seem that life is too short NOT to see this film.
I thought the novel was excellent, and I am anxiously anticipating this.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
LionessInWinter
Broadway Star Joined: 8/23/05
#7re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/8/07 at 12:49amI saw the film at the NYFF and loved it. Intense with occasional sparks of humor. I know some people who didn't like it because of the end, but I understand it's quite a faithful adaptation. I've never read it.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#8re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/8/07 at 12:51amI'm seeing it Friday and can't wait.
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#10re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/8/07 at 1:06am
I have heard lots of varied opinions on the ending of the film. Apparantly it's quite "controversial."
I am seeing it Friday as well. I had planned to see LIONS FOR LAMBS, but it's supposed to be terrible.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/8/07 at 7:17amOh, well of course, if it is getting all these rave reviews, then it MUST be good...
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#12re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/9/07 at 8:18pm
I saw this today and must say, I need to see it again.
Performances are all very good and typical Coen Bros. dark humor, but it is a much more poetic film than any other. Very slow and moody, then BAM. Then slower and softer...BAM! The ending? I won't say anything, but as soon as it ended I said I need to either see it again or read the screenplay.
It didn't help that there were a lot of distractions in the theatre. I could very clearly hear the projectionists in the booth behind me, cell phones, talking...
I am so happy to see Kelly McDonald getting some roles. I think she is one of the best young actresses today. And for some reason, Tommy Lee Jones is so much sexier as he gets
older. And Bardem will definitely get an Oscar nomination, as should Jones.
PEACE.
Updated On: 11/9/07 at 08:18 PM
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#13re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/9/07 at 8:29pmIt looks a lot different from most Coen movies. Even Fargo had the trademark Coen-ish characters and such.
SueleenGay
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Iris Chacon
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/9/04
#15re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/9/07 at 8:38pm
Oops. Thought this thread was about Roxy. PardonMUA!
Kiss it baby. Kiss it now!
Updated On: 11/11/07 at 08:38 PM
#16re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/12/07 at 3:12pmI feel like I need to see it again before I can talk about it, but I can say without a doubt that I loved it.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#17re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/12/07 at 3:32pm
I thought it was terrific but I'm in the "need to see it again" camp. Actually, I need to read the book. I moderately enjoyed 'The Road' and am starting to warm to Mr. Cormac's gimmick. I should reread the latter mentioned book as well.
Books aside it was a compelling movie with terrific performances! Didn't find Mr. Jones sexy for a moment though.
yr ronin,
joey
joey
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#19re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/20/07 at 9:26amThis is easily the best non-documentary film of the year so far. Directed seemlessly, acted beautifully, and one of the best adaptations of a novel I've seen on the big screen in over a decade.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
pushdabutton
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/05
#21re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/21/07 at 12:20amBest film I've seen this year. In years, maybe. A real return to form for the Coen Brothers.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#22re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/21/07 at 8:56pmJust saw it at BAM on the way home from work. Had my rapt attention from start to finish. Will have to read the book now.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#23re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/24/07 at 3:16am
Just saw it. Here are my thoughts:
He walked into the theater and plunked down some money and recieved a ticket. He walked 58 steps to the ticket-taker in a red jacket who ripped it in half.
Auditorium ten, sir.
Thank you.
Enjoy the movie.
He made his way down the aisle, making a slight break to ascertain some popcorn and a water. Fearing that he may have to urinate, he vowed to drink only a slight bit of his watery liquid.
He made his way to the seats, shuffling his way through a crowd that held faces of all colors.
He sat down, shoved a handful of popcorn into his mouth, swallowed it down, and relaxed.
The movie lights dimmed.
The flittering of the projector began.
Ergh, he thought to himself.
What followed was an experience, the memory of which he will take with him to the grave:
My granddaddy saw a lots of movies. My daddy saw 'em too. Never really cared fer 'em much, but that may just because he never sawre a movie as darn good as NO COUNT'RY FER OLD MIN.
Them old-timers missed out. They were too busy findin' out things to find out to see a movie where the tension rattles your bones, shakes your teeth, and stands yer hands up on end like NO COUNTRY FER OLD MIN.
The actin' was top-draw'r, with Javyar Bardim givin' a performance offa the ages. He created thur one of the greatest villains these old eyes have ever seen in a movin' image. And that's a bold statement I will die on my gravestone defendin'.
The atmospheric quality of this movie is whut makes it. Chills in the wind. Storms approachin'. Screws unscrewin' and screwin' back on. The sound design lifted this old-timer's ears. Lifted them indeed.
The Coen brothers may have sucked the book dry and put most of it up on that screen, but that doesn't mean it wasn't completely enthrallin'. Even with all the things I've seen and the heavy heart I carry, I still darn near jumped outta my skin durin' moments of this movie.
This movie. It's a beaut. A plain ol' beaut.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#24re: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Posted: 11/24/07 at 11:25amThis is far and away the best film of the year.
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